Bluegrass and jazz? yes please. The band formed in 1988 that goes by the name of Béla Fleck and the Fleckstones is a band filled with incredible musicians starting with Fleck on the banjo, Victor Wooten on the bass, Roy Wooten on the drumitar (more on this later) Howard Levi and Jeff Coffin. The instrumental only band was formed by Fleck after he was invited to...
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There are many ways a musician can find jobs whether it's playing, teaching or creating new music. However there is a job where every single musician could easily find a task suitable for those skills. The freelance world is very varied and there are so many ways to interact and find work, for a musician this fact stays the same because not only are there...
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If you ever wondered how music was made around 10,000 years ago, now we have some answers thanks to archaeological research. It's important to have in mind that music or sounds for that matter, have changed in terms of its use, meaning that melodies and musical creations haven't always been for entertainment or as something we have in our daily lives in order to help us...
Read MoreAmong some of the greatest drummers of all time is the great Bill Bruford, who mostly made his name known due to his work in the progressive rock world, playing with some of the most important bands of the genre such as Yes, King Crimson and Genesis. However Bill's beginning as a drummer was not playing rock, it was as a jazz drummer. He took...
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Wittgenstein is mostly known for his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his works on philosophy of language such as the Brown and Blue book, made even more interesting by the fact that he made a shift from his analitical side to a more contextual and flexible side. In the begining he was a part of the logical positivism, along with his teacher Bertrand Russell who described Wittgenstein as...
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