5 Ways to Enjoy Your Music Files

OK, say you've got one thousand of your favorite MP3 songs sitting in your hard disk. What's the best way to enjoy those files? Most of us probably will use the Windows Media Player to listen to those files. but did you know there are other more innovative and interesting ways playback MP3, WMA and WAV files?

Let's take a look at the five methods.

Use MusicMatch Jukebox

If you think most that most PC programs for playing digital music look like the built-in Windows Media Player, think again. There are programs out there that go far beyond the Windows Media Player in functionality. One great example is Musicmatch Jukebox from Musicmatch. Musicmatch Jukebox is quite simply the world's best digital music player. It supports playback of various music formats like audio CDs, MP3s, Internet streams, WMAs, WAV files and more. You also get CD burning, music ripping and music organizing capabilities. The Plus version even allows you to automatically tag your music files with detailed info and album art!

Use a Portable MP3 Player

Portable music players like the Apple iPod, Creative Nomad and Rio Nitrus have taken the market by storm. You don't have to be confined to your desktop PC or laptop to listen to digital music! The portable music players can allow you to take your music anywhere. The compact size of MP3 and WMA music formats means that you can literally take a jukebox of thousands of songs whereever you go! You may also want to check out my review of the top 5 portable music players here. There are also other portable music options, including handphones with MP3 support.

Use a PDA

The latest Pocket PC or Palm-based personal digital assistants (PDAs) can also act as music players. Pop in a large memory card (e.g. 64 MB) and you can store many MP3 or WMA files. Then hook up a headphone, launch the music software in the PDA and you're good to go! I personally own a HP iPaq 2210 which effectively keeps track of my appointments and doubles up as a music player.

Use Your Car Stereo

This is my favorite way of listening to my MP3 collection. I recently bought a car stereo that can playback native MP3 songs. This means that I can pop in a data CD containing hundreds of MP3 files and the car stereo will play them! This does not work on conventional car stereos. If you own a conventional car stereo, but still want to listen to your MP3 songs, one way is to create an audio CD from your music files first. The car stereo will then have no problem interpreting and playing back the audio CD. Of course, in this case, you'll be limited to about 14 to 17 tracks of music only.

Use Your Home Stereo

If you're a music lover, you probably already have a home stereo. Use it to listen to your MP3 music files! However, take note that Like car stereos, conventional home stereos will not be able to play back native MP3 songs. You will need a newer home stereo set with MP3 playback capability. New models from Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer and Sony usually have MP3 support.

Conclusion

As you can see, there are many ways to enjoy that digital music collection of yours. My favorite methods of listening to digital audio files is via a portable music player or the car stereo. Of course, you may have your own preference - some people like to listen to music off their desktop PC or laptop. Decide which method(s) is suitable for you and go for it!

Gary Hendricks - http://digital-music-guide.com

gary_hendricks@digital-music-guide.com

You can download music from Wal-Mart in the digital music st

You can download music from the Wal-Mart music store and start building your music collection on the cheap. Wal-Mart is the number retailer in the world, and they got that way by buying in bulk, and then selling at a huge discount rate to consumers. They have brought their business model online and now you can download music directly from the Wal-Mart website.

Currently singles are 88 cents each and you can still buy an entire album for about ten dollars. These files are legal music downloads from the best selling artist on various music charts.

Whether youre looking for Country, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock or anything in between, you can find a single on the Wal-Mart web site. Their music store is very easy to navigate with all of the categories and top selling items listed on the right.

They also have a lot of compilations and collections. You can get some CD/DVD bundles which are the latest thing in the music world. Everyone from Ray Charles to Usher has recently released or re-released their CDs with so much additional content that its a DVD release.

This is where you can get extended versions or remixes of popular songs, as well as clips from tours, clips of the bands and of course, music videos.

If you are going to download music from Wal-Mart, you will need a copy of their mp3 player software. You can see the link on the right hand side of the music store that says music downloads or 88 cents downloads. At this time, only PC users can use their mp3 players and buy digital music files directly from the site.

Also, since they are using their own music player you cannot import the tunes into the iPod. Right now, only music purchased through the iTunes store can be downloaded directly to the iPod. It�s weird but since there�s no universal format for mp3 players at this time, you have to use whatever player is support by a particular music retailer.

If you want to make your music portable, you can simply burn them onto a CD. Of course, they also have all the other excellent features you would expect from Wal-Mart, which is that they sell everything and at a great price.

Check back often as we continue to track the Wal-Mart music service. Hopefully they�ll partner with one of the commercial mp3 player companies in the near future and give you the opportunity to download your files to a portable mp3 player.

