There is absolutely no doubting the importance and value of the drum sticks for every drummer. These people also recognize the value of choosing the right one coupled with even the perfect cymbals. It is important to note that all these are chosen with the correct measures in place in order to render the best of music beats as and when needed. For all kinds of drummers ranging from novices to professionals there is a set criterion for the choice of drum sticks that are to be used for any occasion. Let us take a look at some of the steps that would help in the choice of the right one.
One of the most crucial things to take into consideration is the tip. Here we would have two different decisions to make. We have to choose between the nylon tip and the wood tip. It is important to note that the wood tips are softer than the nylon tips but the latter is very great to use with the electronic drum sets since they would not scratch or splinter them. The wood tips on the other hand are able to produce a warmer sound even though it may not be that durable. The shapes of the tips would vary like the oval, triangle, barrel and the round. Indeed each of would produce a very unique sound which means that one has to be very careful as the choice is being made.
One other thing to be on the lookout for is the size of the drum sticks. These are normally identified with about two different criteria and would include the number and the letter. The letter would normally refer to the recommended application for the usage of the stick. For instance there is the ‘A’ label which would be for softer music while the ‘B’ has a medium diameter and therefore would be very much versatile for a wide variety of music. The ‘S’ designation can be used for the playing of drum corps and bands because they have the largest diameter. Another criterion is the number with a 5 indicating a thinner label as compared to the number 2.
Your choice of drum sticks should also be dependent on the kind of wood you want. This is because there are the oak, maple and hickory woods used in the production of the drum sticks with each having their own features.
In the fall of 1970 I was a freshman at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ. I remember wandering into a buddy’s dorm room and hearing a song that I had never heard before from a band with which I had only a little familiarity at the time, the Grateful Dead. The song that was playing was called Saint Stephen from an album my friend said was called Live/Dead.
Saint Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes
Country garden in the wind and the rain,
Wherever he goes the people all complain….
I had never heard anything like it. “Whoa. That was great. Play it again”, I said. My buddy did. Although there was no thunderbolt from the heavens, I became a Deadhead at that very moment.
This past Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, I heard the same song at a show which I attended with my same buddy. The band we saw was Furthur, which Deadheads know is the Bob Weir/Phil Lesh band, along with the lead guitarist from the Dead cover band, Dark Star Orchestra, who is as Jerry as you can get.
The show was vintage Dead laden with late 60s/early 70s classics. The set list consisted of several songs- Dark Star, Saint Stephen, The Eleven – from that same Live/Dead album, a 1969 classic.
Set 1
Help on the Way
Slipknot
Shakedown Street
Jack Straw
El Paso
Wharf Rat
Terrapin Station Suite
Set 2
The Mountain Song
Dark Star
The Other One
Saint Stephen
The Eleven
Death Don’t Have No Mercy
Franklin’s Tower
Encore:
Saturday Night
This wasn’t my first Furthur show. I saw them earlier this year at the Carpenter Center, a 5,000 seat venue at the University of Delaware. It didn’t take long for Deadheads to understand that Furthur is as Dead as you can get (apologies to Dead drummers, Hart & Kreutzman who aren’t part of Furthur), and therefore the band needed to move shows to larger venues like the Garden, though they still play moderate sized venues as the Grateful Dead did years ago.
As a marketer I continue to be impressed with the brilliance of the marketing behind the various incarnations of the Dead. Beyond the music itself, the reason it works, and always has, is that the Dead understood the principles of “social media” long before Al Gore invented the internet. Their brilliance is that they don’t try too hard to “push” their music and ideas. They merely provide endless opportunities over the years for us to appreciate their music and be part of their community.
Early on the Dead allowed music to be recorded at concerts and shared. That was taboo in the industry. No matter to them. They understood that their following would be enhanced by exposure of their live concerts. And fans really “Liked” the Dead before there was a Facebook button to do so.
Lesh and Weir and band members, and their fans, may be aging (Lesh is now 70), but to me their music is as fresh and exciting as when I heard it for the first time 40 years ago.
“Can you answer? Yes I can. But what would be the answer to the answer man?”
TIS= The Indie Spiritualist
DP= Dean Pleasants
EM= Eric Moore
TIS: This is a really nostalgic tour you’ve put together here. You have the Cro-Mags, DRI, Underdog…all of who, along with yourselves, are hardcore legends! What’s the tour experience been like for you so far?
DP: It’s been really cool man. Sort of a blur, as tours usually are, but a lot of fun. We call the bus we’re on “the submarine”, we go underwater and we emerge at the gigs. Every day is a different crowd of people but its always fun. We’re playing stuff off the No Mercy record as well as Suicidal Army and other older stuff, so the crowds really enjoying it, and we are too. We’re really getting into our niche right now, which is usually what happens, and then tour is over. We’re all bonding and it’s just been a lot of fun.
TIS: Is it me, or do you guys tend to steer clear of touring with a lot of the newer “punk/hardcore” bands?
DP: Not really, we just do what works for us. We did some shows recently with Deftones.
EM: Yeah and we toured with Lamb of God a while ago. We tour with a lot of the new bands, and then we smash them, haha.
DP: We did some festivals in Europe and it was just such a diverse lineup. We did a show with Jay-Z, Missy Elliot, Kiss. It was crazy.
EM: Yeah, believe me, it’s diverse. Suicidal is very diverse.
TIS: Did you guys ever skate yourselves?
DP: Oh yeah, absolutely.
EM: Dean still skates. His board is right over there. I used to skate when I was skinny too. Like all the time. I fell and busted my lip and shit, but I’d always get right back up.
