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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Music Choices On The Internet

The internet is filled with all sorts of information that a music lover would love to have. They might truly enjoy having the latest music selections on their handheld devices and know that they can enter any music site on the internet and download their music selections in a matter of minutes. The access to the world of music does not end with this task, but only serves to make accessing music more pleasurable.

Fans will truly be pleasured when they are able to hear the latest album of their favorite music group. Some people can only listen to bits and pieces of an album, but music listeners that use the internet are given pristine access to music clips, music videos and even interviews that their favorite artist participated in at some point in their career.

Fans are more in touch with the people that make the music because of the access that the internet affords them to those people. Fans can download album covers and use them as art on the walls of their home, and to help personalize the cover of a compact disk that they copied that is filled with their favorite music artist's product. They know that the online music stores give music artists the credit they deserve and all the royalties that come from each music download a fan makes on the internet.

The music choices that are available on the internet are not limited to only music files. Fans can search for audio books that were written to glorify the life of rock legends or the people that mastered hip hop music. Every piece of music has a story behind it. Music fans feel good about having access to the fine little details that go with creating music.

Music artists can share their thoughts and tell fans how their music careers got started. They can share their trials and tribulations that they experienced on the road during a world tour. A music artist can share some inner thoughts that run very deep and fans can learn how a music artist dealt with a drug addiction or a disabling disease. The choices in music on the internet run deep at times but are always retrievable when a fan uses an internet search engine.

People place more value in buying music from an internet music store because they get more for their money. A land-based music store can only offer a few posters and a music selection on compact disk. A music fan online can learn about the artist, buy the music and share it with friends by attaching it to an email. They can also use the music downloads to customize their music listening pleasure at any time. Credit to : Jim Brown

DON’T STOP THE MUSIC

It’s been a rough few years for the music business. The rise of illegal file-sharing networks like Napster and Kazaa and legal music download services like iTunes and the new Napster has all but utterly destroyed the old business model. Label and brand loyalty seems to be going the way of the dodo. If music fans can download their tunes a song at a time to their cell phones, without even bothering to take in a whole album, why should they bother with the concerted efforts of an entire label?
But every change brings with it new opportunities, and the latest digital music revolution is no exception. An Australian mobile marketing services company is ready to capitalize on the digital music world using a piece of technology that, until now, has been the nemesis of the Old Music model—the mobile phone.
BroadcasterMedia, an Australia-based mobile marketing services company that specializes in ongoing, graphics-rich mobile content, can set up a personal communication channel for music brand users, reachable by an SMS number. The number can appear anywhere—billboards, bus stop shelters, music websites and online bulletin boards, confirmation e-mails for music downloads. Like the best guerrilla marketing, the number doesn’t sell more songs directly; it gets customers to agree to receive content from the label.
Users who text the number can download the hottest news from the label, browse music catalogues, play online games, and enter contests with music and memorabilia as prizes. The BroadcasterMedia system develops an online community on users’ cell phones—continuously evolving and self-updating, giving users the sense that they can not only carry their music with them no matter where they go, they can take the world that produced that music, too. Forget fashion labels—music labels could be the next lifestyle statement.
“Consumers like to feel they are part of an exclusive club and that feeling results in brand loyalty,” BroadcasterMedia CEO Tammy Halter explained in a company press release. “Whether they are waiting for a bus, are on a train or at the beach, consumers want to be able to instantly check what's new from your company.”
Content providers as diverse as Toyota (download info on the entire fleet with one SMS) and Ohio theme parks (roller coaster line lengths at teenagers’ fingertips), and Detroit Ignition (soccer stadium communication with the fans), have used the system to generate loyalty. It has even been used for charitable purposes—Wildlife Warriors Worldwide, the wildlife preservation foundation created by the late Steve Irwin of Crocodile Hunter fame, used it to develop a text-to-donate system. Its uniquely adaptable architecture makes it open to nearly all music fans, regardless of mobile service provider or handset manufacturer, around the world. Members can enter online forums, sign up for e-newsletters, and, of course, buy more music through the system.
The system also allows content providers to track what users do with the information they download—update it regularly, download video and audio, and forward to a friend. Think Information Age epidemiology. Credit to : Lily Steiner

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Music is an Old Way of Life

Percussion is the oldest form of music known to man. From the historic drum of the human heart to the archaic animal pelt drums of our ancestors, the primal beat of the drum stirs something ancient within our souls which can urge us on to dance, groove, or psyche us up to perform extraordinary feats.

The most prehistoric use of rhythm was to send our ancestors into a trance in order to procure a vision or reach a state of poetical flow to deliver stories of tribal lore and tales of life and to communicate over long distances between tribes. Not much has changed over the ages.

Although beats are now heard behind more modern and complicated instruments and covered with sonic production qualities from recording studios they have still maintained the same basic qualities and serve the same basic functions, to put us into a trance and achieve a poetical flow and to communicate over long distances. The poetical flow now takes the form of rap or singing, and the tales of life and "tribal lore" forms the lyrics. Long distance communication involves sending CD's over the world. But at the beating heart of the matter it's still the same as it was in the jungle.

