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May 08, 2008
The tuba is best known as a member of the brass family, though it is also known as a wind instrument and an aerophone. It is a rather new instrument as it only first appeared in the mid 1800s. It has the lowest pitch of all the brass instruments and like other brass instruments is played by blowing .
May 07, 2008
We all love to listen to tracks that are full of bliss and rhythms. Music has the ability to replenish our minds with the soulful empathy that is exuded through the mellifluous tunes and melodies. When we want to seek escape from the hectic and noisy world where everything is unharmonious and ..
May 07, 2008
The art of singing is a fulfilling one, being a full time guitarist, music teacher and vocal coach i have come across many students with such a burning desire to learn how to sing well and correctly but do not know how.Many people are lucky enough to have a natural talent when it comes to using the .
May 06, 2008
Becoming a DJ is harder than one think, because of expensive equipment. You need to understand that a DJ doesn't have just one or two pieces of equipment, but rather a whole assembly of components. This allows beginners, especially, to build their of DJ mix set and get components from different ..
May 06, 2008
A&M was keen for a new set of material and a return to touring. Somewhat rushed, Zenyatta Mondatta came out late in 1980. It became the Police's North American first really big album, reaching the Top Ten in the U.S. and Canada. In England, the album spent a month at number one.Zenyatta Mondatta ..
May 06, 2008
Love is a feeling with which no one can stay untouched. It is an emotion full of abysmal bliss and empathy. Had there been no love and compassion in this world, life would have been harsh, dull and devoid of feelings. Music is the soul of the life without which it is simply bereft of rhythm, ..
May 06, 2008
It's official, as if anyone had any doubt. The Aussie pop chanteuse, Kylie Minogue, is now a cultural icon, at least as far as the French are concerned.On Monday Minogue became a chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (a knight of the order of Arts and Letters) in a ceremony presided over by the ..
May 02, 2008
Everybody grows up dreaming about being a rock star, about being able to shred on an electric guitar and impress the masses. Even one of the most popular video games of today, Guitar Hero, is based around people's primal urge to play the guitar. The electric guitar has been the single most defining .
May 02, 2008
Did you know that when you picked up your acoustic guitar, you're picking up an instrument with 5,000 years of history attached to it? Acoustic guitars are descendants of stringed instruments that were found in a variety of cultures thousands and thousands of years ago. As civilizations merged and ..
May 02, 2008
As far as instruments go, the bass guitar is one of the newest on the scene. It's a completely original component of today's bands and modern music and has not even been in existence for a century. Don't let the name “bass guitar" fool you either, the bass guitar is not actually derived from ..
May 01, 2008
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with your voice and for some people the talent comes naturally while others have to learn it. People learn how to sing for various reasons. Some of them are: for personal pleasure, to sing in a band or in a church, to sing along with a musical ..
April 29, 2008
Jimmy Castor appeared at an out-of-the-way local bar in west side of Las Vegas this past weekend complete with a horn section and backup singers. For those of you who don't know who this man is he is a songwriter, singer, saxophonist, percussionist, producer, arranger, etc and is known as The ..
April 25, 2008
Anybody interested in modern music sooner or later asks the question, “Where did it begin?" Well, if you leave blues music out, you will not have much of an answer. So let us look at where the blues came from, where it went and who it met on the way. We will also take a look at the ..
April 25, 2008
Jonas Brother music can be generally classified as pop-rock. Although according to their official website, in the second album they released, which is the self-titled The Jonas Brothers, the band aims to classify Jonas Brothers music as pop-punk. Pop-rock or pop-punk, whatever classification it ..
April 25, 2008
John Mellencamp was recently enshrined rightfully in the Rock & Roll Hall-of-Fame, so quietly that you may have missed it. Makes sense. Most of Mellencamp's career has been that way.John Mellencamp is my favorite musician. Has been since a young boy first discovered music. My enjoyment of music ..
April 23, 2008
The electric guitar is a great instrument and there are so many styles and methods to play it. There is no way you will be able to learn how to play the electric guitar by reading an article, so let's focus on some learning tips instead.Electric Guitar -- How To Play Tip #1: It is very important to .