TIS: Haha, cool. So what boards did you grow up on?
DP: Well when I was a kid, my first board was this little polyurethane, plastic thing when they first came out. That was before they were skating bowls and stuff. I’m skating a Pep board now with monster wheels and Indy trucks. I can show it to you.
TIS: Yeah that’d be awesome if you don’t mind.
DP: No, not at all!
EM: I always had the Wal-Mart boards man. I had the Wal-Mart board of life. I’d tell my mom I wanted the one that scooped on both sides and she’d be like, “No! You’re gonna get this $10 board, and you’re gonna like it”, and I’d be like, ok, fine, I’ll just ride some BMX bikes. Because when you’re a thug growing up, you’d just be stealing whatever you liked.
DP: So here’s my board. It’s definitely got a work out on this tour and is definitely a cruiser. The guys at Rip City (Santa Monica, CA) hooked this up for me. I told them I played in a band with Jim’s brother and they hooked it right up.
EM: Yeah, the only reason he’s skating a Pep board is cause Pep is our homeboy.
DP: Yeah. I really like to cruise, so on this thing, it’s like two kicks and you can go forever, and it’s fast. Before this board, I skated Dogtown’s and I also had a Jesse from Santa Monica Airlines.
TIS: Rad. So Sucidal, particularly Mike Muir has been noted as having a beef with Rage Against The Machine. In fact, he wrote a song called Do What I Tell You, which is a parody of the lyrics from Rage’s song Killing In The Name. Is this still an ongoing thing?
EM: Hahahaha.
DP: Honestly, I don’t know too much about it. We actually just came from South America where we played with Rage.
EM: Yeah, we played with them. It was only three bands, us, The Mars Volta & Rage.
DP: Yeah and that was pretty cool, so I don’t want to say anything bad about them.
EM: But we really don’t have anything bad to say anyways.
DP: They put on a hell of a show. It was crazy. There were 50,000 people going nuts. I mean, we all put on a good show, but Rage PUT ON A GOOD SHOW.
EM: Yeah, Rage was killing it.
TIS: Cool. So is it safe to say you don’t play that song anymore, or at least didn’t then?
DP: We definitely didn’t play it there.
EM: It was really a beef between people, not bands. It wasn’t like we had to whoop their asses, or they had to come at us.
DP: It was a war of words, which Mike was involved in. What happened was the bands were on tour together, and someone was on the phone, and someone pushed someone, and it was really all Tom Foolery. Then they said something about Mike in an interview and the band being old or something funny. Mike asked us if we’d mind if he wrote a song about them. He didn’t really want to involve us. I wasn’t mad at those guys. So then he wrote Do What You Tell Me, I was like, ok, he really is mad at them.
So we were going to South America, where we’d been offered two festivals, one in Chile and the other in San Paulo. Rage’s manager was like, well I don’t know if they want you guys to come, but he asked them and it had been long forgotten. And the Brazilian people said they wanted Suicidal to come, so we went. We got there and saw Tom, and Zack, and said hi and everything was cool.
TIS: Right on. What’s the word on the new album? Is there a tentative release date?
DP: Well we wanted to release the No Mercy/Suicidal Army record to tour on because Mike had a vision of doing the records over and showing people a harder side of Suicidal. We usually play three or four of the songs in our set. As far as the new record, it’s really based on timing now because of the way the industry and distribution is. We really want to be out right now and rebaptize the people who were into us before, as well as show the newer generation of kids who we are before we put out a record. We don’t want to release something that isn’t going to be heard. That’s really important to all of us. When you put your heart and soul into something, you want it to be heard. And we’re going from this US tour onto Europe and South America etc.
TIS: Yeah my friend Randy was saying on the way up how much he liked the new recordings of the No Mercy stuff and what you guys did with it.
EM: Yeah man, that’s that new, hard and fast stuff.
DP: It’s a throwback to the way they recorded a long time ago. I was originally in Infectious Grooves, before Suicidal, and we were used to doing stuff a certain way, a lot of jamming and writing, but there was a formula to Suicidal that made it sound the way that it did. And we went back to that formula. Mike was doing the hard rhythms and I was doing the solos, and the drummer and bass player were doing their thing. It really makes for a different type of recording. And that’s what we did with No Mercy. When you listen to it, you can hear everybody doing what they do best.
TIS: You mentioned Infectious Grooves. You guys are playing your first U.S. show in 10 years on Nov 23rd. Can you talk a little about that?
EM: Yeah man, it’s going to be a big show. We’re playing at The House of Blues in Hollywood.
DP: Infectious was able to play in Chile with RATM and The Mars Volta, and we’d never played there before. We’ve done some touring in France, Europe and Australia though. Infectious’ first tour was opening for Ozzy.
TIS: Yeah I remember that. Would he come out and sing Therapy with you guys?
DP: Yeah, and actually, when he shot the video with us, he had a broken leg. We were in Chicago and I’ll never forget it. Anyone can say what they want about Ozzy, but he’s the nicest guy, he really is.
TIS: So is there any truth to the Suicidal/L.A. Sureno Venice 13 gang rumors? You can nod once for yes, and twice for no if you’d like.
EM: Hahaha, oh man.
DP: Haha, well there’s a lot of gangs that claim Suicidal but I myself am not a gang member.
EM: I wear red so…(laughter).
DP: We have a lot of people who are into the band that are also into other things that may not be savory. When we play in Ventura, we have Hell’s Angels at our shows all the time. We have a lot of 1% biker gangs that are into Suicidal. They never really cause trouble at the shows, but they’re there. When we play Ventura, the whole street is lined up with Hells Angels.
