We also went to California to see the biggest music industry trade show in the world! As a result, our All About Guitar's section has been superseded with an article called All About NAMM. Don't fret (sorry!), we made sure to include lots of guitar references (and we took lots of photos).
We've had lots of inquiries for stories about vocalists. So our feature this month is in the How To section. We talked to none other than John Swan (Swanee), Australian vocalist extraordinaire, about how he sings so well. Luckily for us, he knew all the answers because he now teaches others about his singing techniques. John provides a great description of how it all works on the inside, and he also provides some tips on how to improve your own voice. Sorry kids, believe it or not, it involves practice.
Calling all novice recorders... our third Gnome Recording article is out! This time we review what we learned in Issue 2 by walking through a suggested session.
Two Sydney artists are featured this month who have recently released CDs: Stacey Morris and nArdo. We interviewed Stacey to get her insight into the music business and how she's working to crack into the spotlight. And in our regular section, What Happened, we reviewed nArdo's EP launch party. Wait 'til you see it - we stirred the pot a little!
In our Products section we introduce the Australian market to 4 products we found at NAMM. Notably, none of them are available in Australia - yet! But all 4 have tremendous potential.
Music. Play for Life
We are happy to announce The Metro Gnome's support for and collaboration with the Music. Play for Life initiative. With that initiative, combined with our ongoing support of Weekend Warriors! we plan to be actively involved in spreading the word to help more people, young and old, get involved in playing music. If you want to know more about these 2 great initiatives, just ask us, we want to help.
Whenever you're looking for a live gig in Sydney, don't forget to check out The Metro Gnome's Gig Guide. We've looked the whole World Wide Web over to find a more comprehensive Sydney gig guide than this one - can you find one? Let us know!
Your feedback for Issue 2 was that it was great (the Ian Moss interview brought lots of great feedback), had lots of good information in it, and it took took long to get through - you want less info more often. So we made an effort in this issue to keep it simple. Most of our feature sections have only one article, and we kept the articles short and sweet - at least we tried to. Thanks for the feedback. And if you can't get through this issue all in one sitting, just bookmark it for later and come on back. Let us know what you think of Issue 3!
If this is your first visit to The Metro Gnome, welcome! You can find out more about our mission and objectives in the About Us section.
Now, GET OUT THERE! Play some music!
- The Metro Gnome
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