Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

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Anybody Can Learn to Play Piano


2012
02.07

Piano is one of those instruments that is really difficult to learn to play yes, but it’s not out of reach of anybody as long as you have a good teacher.

That’s what can lead many to think you have to spend thousands on a professional instructor, but that’s just not the case with Rocket Piano.

What you’ll discover about this system that’s so special, is that it’s patented by real piano pros, to get you past the common humps new players run into, but it’s also going to teach you the entire foundation of playing that you’ll need for the future.

What’s more, it costs less than one professional lesson, let alone a lifetime of them for you to get to the professional piano player level of expertise. That means you save a ton of money.

But you do have to be determined, because here everything moves at your pace. So if you slack, or you find that you just can’t commit to this type of learning system like you should, then you won’t get far.

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Independent Artists: Getting Discovered is Based on Your Popularity on Search Engines


2012
02.07

Getting discovered as independent artists is now based on how you expose yourself online. Aside from having a website for your band, you also have to join websites where you can promote your music. It’s not limited to music websites and forums or even internet radio. As much as you love making music, you also have to take the time for blogging about your band and maybe even interacting with your fans through social networking.

Basically, search engines are your ticket to stardom. If you’re listed as the most popular band on the web with the work you do to advertise your website and also with the blogging that you do, there will be people who are going to visit your site just because they’re curious about what the hype is all about. If they listen to your music and they like it, you’ve got yourself some new fans. As independent artists trying to make it in the music world, you need to utilize the power of search engines.

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Information on Free Sheet Music


2011
12.31

Nowadays, you can go to the internet and find free sheet music. With internet, you can download music sheet without having to pay a cent. The majority of the music notes websites offer free and paid music sheets. Paid music sheets are usually in PDF format. If you don’t have the budget to buy a music sheet, you can download it online for free of charge. Before downloading the free music sheet, you can play the midi to find out the tune of the music. There are many different types of music sheets you can download including violin, flute, guitar, trombone, and cello music sheets. You can browse the music files at the music notes website based on different criteria such as original scores, transcriptions, midi files and etc. To download the free music sheet file, you simply need to right click on it and choose save image from the right click menu. If you want to get updates about the music sheets, you can subscribe to the newsletters.

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Old Lady Software


2011
12.30

I enjoy doing things with my grand kids, it is a rare treat for me to be able to sit down with them and have fun. Well I got the chance the other day. I saw my grand kids on the computer, so I got up and went over to see what they were doing. I asked them and they said they were playing with their new game. When I looked at the game it had a piano, drums, and all kinds of other stuff on it. I asked if they could show me how to do it and they said they would. Wow it was kind of fun. I was able to play it and do everything they did with it. Now I tell my friends that my grandchildrens’ drum beat maker software is now for old ladies as well as our grandchildren. We got a laugh out of it, although I’ll admit it is fun.

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Try Your Hand at These Vocal Lessons First


2011
12.28

Before you decide to go out and buy any old singing program or take private vocal coaching lessons which can leave your wallet depleted, you may want to start by looking at purchasing a voice lessons online coaching program, which in my 20+ years of professional singing and teaching people develop their voices all over the world, I find this can be the hands down best and most cost effective form of learning to sing out there on the market today. But why is that exactly?

Well for starters what I like about this program is it costs very little by comparison and what you usually would pay for approximately 2-3 vocal lessons with a teacher, you can usually get an entire course that takes you from absolute beginner to advanced vocalist.

Also going at your own pace is something I absolutely love so if you want to go faster than normal you have the option.

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How Online Guitar Lessons Can Help You out


2011
12.03

If you want to learn how to play guitar well then it helps to learn from guitar lessons. You don’t have to take lessons in person any more. Now with modern technology you can learn how to play guitar online.

There are countless websites with video lessons, chord charts, guitar tabs, and ebooks all dedicated to helping new guitar player learn the ropes of guitar. My advice for newbies is to start learning the chord structures. Learn the shapes of the A, B, C, D, E, F, and G chords.

Note that all of the chords can be played as open chords except the B and F chords. These two chords can only be played as barred chords. This concept is covered in more depth once you start learning about the CAGED theory. But this is more of an advanced topic.

Beginner guitar players should always start with the major and minor chords and then learn a few easy songs so they can play along with the chords they have learned.

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Free Music Downloads Caused Him to Faint


2011
12.03

“Hey, I just got this new mp3 player and need you to tell me where I can download free music !” my friend told me.

“You’re asking the wrong person. I quit downloading free music a long time ago, especially after those peer-to-peer networks caused my PC to crash,” I responded.

My response had no effect on my friend. He was still eager to download his music for free. He succeeded in downloading close to 8,000 songs until one day his PC crashed (just like mine had a few years prior). On top of that he received a letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

“Who is the RIAA and what do they do ?” he asked me.

“I don’t know. Why don’t you just open the letter and maybe your question will be answered,” I replied.

As soon as he had finished reading the contents of the letter he stared at the wall then fainted. He had just been sued.

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Dreams of My Future Family


2011
11.18

Music has always been one of my interests. I really needed to exert tremendous amount of effort to be able to play a musical instrument, that is, the acoustic guitar. I’ve also been trying really hard to be able to sing properly, because although music can be learned, there are some aspects that being born with it gives one great advantage. Some of those would be a sensitive sense of hearing and beautiful singing voices (which unfortunately wasn’t inborn for me). For an average person like me, things are different. If for example I want to learn playing a new instrument, I’m going to need a lot of time to be able to play it properly. So one of the things I have really been planning for my future family is to support them in whatever interest they have, be it music, or art, or any other. I’ll introduce them to music as early as possible, maybe at an age as early as 3, I’ll buy my son or daughter kids guitars and teach him or her how to play it.