TIS: Sounds insane.
EM: It’s weird.
DP: Yeah, it’s crazy. So a lot of people like our music and for us, that’s an honor. There’s a lot of people in prison that like our music and they say it helps them through their day so that’s great. For us, it’s most important to touch somebody. If you can help someone through their day when they’re having a hard time, that means something. So as far as the gang thing, I don’t know. It’s crazy and people are definitely doing their thing.
TIS: Cool guys. Thanks for your time.
This is the 5th Studio Album from the late 80′s-90′s Aussies lad Jason Donovan. I grew up on much of his stuff in the 80′s which was more-or-less my first foray into ‘Pop’, at a time I was knee-deep in Rock and Metal. So I was really looking forward to this album as 80′s was the year I became a collector of Music. I always appreciate his performance of the Andrew Lloyd Weber track “Any Dream Will Do” from… Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Boringly titled ‘Soundtracks Of the 80′s’, this album was a total disappointed.
I don’t mean to start the review of this Album on a negative, but honestly with the high expectations, already simmering enroute to picking up the album; it was such a let down. Although the pick of songs were amazing and many of them among my favourites, but ironically it was probably just that which put me off. In Simon Cowells words (and with no respect to you and your talent Mr. Donovan) it was very karaoke.
There was no change in the arrangement or feel to any of the tracks. It was just that now Jason Donovan was singing them. Although he did carry off some of them well, but in many others it was not only no comparison to the original, it was a pretty downsized version.
The Track listing included great 80′s tracks. It took me deep down memory lane. I think, whilst I loved the choice of songs – these were not just great songs, they were anthems. That means – you just can’t do another one of em’. They’re meant to stay original and by the original.
In ‘Soundtracks Of The 80′s’ Jason attempts classics such as Mr. Misters ‘Broken Wings’, Tears For Fears, ‘Everybody Wants to Rule The World’, Richard Marx’ “Right Here Waiting’ or Mike & The Mechanics epic track ‘Living Years’. Then there’s The Cars classic, ‘Drive’ as also Howard Jones ‘What Is Love’. These songs not only quite defined the 80′s but to a large extent even defined the artists. I was pleasantly impressed with his selection of the lesser known track ‘Mary’s Prayer’ by Danny Wilson. I for one love that song. The album also includes covers of Cutting Crew, Terence Trent D’Arby, Yazoo, Climie Fisher and Mike Oldfield.
He also did pull in 2 New tracks ‘Talk You Down’ and ‘Goodnight Baby’, both which were just OK.
Altogether it just didn’t work. His previous album was also a cover album called ‘Let It Be’ with covers of classics from the 50′s & 60′s. Same problem there. Too karaoke! Whilst he is walking down the same road as artists like Rod Stewart and Phil Collins (recently), I do believe he is quite talented enough to carry off some new stuff. I’m hoping the next isn’t a Cover album of the 90′s????
Nevertheless, aint giving up on him yet.
My Star Rating: Got to break it up here…..
***** (Five) Stars for Song Selection with Variety
*** (Three) Stars for Delivery (He did manage to pull off quite a few of them).
* (One) for originality
** (Two) Overall
So we all know how to sing, right? Open your mouth, make the sounds come out, and you’re singing like the stars. Well, believe it or not, singing is a lot more difficult than the effortless performance by the true performers on stage. There’s a wrong way and a right way to sing.
If you’re someone who dreams of being a professional superstar singer, or just love singing for fun, you’d want a clear and powerful sounding voice that will last you a life time. Yet many people fall short in developing their singing voices. Common problems include: small or weak voices, pitch control, not enough volume, not enough air, not able to sing high notes. Many of it relates to physical health, diet, learning the ability to breathe properly, and the right body techniques. All of it makes the difference between MTV and Karaoke bar.
If you want to be a SERIOUS singer, whether professional or recreational, you’ll need some training on how to sing. It’s essential for aspiring professionals, just as nurses and accountants have to go to school for their chosen occupations. You can either find a local teacher and take lessons, or use an online singing course. A highly recommended one is Roger Burnley’s Singing Made Simple.
Whichever method you choose, you need to learn how your vocal apparatus works and how to use it, and also how to deal with (or avoid altogether) any voice problems. With the right teacher or program, learning how to sing can lead to your dreams finally come true.
Dressing up like Lady Gaga for Halloween is easy! Just dress in the most shocking outfit you can think of, like a dress made out of real meat, or dress like you are a female Elton John and you have it made. You can wear a wig of blond hair, white hair or every color imaginable. Wear clothes that show a lot of leg, are sleazy, and show tons of cleavage.
Think of dressing like a cross between Madonna, and Cher, going long on the super shocking aspect. Lady Gaga is out to shock people into remembering her more for her outfits than for her singing abilities. She is into making her millions, and being the next Madonna Superstar while she is still young.
Shop at any Halloween costume store to buy a Lady Gaga outfit. But that would be boring! And it would also be ordinary. Pour through major magazines,or watch MTV and VH1 to catch the Gaga in action. Then study what she wears and put together a Lady Gaga Halloween outfit. You will have to buy or make high heeled shoes that are the highest high heels you will ever wear. Gaga wears high heels so high, that she can’t walk in them. So good luck walking to your Halloween parties while dressed as Lady Gaga.
Points to think about-
*Remember Halloween revelers – Go Big or Go Home!
*You can’t be a scaredy cat while dressed as Lady Gaga for Halloween, you have to have major attitude. You will want to show off, and be the center of meaty attention.
