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How to Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists

Playlists have become the ultimate music discovery tool, helping artists reach new audiences and boost their streams. From algorithmic to editorial, getting your music on a Spotify playlist is a marketing tactic artists need to hack. Learn how to navigate the process and maximize your chances of your music landing on a playlist.

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Mental Practice Techniques: A Comprehensive Guide for Musicians

As a musician, not all of your practice will be on your instrument. Some of it will be in your head, and some of it may even be on objects that just look like your instrument. We call this mental practice, and in this excerpt from Barbara LaFitte’s Practicing Techniques for Musicians course, the former principal oboist in the Boston Ballet Orchestra shares tips on how to practice your instrument when you just aren’t able to actually play your instrument.

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Can You Copyright Choreography? Inside the Murky Legal Landscape of TikTok Dances

Navigating copyright infringement and protecting your choreography in the era of TikTok dances is becoming increasingly important. See how Berklee Online instructors advise you on laying down the law when trying to get your dance to trend.

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Arooj Aftab on ‘Vulture Prince,’ Grammy Noms, Genius.com, and Berklee

Arooj Aftab began getting notice with a viral cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” more than 15 years ago, but with two Grammy nominations, she has finally arrived. Her “Vulture Prince” album is a stunning work that frequently reaches transcendence.

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Thaddeus Hogarth

Thaddeus Hogarth is a professor in the Guitar department at Berklee College of Music. He has been a prominent artist on the New England music scene since the early ’90s. His music and voice can be heard worldwide in full-length and independent short feature films, commercial television, PBS, and MTV. For Berklee Online, he teaches several levels of private guitar lessons for the Guitar Performance degree, and Funk/Rock and R&B Guitar Soloing, which he wrote.



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Cusack Screamer V2 Overdrive Pedal Review

By Thaddeus Hogarth

Today I am posting a review I wrote for Berklee’s Guitar Faculty newsletter, Open Position. I thought it would be nice to share it with a larger community of tone-seekers.

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The Tone Power of the Stratocaster

By Thaddeus Hogarth

One eye-opening revelation in the quest for tone happening to me back in the early ’90s: I was playing with a relatively popular Boston-based band called the Heavy Metal Horns.

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Guitar, Guitar, Lesson Content, Performance, Performance

Signature Guitar Tone and Picking

By Thaddeus Hogarth

Let’s talk about attack devices, or ways to get a string moving. I know it sounds too simple to be true, but this one post might be the difference between you and your signature sound!

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