When taking piano lessons in elementary school, I was introduced to the concept of the rest note—an interval of silence within a piece of music. A rest note creates a deliberate pause, a temporary ...

When fingerpicking, single notes should be as strong and confident as chord playing. While there are several ways this can be achieved, the best route means developing a solid picking hand technique ...

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Even by today’s standards, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is a powerful device that can still be your smartphone of choice. With an impressive octa-core Snapdragon 835 CPU and a whopping 6GB of RAM, it ...

is an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. A year ago, I wrote that the Samsung Galaxy ...

The Samsung Galaxy Note8 takes everything that was great about last year's Note7 and simply improves upon it in all the right ways but with a bigger Galaxy Note came a bigger price and consumers may ...

If you spend $950 on a phone like the Galaxy Note 8, you’re going to want some measure of protection. That means putting your Note 8 in a case. There are a lot to choose from: Some show off the design ...

The Redmi Note 8 leads with a 48MP camera and adds an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP macro lens and a 2MP depth sensor. Unlike the Redmi Note 8 Pro’s Helio G90T chipset, the less expensive Note 8 gets a ...