April 18, 2008
It's fast approaching that time of year again, which many music aficionados dread. The Eurovision Song contest takes place on May 24 and already some French are getting their knickers in a twist over their entry.For the first time since the competition started in 1956 the song representing this ..
April 15, 2008
Got huge dreams of taking the stage with a guitar and inciting drooling fans into convulsions and mesmerized teens into virtual hero worship? It's a hard road to the top, but every rock star started with that same dream; they all had to take baby steps when it came to learning music. Guitar ..
April 15, 2008
Would video guitar lessons online benefit guitarists? Of course they will benefit you. You can pause, rewind, fast forward, watch the videos again as often as you wish. There are many websites that even offer the video lessons to you for free.I decided that I would take a video guitar lesson for ..
April 14, 2008
The violin is a member of the string instrument group. It has four strings that must be tuned precisely in order to produce the desired sound. The violin is a fairly temperamental instrument that easily falls out of tune and must be tuned perfectly or the sound will be off. It is possibly the ..
April 14, 2008
It may surprise some people, but the guitar is one instrument in particular that has very old roots. In fact, early guitars can be tracked as far back as 5,000 years. There are many different kinds of guitars and is a common instrument for younger people to learn how to play, especially at an early .
April 14, 2008
The cello is a member of the violin family and looks like a larger version of the violin. It is played with a bow, has four strings, is hollow and is made with different kinds of wood. The strings, however, differ from the violin in that the highest sounding string in is the A string, the next is ..
April 14, 2008
When thinking of a bass instrument, many people will immediately think of the double base, but there are numerous different types of bass instruments. These types of instruments are meant to produce sounds at a low pitched range. It is a common misconception by many that this type of musical ..
April 14, 2008
The viola is simply a larger version of the violin, but it differs in its tone, strings and how it is played. While the violin has a higher pitch, the viola has a slightly lower pitch. Also, the viola is played with the pads of the fingers than the fingertips as is the case with the violin. This is .
April 14, 2008
Brass instruments are instruments that are played by the musician blowing into a tub in order to make a sound. The vibration of the lips as the player blows into the instrument is what really makes the sound. The valves on these instruments are opened and closed by using the keys pressed by the ..
April 14, 2008
It is no surprise that most want to download music for iPod but are not willing to spend too much money. Other than using the parent iTunes, there are just too many other websites that can deliver same services. You may be wondering how to choose a suitable site that can meet your needs.Here is a ..
April 14, 2008
By melding punk with reggae and jazz, Bad Brains became one of the definitive American hardcore punk groups of the early ‘80s. Although the group released only a handful of records during its peak, they developed a dedicated following, and continued to record and tour in varying line-ups; led .
April 13, 2008
As a violinist and collaborator on a lifetime of music projects, my deepest hope has always been that my music will bring joy and wellbeing to listeners. It surprised me at first, and has since brought me great satisfaction, to learn that many healers, from Dr. Bernie Siegel to Dr. Joan Borysenko, ..
April 11, 2008
A lot of the old time players will tell you that there is no such thing as a blues guitar lesson and that you have to learn it all on your own from the pits of your soul. That is a little extreme and although playing blues guitar is a lot about feel there are some techniques you can learn at a ..
April 10, 2008
There are literally hundreds of different musical instruments that a person can learn to master, but too often than not, many forget about the most important musical instrument of them all; their voice.The human voice is essentially our species’ earliest known musical instrument, and it is ..
April 10, 2008
As time goes on, new technology comes along to supplant the old. At one point in history, the vinyl record was the most popular way to play music, but eventually that was supplanted by the cassette tape. The cassette tape was eventually overtaken by the CD, and now the CD is being overtaken by the ..
April 10, 2008
Music is an amazing thing. Uniquely human, at least here on Earth, music has the ability to lift the hearts of everyone who listens to it -- making them feel on top of the world and taking their spirit high into the sky.Music has evolved through humanity's own evolution. Beginning as nothing but ..
April 10, 2008
When you are thinking about taking the plunge and learning how to play a musical instrument, it can be a difficult endeavor complete with heartache and pain. You may succeed in learning the instrument, but the path to that point can be difficult.So why would one want to take the time to learn a ..
