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Author :: Keith Kingston  |
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| Article Title :: Downloading MP3's Made Easy |
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| The MP3 movement started out with a huge audience of music enthusiasts on the internet. The MP3 digital music format has had, and will continue to have, a huge impart on how people, gather, listen to and share music.The MP3 format is a compression system for digital music that helps reduce the size of a digitized song without disturbing the sound quality. Digital music is converted to MP3 format and made available for use, usually via the web. MP3 files can be downloaded onto your computer from the internet and special software, either commercial or freeware. Using your computer and software you can convert digital music from a CD into MP3 format.MP3 files can be played (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Steve McArthur |
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| Article Title :: How I Learned How To Play The Guitar After Giving Up In Disgust |
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| I was 17 at the time (the Beatles era), and it was considered cool to play the guitar. I had a little training in music in elementary school where I had learned how to play the trumpet. I remember that the only reason I started the trumpet was because my daddy had run across an old beat up horn that a woman was selling for $10.So, in my junior year of high school I set about to teach myself how to play a few chords so I could strum along with "Love, Love Me Do" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand". However, it never occurred to me that learning how to play the guitar might just be a little different than learning the trumpet.Actually, what happened was that I gave up after about 2 (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Daniel Punch |
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| Article Title :: Free, Legal Music Online |
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| Almost everyone has heard about the massive crack down on Internet music piracy that has been occurring over the past few years. Napster was taken down (although it has now returned as a pay service), other file sharing programs now require users to pay for a license and the RIAA and other similar organizations are doing their best to hunt down copyright offenders and put an end to their crime sprees. The consumers on the other hand argue that their actions hurt nobody, that there is no damage done to anyone by their not buying an album. Furthermore, they claim, MP3s allow them to sample a CD before purchasing it, thus actually helping sales.I'm not here to argue the pros and cons. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Michael Casamento |
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| Article Title :: Guitar Buying - The Pros and Cons of Vintage vs. Reissue |
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| To most people, owning the "genuine article" is the only thing that will suffice. As a guitar player, and one who appreciates classic "vintage" instruments, I can fully understand this point of view. I can't think of a single guitarist who wouldn't absolutely adore playing a real 50's Les Paul or Stratocaster. However, becoming the proud owner of a true vintage instrument does have its drawbacks.First of all, there's the price of admission. The increasingly strong demand for vintage instruments has driven their prices through the roof and out of reach for most of us. Top quality, well taken care of original instruments from the 50's and 60's can approach the cost of a new car, or i (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Marc Gunn |
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| Article Title :: 14 Ways Musicians Can Increase Their Tips |
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| I was listening to NPR the other day when they did a report on tipping in the restaurant industry. One they had a list of tips on how wait staff can increase their tips.That got me brainstorming and surfing the net for other ideas to boost tips. That combined with lots of performances at Renaissance Festivals helped me to develop my own list of ways musicians can improve their tips.1. Introduce yourself by nameToo often musicians forget to introduce themselves on stage. Make sure you tell the audience your band name, but to really boost your tips, you should also introduce yourselves individually. Let people know who you are as an individual and you'll see greater tip (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Marc Gunn |
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| Article Title :: One Way to Improve Your Music Journalist Relationship |
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| Boy, I really detest how some people do websites. Bands are some of the worst. Seems like any band that wants to look "professional" feels they must create a website using pop-ups and flash. Why? Cuz that's what the Majors do?I tried to go to a friend's website today to find his email address. He's in a band. "Click here if you have a pop-up stopper." Now is that a stupid way to start a website or what?So I clicked... dreading the outcome... For the next minute the minute flash loaded... A MINUTE!Meanwhile, I was enjoying some wonderful music by Angelo Branduardi, a wonderful Italian world folk musician. Then "BLLAAAAARRRR." The frickin flash program was trying to pla (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Helen Baxter |
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| Article Title :: Sheet Music – Violin and Other String Instruments |
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| The violin is a bowed stringed instrument and is the highest pitched member of the violin family. It sits along side its cousins – the other members of the violin family - the viola, cello, and double bass. The bow of the violin is a narrow, slightly incurved stick of Pernambuco about 75 cm long, with a band of horsehair stretched from end to end of the bowstick. The violin has four strings tuned a fifth apart, to the notes g, d’, a’, e’’: On early violins the strings were of pure gut. Today they may be of gut, gut wound with aluminum or silver, steel, or perlon.Sheet music - violin is often provided to students by the conductors of their orchestras or their private teach (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Owen Nicholson |
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| Article Title :: How Any DJ Can Increase Their Gigs and Profits By This Simple Strategy |
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| The DJ industry is very competitive. There are many DJ’s who are making huge amounts of money and then there are other DJ’s who are struggling to find any gigs at all.If there are some DJ’s who are thriving with their business and you are not, there is something you can do to change that completely around where you become booked with as many gigs as you can handle.To do this, you have to understand how to use a concept and differentiate yourself from the other DJ’s.So I need to ask you this question.How different are you from any other DJ?Do you provide services or products that another DJ doesn’t? Do you provide better quality? Do you have th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Drew Vics |
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| Article Title :: Say Something |
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| The music of Rush influences and inspires, at least that's what it's done
for me over the past 25 years. Now, the question is, is the music that
powerful, or am I just too easy to inspire? Both I guess.When something really hits me I tend to pay attention to it, like a smack
in the face. It's tough to ignore something that's truly eye-opening. I pay
attention to things that open my eyes, things that make me think and
feel, like music. When I listen to Rush sometimes I laugh because of
their comical aspects, sometimes I cry because of the impact of certain
phrases or melodies, or indeed the combination thereof. I'm also often
floored by the power of the music, and the sheer (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Michael Casamento |
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| Article Title :: A Brief History Of Gibson Guitars |
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| Gibson guitars have been around forever. It's funny, but although Gibson has produced some of the most amazing guitars in history, perhaps the company's largest contribution to music has been through their advancements in pickup technology. Gibson's first electric guitar the ES-150 was produced in 1936, and is still considered one of the best sounding electric jazz guitars in the world.In 1946 Gibson introduced the P-90 single coil pickup, which was eventually used on the first Les Paul model in 1952. The Les Paul was Gibson's first solid body electric guitar. In 1957 Gibson introduced the legendary Humbucker pickup on the Les Paul model, and an instant classic was born. The P-90 a (read full article) |
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