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Musical Scales – Why change the Minor Scale?
By Brian Farley · 17 years ago
Surely one minor scale is enough! It would certainly make things easier, but in a lot of cases it would not sound as easy on the ear. OK, so we need to use the notes ...
Musical Scales – Why We Have Scales and How They Were Made
By Brian Farley · 17 years ago
Most students of a musical instrument hate playing scales, but too many of them only think they learn scales as some sort of finger exercise. How wrong! Instead, all music students should be informed that ...
Reading Music - Learning Rhythms, Time Signatures and Counting
By Brian Farley · 17 years ago
One essential part of learning to play a musical instrument is often sidelined - learning to count and to understand time signatures. Let's start with a basic foundation in reading music rhythms.
All commonly used ...
The Power Of Games in Music Lessons
By Kevin Tuck · 17 years ago
How our music school grew from 6 to over 200 students in under two years.
When my wife and I started our music school - everyone around us thought it could'nt be done. It really ...
Avoid the Burn of a Bad Music Contract
By Ty Cohen · 17 years ago
Unfortunately, recording contracts can be tricky and you need to make sure you have someone watching your back before you sign.
Some top dogs in the music industry have notoriously taken advantage of the young, ...
Bob Marley and the Rise of Reggae Music
By Maraya Mullen · 17 years ago
Four decades after the rest of the world first heard of reggae’s characteristic bass-dominated rhythm, there is no denying that the Jamaican-born music has successfully permeated global cultural consciousness. Today, reggae movies are shown in ...
Music Career Options That You Should Know About
By Sarika Kabra · 17 years ago
Did you know that making music can actually end up as a decent career for you? If you simply have a passing interest in music, or are a music buff confirming to the latest trends ...
14 Duke Ellington Quotes to Celebrate The Birth of a Music Master
By Noel Jameson · 17 years ago
Calling all jazz fans -- it's time to prepare yourself for some fabulous Duke Ellington quotes. This legend's music transcends genres and generations and it's only fitting that we remember him on the anniversary of ...
Acoustic Guitars - The Best Tuners
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
Tuning your acoustic guitar is the first step in your guitar playing career. Whether by skill, talent or technology, you must be able to get your guitar into tune. One common obstacle to learning to ...
Move over Harry Potter, Fantasy Novels just got Sexy!
By Lydia Quinn · 17 years ago
For several decades, the alluring world of Fantasy novels was dominated by such stalwart offerings such as the classic Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. In recent years, huge hordes of readers surged ...
Sweet Sounds Of An Acoustic Blues Guitar
By Kurt Naulaerts · 17 years ago
One day many years ago Bob Dylan walked on stage and played an electric guitar for the first time ever live to an audience. It made the front page of all of the big papers ...
The Evolution Of The Electric Guitar
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
References to the guitar more or less in its modern form date back to the 14th century. In its infancy it had four courses of double strings and a rounded body like a gourd or ...
Being Scared in a Music Soundtrack
By John Bickerton · 17 years ago
The most effective and frightening soundtrack example I can think of is from Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho. Famed soundtrack composer, Bernard Herrmann, created a chilling effect using piercing and screeching violins played in their highest ...
Guitar Modes
By Thomas Leighton · 17 years ago
Guitarists make use of the modes to produce pleasing and melody music. If you are a guitarist, you might have played quite several modes unknown to your realization. One of the principal lonian modes is ...
Acoustic Guitar Lessons
By Ricky Sharples · 17 years ago
These mini guitar lessons have been put together for the beginner acoustic guitar student who feels a need to play music but is a bit short on direction.
Lesson One - What kind of guitar ...
Dj Gives Spice To Your Life
By Parker Smith · 17 years ago
What is DJ?
DJ is an art. If you are DJ it means that you are on the top of music. A good DJ is one who is on the top of all DJs around ...
Are Vocal Warm-ups Really Necessary?
By Lisa Lopez · 17 years ago
You might thing that vocal warm-ups are a waste of time. However, if you've ever heard someone sing and thought to yourself "They sound like an angel", you might be interested to know that, in ...
Mass Media and the Rock'n'Roll Phenomenum - The Beatles
By Yugo Kabeya · 17 years ago
Introduction
In order to understand the Beatles phenomenon, we must go back in time and analyze the historical environment in which they are inserted. Let us consider WWII as a starting point. In their essence ...
Origins of Rock’n’Roll – A Brief History
By Yugo Kabeya · 17 years ago
Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; black rhythm and blues, noted for saxophone solos; black and white gospel music; white country and ...
Syd Barret + Brian Wilson = "Meet Arnaldo Baptista"
By Sergio Machado · 17 years ago
What can be said about Arnaldo Baptista?
Perhaps we could say that his brother Sergio Dias and himself were the two Brazilian teenage boys to introduce the electric guitar to brazilian music in the mid-60's, ...