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Take a trip through the ambient music garden and see what all the fuss is about.
By Dan Marshall · 17 years ago
I asked a friend the other day, "what is your favourite piece of ambient music?"
If I had known his reaction to this very simple question, I might just have not asked it. His reply ...
Writer David Miller Embarks On A Mystery Into His Past.
By Dennis Francis · 17 years ago
Writer David Miller has just released his first book, "The Ghost of Bobby," a ethereal and ominous children’s tale produced in collaboration with the publishing arm of advertising and design company 72andSunny. "The Ghost of ...
Rediscovering the Joy of Drumming
By Ron Tierno · 17 years ago
When I opened my drum studio in midtown Manhattan many years ago, I wanted to attract advanced young drummers who were hoping to make a career in music. I assumed that it would be more ...
The Roots of Nirvana
By Douglas Wolk · 17 years ago
No band develops in a vacuum; every band starts out thinking, at least a bit, of other musicians that they want to take after or rebel against. But Nirvana was the first great band of ...
Contemporary Music Is Unpleasant
By Jose Talavera · 17 years ago
This objection is, undoubtedly, the most frequently encountered in this type of music. A careful survey will show that, unfortunately, this position had always stood toward any type of new music. Let us consider these ...
Guitar Lessons - Which To Choose?
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
With all the excitement generated by thinking about signing up for guitar lessons it is easy to become bedazzled with the array of guitar lessons advertised online and in the real world. You might feel ...
The Best Cheap Electric Guitars
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
You want to play electric guitar but you have a limited budget. Your first electric guitar needs to be cheap so you need to get some idea which is the best brand to buy. If ...
Learn How To Read Guitar Tabs
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
If you are learning guitar you have probably heard about tablature, or tabs. As a new guitar player you are anxious to start playing songs, and you have been told that tabs are the easiest ...
Easy Songs For The Guitar
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
If you want to learn to play the guitar you will need some easy songs to work on. The job of finding songs could be a bit tricky if you are not clear about what ...
How Will My CD Artwork Look When It Is Printed
By Keith Mcgregor · 17 years ago
You have spent hours on your design shown it to friends printed it out on your desktop laser inkjet printer, you love the colour and have chosen the perfect typeface for all your text. How ...
Online Book Options are endless
By Elizabeth Ashe · 17 years ago
Online Book Options
If you spend any amount of time online today, you will notice that the possibilities for finding things are virtually endless. If you are an avid book reader, or you are attempting ...
Musicians' Roles: Professional Playing Fundamentals
By Marty Buttwinick · 17 years ago
ALTHOUGH THE MUSIC EACH PLAYER PLAYS contributes to creating the full communication of the tunes, the sound coming from the entire band is more important than what each individual is playing. Because of the composite ...
Bass Guitar Tab
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
Bass guitar tab has become a very popular method of writing bass music. With this tool you can learn to play bass music fast without getting bogged down in a lot of unnecessary theoretical stuff. ...
Acoustic Guitar Playing Tricks of The Trade
By Doug Taylor · 17 years ago
If you spend a lot of time with acoustic guitar playing you will need to pay attention to your posture if you want to avoid back problems. There is a lot to learn when you ...
The Cavaquinho: What is a Cavaquinho?
By Al Wood · 17 years ago
No matter where you go in the world, you are likely to come across an instrument that looks like a guitar whether it's a balalaika in Russia, a ukulele in Hawaii or a cavaquinho in ...
Music Piracy and the New Musician
By Lionel Wayne · 17 years ago
Today’s click-and-download technology presents a greater threat to the music recording industry than all other past music-delivery technologies combined.
Music piracy exists in 3 different planes:
• Illegally mass-manufactured pirate music CDs
• Illegal copies ...
Peer-To-Peer: A Musicians Highway to the World
By Lionel Wayne · 17 years ago
Peer-to-peer is the term used to describe a complex computer network. It is very different from a regular computer network as there are no centralised servers; it is simply a group of nodes connecting for ...
Answer 4 Questions- Before Contacting a Book Agent
By Robin Kumar · 17 years ago
Obtaining agency representation is your first step toward getting profitably published. Most publishers won’t even look at unsolicited manuscripts.
But, before approaching an agent to represent you, you should finalize the presentation of your book. ...
Selecting A Music System Made Easy
By Sarika Kabra · 17 years ago
Today’s life is full of stress. Listening to music is a good and easy way of getting rid of the tensions. To enjoy music one needs to have a nice music system at home. It ...
5 Reasons Why Audio Books are Killing the Paper Book
By Nick Moseley · 17 years ago
Audio books have gone crazy in popularity in the last couple of years. The technology involved, number of titles published added to the realization of the benefits that audio books can offer have combined to ...