The Top Five Things New Musicians Struggle With

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02.18.12 9:22 am

As people enter the world of music, there are certain things every musician struggles with. Some people are able to overcome these struggles more easily that others, but everyone faces these struggles. Knowing what these struggles are can help you prepare for them and overcome them more easily and quickly. So, what are these struggles?…
1. Not Knowing How To Practice
Practice makes perfect, right? No. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you practice something incorrectly, you learn the incorrect way to do it. When I started playing guitar, I just picked up the guitar and “messed around with it.” Eventually, I got to the point where I could play several songs and felt pretty good about my guitar playing. I continued on for a few years like that and after a while I realized that 1. most of my songs sounded annoyingly similar and 2. I had a lot of trouble with a lot of songs. Then I found out I wasn’t strumming properly. For years I’d been practicing the wrong way and now I had to unlearn years of practice and practice a new way. Not an easy task.
With poor practicing methods, new musicians will often get frustrated at the difficulty of music or the length of time it takes them to learn a song. Using the proper practicing methods, they may find that they learn songs much more quickly and some of the really hard songs, weren’t really so hard…if you knew the right way to play them. So, what are these struggles?…
2. Lack of Understanding of Music
What’s a staff? Why is an “F” a lower pitch than a “G” (within the same octave)? Why are there only 8 notes that keep repeating? A lot of people are attracted to music after hearing performances or listening to the radio. Then they start to dabble with music either vocally or with an instrument without any real understanding of what is happening to create the music, how to read music, or what all the instrument parts are and why they are there. That’s fine ....read more

American Idol Review 3.30.2010 Season 9 Episode 26

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02.17.12 10:29 am

American Idol Review 3.30.2010 Season 9 Episode 26 five fingers shoes

On this episode of American Idol it was Usher’s turn to play “mentor” to the Idol wannabes. As the guests tackled the R&B genre they stepped up to the plate and actually performed like they had an ounce of talent. The first to go tonight was the unique Siobhan Magnus. First off I’ve never seen glittered shin guards used as a fashion accessory, but what else would you expect from someone with a tattoo of Mary Poppins on her shoulder. Siobhan actually had an off week this week but received grace from the judges except for Simon. And I’ve got to say Ellen is starting to show some backbone as a judge and even garnered her first boo from the audience.
The next contestants were Casey and Big Mike who both received high praise cheap oakley sunglasses , especially from Simon. Other contestants such as Andrew Garcia and Lee DeWyze also performed well. Andrew was able to recapture some old magic by turning a Chris Brown tune into an acoustic tune. Lee DeWyze also turned in a great performance when he belted out “Treat Her Like a Lady” Simon went as far as saying Lee’s life may have changed forever because of his performance. Crystal Bowersox decided to get behind the keys and showed that she is a multi-instrumental talent as well as a great singer.
But alas this is season 9 and the sucky vocals and clueless performances eventually found their way back by channeling through Didi and poor Tim Urban. And speaking of Tim, I applaud him for having such a great attitude and taking all the criticism like a man coach handbags outlet , but I hope America does the dude a favor ....read more

Teach Yourself Acoustic Guitar With Online Lessons

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02.16.12 10:22 am

The most popular guitar type is the acoustic guitar and you can teach yourself acoustic guitar with online guitar lessons from some of the best and most comprehensive guitar lesson websites. The benefits of learning guitar online are numerous, some of which are as follows: The cost of learning online is substantially less than with private lessons. You only pay one low fee and have unlimited access to all of the lessons. You can repeat any lesson, as often as you like at no additional cost. Learn in the privacy of your own home with no one staring over your shoulder watching your every move. Learn at your own schedule and at your own pace. Learn to develop your own style. When you teach yourself acoustic guitar with online lessons you don’t need to know hundreds of chords and strums to be able to play many songs. In fact, a simple set of just 10 chords and 3 strums will get you playing literally 100’s of popular songs in no time flat. These lessons also offer advanced harmony, extended guitar chords, and chord building principles which can make these lessons a great resource for beginners, as well as more advanced guitarists. There are detailed instruction on how to quickly master impressive skills, such as picking and strumming styles, percussive strum, deadening, staccato strum, tricked out scales, hammer-ons, pull offs, transposing keys, vibrato coach handbags outlet , palm muting and much cheap coach purses , much more! You can teach yourself acoustic guitar today and learn how to play guitar using free lessons, step by step instructions, tutorials, jam tracks and famous songs!
Learning to play acoustic guitar online has its advantages and disadvantages, each of which you should consider carefully before deciding if online music lessons are right for ....read more

Violinist shirks off her tragic image

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02.15.12 9:12 am

Diana Yukawa first grabbed the limelight in Japan as a 14-year-old playing the violin at a memorial service five finger shoes , struggling with the loss of her father in the 1985 Japan Airlines crash that killed 520 people onboard.
Now, nine years after her debut on the music scene in 2000, the Tokyo-born Yukawa is reinventing her image from a child prodigy with a tragic past to a 23-year-old contemporary violinist.
“I wanted to really try and show that the violin is not just a classical instrument,” she said. Now based in London, Yukawa describes her musical mission as sending “the message that being a violinist, you can perform any kind of music and you don’t need to be just one category, it can be across the board.”
Her third album, “The Butterfly Effect,” which will be released by the BMG Japan label Oct. 21, reflects her transition from a strictly classical music violinist, with two classical albums under her belt, to a violinist bold enough to experiment with fusion between other genres.
Often, though, her identity as a violinist is overshadowed by her other, more powerful image as a relative of one of the 520 victims killed in the Aug. 12, 1985 jordan heels , JAL jumbo jet crash in Gunma Prefecture, the worst single-aircraft accident in aviation history.
“It’s something that obviously I can never change because it’s my history and that’s what happened and that’s what I was born into,” she said, recounting the tragedy that killed her father, Akihisa Yukawa, an executive of a Sumitomo Bank affiliate, weeks before her birth.
After her father’s death, she and her older sister, Cassie, both born to their unmarried parents ....read more