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January 03, 2006
I know I'm a month late, but I have to tell you about my April Fool's joke I played.My group, the Brobdingnagian Bards, has been together for a bit over a year now. We've played Renaissance festivals, nightclubs, pubs, weddings, corporate parties, coffeehouses, and street corners. You name it, and ..
January 03, 2006
There's a great fun little amp that can help you over those playing plateaus you may have been experiencing. I'll tell you about it in a moment.You see... I've been playing guitar for a while, and sometimes it just gets to where I play the same songs over and over again. Some of the songs are ones ..
January 03, 2006
A harmonic is a tone that’s created by the guitar by touching the string above a fret on an open vibrating string. There are 2 types of harmonics Natural and Artificial or I prefer to call them pinch harmonics.Natural HarmonicsNatural Harmonics can be produced by touching your index finger on your ..
January 03, 2006
As a very young child, I began a long journey of piano playing which has followed me all the way through my adulthood. From childhood lessons to adult lessons and after decades of musical education which included reading notes, chords, scales, music theory, and composition, you would think I'd feel .
January 02, 2006
If you are a piano player and or looking for piano study tips to improve your piano playing read these tips here below.Are you playing the piano? It´s a great and rich instrument but before you can really start playing the great masters or that great jazz tune lots of practicing needs to be done... .
January 01, 2006
String muting is another technique that can help you define your own personal style. There are two types of string muting, the palm mute with your picks hand and the string mute with your fret hand. They serve very different purposes, but both are important to good guitar playing.Fret-hand muting ..
January 01, 2006
There are a number of guitar accessories that you might want to buy for your guitar. Guitar accessories are relatively cheap and if you are buying a guitar, you might be able to pick up a good deal if you want to buy a number of accessories as well.Here is a list of guitar accessories to consider ..
December 31, 2005
I suppose you think that you learn guitar by playing guitar. Well, do you learn to say the right things by talking all the time? Let's take a look at the art of not playing guitar...How can you learn to play guitar by not playing? Is it really possible to develop as a guitarist without touching the .
December 30, 2005
One doesn't have to be fully down in the dumps to enjoy a nice helping of the low down dirty blues. The blues of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, and even Chuck Berry can take a feeling and put it to the swaying rhythm of the music. There are many forms of the blues genre. There is the Chicago, the ..
December 30, 2005
Bending strings is used to give the guitar a more personalized and harmonic quality. The technique is used mostly by lead guitar players but is also applied in all styles of playing. String bending and vibrato techniques are two large components in making up a guitar player’s style. The combination .
December 30, 2005
Since humans first walked this Earth we have been banging inanimate objects and noticing tonal harmonies in all that we do. Music evokes such a deep rooted emotion in us, connecting with our inner being on an infinite number of levels.From the depths of depression to the awesome high of life itself .
December 30, 2005
There is indeed just too much music in the world and because we keep listening to it, we are missing great sounds around us. John Cage once said “If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself .
December 30, 2005
Playing a guitar without vibrato is like eating Mexican food without salsa. Vibrato is one of the most definitive techniques in defining your musical style, your own personal unique sound. No two players have the same vibrato sound. Some play slow and wide while others play narrow and fast, and ..
December 30, 2005
Start out with a 10 hole diatonic harmonica in the key of C. (The key is stamped somewhere on the harmonica). If you have any questions on choosing your harmonica, feel free to call Harmonicas and Stuff for help. Unfortunately, sate health laws prohibit the return of harmonicas because they are ..
December 30, 2005
One of the primary legato techniques all guitarists must learn is the hammer-on, pull-off. This technique is important because it allows for nuances in tone and expression, and it allows the picking hand a “break” since it does not have to pick the notes on the hammer-on or the pull-off. This ..
December 29, 2005
Who is the incredible bonehead who said rap artists make a lot of money? Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!! Because the fans expect their favorite artists to be very wealthy, and have an interesting, far above average, glamorous lifestyle, this puts an incredible amount of pressure on the artists ..
