The History of The Electric Guitar: How Music Was Changed Forever
In The Beginning
The guitars soft melodic tone made it difficult for people to hear it when being played alongside other instruments. So during the 1930s an inventive individual decided to change that and...
Salsa dancing has a very distinct dance style. It has a pattern step style encompassing six steps that are danced over eight counts in a musical beat.
Salsa is the combination of many cultural genres including Afro-Caribbean and Latin sounds.
Although the exact origin of salsa...
These days, Dolby is a household name. The infamous “DD” symbol can be found on almost every piece of modern audio equipment out there. This includes gaming consoles, HDTVs, home theaters, both home and car stereos, cinemas, and personal computers.
It all started in 1949 when...
The Heart Effect: Startling New Information About How Music Affects Your Health
Twenty-four young, healthy test subjects lay quietly in a university lab, listening to carefully chosen music through headphones, as doctors and technicians hovered around them meticulously measuring their...
The sad and haunting melodies of a violinist are never forgotten. They remain with you always coming back again and again. The true charm of music lies in how it can affect you and your emotions. I believe that violin has the power of captivation. It is not only sad but uplifting also. The true...
The Guqin a Chinese Musical Instrument that Helped Defeat an Army
The guqin, or seven-stringed zither, is China’s oldest stringed instrument, and as legend has it, its sweet sounds once helped defeat an army. Now this ancient instrument experiences a modern-day renaissance. This...
The First Step and Most Important Thing in Learning Guitar
The secrets of learning guitar are mostly base on the foundation.To have a good foundation for future success,we need three important factors :-
1.Listening:
Ear training is a MUST basic training that every guitar...
I have been a musician for many years now and over the past few years the net has completely revolutionised the reach and availability of my music.
I have been very happy to date with the exposure that social networking sites have opened up to me, my only annoyance was how restrictive...
I will start with a simple question. Do you like music? I am not going to wait for the answer, because I already know it. Everyone loves music. But there are all kinds of music. And this pose my second question. What makes a good song? Is it the melody or the lyric? Or maybe the mood,...
The Beatles are the Most Creative Band of All Time
BACKGROUND HISTORY: The first musical bands originated in New Orleans among black musicians who have traditionally been the innovators. The first jazz record ever recorded was by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917, and of course...
The more fortunate among us have experienced that precious, magical moment at the end of a performance between the exact instant that the last soft, subtle note from the band or orchestra fades from the stage and merges into the forefront of our aesthetic sensibilities. Then there is a second or...
First of all, a definition for music video codes is needed in order to know what this article is about : music video codes is a service which provides absolutely free HTML codes of music videos to embed on websites, community members profiles ( Hi5, Friendster and others ) and also for...