* You do not have to dress sleazy to look like Lady Gaga. You may want to wear form-fitting dresses, and Elton John way out there glasses. But you do not have to dress like a French maid, or a sexy Devil, or the Naughty Nurse.
*You must dress in way-out there outfits that will have everyone at the party talking about you for weeks to come!
Where can you shop for a Lady Gaga Halloween outfit?
* You can put together a meat dress like the dress she wore to the 2010 Video Music Awards. Buy the meat fresh, so that it doesn’t start to smell during the evening. Although it may cost a bundle to buy all that meat and sew it together.
* A less expensive outfit will be a Halloween outfit made out of balloons. All you have to do is blow them up or rent a helium machine.You could make balloon characters like clowns make at kids’ parties for this outfit.
* You will have to frequent toy stores to purchase toys to wear. You will definitely have to wear a hat made out of toys for this outfit! Wear one big toy such as a Barbie car, or a cowboy hat.
Besides having a great time wearing your Lady Gaga Halloween outfit, you will have a fun-filled adventure making the outfit. Just think, you may become the new Lady Gaga dress designer after this Halloween!
A complete set of guitar building plans is a key element in the guitar building process. Consider the guitar building plan as your guide or road map, steering you though the guitar building process.
To the beginning guitar builder, this is of paramount interest.
Ultimately you will need only to casually consult a guitar plan or make your own notes, and improvements, to meet your own distinctive style. But, the plans will have served their role and they still will live on.
What You Should Look For in a Quality Guitar Building Plan:
Selection of the class of guitar would be your main step in the process. Choose from an electric guitar, acoustic guitar, or a classical guitar. But that is a rather fundamental conclusion.
The next step is not so simple and will take some decision-making on your part.
Variations in the Acoustic Guitar:
Classical Guitar Variables:
For the Electric Guitar:
Next, and most significantly, you should determine the detail for the plans you are looking at.
Dimensions: Be sure to verify the quality and amount of dimensions on the plans. An added bonus for you can be the availability of both US and Metric dimensions on the plans.
Notations: Another sign of high-quality plans is the use of abundant notations. Leaving areas up to the digression of the budding guitar maker is often a formula for errors, and or missteps that will require a certain amount of reworking.
Cross Sections: Are there body and neck cross-sections included as part of the stock set of plans? Are the sections well documented with notes and dimensions? This is an added convenience for the luthier.
Layout of Braces: Do the plans indicate the brace diagrams for the top and the back bracing? If so, are there profile views that will allow you to paste the braces onto the brace stock?
Template Diagrams: Are template diagrams available for the plans you are considering? If you have template patterns available for your guitar plan, you should get them. Having a good set of quality templates saves a ton of time and makes your work very accurate. Templates that are most popular are: Side contours, bracing layouts, headpiece layout, fret spacing and more.
This last point is somewhat speculative, but can you tell the plans were put together with the same passion that a guitar maker would build his guitar?
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Our plans easily meet or exceed all the points made in this article. You will get quality plans for a very reasonable price. If you wish more detail, visit our site and view the plans that we have available and quality level.
You have a daisy chain of MIDI instrument all hooked together and you want to control them from your master keyboard or sequencer program. Now you want the drum machine to play the drum part and a sound module to play the string part. This is where the MIDI channels come in handy.
The MIDI channels allow you to designate which messages go to a particular machine. You can program each machine to receive messages on one or more of the 16 MIDI channels. For instance, you can set your drum machine to receive messages on channel 10 (the default channel for drum sounds) and set it with the string sounds to receive data on channel 1. (You set the MIDI channels on your instrument by using the System Parameters menu. Check your owner’s manual for specific procedures.) After you assign your channels, your master keyboard sends the performance information for both the drum machine and the sound module playing the string sounds across one MIDI cable. Each receiving device responds only to the messages directed to the MIDI channel that it’s assigned to receive.
In the scenario, the sound module with the string sounds receives all the data from the master keyboard, responds to the messages on channel 1, and simultaneously sends the data from the master keyboard to the drum machine (via the sounds module’s through port). The drum machine receives the same messages from the master keyboard as the sound module but only responds to those sent for channel 10.
Indie rock can be (loosely) defined as a melodic or punk genre guitar-based of rock music, and a means of producing that music, that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an alternative to the mainstream music of the time. The indie genre, it could be claimed, was mainly inspired by the Sex Pistols and the punk rock movement in the UK, which led to a more DIY approach to music and inspired young people to form bands. For example, on 4 June 1976 in the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester – in a smaller room above the main hall, the Sex Pistols played a gig that is widely believed to have been the catalyst to the punk rock movement, New Wave, and the subsequent indie movement.
Many of the musicians who attended the either of these two famous gigs by the Sex Pistols (as they returned to play another date) went on to form some of the important and critically acclaimed bands of the era. People who are believed to have attended these gigs include The Smith’s front man Morrissey, Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, members of Joy Division/New Order (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook), members of the Buzzcocks (Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle), and The Fall’s Mark E Smith.
In the United Kingdom, independent DIY record labels were started, like Factory Records and Rough Trade. These labels released music by artists (on a much smaller promotional budget) who perhaps the major labels weren’t too interested to begin with – until they realised that there was actually a big market for the style of music. However, ‘indie labels’ gave a band more credibility (‘indie cred’) than if they went with an unfashionable large and money-led label.
