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Distortion and Fuzz Guitar Effect Pedals: What’s the Difference?
When it comes to guitar effects, most guitarists will begin their journey with distortion or overdrive, whether it’s a setting on your amplifier, or a box you can stomp on just as the song is about to...
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Fender Stratocaster Guitar Pickups Secret: The Magic of the Middle
If you own a Fender Stratocaster, you’ve probably already delved into the difference between the pickups. The neck pickup has a warmer and smoother tone, whereas the bridge pickup sounds brighter and...
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Top Guitar Songs—According to Berklee Online Faculty
We polled members of the Guitar Department at Berklee College of Music on their favorite guitar-based songs. We were going to suggest they reach out with their favorite guitar solos, but that felt too...
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Songs for Pride Month: LGBTQIA+ Artists to Listen to Now
June marks the start of Pride Month, and at the forefront of Pride 2023 is the fight against more than 450 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills that have been introduced in the United States legislature. It’s also...
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10 Berklee Online Courses to Get Back to Basics
No matter where you are in your music endeavors, there’s always a new area where you’re a beginner. If you’re a performer, there are many benefits to learning music business, production, or...
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Guitar Pedals: Why Do We Keep Buying Them?
If you’re just starting out on the guitar you may have noticed an infatuation that certain players have with guitar pedals: they own a ton of pedals that essentially have the same function (i.e.,...
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Scary Music: This Spooky Playlist Will Slay at Your Halloween Party
To get into the spooky season mindset this Halloween season, we asked Berklee Online faculty: What in your opinion is the scariest song? With course authors and instructors who teach music production,...
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Drum Mics: How to Place Microphones Around Your Kit for a Live Concert
The following article on drum mics and miking drums is excerpted from the Berklee Online course Microphone Techniques for Live Sound Production, by Ben Cochran and Ken “Pooch” Van Druten, which is...
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Music Technology Roundup 2023: A First-hand Account of the Latest Creative...
Music technology is constantly evolving, and the possibilities for what we can do as musicians and music lovers seems to always be expanding into areas that we’d never thought would be possible. From...
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Eleazar Mora: A Conversation with the Latin Tenor (Who is Also a Berklee...
Eleazar Mora worked as a mechanical engineer for three decades before pivoting to a full-time career in music. Known by his fans as “The Latin Tenor,” his blend of traditional Latin music with...
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