Archive for June, 2008
The music of Korea is over 1000 years old and Korean folk songs bring pure melody to the listener. Read this article if yu want to know more on Korean folk songs.
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After you learn the major scale pattern you can start to construct a plethora of chords, even make up your own chords. Chords are made up of certain note of a scale and then played together. It is good to know that just because some chords don’t sound pleasing to the ear doesn’t mean that they aren’t chords. Some chords are made to go with others and sound better accompanied by other chords.
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In this article the author talks about the importance of preparation before you create your YouTube video.
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Indian pop has intrigued Indians and has also captivated people around the world. Read further to know the essence of Indian pop music.
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A popular scale type is the minor scale. The minor scale can be used in any type of music to give a sad and more emotional sound. The minor scale can be derived from the major scale by lowering the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes a half step. You can also make minor chords form the minor scale as well. If you want a quick way to learn the minor scale from the major scale you can play the major scale from the 6th note up an octave to the 13th note.
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Key signatures are a theoretical approach to knowing what scales, chords and ideas you can play during a song without worrying about playing wrong notes. You can use the chords in a song to figure out what key it is in or if you are using regular notation you can simply look at how many sharps and flats or flats there are at the beginning of the clef.
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With the news that the most popular baseball cap has the Black Sabbath logo on the front, Audio Critic Bob Cartwright looks into what made the heavy metal band so popular despite becoming a parody of themselves.
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After you get comfortable with changing chords and making your fretting hand do what you want it to do, not like picking up a glass of water but changing from C9 to G7 in less than 2 minutes. There is a ton of techniques involved with your plucking hand. In fact the right hand techniques you use are just as important as your fretting hand. This lesson will cover just a few techniques you can use with your plucking hand.
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Any guitar with steel strings on it is NOT suitable. There was a time when certain styles of Country and Western and jazz guitars were advertised as “Spanish guitars” for some unknown reason.
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To musicians that are heavy into learning theory scales are considered the most inmportant thing in music. You can break everything except rhythms down into scales. Melodies, chords and solos can all be broken down into scales. Scales are a series of notes that when played together give a certain feeling or style to a song. Some scales sound bluesy and some sound sad. If you were to step up to a piano and play C, D, E, F, G, A, B you would have played the Cmaj scale.
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