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| Article Title :: Your Free Acoustic Guitar Lesson |
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Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help you improve
your guitar playing skills quickly.
This guitar learning techique will teach you how to fingerpick
folk-style, but in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This Latin
rhythm has eight quick beats to the measure, and is accented on
the first, the fourth, and the seventh beats.
Your free acoustic guitar lesson will focus on using your
right hand, and your thumb will play the accented beats. Your
fingers will follow. Finger number one, the index finger, is to
pluck the third string on beats two, five, and eight, and
fingers two and three will pluck the second and first strings
together on beats three and six.
In the following (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Growing "Stone Soup" Into A Legend |
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The biggest thing you have to worry about is that there are so
many - too many - groups trying to climb the ladder. What you
need is exposure. Promotion and publicity comes at a premium.
There's a storm on the street. We're caught in a blizzard of
entertainment. The closer you get to the center, the nearer you
get to the top, the less will see or been seen. It's like a
white out in winter. The place where most people give up. Ah,
but, the winners live in the eye of the hurricane where it's
calm and quiet. The ones who are centered are safe. The ones who
know their way around know there's no need to fuss or worry.
They keep on keeping on and let the people around them do the
work.
Emerging (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: You Might Become A Cult Hero |
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You've written a few good songs, made a dollar or two jamming
with a few bands or busking on the corner. Now, you're no longer
satisfied: dreaming of stardom, you're hungry for the big time.
The worst thing to do is to hold out for the big break that
never happens: Better to play for the love of music. With no
false hopes and no illusions, start from zero. Somewhere,
there's an audience for you. Let someone hear you - mother,
daughter, friend, lover - and listen to what they have to say.
Drink in the encouragement and consider their criticism. It's
all good. Just get someone, anyone, anywhere, anytime to listen
to you. Sing in the dark, sing in the park. Play for friends,
for strangers, for (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Music Is Only Music After All |
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What happens when young people discover their identity is
nothing short of apocalyptic and reason enough to change. Like
it or not, as the spirit rises, the soul collides with the mind
and all that is known is challenged. Every generation grows up
with a vision of how they want their world to be. They fix what
needs fixing and change what needs changing.
America was living in a bubble in the 1950's. Everyone in the
world knew that : everyone, that is, except Americans. It should
have come as no surprise when young people started questioning
the absolute authority of adults living in an unforgiving world.
No matter what people say, no one can live in a bubble anymore
than an artist can cre (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Busking For Dollars At The Corner |
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There's something to be said about small beginnings. Doing
something small for a small audience is a good place to start.
But, starting anything new is always difficult. Performers need
to test the water, to break the ice. We all need to get
experience somehow but not at the risk of making ourselves look
bad or worse, disappointing your audience. Audiences will only
be as forgiving as their level of expectation. The secret is
never to promise too much.
After learning to finger pick my first guitar chord, I wrote a
gritty, poetic one chord song and performed it on stage for a
small crowd at a downtown Toronto coffee house. Roberta
Richards, a Canadian music impressario who became a cult le (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Successful People Don't Dwell in the Past |
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What happens when young people discover their identity is
nothing short of apocalyptic and reason enough to change. Like
it or not, as the spirit rises, the soul collides with the mind
and all that is known is challenged. Every generation grows up
with a vision of how they want their world to be. They fix what
needs fixing and change what needs changing.
America was living in a bubble in the 1950's. Everyone in the
world knew that : everyone, that is, except Americans. It should
have come as no surprise when young people started questioning
the absolute authority of adults living in an unforgiving world.
No matter what people say, no one can live in a bubble anymore
than an artist can cre (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: In With The Good, Out With The Bad |
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We are here for a purpose. We are here to make a difference in
the world. The music in us is put there for a reason not just to
create personal wealth or make us feel good about ourselves. But
it can take a long time for some of us to find our purpose in
life. It's not a thing most people know from birth. It's
something we learn in time. One day, we just feel it - like a
"calling" - it hits us square in the nose; not like a boxer,
more like a scent of perfume.
Beautiful music makes a difference. Words of hope change lives.
A joyful experience heals the broken hearted. Music can inspire.
It can take us on a journey of discovery. We are all spiritual
beings. The person inside is hidden by ma (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Artists Inspire Cultural Revolution |
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Paris was once the center for art, literature, and music in the
world. Exploding in the world with a new sense of self,
Impressionist artists questioned everything. Painters like
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas saw the
world differently, delighting in vivid colors. Composers began
using discordant chords and diverse musical arrangements to
convey impressions and moods.
A century later, the Impressionist influence was still alive and
well in music. Beatle mania achieved a popularity and a
following that was unprecedented in the history of British show
business. Like Impressionism, The Beatles' revolutionary music
inspired a generation. Forever having a political dimensi (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Creativity Now |
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Creativity Is An You would think the music industry would have
learned by now. Art cannot be commodified. Oh, of course, you
can sell Van Gogh prints in the check out aisles of Walmart as
quickly as you can churn out a Muzak version of Led Zepplins
"Stairway to Heaven". But great music can't be sanitized,
sterilized or serialized. There are some things you don't learn
in a classroom: Things you can only learn on a stage in front of
an audience. All great music is born on the stage. It is a
product of the chemistry that happens when a performer and an
audience meet headlong on the edge of sanity.
As much as we take inspiration and are certainly entertained by
great music, there is somethin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Dennis Walsh |
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| Article Title :: Music Was Never Meant To Last |
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Great music blows like a gentle breeze across the meadow. It
floods the senses with the force of a hurricane. It moves the
spirit; breaks the heart; tames the wild beast and burns in the
belly with fire. Still, there are too many choices. The concept
of a single artist or group like The Beatles uniting a large pop
audience and shaping and defining it is about as dead as the
45-rpm single.
There are some things you don't learn in a classroom; things you
only learn on stage in front of an audience. All great music is
born on the stage. It is a product of the chemistry reaction
between the audience and the performer. As much as we are
inspired and entertained by great music, it is the collect (read full article) |
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