Video can be a powerful tool in marketing your music. It can bring traffic to your web site and it can increase your exposure. You can use sites like YouTube and Viddler to post videos of your music with backlinks to your site. Use this method to market your music, your web site, yourself or [...]
The word “mellotron” (the word is also a trademark and therefore sometimes capitalized) sounds to me like some kind of robot that would be encountered on the original Star Trek series. It’s not, of course, but is rather an electro-mechanical polyphonic (able to produce more than one note simultaneously) keyboard. The only resemblance between this [...]
Music memorabilia has always been popular for keen collectors of merchandise from famous music artists. Now, with the help of online auction sites, collecting music memorabilia is fast becoming a popular hobby for brand new collectors. If you want a piece of music history these days, just search the internet. There’s no need to check [...]
In popular music, blues keyboard riffs are universal. From Billy Preston jamming with the Rolling Stones to Ray Charles kicking into “What I’d Say,” blues progressions and scales serve as the basis for legendary songs and amazing keyboard solos. One of the greatest aspects of blues keyboard riffs is the musical theory behind them, which [...]
Today’s most popular searched sheet music title is You’ll Never Walk Alone (Gerry And The Pacemakers) and can be found in the Great Bands Of The 60s song book. Great Bands Of The 60s Price £13.95 Description An essential collection of twenty-five pop and rock classics by the definitive groups of the Sixties, arranged for [...]
Born in September of 1936, Charles Hardin Holley who later came to be known as Buddy Holly was one of the pioneers of rock and roll. He was mainly a guitarist, composer and singer, but his career would only last for about five years due to a plane crash he was involved in when he [...]
Unlike many other bands that had started out in the early sixties, the Rolling Stones is still going strong. In fact, because the band has been around for so long, many of the original band members are no longer with the Rolling Stones. When originally formed in the year of 1962, the band members consisted [...]
Unlike many of the popular bands at the time who were originally from England, U2 was a band of young teenagers who were originally from Dublin, Ireland. The band was created in 1976 by Larry Mullen Jr. when he was fourteen, and U2 is still currently performing and putting out music today. Like the Rolling [...]
So you want to be a good lead singer and front a popular band or even an orchestra? If your answer is yes, then do you have a distinctive singing style or are you singing songs with the style of other singers? What I mean is that how are you going to be different and [...]
When you begin to study how to play the guitar, it’s not all about strumming chords. You have to learn which are the best songs to play on the guitar. As a beginner this can be quite a difficult task. Listed below are some simple tips to help you get to the stage of choosing [...]