Overall, a great store with great musical selection. Very modern and up to date music catalog.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Syd Johnson is the Executive Editor of RapidLingo.com, Web Articles Guide. This article may be freely distributed as long as the author's bio is included with an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.com

6 Tips for Organizing Your Music Files

If you're a digital music fan, you probably have problems organizing your music file collection. For me, I used to have hundreds of MP3 files lumped in one folder in my hard drive. Can you imagine the pain I had to go through to find one specific tune to listen to?

Organizing your music files is an important skill to learn. Once your collection is nicely sorted out, you'll be able to find the songs you want quickly and easily. So set aside some time and read through the following tips I've come up with.

1. Create Subfolders

The single most important tip for organizing your music files is to create subfolders in your hard drive. Don't ever leave your MP3 files in one huge folder called C:My Music. Create subfolders like C:My MusicClassical, C:My MusicPop and C:My MusicSoundtracks.

2. Ensure your ID3 Tags Are Correct

ID3 tags are used to store important information about MP3 files. Things like the song title, artist, album are kept and will be displayed by your MP3 player. Take the time to properly edit these tags - many MP3 files you download have the ID3 tag information all wrong. A good software program for editing ID3 tags is TagScanner.

3. Invest in Good Music Management Software

There are several excellent pieces of software out there for managing music files. Two good ones come to mind. The first is MediaMonkey and the second is Music Match Jukebox. Both programs offer excellent music management features like an integrated music player, CD burning features and ID3 tag renaming.

4. Get Your Music Files from Legal Sources

If you've been downloading music using P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing programs like KaZaa, you will very likely get music files which have strange names like 56_HeyjAck.mp3. My advice: Get your files from legal sources like online music services iTunes or Napster and you will avoid this problem.

5. Create Good Playlists

Most software music player (e.g. Winamp) will allow you to create playlists. For example, say you're in the mood for rock songs, you can point to your folder called C:MusicRock and create a playlist from that folder. Save the playlist after it is created. When you next feel like listening to those songs, all you need to do is load that playlist instead of trawling through your hard drive and folders.

6. Get A Huge Hard Drive

I know this sounds a little crazy - but running out of disk space can and will ruin your well-organized music collection. Make sure you have enough hard disk space to store your music files. Say you have 10,000 music files that you absolutely must retain and listen to. It is a very bad idea to store, say, 8,000 files in Hard Drive A and 2,000 files in Hard Drive B. Very messy. It's better to store them all in one hard disk. So get your hands on the biggest hard drive you can find.

Conclusion

I hope this article helps you to organize your music collection a little better. I know it takes effort, but once your music collection is properly catalogued, listening to your music collection will be a much more pleasant experience. So don't hesitate - get organized now!

Gary Hendricks is computer enthusiasts. He runs three websites about digital video, digital music and computers.

gary_hendricks@digital-music-guide.com

Beginne's Guide to Music File Formats

Are you confused by the various types of music file formats out there? Most of you would have heard of the popular MP3 format, but are you aware there are other alternative digital music formats like WAV, WMA, RA and MIDI? Some of these give better sound quality than MP3 (e.g. the WAV format) but also need more disk storage space. Others like WMA give file sizes smaller than the MP3

format and are more suited for portable music players.

Let's run through the various file formats now:

The MP3 File Format

MP3 files have the extension ".mp3" and are available for download from many web sites. MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) technology compresses a sound sequence into a very small file (usually one twelfth of of the original file size). The designers of MP3 compression algorithm managed to do this by eliminating sounds that the human ear cannot perceive. While MP3 technology is impressive, it has been abused by music pirates. One can very easily create MP3 files from commercial CDs and make them available for download. The RIAA and major music companies have been cracking down on the distribution and sharing of MP3 files in this manner.

The WMA File Format

WMA (Windows Media Audio) is Microsoft's proprietary music file format that it is marketing aggressively. WMA files are smaller in size than MP3 files, but still retain a decent level of sound quality. This format is getting very popular in websites for sampling music and also in portable music players. However, whether WMA will overtake the popularity of MP3 remains to be seen.

The WAV File Format

A wave file is characterized by the file extension ".wav". This music file format provides raw, uncompressed audio data. Originally invented by Microsoft, wave files are still used widely (examples include your start up and shut down sounds in Windows). Audio quality is excellent, but the file size is huge. A full pop song in wave format may take up to 30 MB of disk space or more.

The AIFF File Format

The AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is a popular music file formats used in the Apple Macintosh operating system. In a way, they are the Macintosh equivalent of wave files. AIFF files have the file extension ".aif" when accessed via a PC. They contain raw audio data (which result in excellent sound quality) but take up a large amount of disk space.

The MIDI File Format

The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file format was originally created for recording and playing music on digital synthesizers. MIDI files are very small in size. The reason for this is that the MIDI file only contains information on how music is produced (e.g. note-ons and note-offs). The sound card which plays back the MIDI file takes this information and plays back music using an in-built soundcard wavetable.

