If not all, most of us have dreamt singing onstage, in front of a crowd. But what if you can’t even hit a note in real life. Does that mean that that dream will be just a dream forever?
It may sound impossible, but true. Singing voice lessons can help your dream come true. It can […]
Abu Dhabi Media Co. (ADMC) announced Monday that it has made a “strategic investment” in VEVO, the online music videos partnership between Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
“With this transaction, VEVO is now formed as an independent and fully funded entity with Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Abu Dhabi Media Company as […]
Brandi Carlile, the deeply driven 23 year old Seattle area native has released her debut self titled album and Wow! It’s good.
As the story goes the young Carlile’s life long love affair with performing really took flight after she sang Roseanne Cash’s Tennessee Flat - Top Box onstage at the Northwest’s version of the […]
Shell voicings are simple but functional.
They make use of the root and either the third of the seventh any chord. Sometimes referred to as “shell” voicings, these are commonly used as left-hand accompaniment in the piano stylings of Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, and others who play primarily in the “be-bop” idiom.
With only […]
To achieve musical goals, as with anything else, our attitudes and habits need to support these goals. In other words how we take care of things matters. For example I wouldn’t take care of my cactus plant the same way I care for my cat. My cat needs water and also to […]
You’ve all heard the expression "play piano by ear" right? This refers to a musician’s ability to pick out a tune, harmonize it, and figure out the rest of the song along the way.
A great skill to have no doubt. But, just having the ability to play by ear won’t help you create your own […]
A classical guitar is slightly different in shape from an ordinary guitar (i.e. rhythm guitar, bass guitar, Hawaiian guitar, etc.) The fret board, also known as the neck of the guitar, is slightly broader than that of other guitars. As a result the strings are more distanced from each other. The guitarist must stretch his […]
Music is intimately related to the subconscious mind because it stirs our emotions.
Perhaps you can recall listening to a jingle and finding the tune and the advertising slogan replaying in your mind over and over, even if you disliked the jingle. It just stuck in your mind.
Sometimes we may be consciously aware of the […]
Most audio files, from MP3s to tracks on a Compact Disc, contain textual metadata. This metadata contains information such as song title, album name and the compression rate. I say most because some songs that were ripped by an amateur may not contain this information. If you downloaded the song free over […]
Today’s music fan interacts with a “community” that is far larger than anyone ever dreamed possible before the widespread personal use of the Internet. This social networking is changing the way people market and sell music and it’s doing so on a global scale.
Here’s How:
One fan hears a song and “tells” a dozen others online. […]