December 29, 2005
In most cases when you purchase some form of stereo equipment the speakers already come with the system. The quality of speakers will depend on the type of stereo system and how much you pay for it. The cheaper and less expensive system usually do not have a high quality speakers. The speakers will .
December 28, 2005
Here's a great playlist of tracks from the 80's that were either redone/remade or original tracks remixed. All of the tracks on here are very recognizable.The playlist starts with Hyper doing an awesome version of Adam & The Ant's classic, early 80's tune Ant Music. It’a a very upbeat and energetic .
December 28, 2005
Elvis Presley is considered by many as one of the most influential singers of the past century. There is little doubt that he was a musical hero to many popular singers as they rose to higher levels in their own careers. Elvis had a twin brother who died shortly after birth, a devoted alcoholic ..
December 28, 2005
Sheet music for Christian songs is becoming easier to obtain as the popularity of Christian music continues to rise. Many people use sheet music for Christian songs for various purposes. With the internet, you are no longer limited to buying sheet music at a local music store, nor are you limited ..
December 28, 2005
Make your life enjoyable, buy a decent chromatic tuner. Don’t try to tune your guitar by ear or by using a pitch pipe. If you are new to the instrument use a tuner. For example a Korg CA-30 Chromatic TunerUsing a chromatic tuner is quite easy. Plug the guitar into the tuner using a standard guitar ..
December 28, 2005
I'll never forget the time I took my first piano class. It was at the Community College of Philadelphia 1984. It was a group class with 20 or so electronic keyboards arranged around the room. We each received a class text book titled “Class Piano." No shocker there.I opened up the book and ..
December 28, 2005
The term, “oldies," refers to both popular music from the 1950s-1970s and the radio format that specializes in this type of music. “Golden oldies" usually refers to oldies music exclusively from the 1950s-early 1960s. Oldies songs are typically from the R&B, pop and rock music genres ..
December 27, 2005
Oh, Boy! Did Roy Orbison get it wrong? Buddy Holly would have rolled over in his grave while Beethoven, contrary to the lyrics of Chuck Berry's classic song, rests peacefully in his, secure in the knowledge that his music has withstood the test of time. Rock ‘n’ Roll die? That'll be the .
December 27, 2005
It's the mid 1980s and I'm excited about a new music medium called compact disc. Clean sounding digital recordings that do not wear out. The future has arrived. I buy a magazine about the new medium and I learn they will be pricey compared to tapes and vinyl, selling for about $15 to $18 per disc. ..
December 27, 2005
I have to admit I like the self titled debut album by the Bodyrockers. It takes me back to when I was in my teens. I was into heavy metal/hard rock as well as your typical pop radio music. The singers voice is very much like the voices from countless heavy metal/hard rock vocalists from the 80's. I .
December 27, 2005
After the release of the excellent single Kalas and countless remixes for such artists as Nuspirit Helsinki, Ennio Morrricone and Viver, Snorre Seim and Oyvind Jakobsen of Butti 49 from Norway, finally release a full length album filled with complementing genres such as funky soul, jazz, broken ..
December 26, 2005
Parents can play an important role supporting their child’s piano lessons and their piano teacher. However, about a third of parents do too much and try to take over responsibility for their child’s progress, which hinders their child’s ability to develop positive learning skills on their own. In ..
December 26, 2005
Parents can play an important role supporting their child’s piano lessons and their piano teacher. However, about a third of parents do too much and try to take over responsibility for their child’s progress, which hinders their child’s ability to develop positive learning skills on their own. In ..
December 24, 2005
Wouldn’t it be nice to know where you’ll be in 90 days? Wouldn’t it be nice to have something to say about that? Beginning piano students feel the same way and have more control over their progress than they often realize. Because they are just starting in piano and everything they’re learning is ..
December 24, 2005
No matter how well your guitar plays when you first bring it home, you will come to find it doesn’t play exactly the same way after a time (sometimes even a small period of time). In some cases the instrument’s action and feel is pretty much to your liking, but you still want to make adjustments to .
December 24, 2005
Although made popular recently by Eddie VanHalen, guitar tapping or right hand ‘legatos’ is a technique players have been executing for years. Country players know the benefit of laying down a nice subtle lead and just putting in those quick hammers with clear guitar tapping. And while it’s not the .