The RA File Format

RA (RealAudio) files support streaming technology. Created by Progressive Networks, an RA file is highly optimized for live, streaming audio from websites. RA files are best played back on RealAudio players which are freely downloadable from Progressive Networks.

Conclusion

Well, that wraps up our coverage of the most popular music file formats out there. You may be interested to know that there are many software applications which can convert music from one format to another (e.g. MP3 to WAV or WAV to AIFF). Do a search for these applications at www.download.com.

Gary Hendricks - http://digital-music-guide.com

gary_hendricks@digital-music-guide.com

Brazilian contemporary classic music

the new contemporary classic music made in the world by brazilian musician.

BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC MUSIC
please, listen my music named: "picture of death?!" to singer(mezzo_soprano) flute, oboe, viola, cello, piano and other. if you like it l can send all score to be played with your musician in your country. thanks, robson dos santos, brazilian composer. http://www.robsound.mus.br

08. Pictures of Death?!
......a. Dead?!
......b. Gravitating
......c. Valley of the Souls
......d. Encounter with the Creator
......e. Return
http://www.robsound.mus.br/en/discography04.htm

About the Author:
robson dos santos, brazilian contemporary classic music composer.

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About the Author

robson dos santos brazilian composer, was born in 1963 in belo horizonte, minas gerais, brazil.

You can download music from Wal-Mart in the digital music st

You can download music from the Wal-Mart music store and start building your music collection on the cheap. Wal-Mart is the number retailer in the world, and they got that way by buying in bulk, and then selling at a huge discount rate to consumers. They have brought their business model online and now you can download music directly from the Wal-Mart website.

Currently singles are 88 cents each and you can still buy an entire album for about ten dollars. These files are legal music downloads from the best selling artist on various music charts.

Whether you�re looking for Country, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock or anything in between, you can find a single on the Wal-Mart web site. Their music store is very easy to navigate with all of the categories and top selling items listed on the right.

They also have a lot of compilations and collections. You can get some CD/DVD bundles which are the latest thing in the music world. Everyone from Ray Charles to Usher has recently released or re-released their CDs with so much additional content that it�s a DVD release.

This is where you can get extended versions or remixes of popular songs, as well as clips from tours, clips of the bands and of course, music videos.

If you are going to download music from Wal-Mart, you will need a copy of their mp3 player software. You can see the link on the right hand side of the music store that says music downloads or 88 cents downloads. At this time, only PC users can use their mp3 players and buy digital music files directly from the site.

Also, since they are using their own music player you cannot import the tunes into the iPod. Right now, only music purchased through the iTunes store can be downloaded directly to the iPod. It�s weird but since there�s no universal format for mp3 players at this time, you have to use whatever player is support by a particular music retailer.

If you want to make your music portable, you can simply burn them onto a CD. Of course, they also have all the other excellent features you would expect from Wal-Mart, which is that they sell everything and at a great price.

Check back often as we continue to track the Wal-Mart music service. Hopefully they�ll partner with one of the commercial mp3 player companies in the near future and give you the opportunity to download your files to a portable mp3 player.

Overall, a great store with great musical selection. Very modern and up to date music catalog.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Syd Johnson is the Executive Editor of RapidLingo.com, Web Articles Guide. This article may be freely distributed as long as the author's bio is included with an active link to http://www.rapidlingo.com

Internet, Jeff Buckley music, websites, epiphanies, followin

Internet, Jeff Buckley music, websites, epiphanies, following your dreamseverythings connected in the Universe.

This may come across as a strange article contextually as I am a writer for a web hosting company who likes for me to spread the word about how cool the Internet is, so average people, if they ever get to read this stuff, may be inspired to partake in this new aspect of our collective, privileged, contemporary society. I have been an avid music listener and player for many years of my life and I want to give you the simple story of how the Internet has now connected once again with my lifes journey. I have a deep-seated dream of one day producing some music while I'm here in the world, but as in many cases, we humans have fears in relation to the ideas and feelings that mean the most to us. Recently I first heard music from a guy called Jeff Buckley.

This Jeff Buckley fellow can really play, I mean he could really play. His music spoke to me instantly; he plays guitar and sings in a way that touches and even haunts the soul. For a person like myself who hopes to one day become a real musician and not just a hobbyist, this guy is a true inspiration. Buckley died at the age of 31 years. So how did I find out about the guy? The Internet. I even read the lyrics off a website to the song I was listening to at that very moment. Looking at photos, reading his biography; the experience of hearing the music at the same time as seeing and learning about Buckley added a whole new dimension to the experience. The Internet let me feel the music in a new way, and resulted in a moment of epiphany-and dont these moments mean so much to us?

