How to be Creative at the Piano
Looks at the reasons for stifled creativty at the piano and gives a unique answer to this problem.
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How To Change Your Guitar Strings
Changing your guitar strings might make you feel a litte uncomfortable if you have never done it before, but it's really quite simple and should become a regular part of your guitar care routine.
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How to Organise a Gig or a Live Music Event - the Budget
It might be a live music event or a theatrical performance. But the first essential stage is to focus on the money.
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Launch Pad Introduces Subliminal
Beat boxing is amazing! If you see Subliminal do it you'll be even more amazed
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Music Industry Insider: Tess Taylor of NARIP and LAMN
Every industry has someone with a hand on the pulse of the business. In music, that person is Tess Taylor, Founder and President of two organizations that bring together executives, managers, artists, agents, producers, engineers, suppliers, bookers, marketing professionals, and studio personnel.
Introducing the Los Angeles Music Network (LAMN) and the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP), each one of which can help you move further in the music business.
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Music: Uniting Nations, Dividing Generations
Cultures around the world since the beginning of time have appreciated, enjoyed, and incorporated some form of music in their everyday lives. However, just as one man's trash is another man's treasur...
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Musicians: What Chords Do You Absolutely, Positively Have To Know?
There are thousands and thousands of different chords in music - everything from basic major chords to minor 7ths to 13ths to suspensions to poly-chords. Someday, you might want to learn all those chords if you don't already know them.
But meanwhile, there are 3 chords -- just 3 -- that you absolutely, positively have to know. If you don't know these three, there's hardly a song in the whole world that you could play. But by knowing just 3 chords, you can play hundreds, if not thousands of songs!
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Name That Tune - Tips For When You Can't Remember The Song Title Or Artist
If you have a tune stuck in your head but forgot both the song title and the artist this article describes a simple procedure for naming that tune when all you remember are a few words.
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Play The Piano Like A Pro
Meet the 12 Major Notes: 1. C (do) 2. C# - Db (do sharp or re flat) (one-key only) 3. D (re) 4. D# - Eb (re sharp or mi flat) (one key only) 5. E (mi) 6. F ...
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Soul Band for a Party
In this article Jeff Williams, a professional musician based in London, gives you a glimpse into his world as he describes the events surrounding organizing a soul band for a 60th birthday party.
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Spectral Muses Revisited: The Channeled Melodies of Rosemary Brown
During the late 60s and early 70s an otherwise unremarkable English widow named Rosemary Brown charmed and baffled the musical world with a flood of hundreds of tunes, many extremely sophisticated, which she claimed were dictated to her by famous deceased composers.
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Story of 50 Cent
Full bio of 50 cent plus lots more!
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The Irish Harp
To tell the history of the Irish harp is to tell the history of the Irish people. This ancient folk instrument with its beautiful, delicate sound is played today despite being ignored, derided and proscribed for centuries.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Chinese Gong
Richard Nixon was not the first president to involve himself with China. Thomas Jefferson did as well. And like Nixon, he found a way to make it work for him at home, though in a much more musical way.
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Why You Can't Play Piano
Points out the drawbacks of note-reading and suggests a chord-based approach to piano playing.
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1973 Interview with Paul McCartney - Forming Wings
In this interview Steven Rosen chats with Paul McCartney after putting together his new band Wings. Paul talks about how he put the band together and how they still are a bit raw and need to improve the band's performance.
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Are iPods Changing the Way We Listen to Music
They're everywhere, and not only are they everywhere, they look cool too. Since its launch in 2001, 10 million have sold and 8 million of those were in 2004. So welcome to the next generation. 8 tracks, records, cassettes, CDs, and now the iPod.
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Avoiding Injuries When Playing Guitar
Guitar Player (s)... Are You Using Your Common Sense? Guitar player injuries can be restricted to the minimum if you follow a bit of common sense advice...
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Bagpipe Lessons In Your Own Home !
If you have ever thought about learning to play the bagpipes but, never did anything about it then, now is your chance!
We can teach you in the comfort of your own home with video conferencing. Learn from the experts in Scotland in real time.
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Fiddle Tab Makes Learning Fiddle Fast and Easy
Fiddle tablature, or fiddle tab, is intuitive and easy to learn. This explanation compares it to standard music notation.
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Guitar Buying - The Pros and Cons of Vintage vs. Reissue
The advantages and disadvantages of buying a vintage guitar over a later model reissue.
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Guitar Players...Learn About The Point Of Discipline
Do you know 1007 bits of songs, but you can't play ONE song from start to finish. This article can help!
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How to Become a Filthy Rich Record Label Mogul
Learn how to start a record label and become a rich record label mogul? Sure, you can do it! Now anyone can start a record label on their own.
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How to Create Backing Tracks If You Don't Play All the Instruments... or Any
Congratulations! Your singing has become amazing, and it's time the world knew. You've also written some songs that are just kick you-know-what. They need to be recorded, MP3ed and put on the net ASAP. But you've got two problems. First, you can't afford a studio, let alone a band for all this stuff. Second, you don't play all, or any, of the instruments. Well, with a modest home recording studio setup, there's good news!
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It's Jewish Music, But Is The Music Jewish?
Contemporary Jewish music is sounding hipper and hipper. It's tradition versus modernity, and the resolution goes to the heart of what makes a great song.
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