Drum pattern building

If you want to sound great on stage and off, there are a few tricks you should know

WHEN I AM composing and arranging music, I like to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, I try to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, k

The trumpet is one of the oldest musical instruments, evolving over many centuries from a rudimentary signalling device to the versatile instrument we know today. This journey has been shaped by the p

T3 ’s always loud tech know-it-all shouts out more wise advice

When I first heard the classical music of North India, my musical world shifted on its axis. I was in the cinema, watching Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali, which had just opened in the UK and was takin

Charlie Wilkins delves into the world of power attenuators, revealing how to push valve amps to their edge without the punishing volume