So what am I alluding to? What am I getting at here? The idea I think I'm trying to articulate is that the Internet can add dimensions to our experiences. Of course there is nothing wrong with listening to music on its own, simplicity is one of the most beautiful ways to live life. But for me in this particular instance, adding visuals, lyrics, and information about the musician seemed to make the feelings I received via the music grow and swell in the moment. The experience became multidimensional, both a reflection and a new vision simultaneously felt.

The result for me was like a big kick in the ass. If you want to make music, stop procrastinating. This guy Jeff Buckley gave it his best, made beautiful music and then died. He didnt get to hang around very long, and the same thing can happen to any of us. If I dont follow my dream now, in the present, I might just leave this place before I use the opportunities that have been given to me.

All I'm trying to say here is that the Internet is becoming a tool that we can use in our daily lives that can add richness and texture to our lives. Like all internal and external stimulus in our world, it too just might be the medium that ignites the light bulb idea that changes the rest of your life.

By Jesse S. Somer,
M6.Net,
www.m6.net
Somer is a writer/budding musician attempting to let the Internet become a practical tool in his life.

The Most Important Instrument in Music, The Human Voice

By: Victor Epand

There are literally hundreds of different instrument music that a person can learn to master, but too often than not, many forget about the most important musical instrument of them all; their voice.

The human voice is essentially our species’ earliest known musical instrument, and it is capable of an incredible array of harmonies and melodies. Sadly, for whatever reason, many think it is more important to practice playing the guitar than it is to learn how to sing.

Your voice is your key to music superstardom. It will allow you learn a lot about music and how melodies and rhythms come together to form some of the most beloved music our species has ever created. Your voice can reach amazing heights and amazing lows, and all it takes is you practicing how to use it properly.

We all have the ability to sing in us, but some are going to be more skilled at it than others. It is true that some people are tone deaf and simply cannot understand how music works. That is not to say they can’t sing. Everyone can sing, but some can do it better than others.

Our voice is how we express ourselves, even when we think no one is around. How many times have you sung in the shower or in the car to express how you feel at that moment? Ever sang along with a favorite song? Sure you have, everyone has, and that is because singing is the best way we can show what is going on in our minds and souls. We may sing and be horrible at it, but with the song we sing we are telling the world what is going on with us, what we care about and what bothers us.

If you want to have a better voice, all it takes is going to a vocal coach. They will teach you to sing in ways you never thought possible. You will suddenly discover a vast array of vocal ranges you never though existed and you will be elated at the prospect of being able to sing in front of people without having to worry that you will be laughed at or ridiculed. All it takes is you making the step to learn how to sing from a trained vocal coach. Don’t worry about being horrible, they have heard some bad singers and you are unlikely to be the worst.

When you take the steps to learn how to sing. You are beginning on a journey that will allow you to express yourself in a variety of ways that go far beyond how our primitive language can describe the emotions. Singing is the oldest instrument we have and it is the only instrument we carry with us at all times.

You may suck and never hit the high notes of Whitney Houston, but that does not mean you can’t enjoy yourself singing along to her songs. When you are alone in the shower, you sing to your hearts content because you are in your own world and you feel happy. That is the beauty of your vocals. They can bring out your heart and make you smile.

Author Resource:-> Victor Epand is an expert consultant for used CDs, autographed CDs, and used musical instruments. You can find the best marketplace for used CDs, autographed CDs, and used musical instruments at these sites for important used CDs, important autographed CDs, and important used musical instruments.

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3 Quick & Easy Steps To Playing Music by Ear

Playing by ear is the ability to play a piece of music (or, eventually, learn an instrument) by simply listening to it repeatedly. The majority of self-taught musicians began their education this way; they picked up their instrument and began playing an easy melody from a well-known song, slowly picking out the notes as they went along. And even after these musicians master their instruments or a particular song, playing by ear still plays a large role. Many pop and rock bands don’t play or write their songs based on sheet music, they figure the songs out by playing by ear. It’s even common among non-musicians. Ever sit down a piano and mindlessly pick out the tune to “Mary Had a Little Lamb”? What about grabbing a guitar and suddenly finding yourself playing the opening licks to “Smoke on the Water”? That’s playing by ear. You’re able to play part of the song just because you’ve heard it so often.Since music is basically composed of 3 elements melody, rhythm, and harmony, it is logical that there are also 3 basic steps to learning to play music by ear:

1.Charting the contour of the melody. Tunes move higher and lower up and down as the song progresses. Being aware of that movement is the first step. Once you mentally define the parameters of the melody, you can then begin to hone in on picking it out on your instrument. As an example, think of Joy To The World. Weve all sung it a zillion times, but have you ever noticed that the melody moves down exactly 8 steps (an octave), then gradually moves back up in increments, then repeats the down movement, etc. The entire melody is contained within those 8 notes, so you now know the parameters of the song and can begin to pick out the melody intelligently.

