Finding the Right Music Notes for Piano

Playing a musical instrument is fun. It takes some time to learn it but everyone can do it. But, there are some useful tips you should follow before you start playing piano or any other instrument

What To Consider When We Explore Talent

When exploring musical talent there are many aspects that one might consider. For the purposes of clarity on this let us consider for example a guitarist who has a tremendous amount of virtuosity and speed in his or her playing. The untrained audience’s initial perception would be that the talent of the player in question lies in the incredible speed at which scales and changes are executed.

How to Customise an Electric Guitar on a Budget

Customizing a guitar is a great way to add a personal touch to your instrument. Legendary guitar players Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen and Tom Morello all have customized guitars tricked out with thousands of dollars of special touches. Fortunately, giving a guitar a personal touch doesn’t have to break the bank. With a little creativity, you too can have a customized guitar that shows off your personality.

Top 3 Greatest Progressive Rock Songs

As the Fifties waned and the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties took us all on a magnificent aural ride, the advent of bands such as Miles Davis, The Beatles, Gentle Giant, Frank Zappa, and other groups too numerous to mention showed the listeners that here, in very normal garages across the country, were musicians as brave as their predecessors. Through the amalgamation of rock, jazz and blues, folk, classical, and experimental structures, they created some of the greatest progressive rock songs of all time.

10 Most Requested Songs in a Piano Bar

A night out at a piano bar is like no other. Maybe you’ve been to a small intimate place where people gather around the piano and sing, or maybe you’ve been to a rocking dueling piano bar which has more of the feel of a crazy rock show. No matter which kind you’ve been to you’ll find a few common elements, one is song requests, the favorite songs in the room are the lifeblood of any piano show. Secondly you’ll you’ll hear singing, lots and lots of singing. In a piano bar the audience is as much of a performer as the piano player. Here are the 10 songs the people love to request and sing the most.

Music Review: There Are No Goodbyes by Sophia

I like to consider myself someone with pretty good musical taste (obviously who doesn’t), and I am someone who friends will consult when they are looking for something new to listen to, so I was thinking writing a review would be something I could do no problem. The thing is, usually when I am suggesting stuff for other people to listen to, I have some idea what they are into and I can just throw out suggestions based on that knowledge. I’m sitting here right now rocking the album I’m planning to review and it’s occurring to me that…

Buying an Electric Guitar in Today’s Saturated Music Market

Some need to know information before you go shopping for an Electric Guitar in today’s massive musical instrument industry. Some good info for the up coming Christmas shopping season.

Advice for Choosing a Piano Teacher

Choosing the right teacher can be a daunting task. This article aims to guide prospective students and parents of piano students in finding the right teacher for your needs.

10 New Heroes of Piano Rock

The piano has been a rock and roll instrument since the beginning and it has held a prominent place in many classic songs. In later years the piano, despite it’s size, became overshadowed by the guitars which were getting louder. Eventually piano and keyboards became so un-rock n roll that keyboard players were setup behind or under the stage at big rock shows. Thankfully there are still artists championing the piano in rock n roll and proving that keyboard instruments do indeed rock.

How to Choose Your Yamaha Keyboard Stand

There are several generic keyboard stands you can get that may or may not fit your new keyboard, but even if you end up saving a few dollars by going generic, it’s usually not worth it. Yamaha has specific stands for its keyboards and all of them are reasonably priced.

Nick Lowe: A Long Career That Never Gets Stale and His Just Released The Old Magic Album

Nick Lowe is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer from London, England that started his career in the UK in 1967. He quite quickly changed from Pub Rock and New Wav genres in music to performing Country and Blues-Rock. His newest release album is “The Old Magic.”

Music Review: Fun – Aim and Ignite

This is a band I discovered via the internet while searching out information about a now defunct band, which I love, called The Format. I am going to limit my discussion about The Format here, and simply say that they are awesome and if you have never heard of them you should go and listen to them immediately because you will love them. Once you’ve done that, come back here and finish reading this, cause you are probably going to like Fun.

The Importance of Music in the Movies

Music is a very important factor to include when making a movie. If you take music away from movies, even in award winning ones, you will end up with a dull movie that lacks something. This is why having the right music for different parts of a movie are essential. So, what make music so important to be incorporated in movies, here are the reasons why.

The Acoustic Harp-Guitar and the Art of String Attack

As a full time performing Harp-guitarist for the past forty years, I have had the opportunity to explore the many potentialities of creating music on this wonderful, diverse and under-appreciated instrument. In just the past few years, there has been an enormous resurgence in interest in the harp-guitar, and there are now many new players performing on the instrument, offering a cornucopia of diverse styles and approaches. It is with this heightened awareness of the harp-guitar in mind that I feel impelled to share much of what I have learned over the span of my harp-guitar career, particularly in the area of string activation technique.

10 Tips on Maintaining Your Musical Instrument Rentals

You can actually find a bunch of reasons powering renting a musical instrument. You might be a novice band student or maybe, you’re a mother or father of a little rock star who is nonetheless discovering different instruments. In both situations, renting would be a good choice for simple and fast alter, should a musical instrument neophyte want another type of instrument. Renting a musical instrument could possibly save you from overspending since they’re usually returnable or exchangeable at any time as needs change.