So how can you use this information to create beats of your own?

Well keep in mind the basic fact that the beat is used to create a mood and feeling in the listener which will convey the emotion of the musicians.

The art of percussion is the art of manipulating time.

The rhythm of life is a powerful beat! Basically what you are trying to communicate through a beat is little pieces of transmitted life. As such, you have to capture life within you so that you can transmit it out through your music.

The only way to do this is to get out there! Experience life! Get yourself into as many situations as you can. Note how you feel, observe the beating of your heart when you are excited, when you are sad, when you are scared, when you are relaxed and happy.

Great musicians have the ability to create these same feelings in their listeners through their music.

Take your time!

As a percussionist you form the back bone of the song. As such, the soul that you put into your beat is going to radiate throughout the whole song.

If the same vibe is flowing through all the musicians the music will come out flowing and naturally. If there are disparate clashes of ego throughout the band perhaps it is time to regroup. Strongly opposite emotions are like to create clash within the music. Although sometimes this clash is the basis for the greatest music!

Basically the soundest advice is to put soul and life into your beats. These aspects radiate universally throughout the music into peoples hearts no matter what your level of technicality is.
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The place to go for best country music downloads!

Listening to country music’s greatest hits could never be easier than it is today. All of the greatest country music songs and today’s hottest hits are all but a couple clicks away from you. No more having to go out and buy the CD or waiting to hear it on the radio. Now, with the help of this article, you’ll be able to find which sites provide the best country music downloads with the easiest access for you.

Don’t you hate it when you’re excited about a new CD that’s coming out, then you buy it and there are only a couple good of songs? With music downloads you no longer have to go through this grueling process anymore as you can simply select the songs or artists that interest you most and make a collaboration of your favorite country music downloads.

At MSN Music you can find everything country that will satisfy your needs. One of the many things they offer is the current top selling albums such as Rascal Flatts, Keith Urban’s Be Here, and Brooks and Dunn Greatest hits, plus many more. For a low price of $.99 per song you can download all of the top selling songs including alcohol by Brad Paisley, Keith Urban’s Days Go By, Who You’d Be Today by Keney Chesney, and Hundreds more. If that’s not enough for you, then click under the artists in demand link and view the top 100 country music artists in demand and view all of their accessible songs to download. All this and more can be found here:

http://music.msn.com/genre/?genre=29441771

Another site that is very much worth mentioning is MP3.com. Here you can find not only country music downloads, but also watch videos of an assortment of artists. This site helps you find a certain artist or song very quickly making it convenient. If you simply want to browse through a certain kind of country, they have different songs broken into different country styles such as alternative country, country-pop, honky tonk and more.

On the side of the main page they have classic country essentials such as Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Charlie Rich and more. As with MSN Music, you can search by artist or song to help find what you need quicker. Also similar to MSN Music is the price per song at $.99. This site can be viewed here:

http://www.mp3.com/country/genre/10/summary.html

There are sites out there that allow you to get country music downloads for “free”, but be careful with these sites. Many of these sites say they’re free, but will sucker you into buying other things or somehow get you signed up for buying CD’s and more. For instance, http://www.ez-tracks.com makes you sign up first by submitting your name, address, phone number, and more information.

Another site found at http://www.mpfree.com has you go through several steps to sign up. Included in the steps is personal information such as name and address, you have to set up an
account with a password, then there are two or three pages of advertisements that you have to go through and select if you’re interested or not.

So while it may seem cheaper and worth the time to attempt to find country music downloads for free, you may want to investigate and try some things out before going into that.

There are millions of sites out there offering country music downloads and they’re all waiting for you. I have provided a few of the better sites in my opinion to get you started. Now it’s your turn to go and begin putting together a list of your favorite country music songs.

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Blues Guitar

Many years ago, for the first time ever live to an audience, Bob Dylan took his steps on the stage and began to play his electric guitar. He was completely, taken with his play and ignored the reaction of the audience to the obnoxious rock music. He continued plugging in and playing. His act was such a revolution of the music's world. That event occupied the front pages of all the newspapers that time. Based on the few differences between it and the blues music, the elder blues musicians listening to him caused the leaving of acoustic blues guitar in the dust.

Back in Chicago in the 1930's or so there was a movement that was growing. Many of the blues musicians that had played their time in the Mississippi delta area were now bringing their brand of acoustic blues guitar music to Chicago and it was met with enthusiasm. Muddy Waters and Son House were huge stars in Chicago and they would play that acoustic blues guitar until people were just going wild. Then along came musicians like Howling Wolf who put aside the acoustic blues guitar and picked up the electric guitar and soon the days of the acoustic blues guitar were numbered. Wolf and other artists started recording classic acoustic blues guitar hits on electric guitars and that was the music that got out to the people. Soon Son House and the others were relics and Robert Johnson and that famous picture of him and his acoustic blues guitar became treasured pieces of the past.