2.Harmonizing the melody with matching chords. The second element of music is harmony, and you can harmonize any melody just by matching the supporting chords to that melody. For example, if the melody is a G, you can harmonize that melody by using a chord with G in it, such as the G chord (G, B, D), the C chord (C, E, G), or the Em chord (E, G, B), or the Eb chord (Eb, G, Bb) and so forth. By using your ear to guide you, you can learn to harmonize the melody of most any song using matching chords.

3.Using an appropriate rhythm that matches the feel of the song. This is usually the easiest part, since most people feel the beat and dont have to do any mental gymnastics to come up with an appropriate rhythm for a song. But for those of us that might be rhythmically challenged, just by knowing that there are basically two meters available duple meter and triple meter — that can be combined in infinite combinations, we can give the song either a 3 feeling (like a waltz or a jazz waltz) or a 4feeling (like swing or a march or a ballad).

Playing by ear is a valuable technique for many musicians; learning songs based solely on hearing them is a great way to understand song and chord structure. In fact, a great number of rock and pop musicians learned to play their instruments this way. Instead of picking up a book or taking lessons, they concentrated on figuring out the notes and rhythms to a song until it was mastered. Then they moved on to another song. And another.

Gradually, they learned their instrument just by playing by ear — and in the process learned how to effectively structure a song in that particular genre. Playing by ear is also beneficial in helping a musician develop his or her own style; sure, they’ll at first mimic the style of the song they’re imitating, but the amalgamation of the music that they’re playing by ear will help them create something distinctive, something indicative of them only.

About the Author

Duane Shinn is the author of over 500 music courses for adults. His book-CD-DVD course titled “How To Play Piano By Ear Using Chords!” at www.pianoplayingbyear.com has sold over 30,000 copies around the world. He is the author of the popular free 101-week online e-mail newsletter titled “Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions” available from www.playpiano.com

Music Basics Guide for the Beginning Musician

Hello! Welcome to the wonderful world of music. Have you always dreamed of being able to learn to READ MUSIC and play the piano, keyboard, guitar or any other instrument? Well, your dream is just about to come true with this Beginning Music Course.This is not rocket science but it does take a genuine commitment on your part to read all this Music Course in order to learn the music fundamentals that will apply to any instrument. Be sure to STICK WITH IT!Did you know that pianos in some form have been around for over 500 years? Some of the first instruments of this kind were called clavichords. They had a very light, metallic sound because the small hand-pounded ‘hammers’ were made of very light weight metal-like material. These hammers struck strings of varying lengths to create different tones or pitches. The next cousin to the clavichord was the harpsichord invented by Cristofori in Italy around 1450 A.D. This keyboard instrument had a mechanism in it called the plecktrum which ‘plucked’ the strings and produced a slightly stronger sound than its predecessor.

Whether you are playing an acoustic instrument, which is the closest relative to the history just mentioned, or an electronic keyboard, you are now participating in a centuries old musical art form.

MUSICAL TERMS

Let’s begin our musical study with a review of the main musical terms you will need to be familiar with to proceed with your music education.

BAR LINE - A vertical line which separates notes into groups

DOUBLE BAR LINE - A set of two (2) vertical lines which stand for the end of a piece of music

REPEAT SIGN - Double bar with two dots at the end of a section or piece of music which indicates that section is to be played twice.

MEASURE - The distance between two bar lines.

TREBLE CLEF - The S-shaped symbol which stands for notes played with the right hand.

BASS CLEF - The reversed C-shaped symbol which stand for notes played with the left hand.

STAFF - The five lines and four spaces of both the bass and treble clefs.

QUARTER NOTE - Musical symbol with solid note head and stem which gets one count.

QUARTER REST - Musical symbol resembling a sideways W which gets one count.

HALF NOTE - Musical symbol with hollow note head and stem which gets two counts.

HALF REST - Solid half block sitting on third line of the staff which gets two counts of silence.

DOTTED HALF NOTE - Musical symbol with hollow note head, dot and stem which gets three counts.

WHOLE NOTE - Musical symbol resembling a circle on the staff which gets four counts.

WHOLE REST - Solid half block hanging from the second line on the staff which gets four counts of silence.

CHORD - Two or more notes played together.

BLOCKED CHORD - Two or more notes played at the same time

BROKEN CHORD - Two or more notes from the same chord played in sequence

INTERVALS - The distance between two notes on the musical staff

INTRODUCTION TO THE WHITE KEYS

There are only seven (7) letter names used on the piano:

A B C D E F G

It is interesting to note here that no matter what instrument you play, whether it is piano, tuba or violin, ONLY the seven letter names above are used in the entire realm of music!