Some definitive British indie bands of the late 1970s and 1980s were The Smiths, The Specials, The Stone Roses, The Cure, Happy Mondays, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Orange Juice, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, whose ‘classic’ music during this time directly influenced 1990s alternative genres such as shoegazing and also Britpop – which eventually went on to blur the line between independent and major labels.In the mid-1990s, led by Oasis and Blur, a list of Britpop indie bands dominated the singles and album charts in the UK. More conventional ‘pop acts’ were often beaten in sales by more guitar based indie acts. The Britpop genre included artists such as Pulp, Supergrass, The Verve, and Radiohead. This trend has continued into the present day, with bands such as Artic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Libertines, Klaxons etc, are still able to chart in the upper reaches of sales charts.
However, many so-called indie bands are on major labels (or are on indie labels that are owned by major labels). Nowadays, ‘indie music’ is a term used as genre term like ‘Hip Hop’ or ‘Dance’ and the genre is still covered by major magazines, music journalists and music websites such as the NME, Rolling Stone, Q Magazine, Pitchfolk, and Drowned In Sound. But while the term has perhaps lost it’s initial independent meaning, the name remains as a constant reminder of the DIY methods and spirit that was carried out by bands and labels during the 1980s.
Electric Banana is an indie music news and reviews website.
Piano tuning is not something that you pick up over night. It is a skill that takes considerable time and practice to do well, and above all it takes patience. It is impossible to perform so delicate a task if you are the sort of person who insists on rushing and doing everything as quickly as possible. Although it is not something you will learn in a day, with time and effort you can become an excellent piano tuner.
It is perfectly possible to learn to tune your own piano, but you will need to be sure of a few things before you start. Remember that the strings in a piano are tuned extremely tightly, and as a result, there is tremendous force inside the piano. Inexpertly attempting to fiddle with the piano tuning can cause severe damage. It is even possible to injure yourself.
You will need only a few tools to get started. A special wrench is used for tuning pianos. This is often called a hammer, and is intended specifically for moving piano pins. Some dampers are useful, often made from felt and rubber. Some sort of pitch reference will be necessary – either an electronic device or an old-fashioned tuning fork can work. Some safety glasses are a vital accessory – piano strings can break, and you do not want to lose an eye.
Both grand pianos and upright pianos have similar basic designs. The main difference is the orientation of the strings. As a result, each is tuned in a similar way. It tends to be the case that any piano needs to have all of its strings tuned at least once a year, and preferably each season. Sometimes only, a few notes will appear to be out of tune upon first listen, but usually the entire piano will fall out of tune to some extent with time. This means that piano tuning is never a small job – each and every string will need to be tuned in one day, which takes a great deal of work and, as we have said before, patience.
The actual method of piano tuning is complex and requires study, or at the very least a natural ear. It is well worth enlisting a professional piano technician if the job is too complex for you. There are safety issues to be considered as well as tuning ones – if your piano has gone a long time without tuning, it may have developed some structural fault that needs attention. A skilled piano tuner will know when this is so.
If you’ve ever asked yourself if it were even possible that you could ever make music on your pc the answer to that question is a resounding “without a doubt”. Low-cost electronic music making programs can be found from numerous businesses, with some having top quality plug ins built in their own easy to use software programs. Before this needed a huge amount of time to know the program, nevertheless the current applications have simplified the learning curve which usually permits you to start creating beautiful songs within almost no time.
Owning a high end electronic music making programs might make you all the envy of most of your pals, however, you would almost certainly need to mortgage the house to pay for it. Several electronic music making program developers possess reasonable lite-versions of their larger products for the beginning electronic songs composers.
Whenever deciding which electronic music making program to obtain, there is no need to run out and get a brand new computer system since most of these lite versions are usually compact enough to run on your older PC or Mac. Even though no other equipment is essential to compose your own music, you should consider how you can enhance the experience by purchasing add-ons. The amount of money it can save you by not buying a brand-new computer is better spent on a musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) controller, drum pads and keyboards.
Developing high quality electronic music isn’t just in relation to recording your composed music. Once you have captured your music by means of voice, synthetic music, the many different kinds of virtual instruments or through the musical instrument digital interface controller, it’s time to modify and arrange. An affordable top quality electronic music making program will assist you to easily cut, paste, and edit your composed music. When the process of modifying is completed you can start to arrange your composed music. Many programs enable the consumer to accomplish this by means of a number of means, boosting your current results. A good song arrangement could mean the audible difference between just scrambled noise and the hit.
For the masses of people that have very little if any music writing knowledge, several electronic music making programs offer you pre-recorded loops, or simple strings of music for use in the composing of music. That isn’t very difficult to take a few of these prerecorded loops, connect them together to make the finish musical track with in minutes.
Simply by learning to grasp loop based music, whether the pre-recorded loops provided by the program or the ones you have composed on your own, you may then proceed to studying how you can layer the different loops and sounds together to build your own musical composition.
If you are already a master musician or perhaps looking to discover ways to create your your favourite music several reasonable electronic music making programs are available to direct you towards becoming the musical producing guru which lies with in you. Choosing the proper new music composer application will help you spend more time generating and much less time attempting to figure out how the electronic music making program functions.
No matter how difficult playing guitar may be, most beginners will usually attempt to play one of their favourite songs. But what they do not realize is that apart from playing what they like most, that song they select must also suite their level, personality and style of play.
One tricky part about playing guitar – especially acoustic guitars is to finding not just the song you like but one that practically allows you to play properly with a few lessons be it through DVD, online or through class lessons.
By right, what you should be really looking for in a guitar song is one full of notes and chords that are easy to remember and play. That will allow your play to flow naturally and you being able to practise consistently because you are starting to enjoy the song.