For many years the electric guitar ruled the blues world and the Jimi Hendrix decided to record a short movie of himself playing and acoustic blues guitar and for just a little while we got to hear as close to the modern equivalent of those old classics that we will hear. As Jimi fired through Here My Train A Comin' it was just like being on the delta near the turn of the century when Robert Johnson would travel from small bar to small bar just to make a living playing his guitar. It was a great time that is lost forever.

The acoustic guitar gets its due once in a while on blues and rock records but it will never be a main instrument like it used to be all of those years ago. The sound can never be mistaken and the music played on it was right from the heart and we will never hear music played like that ever again.

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Tips on Playing Blues Guitar Chords and Rhythm

My favorite chords are blues chords. While some of them may be a little more complicated, you can really get a groove going with them

O= Play string.

X= Don't play string.

Most common blues guitar chordsl have the same name tag of seven. These are known as dominant seventh chords. They sound great when played together and give you a great deal of possibilities. You can also play a G7 chord by moving your finger from the third fret to the first fret on the high E string. It will expect you to change your fingering. Strumming patterns for blues are usually fast in pace. To do this, we need to keep things simple and rhythmic. Here is a great strumming pattern to learn:

Down Down Up Up Down

Change things up a bit and try alternating the up and down strums. Keep practicing them and you'll be well on your way. You'll find that I used a lot of rest in-between chords. These little pauses can be handled moving your fingers somewhat off the fretboard and discontinue strumming at the same time. You can stop strumming for that short moment and pick right back up again without breaking the pattern.

This will be challenging at first but you will soon grow into it. In musical language, it can be described as a "shuffle" feel.

Soloing Strategies

When playing blues, you may experience a problem where everything you play begins to sound similar. You may find that you continually revert back to what you know. In other words, you're playing in a box. Here are some helpful hints to help you avoid this problem.

First, go purchase some blues guitar backing tracks. You can get professional tracks from companies such as 50Blues. Start off with playing short bursts of music that last for roughly 10 seconds. These short "Bursts" should sound like a solo. Vary the tempo and the pause time in between these short rests.

Secondly, try key changes. Move into a new key and incorporate the techniques that you are already acquainted with. Use dynamics. Going from something soft to something hard really has a great effect and will develop your brain to think outside of the box. I also suggest that you learn how to play 16th notes and 32nd notes in quick succession so you will be as equally prepared to play the fast notes as you are the slow notes.

Focus in on your right hand and insure that you give it a good work out everyday by using alternative picking and rapid picking techniques. I urge you to focus in on that last tip. Stop looking at your left and right hand as two separate entities. Rather, look at them as one. You may notice that when you strum hard with your right hand, your left hand becomes tense even though it's just holding a simple chord.

A problem like that can lead to serious health problems in the future such as carpal tunnel syndrome. To avoid that, practice playing with your left hand relaxed while your right hand strums. This will also increase speed and help you to add texture to your blues solos.

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Easy Songs On The Acoustic Guitar: Learn How To Play

There is something deliciously special about playing acoustic guitar songs. If you try you will see. Just try to hold one and you will experience something special. Have you ever dreamed of being the one holding the guitar around the campfire and playing that song everyone is singing? You can be that person too. Just give it a go and you will see how magic and powerful it is to play the acoustic guitar. Having a dozen people around you at the beach on a full moon being mesmerized by the lyrical power of the musical notes you are playing on the acoustic guitar, is something you cannot put into words if you have not experienced it.

Most people who are drawn to acoustic guitars, but who have never played guitar, are a little star-struck by them. They sometimes believe that the guitar is much more than what it is. Being able to produce music seems like magic in a way. Music is such a powerful, universal language that it can be overwhelming to think that you could make that happen. Feeling this way can make people feel skittish with an acoustic guitar and treat it too gingerly.

If you have never tried playing acoustic guitar before, you can be somewhat impressed by its majesty. However, keep something simple in mind: learning how to play acoustic guitar is like learning a new language: it is definitely hard at the beginning, each step requiring time and dedication, but it is definitely achievable. Little by little you are gaining more confidence and the acoustic guitar will quite naturally become an extension of your hands, musical notes flowing right through it like words flowing through a poet.

Acoustic guitars were created to be played. There are a lot of easy songs you can start playing on your acoustic guitar even though you are beginner. Some people think that the best acoustic guitar songs are the ones that are easy to remember, others think that they are the ones that are easy to play. I personally think that you need a combination of both. Here are some of my favorite acoustic guitar songs for beginners:

Riders on the Storm by the Doors

Happy Christmas by John Lennon

Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan

Sitting on the dock of the bay by Otis Redding

There are a myriad of other songs you can play from John Taylor, The Eagles Joni Mitchell or Jewell. Playing the acoustic guitar is magic: give in to your temptation and take the step today!

You will never regret it.

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