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I moved to this old apartment and I'm trying to build a home studio. The conditions are horrific: The only room that can work as a studio is right in front of a very busy intersection. So there is a constant sound of honking, emergency vehicles every few minutes, etc. there are three big windows in the room, and they are very old windows who barely block anything. One of the windows has an air conditioner on. The apartment is on the 5th floor.

The appointment is rented so I'm not looking to spend many thousands of dollars on reinstalling soundproof windows. But are there any other slightly cheaper solutions that I can use to reduce the noise a little bit? I realize the result will never be perfect and this will never be a professional studio, and I will probably always have to stop occasionally whenever an emergency vehicle is passing. But I am looking for any kind of solution that will make it a bit more tolerable. I'm adding some pictures of the windows. If more pictures are needed to get a better picture. Please let me know. Thank you in advance.

Anyone who has taken even a single guitar lesson knows the absolute rule: short nails on the fretting hand. Yet Dolly continuously baffled guitarists for decades by playing with massive acrylic nails.

In this video I analyzed her playing technique to figure out how is she doing the impossible. There is a powerful lesson here that Dolly left us with—a lesson about boundaries and the limits of what's possible.

Hey everyone,

I’m sure some of you have stumbled upon Frank Zappa’s “dangerous” interview that has been going viral lately on social media. Zappa, provocative as usual, is using the old claim that the “big” names in classical music only became big because of arbitrary reasons.

I wanted to break down why his argument here is actually deeply flawed. Here’s my analysis on it - would love to hear your thoughts and discuss this in the comments!

Hey everyone,

I’m sure some of you have stumbled upon Frank Zappa’s “dangerous” interview that has been going viral lately on social media. Zappa, provocative as usual, is using the old claim that the “big” names in classical music only became big because of arbitrary reasons.

I wanted to break down why his argument here is actually deeply flawed. Here’s my analysis on it - would love to hear your thoughts and discuss this in the comments!