Most importantly, it should not have complicated tones that will disrupt your rhythm of play.
Having said this, here are 3 great songs I recommended for you as guitar apprentices:
Wonderful Tonight
This is a great song by Eric Clapton as it uses mainly a few notes and has a really simple rift in between for simple challenge.
Most beginners like this song to start practising because of the fun and challenge they find in playing with. It also requires some string bending techniques but newbies found that to be exciting and challenging.
Smoke On The Water
This is the song well-loved by beginners with electric guitars for its famous guitar rift.
Moreover, it is a legendary classic that inspires even the most seasoned guitarists to play and modify into their style. They usually play on a G pentatonic scale.
Johnny B. Goode
If you watched all 3 Back To The Future movies in the 80s and 90s, you should know who Michael J Fox is.
In the first two movies, he was performing a song called Johnny B. Goode with the Starlighters to liven the 50s atmosphere.
Using his techniques, you also can perform for your family and friends on their birthdays or special occasions and be just as if not better than Michael J Fox.
The 12 Bar Blues Chord progression is simple to master because it is centred on A, D and E chords.
But for complete beginners – especially those with acoustic guitars, it may be tough initially. However once they grasped the whole concept, it will be very rewarding as they not only can make it their favourite hobby but can also build a new career from there.
Ultimately what you really need is strong foundation of the guitar basics, fundamentals and consistent practice before achieving a certain level of competency to play one or more songs.
Before internet, you need to sign up for classes at schools or community clubs to learn. Now with internet, you can sign up online and learn from videos.
It might not have occurred to you, but a lot of the music that you hear being played these days was created with the help of the net. Professionals have started to make beats with the same frequency as your average Joe.
The reason behind this is that it has started to become increasingly evident just how amazing songs sound when the composers decided to create beats online rather than in a studio like everyone else. When you make beats online, you’re freeing yourself up to a previously unexplored world of options.
DJ programs have come a long way. To create beats online is to enter an area of competition the likes of which you won’t find anywhere else. The thing that makes it more competitive to make beats instead of in a studio is because almost everyone has a computer with internet access, but the same can’t be said for recording studios.
That means that anyone can create beats online as soon as the urge occurs to them. Another issue that crops up is that the quality of the software available from over the internet is limited. If hundreds of people happen to buy the same type of software, there’s a good chance that when they make beats online their sounds will be extremely similar. Especially since the software will have a limited number of ‘special effects’ that can be added to the music to make it unique.
In the end, when it comes to having to make beats, it’s better to buy software that has a wide range of options that you can take advantage of. That makes the risk of sounding like someone else a state over impossible. For you to create beats online, you’ll want to look at the type of software that is affordable, easy to use, but with such an advanced design that even professionals would envy the creations that you managed to produce with it.
There aren’t many programs out that can claim to do all of that and much more, but if you’re looking for one of the few that can then you should give DUBTurbo a try.
It’s easy enough to see where I’m coming from once you try the software out for yourself. Until then you should start considering how much you can do with that type of program. If you plan on using the beats you make for nothing else but fun, or even if you decide to see if you can be good enough to be considered a big name in the world of beat creation, by having the right software doing both is well within the realm of possibility.
Guitar is one of the musical instruments loved by most of the music lovers and guitar amp is nothing but an electronic speaker which is prepared to make the indicator of an acoustic guitar much louder so that it can make an echo through it. Amplifiers also change the tone of instruments by stressing or de-stressing some frequencies and adding up electronic effects.
However, if the amp is not in good quality then it will not be as much effective as it should be. Hence you have to be very careful while purchasing it. Whether this is your first or fifth guitar but you have to know some basic things about it. Followings are some of the guidelines to help you when you are going to buy quality guitar amp:
It is essential to know some factors prior to buying a guitar amp such as: your budget that you have arranged to spend, the type of sound that you usually play, what is the style of music that you will be playing mostly, the amp that your are going to buy will be used mainly for practice or lively used in studio, and if lively used then what is the size location where you will be playing and so on.
When it comes to guitar amps there are some famous companies like Marshall, Akai, Alesis and M-audio known for their standard in live and in the studio. The amps designed by these corporations are well known for their simplicity and quality. They can be used for multipurpose and you can play almost every style of music on them. These companies generally will design 3 styles of amps and out of them first is a combo. A combo is a style that has all the powers, control and speaker in the similar package, hence it is named as combo.
This style generally doesn’t have more then one or two amplifiers and they come in a variety of size that varies from small to extra large. They are good for both purposes like home performance, live as well as studio settings. Though the size of speakers may vary but generally they range from 8″ to 12″. They are generally easier to transfer or move around and they are lightest in weight out of three styles. Habitually, they make little or no noise compare to the larger one and which is fine for practice.
The amp heads typically used around the identical size and hold a variety of controls. The head is nothing but the brain of the amp and without the head speakers will not work and without speaker head will not work. The next is full stack that is another speaker cabinet added to a half stack, hence one head and 2 speakers cabinets each side or generally mounted on the top of each other.
It is very possible to learn how to freestyle rap. Everyday more and more hip hop lovers are finding themselves trying to rhyme off the top of the head like some of their favorite rap idols. Many who try to do this often times find it more difficult then they thought it would be. Yes, learning how to freestyle rap can be quite challenging to do but it is something that can be learned.
I am going to share with you a great technique that you can use to help you with your freestyling. This technique is simple but very effective if used properly. If you want to be good at it you should take note and implement these methods.