There are two very easy ways to visualize and remember the names of the white keys on your piano and keyboard. Remember, the note names on an electronic keyboard are the same as on the acoustic piano.

Since it is not possible to include a graphic in this format, simply remember that the ‘CDE’ note groups in always located directly underneath the two black note group. The letter name ‘D’ in the white key always located directly inbetween the two black key note groups. ANY TWO BLACK NOTE GROUP on the piano has the letter name ‘D’ as the white key located inbetween them.

Go to your keyboard NOW and start to play all of the C-D-E groups from the lowest (bottom left) to the highest (top right) on your keyboard. Say C - D - E as you play each key.

Now we will learn about the F - G - A - B note groups. Simply located any three black note group on your piano or keyboard and realize that the F-G-A-B white keys are located directly beneath them. Directly outside of the three black note groups are ‘F’ on the left hand side of the three black note group and ‘B’ on the right hand side of the three black note group. Just fill in the outer ‘F’ and ‘B’ with G and A and you are done!

Go to your piano or keyboard NOW and find all of the F-G-A-G white keys underneath each three black note group. As above, play slowly and evenly saying the letter names as you play the F-G-A-B groups from the bottom of the piano or keyboard (low left hand end) to the top of your piano or keyboard (top right hand end).

Congratulations! You now know ALL of the white key names on the piano!

DYNAMIC MARKINGS

The vehicle for expression in music comes through the context of dynamic markings. Since the Italians were the ones to first write marks of expression in their music as well as print the first music manuscripts on paper, all of the marks of expression or dynamics are from Italian words.

DYNAMIC MARKINGS START WITH SOFT AND GO TO LOUDEST:

Piano - Italian word for soft. symbol used in music: p

Pianissimo - Very soft; symbold used: pp

Mezzo Forte - Medium Loud; symbol used: mf

Forte - Loud; symbol used: f

Fortissimo - Very Loud; symbol used: ff

Now that you have learned the Basics of Music by learning the note names, learning the note values and exploring music dynamics, you are ready to progress to the next level, that of learning to actually READ MUSIC.

About the author:

Jan Durrant creates music learning resources for new musicians of all ages.

Regardless of your current musical skill level, you will find wonderful multil media music learning resources for the whole family at http:/www.MakingMusicNow.com

I Like It, But Is It Music

Are you frustrated when you try to explain your taste in music? Fortunately, one of the advantages of learning a musical instrument is a better understanding of your own musical taste. Learning to play an instrument, and soon you'll be able to discuss what works and what does not work for you in music.

Learn to describe what you like with music education

John Cage, composer famous for having taken the position that everything could be good music, sometimes left parts of his compositions at random and non-use of standard instruments. Often, the arguments about music is really whether you are able to express your opinion.

Let's look at the music fundamentals. When you understand the concepts of pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm and articulation, you'll be well on your way to express your opinions on music.

Melody: You could think of a melody something you hum. A melody is a series of notes played in succession. This is sometimes called "horizontal" music, referring to notes written on a ladder.

Harmony: Harmony is what happens when multiple notes are played simultaneously. This is sometimes called "horizontal" music. Combining sound adds depth to the melody. "Strings" composed of three or more notes played simultaneously, each with the name notes.

Rhythm Section: Most Western music is based on the same beat in music. Each note takes one of these rhythms or part of it. Other crops such as Indian and African rhythm use more complex systems. "Irrational rhythms are irregular beat systems created mathematically.

articulation: It is equally important that the notes are played that is how you play them. Music composed and written paper includes "joints" written with a series of marks. An example is the "link", a curved line connecting two notes of the same height to show that two notes must be played as one. Articulation also include the amount of silence between notes.

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Instrument & Music

Instrument & Music

Music can express someone to be emotional and soulful. Plenty of castanets types in the world including equipments of him. Equipments of music can express culture a selected society which in a state or area. So also existing music type very kinds of the type of like jazz, rock, pop etc. (hans)

Wedding Music Tips: How To Choose The Best Wedding Music

So, you have exchanged vows, and have said that your "I'm now it's time to head to the reception and party like you've never before party. If you want to live music in your receipt, then you want to hire a live band. But first, you should check with people who rent the place where you keep your receipt, to see what kind of music they allow. Some sites have strict restrictions when it comes to live music.

The type of music you choose to play in your marriage must be an expression of both the bride and groom personality, personal tastes, and the theme of marriage.
It is very important to select good music, because music will become a presence invade all through marriage and the right to the front desk. The music creates an atmosphere. It will mood of your marriage.

During the marriage itself, the choice of music usually depends marriage. Most religious ceremonies do not allow music. They stick to more traditional or religious music. A man and a woman duo is usually sung at the ceremony. A church organist usually provides the majority of the music.

