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The Amazing Blind Musician Ray Charles

March 31, 2008

Born September 23, 1930, Ray Charles Robinson would become one of the most famous and influential pianists in the twentieth century. Though he was blind from about the age of seven, he was able to learn how to play and compose music at a school he attended for the deaf and blind. Originally from Greenville, [...]

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How To Buy A Keyboard (Part 3

March 31, 2008

In this article, I will discuss what keyboard features that are not essential but can ease the learning process and operation of your keyboard. The first feature you might find useful is the use of memory buttons. These normally range from four memory buttons to eight buttons, in your price range. The memory button remembers [...]

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Ukulele Chords: Learn To Play Morning Has Broken

March 29, 2008

In this ukulele lesson you will learn to play a popular song with chords on your ukulele. I will show you with easy ukulele tablature notation how to play the chords. Let us start with the C-major chord! First of all, we will use the C-tuning in this ukulele lesson. This means that your first [...]

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How Should Left Handed Guitarists Play Their Guitars?

March 29, 2008

I was recently thinking about left handed guitar players ( I know I need to get out more often) and wondered what effect their left handedness had on their playing style. Most of the very famous ones we’re familiar with but I’ll list some anyway: Jimi Hendrix- yep he has to go first still – [...]

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Guitar Players Jam Strategies and Solutions

March 29, 2008

Name some of the best strategies to learn how to play with other people. Well I got a few up my sleeve. The sooner you put your skills into use the better. At least in the direction you want to go. Bands form everyday, new drummers develop their skills. Bass players develop their chops and [...]

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Guitar Amps Are an Excellent Value Due to Increasing Technology

March 29, 2008

In my opinion guitar amps, bass guitar amps and amplifiers for musical purposes have evolved at such a rapid rate in the last couple of years that GPC considers a guitar amplifier one of the few guitar related items that is a better value than ever. The constant breakthroughs in terms of technology and built [...]

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Set Up Your Own Recording Studio

March 28, 2008

If you want to get the right sound on your CD, it will take more that just having the right equipment to set up your own recording studio. In order to ensure everything is in the right area, you must consider the ways in which you space your things out as well as how you [...]

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The Often Forgotten Great Music CDs

March 28, 2008

As time goes on, new technology comes along to supplant the old. At one point in history, the vinyl record was the most popular way to play music, but eventually that was supplanted by the cassette tape. The cassette tape was eventually overtaken by the CD, and now the CD is being overtaken by the [...]

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The Beauty of Well Performed Music

March 28, 2008

Music is an amazing thing. Uniquely human, at least here on Earth, music has the ability to lift the hearts of everyone who listens to it — making them feel on top of the world and taking their spirit high into the sky. Music has evolved through humanity’s own evolution. Beginning as nothing but grunts [...]

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Finding Rare and Vintage Vinyl Records

March 28, 2008

The classic way to listen to music is with vinyl. It is the old form of music playback that is a cherished item for the Baby Boomer generation in North America. However, since the advent of the cassette player, they have faded away and it has been decades since they were actually sold as part [...]

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