August 29, 2008
What can be done if your guitar is found sitting in a place full of water in your flooded home? Is it practical to repair the extensive impairment to the instrument that has provided untold happiness over the years? More folks may think their guitar is destroyed and should be thrown out. This is often [...]
Tags: fingerboard, guitar restoration, pegs, refurbishment, string section
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August 28, 2008
If you want to learn bass tabs, of course you are going to want to find the right company to go through. The good news is that there are quite a few worthwhile options available to you here, companies that you can go through which will ensure that you become the best bass player ever. [...]
Tags: bass lessons, bass tabs, finger positions, guitar scales, guitar tabs, how to read music, how to tune your guitar by ear
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August 28, 2008
For guitarists, guitar is not only an instrument of playing music, it is the very purpose of their living. Ask a guitarist if he ever leaves his guitar behind, and mostly likely he will reply, `NO`. It is not unusual to a guitarist constantly research on how to improve the performance of his guitar. This [...]
Tags: guitar accessories, guitar pic, how to play the guitar, professional guitarist, professional guitarists, sitting posture
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August 28, 2008
If you want to learn to play bass guitar, there are a few things that you are going to want to be aware of, and of course the first thing you will need to do is learn more about the bass guitar itself and what makes it different from your standard guitar. Bass Guitar The [...]
Tags: bass clef, bass guitar, ledger lines, octave, talented bass player
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August 28, 2008
If you are interested to learn guitar, you should know that you are doing something really great in your life. Even if you do not end up joining a band or really going anywhere with the whole music thing, if you learn guitar you are gaining a new skill that you can carry with you [...]
Tags: guitar player, guitar tab, how to play guitar, learning to play guitar, skilled guitar, tuning the guitar
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August 27, 2008
The piano style is called “swing bass” because your left hand swings back and forth between a low note (or group of notes, such as a 10th, alternating with a chord in the area right below middle C. You definitely know the sound of swing bass when you hear it, even though you may not [...]
Tags: creative musicians, harmony and melody, jazz music, middle c, music expression, piano player, piano style, swing bass, swing music, swing style, tenths
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August 27, 2008
Just what is it about the tritone chord progression that makes it so mysterious? Perhaps it has to do with its dissonant, clashing sound. It may have something to do with its dubious history. Whatever it is, the tritone chord progression in music made a comeback in music after several centuries of bad publicity. ‘Tritone” [...]
Tags: chord progression, diabolus in musica, musical interval, secular music, semitones
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August 27, 2008
Have you noticed how every famous band in the music industry always includes the guitar? It is perhaps because the guitar is highly versatile, with the ability to set the rhythm, create the sounds that transform into music, and even mimic tones as that of other instruments. It seems that a song would not be [...]
Tags: basic chords, eric clapton, guitar star, jimi hendrix, learning how to play the guitar, mick jagger, minor chords
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August 27, 2008
If you are a new music student there will be a few things you must learn before you can read sheet music. One of the first questions you might hear is what a beat might be. Most new music students will give the only answer that they have. They will answer that they do not [...]
Tags: beats, common time, quarter note, sheet music, time signature
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August 27, 2008
The drum set. The quintessential backdrop for any rock and roll band. The axis around which the other members revolve during any onstage performance. In the movie That Thing You Do, Tom Hank’s character explains his marketing approach to his newly formed band: “We are gonna get you some new clothes. Matching suits, nice suits. [...]
Tags: crash cymbal, drum tom, hat cymbals, jazz fusion, metronomes, percussion instruments, ride cymbal, snare drum, sound reinforcement equipment, tom toms
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