Archive for: June 2007

Can you get all you need from books in your local music store or off the internet? It’s true that looking for a person who can teach you what you need to know in a way that you can handle is a bit of a trial. It’s like any relationship, alot better without the other person, but what’re ya gonna do? If you want to try learning without a teacher then make Google your friend.
How To Play Electric Guitar
The bass guitar has differing roles in different types of music. The switch from upright bass to bass guitar moved bassists more into the foreground in a band setting.
How To Play Bass Guitar
Once you have bought a guitar it stays with you. Even if you keep it under the bed, it is out of sight but still lurking on the edge of your awareness, reminding you of a decision you made once.
Learning To Play Guitar

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Japan toy makers turn air guitars into reality
TOKYO (Reuters) - Air guitars just got real. Japanese toy makers unveiled “air guitar” gadgets at the annual Tokyo International Toy Show that, thanks to heat and motion sensors, actually make music.
“This is a toy that allows anybody to sound and feel like a rock star,” said Keishi Abe, who was demonstrating Takara Tomy Corp’s “Air Guitar Pro.”
The gadget has 10 songs, including Deep Purple’s “Smoke On the Water,” programmed to play automatically and is set to hit the market next month. It can also be connected to an MP3 music player or a speaker system, the manufacturer says.
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You can read sheet music. Yes you can!
A message from Jason Silver:
“To many people, reading sheet music is an intimidating, mysterious activity. But it doesn’t need to be! It’s actually quite simple, once you understand the secret behind it.
At “ReadSheetMusic.info,” my desire is to teach you how to read sheet music as quickly as possible. I’ll take away the mystery, and put reading sheet music within your grasp.
Since 1999, I’ve made this course available at www.notationmachine.com. So many people have enjoyed it that I decided to give it a web page of its own. I’ve also added some more chapters so that if you really want to learn, you can get beyond the basics.
In any case, there is enough information to easily get you started reading sheet music right away! Try it for yourself, and then tell your friends!”
Subject headings in clude: Understanding the Basics of Counting Rhythms, Reading Notation Rhythms, Dotted Notes - Reading Complicated Syncopation and Accents and Markings. And that’s not all, there’s also Basics of Pitches, Clefs & Staves, Intervals, Flats & Sharps, Key Signatures, Time Signatures, Reading Exercises, and Practicing Effectively. I wonder if you learn advanced invisibility!
http://readsheetmusic.info/