April 10, 2008
The classic way to listen to music is with vinyl. It is the old form of music playback that is a cherished item for the Baby Boomer generation in North America. However, since the advent of the cassette player, they have faded away and it has been decades since they were actually sold as part of ..
April 10, 2008
The world of music is an ever changing one, and musical tastes change faster than ever. Only 10 years ago, boy bands were all the rage and these days they are nothing but a joke. Nearly 20 years ago, New Wave and Michael Jackson were kings of music, now they are archaic and funny in retrospect.With .
April 10, 2008
When you are deciding what instruments to buy for your child, you are facing a very large dilemma. You want to make sure they get instruments that will nurture their creative side, but you don't want to get them something that is going to be so complicated that they quickly lose an interest in ..
April 10, 2008
When you have a child and they are old enough to walk, then they are old enough to begin looking at playing instruments.Many of the greatest musicians in the history of music have started out incredibly early. Mozart himself was playing the piano at the age of three and composing operas before he ..
April 10, 2008
Relative Tuning: Tuning A Guitar To ItselfThis means that one string is tuned using another string as a reference. Then that string is used as a reference for the next and so on. When all of the strings have been adjusted by this method they are said to be in tune relative to each other.It is worth .
April 09, 2008
Acoustic guitars have something special about them. Just give it a go and you will see. Just to see what you look like holding one. You are convinced that if you have the time to learn, you would be fine. You do not know whether it's easy or hard to learn to play the acoustic guitar but you have a ..
April 03, 2008
Its important when you start out to learn the skills as a DJ that you get as much help as possible! Finding as many tips, tricks & methods as possible will help educate yourself as a DJ. In this article we will talk about some of the DJ tips on mixing you need to understand as a beginner DJ and ..
April 02, 2008
I always dream of singing but hardly I could succeed in doing it beautifully. People in and around me always asked me to improve and change some aspect of my singing. I tried a lot. Then one day when I was going through the BBC music magazine, I read something about learn to sing training package ..
April 01, 2008
Love in this Club by Usher has been holding a top position on the billboard charts for at least ten straight weeks now. It had one of the highest gaining position movers from being all the way at number 51 and then jumped up to the number 1 slot. Currently it is holding a top 10 position on ..
April 01, 2008
In this article we will touch on the subject of DJ scratching techniques. Scratching is one of the those skills that really catches peoples attention when they go to watch a DJ perform on stage! The sound the record makes when the DJ puts the needle on the record and starts to manipulate it is just .
April 01, 2008
As a DJ, one of the basic fundamentals of performing is knowing how to mix music. Keeping that smooth flow, rhythm and energy on the dance floor is essential to a Dj and their performance in front of their crowd! In this article we will mention 5 secrets of Dj mixing tips that any beginner needs to .
March 31, 2008
Bjork is another of those singers that I like but none of my friends do. I first started listening to Bjork when my sister P had the album Debut and I listened to it one day and was hooked. Most of my friends think she is a bit weird, but I kinda like that and I also think she has an amazing voice ..
March 28, 2008
Many years ago I asked a good friend of mine who is now a very successful professional musician, what my next step in learning was as a musician. I was so surprised with the fact that he could play anything he heard without fumbling for notes; and not only on the keyboard, but also on the bass, the .
March 28, 2008
Wouldn't it be nice to just be able to take a pill and suddenly wake up one morning and find that you can play guitar like Eric Clapton? Films like Matrix featured this concept, but Hollywood is Hollywood and real life, as everyone knows, is quite different.Although this magic pill does not exist ..
March 18, 2008
Bob Marley has been one of my favourite artists for a long time. I probably own more Bob Marley CD's than any other band or artist with the exception of Wu-Tang. My friends mum D, is partly responsible for my listening to Bob over the years because when I was little I used to like the song ..
March 18, 2008
The song Charlotte the Harlot probably started me listening to Iron Maiden more than just hearing them on the radio because (and I know this is mean) when I was at school back in the day there was a girl I knew called Charlotte and I used to call her Charlotte the Harlot because of knowing the ..
March 18, 2008
There were two main reasons I started listening to Blondie and they were: first I thought Debbie Harry was amazingly beautiful and second the style of music they made. At the time I got into Blondie I was listening to a lot of punk and new wave stuff like The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Sham 69, The ..
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