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Author :: Jon Butt  |
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| Article Title :: Who's Playing What? A Guide To The Guitars Of The Pros |
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| Eric Clapton performs his slow-handed magic on his. Even with just nine fingers, Jerry Garcia kept countless Deadheads dancing as he played with his. At the mere sight of his, the King of Rock-n-Roll could make a grown woman faint. Of course, I’m talking about guitars. Professional musicians have been stroking and strumming, picking and playing the world’s greatest guitars and making the world’s greatest music. If you want to play like the pros, you’re going to need to know what guitars are rocking their worlds.Since 1946, Fender guitars have defined rock-n-roll. Fender’s line of world-famous instruments, such as the Telecaster®, Stratocaster®, Precision Bass®, and Jaz (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Duane Shinn |
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| Article Title :: How To Make a Fortune Teaching Piano (or Guitar, or Drums, or Singing, or...) To Beginners |
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| “But I’m not in it for the money” you say.Me neither.I LOVE music and I LOVE to teach music. I feel sorry for people that go into a field just to make money.They are missing it.You’ve got to love what you do to do it well.So with me, teaching music is a “get to” – not a “got to.”But if you love people and you love music, what’s the harm in maximizing your income? It’s not the raw pursuit of money – it’s simply multiplying yourself so that your skill can benefit more people, and in so doing, benefit yourself as well.Why beginners?Because for every advanced music student, there are 100 beginners. It’s just a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Patrick C. Martinez |
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| Article Title :: Kanye West Music: What is His Deal Behind Late Registration? |
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| Ka-ha-hanye! The latest Kanye West music release, Late Registration, follow-up to the oppositely titled, The College Dropout, has Kanye going in exactly that, an opposite direction in everything, except credibility. That part's intact.It's getting tougher and tougher, as opposed to the 90's and even decades preceding, to place an artist strictly in a subgenre of a genre. Yes, Kanye West music is obviously in the hip-hop genre. But what type of subgenre does he really fall in? I mean, he does speak for "the people", in particularly America's African-American population, making the general population at large become aware of the crises that his brothe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Rita R. Powers |
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| Article Title :: Madonna Confesses Dance Floor Tour May Be Coming |
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| It’s not official but Madonna may be bringing her phenomenally successful CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, live to a venue near you. To date, Confessions has sold nearly 1.29 million copies in the United States alone. It continues to top sales charts in the UK, and Madonna was recently recognized as the female artist with the most number one hits in the UK. It seems almost certain that Madonna’s fan base will soon be pleading for her to finalize preparations for a Confessions tour. How do we know Madonna may be preparing for a tour? While not coming out and making it official, she has made some statements that hint at the possibility.
In a recent interview, Madonna spoke ab (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Kenneth C. Hoffman |
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| Article Title :: Music Times Four |
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| Listening I gather the harmony which floats on the airAnd thrill to the meaning that waits for me there.From the depths of my heart to the chords of my soulFinding the sum of four parts can be greater than the whole.Only one in a million can be a singer like Perry Como or possess the perfect warm voice of a Bing Crosby. There are thousands of singers out there with good voices that stay on pitch who, for some reason of another, never got to sing for an audience other than the occasional stint with the church choir.Enter the Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of Quartet singing in America, Inc. Quite a mouthful, but (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Cynthia VanLandingham |
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| Article Title :: Piano Posture - Don't Try to Play Without It |
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| Many aspects of playing the piano such as note reading and ear training are intuitive. They just make sense. There are, however, important aspects of piano which are not intuitive. In fact they are counter-intuitive to most of us. That’s why a good piano teacher is so important.Students imagine playing in a way that makes sense to them and “feels” comfortable. You can call this your “default” setting, what you do naturally out of habit. Ever try to change a habit? It’s difficult. It takes conscious effort over time, because the mind-body connection is un-conscious and powerful. If you’re a piano student who wants to improve your playing, the best way to do t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Cynthia VanLandingham |
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| Article Title :: Make the Keyboard Connection and Play with Beauty & Imagination |
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| Playing with awareness and sensitivity are key to making beautiful music on the piano. Pianists who know how to connect to the sound vibrations as they play understand what is often jokingly referred to as “becoming one with your instrument.” But don’t laugh! This is a great way to enhance learning, memory, concentration, and most importantly playing enjoyment.From birth our sense of touch is our most important means of learning. As babies grow their senses develop to include balance, visual and spatial awareness, and finally the concept of time. In the Arts all of these elements are brought together to imitate, confirm, and convey human experience. To play piano more (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Mantius Cazaubon |
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| Article Title :: How To Improve Your Employment Prospects as a Musician |
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| How do you expand your opportunities to work in the music business? How do you improve your employment prospects? The key to doing that is developing your versatility. There are many ways of expanding what you already know how to do as a musician. It's all about using the skills that you already possess and channeling them towards related fields.Ask yourself what your most basic skill is. Let's say you play the guitar. You will find that there are several related instruments that you can easily adapt your skill to. Instead of limiting yourself to the guitar or one kind of guitar, why not expand your employment opportunities? Why not learn to play related instruments?There ar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Mantius Cazaubon |
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| Article Title :: Piano Care and Maintenance Tips |
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| Temperature and humidity. In positioning your piano, you should strive for evenness of humidity and temperature. Since a piano is made mostly of wood, it is greatly affected by seasonal change. If there is lots of variation in humidity and temperature, your piano will easily go out of tune. Humidity fluctuations can also cause cracking of the wooden soundboard and damage to the finish.For these reasons you should never put a piano next to a frequently opened outside door or in front of a picture window. Never put it near heating ducts, hot air registers, or radiators. Protect the piano against direct sunlight, humidity and sudden changes in temperature. You need to en (read full article) |
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| Category :: Music Articles |
Author :: Mantius Cazaubon |
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| Article Title :: Top Six Reasons to Buy a Digital Piano Instead Of an Acoustic |
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| There are several reasons why piano and keyboard players choose digital pianos over their acoustic counterparts.Let's talk about some of the main reasons.1. There is no need for tuning. Acoustic pianos have to be tuned once or twice a year. However, since the sounds of digital pianos are in digital format, they never go out of tune. Forget about paying a tuner all the time and save.2. They are portable. A regular upright piano could weigh over 500 lbs. A grand piano weighs a lot more. Compare this to digital pianos that weigh less than 100 lbs. You could easily carry one under your arm from gig to gig. Transportation is easy. The fact that (read full article) |
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