The first thing that you can do is to study some of the most well known freestyle rappers in the game. Ask yourself, when you think about dope mc’s who comes to mind. When I ask myself this question I come up with guys like Lil Wayne, Eminem, Jay-Z, Jin, Serious Jones, Kanye West and Ludacris just to name a few. When you ask yourself this question you may come up with some different names, although I’m sure that a couple of
Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkListJust as learning guitar playing is no fun, so is the task to buy acoustic guitar of most appropriate quality. There are many intricate details hidden that have to be taken care of while making the purchase as the instruments would be with you for many years to come ahead. One cannot just go by the looks and appearance but would have to be smart enough to consider some other relevant details as well.
Here are some pertinent suggestions that would help a great deal in selecting the right kind of guitar anytime and anywhere…
When you go to buy an acoustic guitar, don’t just grab it mindlessly and pay for it to take home. The looks are the last factor that needs to be considered before buying an acoustic guitar. Considerable attention has to be paid towards the factors such as the quality of wood used; and the extent of hollowness of guitar’s body. These two things are important constituents of a guitar unlike an electronic guitar that has effect-box mixer to take care of its sound quality.
Many individuals decide to buy a second hand guitar in order to save whatever they can out of the deal. But even a second hand purchase needs to be conducted with equal care just as that of a first hand guitar. Its wood must not be in shambles with any cracks or holes. The condition of the strings should also be good enough so that they get sustained for at least some time and demand no change immediately after the purchase.
The buyer has to exercise even more care and consideration if the first guitar has to be purchased. Since there are galore of qualities of a guitar, it is best to try a one before actually buying it to understand its actual sound quality. If guitar is to be purchased from an online store, the amateurs must take the benefit of some experienced individual who has earlier purchased an acoustic guitar, especially from an online store.
Those who have a passion for guitar playing must not think twice in spending some more money to buy a guitar of higher quality. They may cost on a little higher side but would be a worthy investment for buying a good acoustic guitar. As the guitarist would play the purchased a guitar over the time, the sound quality would keep on getting improved thus sounding better every time it is played.
The New Kids on the Block definitely had the right stuff to make it to the top of charts in the United States at the end of the 80′s. In an era dominated by singers like Tiffany, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper, this was a boy band that created a genuine sensation. When Manchester manager Nigel Martin-Smith saw the success of the group, he realized that his native Britain had nothing of the sort. In 1989 he went on a quest to gather up the boys who could do something big, the boys would make up Take That. They were a 5 piece in the beginning, made up of Robbie Williams, Jason Orange, Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The group was brought together due to their talents at singing and dancing, chosen for just how much they put into performing. Martin-Smith wanted Take That to be a lot less goody goody than the New Kids, so he let them be a lot more street savvy in the way they presented themselves. He wanted his group to resonate with fans and to say that it did is to say that Michael Jackson enjoyed a bit of popularity. These boys began ruling the Top 40 charts in the UK right off the bat and by 1991 it was hard to listen to UK pop radio without stumbling across one of their many hit songs.
The secret to the success of the group is said to be the writing of Gary Barlow who was the admitted front man for the band. He is the one whose songs they tended to sing and that helped Take That take it to the top of the charts with 11 No. 1 hit singles during their brief 5 years together. However, it was Barlow’s creative domination of the group that also lead to them shrinking from a 5 piece to the 4 piece that they became once singer Robbie Williams decided that he’d had enough of being told what to do and wanted to follow his own creative vision. This was not easy on the boys, but they did carry on after he left in 1995. Take That finally split up in 1996, ending a half a decade of total domination in the United Kingdom, Europe and many other markets around the world. The group would not get together again until something unique brought their old glory days back to their minds.
A documentary came out for ITV that went back over the group’s past. It was called Take That: For the Record and it covered what they had been doing over the past decade. This brought them together for a 2006 tour and then, in 2010, word came that Robbie Williams would be coming back into the fold for another tour. Now, fans can enjoy 2 distinct era’s of this band’s chart topping tunes.
I have yearned for acoustic guitar lessons for so long it already slips into my subconscious mind. I can almost feel the curve of the guitar snugly fitted into my chest, the strings vibrating to a tentative strum, the pulsating tune slowly billowing out from the instrument. I have watched musicians lose themselves in the moment whenever they start to play and I wondered how it felt like to be one with the music you are creating.
It didn’t take long before I found out for myself. Just when all this seemed like a far-fetched idea, everything came into place. I saw my classmates huddled up under a big acacia tree one school day and I got curious enough to approach them. And it was then that I saw him – my seatmate, holding close to his body the acoustic guitar I have secretly been pining for in a local music shop. I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears – here was this very seatmate who annoyed me during my daydream moments about having acoustic guitar lessons, playing the instrument I so loved to learn how to play the most, and playing it well.
I admit I was mesmerized. Gone were all the negative vibes I harbored towards him. Seeing him play like the acoustic musicians I have long admired made me feel like I’m a bit closer to my dream than ever before. “He plays my favorite songs well”, I heard myself whisper. Even if I was watching from afar, I could tell that it took him years to perfect whatever it is that he does and I suddenly admired him for all the years of discipline he went through in order to play the acoustic guitar so well.
I was drawn from my reverie when I saw five pairs of eyes suddenly fixed on my dreamy smile. I suddenly wiped the smile out of my face and said “You play well”, before storming out. What was I thinking? I managed to look like a total fool. But oh, the melody, the rhythm, the beat: how can I forget it? And that’s when it hit me: I have to have acoustic guitar lessons, even if I only have to play for myself.