December 24, 2005
Learning a new piece of music can be daunting for beginners, especially young children, if they don’t know how to approach their learning at the piano. The first thing to do is set a goal. For beginners obvious goal would be to learn their new assigned piece of music or one they have chosen on ..
December 24, 2005
When I saw this title, I was afraid and I’m still afraid regarding my opinion about the subject. The subject is complex and difficult so I cannot resolve it overnight. I am an African. I do things the African way. I cannot write about African American music like a Western scholar. In my culture we ..
December 24, 2005
As an eight-year-old, music played a small, but important part in my life. My mother taught my one year younger brother and I how to sing. We were expected to entertain the releatives when they visited, the harmony part sung by me and the melody by my brother, Allan. At the time a popular duo ..
December 24, 2005
A great way for beginners in piano lessons to gain musical experience is by listening. For some reason students often overlook this important part of piano study. Kids feel that if they’re not actually playing the piano they can’t be learning. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But students ..
December 24, 2005
Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing – to make the music sound, well, musical. This takes a creative human touch and sensitivity that children are capable of, when they know where to look for it. ..
December 24, 2005
Do you know how long it takes to learn the piano? Well, depending on the style you're interested in, it could take up to 10 years! That's if you go the classical note-reading route.But, if you want to learn piano online the easy way and save yourself years of struggle, learn a chord-based approach ..
December 24, 2005
Dry winter weather or environments can cause serious damage to acoustic guitars, in the form of cracks in the wood. This damage may require expensive repairs or reduce the sound quality of your fine instrument.One way to supply additional humidity to your guitar is through a device known as a ..
December 24, 2005
Did you know that the piano keyboard is not used to its fullest potential? And that thousands of beginning piano students start out by playing a three-note triad that is as outdated as the dinosaur?It's true. The piano keyboard is huge! Over 80 keys big. Why not come up with a chord structure that ..
December 24, 2005
Do you know why the guitar is the most popular instrument in the world? It's because it's easy for a complete beginner to pick it up and actually create something most of us can call music right away.Do you think a beginning piano student can do this? Not really. That's why learning how to play ..
December 24, 2005
There are basically two ways to compose music. One way is by starting from the bottom or the harmonic approach.A composer/arranger takes a few chords, a phrase to hang them on and arranges the harmony in some kind of pattern. An example of this is the “loop" you often hear in contemporary ..
December 24, 2005
Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing – to bring their personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Hearing each note in the mind before it is played and thinking about how to touch each key is important ..
December 24, 2005
Beginners tend to get focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and forget the point of playing - to bring personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Here’s some ideas to help beginning piano students energize their music and bring it to life with personality and style.1. .
December 23, 2005
So many players want to record guitar playing on their computer. Digital recording is more popular than ever for pros and amateurs alike. But there are some things to be considered when you connect a guitar to a computer; mostly how you want to connect the instrument, and the quality of the ..
December 23, 2005
As there are many different picking techniques, and any number of chord inversions, there are different strumming patterns for guitar. A list of strumming patterns is nearly impossible to define, as there are variations from jazz patterns all the way to country strumming patterns (and every style ..
December 23, 2005
To this day, I feel deprived that my parents didn't sign me up for piano lessons. You see, I have two sisters who are considerably older than I am (ten and 14 years older, respectively). They both learned to play the piano, and my parents had a piano in the house until the time I was six years old. .
December 23, 2005
Everything is so new to beginning piano students that they may not be aware of simple measures they can take to dramatically improve their progress over the next year. Too often students compare themselves to experts they see on television and their teacher. Parents can help their beginner at home ..
December 23, 2005
Piano students can improve their progress by making improvements to their practice environment. Making some simple changes to the practice environment can help students learn more, especially young beginning students. Too often students compare themselves to experts they see on television and their .
December 23, 2005
Beginners, just like advanced students, need a routine to keep their piano promises to themselves. But young beginners don’t have the perspective or the experience to appreciate this. Help your piano student at home by establishing a routine practice time. Over time this will make sitting down at ..
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