For the reception, the groom and the bride has the choice of recorded music or live music. If you opt for recorded music, it would be preferable to hire a DJ. The best thing about this, you can request that all your favorite songs in the playlist. Ask your friends if they know any good DJ who are willing to play for wedding receptions. If they do not know, you can always just search the yellow pages, internet, or contact your local radio station.

Once you have installed on a DJ, a one-on-one discussion with the DJ. Just to explain what type of entertainment and mood you want to do during the reception. Also discuss the selection of music you have in mind. Ask if the DJ's familiar with the protocol of marriage. If not, you may want to inform the DJ first about the sensitivity of the event.

On the other hand, choosing to live music offers a choice of hiring a group, soloist, instrumentalists, jazz band, etc. It all depends on what kind of theme you have in mind for you marriage. For more formal weddings, groups classical piano soloists and instrumentalists are more appropriate. It would not be a bad idea, to also consider the sensitivities of your guests, to ensure that everyone has a good time!
If you want to have a rocking good time for receipt of your marriage, then hiring a group is the way to go! The energy of a group of people is underway. There is nothing else that spells rocking good times better than a rock and roll band.
Before hiring a band, ask them if you can listen to their music first. This will help you decide if this group is right for you. Also discuss whether the group will emcee duties and provide the music. It is better to hire a group that already has experience with wedding receptions. In this way, they know what to expect, and will be able to provide good entertainment that installation for the occasion.
You always want to keep the music playing as background music, even when meals are served, or when the bride and groom are doing their rounds of salvation, having taken their pictures, etc. It will also maintain the atmosphere at long wedding reception. So, choose wisely, because your choice of music can make or break this opportunity!

You Can Learn To Play Music On Guitar

When you learn to play music on guitar it is one of the most rewarding things you can learn. It can be used at a variety of occasions and can also be used to make money when you become experienced. I will try to show you some simple steps to learn to play music on guitar, but it requires a lot of patience and even more practice.

You have to remember there is no easy way out you have to practice or you won't perfect the things you have learnt. Try not to get frustrated if it does not come to you straight away because it will develop over time.

Reference material

There is a wide range of reference materials available in book and video form. These are all available on the internet. Classes are also a great way to learn to play music on guitar. In the first few pages of most guitar books there is always a short riff, and easy song's try. Start with them and practice those for a while until you are confident enough to continue.

Equipment

When it comes to buying a guitar go to a music shop and pick them up and hold them try to choose one that feels comfortable and if you still can't decide talk to the shop assistant and see if they have any tips and tricks for picking the right guitar. Don't be fooled by the price tag most of the cheap guitars are fine to begin with. When you first learn to play music on guitar you will not need a fancy guitar as most of the features will go unused and will only get in the way. However as you improve you may want to upgrade in small stages to suit your level of experience.

Classes and community lessons

There is a wide range of classes to learn to play music on guitar. Some classes are free or require a small donation. However most have a fee attached to cover the costs of teachers and equipment. When you participate in a free class, these are generally just as good as a paid class. All classes will help you with basics when you learn to play music on guitar. The best thing about classes is the hands on approach to learning; there is nothing better than having someone give you first hand knowledge on how to do something.

Practice make's perfect

There is no such thing as too much practice when you decide to learn to play music on guitar, but you need to spread that practice out. Don't burn yourself out to the point where you stop enjoying playing. Always remember that it's about having fun and the second it stops becoming fun don't do it anymore. There is no point pushing yourself to do something you don't want to do.

Always remember that when you learn to play music on guitar it's not just for you it's for everyone one else to enjoy as well so don't be afraid to share your new talent with your friends and family.

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Music Articles and Life Enrichment

Whether you admit it or not, music imbeds our daily life, weaving its beauty and emotion through our thoughts, activities and memories. So if you're interested in music theory, music appreciation, Beethoven, Mozart, or other composers, artists and performers, we hope you'll spend some time with here and learn from these music articles of note for all ages and tastes.
When I first started studying the history of music, I did not realize what I was getting into. I had thought that music history was somewhat of a trivial pursuit. In fact, I only took my history of classical music class because I needed the credits. I did not realize how completely fascinating music history is. You see, in our culture many of us do not really learn to understand music. When I began to learn about the history of Western music, however, it changed all that for me. I have had some experience playing musical instruments, but I have never mastered one enough to really understand what music is all about. When most of us think about the history of music, we think of the history of rock music. We assume that the history is simple because the music is simple. The history of music, whether you're talking about classical music, rock music, jazz music, or any other kind, is always complicated. I got all the music history books that I could find.

Piano Story

A Piano Story...

