- The New Bands Guide to Getting the Best From Their Live Sound
When you are a new band, playing live is nerve wracking enough without having to worry about the front of house sound. Surely it’s enough to be concerned about whether your finely crafted and highly practised material will stand up to public scrutiny, or if you’ll make a tube of yourself by falling off the stage in front of the gathered mass of friends and family. Very important things both, but there are a number of simple things you can do to help yourselves and the sound engineer ensure you have the best possible sound coming through the PA. With that sorted you can worry less about the sound and more about whether you look like a tool in your new skinny jeans and winkle pickers.
- Guitar Lesson - Mode Mysteries
It's true that most guitarists ignore the theory side of things, and it's no surprise - the majority of sites and books out there don't exactly make it look..."fun".
- Guitar Lesson: Mastering Arpeggios
When learning how to play effective lead guitar, there are two areas guitarists must be prepared to delve into - the theoretical side, and the physical side. Theoretical aspects include things like knowing your scales, knowing how certain notes work to highlight particular tensions, basically anything that involves the translation of the creative mind onto the fretboard. The physical aspects include techniques such as hammer-ons, vibratos, tapping, and anything that involves your fingers really working the creativity onto the fretboard.
- Why is Macintosh Acquisition Application the Most Friendly Music Sharing Program
We use a Macintosh computer for music sharing. The application we have come to rely on is called Acquisition. It's a great, user-friendly music sharing program exclusive to the Macintosh platform. It allows you to download and upload concurrently, and provides helpful ratings to ensure that you are sharing with a reliable peer.
- Online Music: on a High
Contemporary music industry owes a lot to the present day online industry that is propagating music like never before, with buyers from all age groups and all sections coming into this medium in order to find the best music from all genres and groups. The online music stores can be found in abundance on the World Wide Web and you are able to either listen or download or play the music of your choice.
- Dj Tiesto
Mention Trance Music and one name comes to my mind, DJ Tiesto! Since music has been my passion since school days, I'm actually okay with all kinds. In the beginning I fancied R&B as I worked in a club called 'Traqs' here in KL city. A visit to Melbourne in the early 90's changed all that for me, I began liking Trance music more.
- What Waiting For A Bus Can Teach You About Guitar Playing
Is it possible to learn to play guitar as you wait for a bus? Well, sort of! Let's see what you can learn about the art of guitar playing as you are standing there freezing!
- Top 10 Music Hits This Summer
When it comes to pop music, we can say that things are quite predictable: a catchy beat, some lyrics about a heartbreak or about a party and, of course, a video with some sexy girls dancing as naked as possible on the beach - especially since we are talking about summer hits. Yes, that seems to be the recipe of success. But fortunately enough, it seems that this year, there might be some "intruders" on the music scene, meaning debutants with different beats, different lyrics and, luckily, different videos.
- Guitar Lesson: Nailing Palm Mute Guitar in Metal
Whether it be death, black, thrash or alternative, heavy metal and the palm mute guitar technique go hand in hand to creating that rhythmic brutality we relish.
- Karaoke
Karaoke pronounced [karaoke]; listen is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. The music is typically of a well-known song in which the voice of the original singer is absent or reduced in volume. Lyrics are usually also displayed, sometimes including color changes synchronized with the music, on music video to guide the sing-along.