I never felt him approach me nor hear his footsteps slowly echoing mine. I almost shrieked when he tapped on my shoulder. “I could give you one”, he said nonchalantly. “Huh?” I heard myself mutter. “I overheard you mumbling to yourself about having some acoustic guitar lessons and I thought I could help you out on that if you’d let me”, he said. I was stunned. He seemed to read my thoughts too well, I only mustered enough courage to nod my head and say “Ok” before we stopped on the nearest park bench and began his impromptu acoustic guitar lessons.
To date, my seatmate and I now play together almost every single day. Our thirst for music is quenched for every second that we hold our acoustic guitars, for every minute we spend playing them, for every hour that we’re together, collaborating and having a great time. I now have someone I could share my thoughts with, have someone to play with, have someone to dream with. For after all these years of friendship, I now have someone who I can say is my partner in life whom I can collaborate with on all aspects. A partner I never went out in search of but have found me by fulfilling a very simple dream. And I have those acoustic guitar lessons to truly thank for, not just for the skill with which I have right now, but by finding the soul mate I never thought existed, until now.
Jamaica is a small small island with a big big music! So big in fact that there is hardly a place on Earth where Reggae rhythms have not been heard and very often copied and adapted to suit the tastes of the local populations.
Bob Marley – Most Famous Jamaican?
Until recently, Bob Marley, the king of Reggae, was the undisputed most famous Jamaican ever. Now there is a possibility that his fame has been surpassed by the lightning fast Usain Bolt, the young tall Jamaican sprinter who won hearts all over the World at Olympics 2008.
Jamaican Music on the International Scene
But Reggae has become part of the international sound and a part of life for many people.
Jamaican music first broke out of Jamaica onto the international scene in 1964 with “My Boy Lollipop” by Millie Small, becoming a huge hit in England, Australia, the United States, and many other countries around the World. Millie Small paved the way for other Jamaican artistes, like Desmond Dekker, who also topped the British charts.
Soon every major pop group got into the act, with even the Beatles doing the hit “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”. Some bands outside of Jamaica adopted reggae as their own sound, with perhaps the most famous being the hugely successful UB40 who have sold more than seventy million records worldwide, all reggae covers, like “Red Red Wine.”
Introducing the Reggae Rajahs
Even in a place as unlikely as Mumbai, India, where one thinks of music as the sounds of sitars and tablas, Reggae is taking hold and the Reggae Rajahs, India’s first Reggae Sound System, is making waves. The Reggae Rajahs came together through their love of “raggamuffin sounds” in early 2009 in New Delhi, playing roots reggae, ska, dub, lovers rock and dancehall.
The Reggae Rajahs have even adopted Jamaican-type nicknames: Zorawar Shukla, aka Mr. Herbalist; Raghav Dang, aka “Diggy”; and Mohammed Abood, aka “MoCity”. These guys dress in red, green and gold and bring India’s first Reggae Sound System to life in Mumbai to celebrate their first anniversary.
Reggae and Indians Before the Reggae Rajahs
The Reggae Rajahs are not the first Indians to embrace Jamaican music. Long before them, Apache Indian, famous for “Boomshackalack”, worked with Jamaica’s own Sly & Robbie and more recently with Sean Paul. And A. R. Rahman who recently became very popular in the West for his “Slumdog Millionaire” soundtrack, incorporated the reggae sound to his first big hit, the soundtrack of Mani Ratnam’s “Roja” in 1992.
The Reggae Rajahs claim that their gigs are special as they are attended by people from all over the world, with similar music interests, from lovers rock to new age dancehall, in the heart of Bollywood in India.
Reggae Music – Jamaica’s Gift to the World
Reggae has truly been Jamaica’s gift to the World. And when visitors take a Jamaica vacation, they have the opportunity to enjoy the Reggae sounds where it originated. Reggae music is never far from any Jamaica accommodation, be it Jamaica villas, cottages, or Jamaica apartments.
Many visitors to Jamaica are attracted by the nightlife and beach parties. Negril on the Western tip of the island is the capital of party and therefore attracts a younger crowd. Most resorts have resident bands that play reggae for the enjoyment of their guests. And of course there are the clubs like Margaritaville where reggae and other types of popular Jamaican music rule the sound systems.
Most violin players either tune their instruments by ear or use digital violin tuners, but these aren’t the only options available to musicians. This article is going to discuss a rather uncommon and seldom used way to tune your violin which could save a fair bit of money.
If you’re only practicing at home, then taking advantage of the various online violin tuners available over the internet may be a really good option for you to consider. These can all be used free of charge, and some of the more sophisticated websites even have in-built metronomes, a feature more prominent of high end tuners.
So how do you go about finding one of the tuners? Well it’s quite simple, by merely typing in ‘online violin tuner’ into Google you can find up to 20 different sites that offer these tuners in one fashion or another. I just tried this out myself before writing this article and 5 out of 10 of the top results offered me the opportunity to tune my guitar on their site, if that isn’t convenient I don’t know what is.
The nature of these online violin tuners vary greatly, the most basic simply store recorded sample of how all the strings on a violin should sound. Whilst more sophisticated tuners actually work with your microphone and can actually identify a note that you play on your own instrument, these are super helpful because they will let you know exactly when you’ve got the note spot on.
I hope this article has opened your eyes to the fact that it isn’t really necessary to spend good money on a violin tuner when you can get a perfectly good one for free. If you really want to see how far technology can take you, iPhone users can actually download a free violin tuner app which pretty much gives you a free portable tuner, how sweet is that!