Buying A Keyboard for Beginners: Things You Need to Know

Because your first one is the most important... Buying a keyboard for beginners can be a minefield. Let's be honest, there are endless models and options, with no clear indicator as to which...

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How Do Electronic Drums Work?

If you’re a beginner, or ‘crossing over to the dark side’, you might wonder, how do electronic drums work? – Here’s how… The digital revolution has transformed the world of musical...

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Types Of Guitar: A Mini-Guide To Acoustic Guitars For Everyone

With a myriad of different types of guitar out there, here’s a guide to help you... If you’ve taken a stroll around your local Dawsons Music & Sound store or browsed our range of...

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Condenser Microphone vs Dynamic: Key Differences

The differences between condenser microphones and dynamic microphones can be confusing, so here’s a mini-guide… Microphones can be divided into two broad groups (ignoring ribbon mics for the...

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Guitar Hammer On: A Mini Guide To This Easy Technique

It’s one of the most commonly used guitar techniques, but what is a hammer on? When learning to play, there are some terms that you’ll come across regularly, which, as a beginner may make...

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Pull Offs: A Mini Guide To This Common Technique

When playing legato passages, these are your friend – but what are pull offs? When learning to play guitar, once you start to move on from the standard, fretting notes or chords with one...

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How To Palm Mute For Beginners

Learning how to palm mute is essential to many guitar-playing styles – here’s how it’s done… There are some guitar-playing techniques that are appropriate in just about any musical style....

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Home DJ Set-Up: Essential Gear Guide For Beginners

Everybody wants to be the DJ... ...As Soulwax put it in their classic tune "Too Many DJs" - and they should know, they've been known to dabble in a bit of DJing here and there. Even if you...

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What Are Hot Cues: A Guide for DJing Beginners

If you’re new to DJing, or honed your skills on vinyl, hot cues might be a mystery – here’s what they do… When DJ equipment started to move from traditional, vinyl based rigs, to digital...

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How to Restring an Acoustic Guitar

A 'How-to' guide to changing the strings on an acoustic guitar There are some things that every guitarist should know, one of the most important being how to change the strings on a guitar....

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What Is A Guitar Setup: Need to Knows

Guitarists and magazines mention it regularly, but what is a guitar setup? It’s a familiar scenario… You’ve started to play the guitar, and you’ve bought an instrument that you’re happy with....

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Five Best Songs Featuring A Kazoo, Ever!

The Kazoo might be a ‘figure of fun’ in the music world, but it’s got an impressive list of credits… The humble Kazoo , with its brash, fizzy sound, is sometimes, well, ridiculed....

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