• The Dark Side of The Violin: Crooked Luthiers, Greedy Salesmen and Other Creepy Creatures Exposed

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    The violin business has many treacherous tales to tell. With rare items selling at Christies for millions, the trade can be highly lucrative for swindlers, thus attracting unscrupulous salesman like fruit flies to sticky paper. As in other “make money quick” scams, such as the automotive industry and the current housing market, the violin industry has attracted all sorts of scary salespeople, excluding of course yours truly.Read more…
  • Choosing a Music Teacher

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    Although it is quite possible to teach yourself how to play an instrument, the advances that you can make with a good music teacher and following a course of structured lessons can not be overvalued. Don’t be afraid to make that call to a teacher and discuss your needs. As adults it can be hard to take that first step, but playing music is undeniably good for the soul, and you shouldn’t allow yourself to miss out on the opportunity to feel happier and learn something new.Read more…
  • Piano Lesson: Learn To Play Jingle Bells Without Piano Sheet Music

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    In this piano lesson we will learn to play piano Christmas music. We will use piano tab notation so you don't need to read piano sheet music.Jingle Bells is one of the most popular secular Christmas songs in the world.Read more…
  • Piano Lesson: Learn Piano Improvisation Through Classical Piano Music

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    Piano improvisation in a classical music way is an interesting complement to ordinary piano improvisational practicing. Let me suggest a way to practice!Piano sheet music is a means and not an end.Read more…
  • Steel Drums

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    A steel drum, also called a steelpan, is a type of drum that is made from a metal oil barrel. Steel drums differ from drums found in a regular drum set because they can be tuned to a certain pitch. This allows the steel drums to be played in such a way that they can actually create a melody.Read more…
  • Rediscovering the Wonders of Accordions

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    There seems to be fewer and fewer bands which include accordion in the list of instruments they play. Typical modern bands use drums, electric guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards but accordions? No.Read more…
  • How to Find 11th Chords from Minor7th Chords (Piano, Keyboard and Organ)

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    When starting to learn chords, most people will start with the basic major and minor chords, then on to 7th and minor 7th chords. You might be surprised to learn that when you have mastered all twelve minor 7th chords you have also potentially learned twenty-four 11th chords.I love the sound of 11th chords; they somehow manage to give a big sound and are great for key changes.Read more…
  • Promote Your Music Band On The Web - How To Be Found By The Search Engines

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    The worldwide web offers you a great chance to showcase your music to anyone in the world without the expensive marketing strategies that major bands have at their disposal. But there are plenty of other bands out there that try to do the same thing. Having a great band website is a start, but don't stop once it is ready.Read more…
  • Promote your Music Band on the Web - Getting Directory Listings

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    An important step in band website promotion consists of getting listed into the existing band website directories. If you want to be found by people, you need to be there where people are looking. Directories are websites in which the content, in this case information about bands, is organised into categories.Read more…
  • Eric Clapton: Guitar Legend

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    Eric Clapton is an acclaimed musical artist, nicknamed “Slowhand” and known for his superb guitar playing ability. Originally from Ripley, Surrey, England, Clapton was born on March 30, 1945. His musical genres include blues, rock, psychedelic rock, and blues rock.Read more…
  • Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do?

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    “Bad Boys” was the theme song for Fox’s television program COPS. The song was released by the reggae group Inner Circle in 1989. The television show COPS also started in 1989 and is still ongoing today.Read more…
  • The Justin Timberlake Story

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    Justin Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981 and is a Grammy Award winning singer. He first became famous as the lead singer of the 1990’s pop band ‘N Sync and later released a solo album in 2002 entitled Justified, selling over seven million copies worldwide.Timberlake was born in Memphis, TN and began his entertainment career as a child, performing on Star Search and having a role in the Disney Channel variety show, The New Mickey Mouse Club.Read more…
  • Emerging Band Series: Blue October

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    Blue October is a rock band from Houston, Texas. The group was formed in 1996 by Justin Furstenfeld, the band’s lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Other members include: his brother Jeremy as the drummer, Ryan Delahoussaye playing multiple instruments, guitarist CB Hudson, and Matt Noveskey on bass.Read more…
  • The Kid Rocks: Three Generations Are Fed A Varied Musical Diet

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    Many summers ago I drove to a distant rural Canadian town every two weeks to teach violin lessons. The grueling 5-hour drive (did I mention I was pregnant?) seemed to whiz past when I spent quality time with my musician buddies, Bob and Fred.Read more…
  • Symphonic Apprentice: A Violin Teacher and Her Fiddle Student Share An Experience

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    Led Zeppelin was blaring on the stereo and our violins trembled in the back seat. We devoured our fast food suppers as we zoomed along the dark winter highway to "the big city" two hours away from our small, rural Canadian town.Anticipating the evening with mixed anxiety and excitement, our insides danced a quick nervous jig.Read more…
  • Clean Your Piano Keys

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    I am sure that many of you would be passionate about music and might be having some of the music instrument to enjoy this pleasant joy given to us. There are different sort of music instruments that people usually owe such as guitar, trumpet, drum, woodwinds, strings or piano. Out of these pianos is the one that is not easy to play and also to maintain in comparison to the other ones mentioned.Read more…
  • Hustling with The Hoff

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    2006 Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Australia)With the style only he can project, David Hasselhoff is telling you to ‘Jump In My Car’. Are you game?Hasselhoff has taken the 1975 hit by the Ted Mulry Gang and put his unique stamp on it.Read more…
  • Understanding Minor Scales

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    There is some confusion about the Minor scales and their relationship to the Major scales and the triads of each scale.If you know the triad types of Major scale, then you also know the triads of the Natural or Pure minor scales. For example, C,Dm,Em,F,G,Am,Bdim are the I,II,III,IV,V,VI,VII in C major.Read more…
  • How To Download Music Legally

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    Looking for a way to Download Music Legally? I know how you feel. There are so many people downloading music illegally, that you never know who will either get caught, sued, or put in jail.Read more…
  • How to Jump Chords Up the Keyboard to Create a Free-Flowing Sound!

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    Chord jumping is a simple technique that allows you to use much of the piano. You simply take a chord and "move it" up the keyboard.Now, I'm not talking about inversions here, although there's nothing wrong with inversions.Read more…

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