The story of the piano is the story of a superstar. Like most superstars of a certain age, it has had its fair share of face-lifts, and more than its fair share of implants. Unlike the average superstar, however, it has stubbornly refused to be typecast. What, after all, is the piano but the plaything of kings, and the bottle-scarred veteran of cheap saloons and dockland brothels (where Brahms earned his keep as a boy); the tender confidante of well-bred maidens, and a notorious agent of seduction; the fire-breathing dragon of the super-virtuoso, and the infinitely subtle voice of the poet; the very ornament of middle-class respectability, a triumph of industrial technology, a money-spinner in a million, and a victim of mass burnings in the streets (in New Jersey in 1904, the sentence being passed by the annual congress of American piano retailers on all instruments deemed to be "out of date")?

From the 1830s right up to the First World War, concert pianists on both sides of the Atlantic were the pop idols of their day, and their love affairs were the the talk of high society and low. Piano teachers swarmed like ants, and of their even more numerous pupils, nine out of ten would themselves become teachers. Publishers, of course, cleaned up. In the living rooms, salons and parlours of the world, pianos groaned beneath the weight of accumulated sheet music, 90 percent of which has long turned to dust. In the more sophisticated homes, however, that music included some of the greatest ever conceived:

It was for the piano that Mozart wrote his 27 piano concertos, most of which are widely held to be his finest instrumental music; that Beethoven wrote his epoch-making sonatas; that Schubert wrote his beautiful waltzes and impromptus; that Chopin and Liszt wrote music which opened up a whole new world of sound and raised virtuosity to heights never before imagined; that Mendelssohn wrote his "Song Without Words", and that Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Wolf wrote arguably the greatest songs with words ever written. And where would the world of chamber music be without the piano? Without duo sonatas, the piano trios, quartets and quintets of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, for a start.

And can anyone imagine ragtime and jazz without Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson? Or popular song without Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin and his fellow song pluggers in New York's Tin Pan Alley? What would the cinema (and particularly the silent cinema) have been without the piano, or today's pop world without the electronic keyboard? The piano has been at the centre of almost every music development in Western music since the last quarter of the 18th century. It has weathered political and industrial upheaval, world wars and the computer revolution. Yet with the advent of electricity, the gramophone record, the radio and the cinema, there was no shortage of critics who were writing its obituaries.

When we talk of the "piano", however, we are not talking about one instrument, but many. Even today it is still evolving, though now very slowly, but with the potential alliance of the traditional piano and the computer; no one should write it off as having reached the end of the line at last. What began, in the very early 18th century, as a lightweight contraption that could be carried about by a single person has reached its maturity as a gleaming black titan, nine and a half feet in length and weighing more than a ton.

More than any other instrument, the piano has relied for its extraordinary success not only on its musical merits and uses, but on its acceptability as an item of furniture in homes ranging from those of the humblest labourer to the salons and palaces of the unimaginably wealthy. In the case of the former, a fantastic amount of ingenuity and expertise has gone into effectively "shrinking" the piano to the point where there was scarcely a household in the industrialized world that could not accommodate it. At the other extreme, the casework has received if anything even greater attention than the mechanism housed within it. Spouting gargoyles, bow-clenching Cupids, intertwining serpents, flute-playing automata, paintings by some of the best artists of the day, nothing has been considered too much for the adornment of this uniquely potent instrument - potent not only as a musical phenomenon and article of furniture, but as a spur to the imagination and aspiration of many different classes of many different societies, and, hardly less, as a symbol of social and industrial standing. The sheer snobbery (both horrifying and hilarious) that has been lavished on the piano, like the unscrupulousness of its shabbier manufacturers and salesmen, is sometimes breathtaking. So is the astounding inventiveness of some of its more eccentric pioneers, of whom there were more than a few.

Many spirits, then, have inhabited the piano. But the journey, for all its byways, has always been first and foremost a musical one. The star of the show, after all (and we should not forget this) is first, last and always a "musical" instrument.

- this excerpt was taken from The Piano, by Jeremy Siepmann, London: Carlton Books Limited, 1996.

Guitar History

GUITAR HISTORY

Many people which can play guitar, but a few/little knowing his history. Following we will glance at guitar history from time to time. In fact very long guitar history, but remember limited room, this discourse will just evaluate marginally.

First of all: From Babilonia till six string.

Guitar history trusted to be started by Near East region. Among debrises which finding in Babilonia, what most relevant is guitar made at 1900-1800 BC (Before Century). From a period of that, till year 1650, natural guitar of evolution which is complicated so multifarious and of manner. So much types and each owning different name.

Some circles have a notion otherly, assuming guitar exactly come from state of Spanyol because guitar castanets like is samely castanets of Spanyol the so calledness of Vihuela circulating in the early of century of 16th. this New appliance (guitar) have the way of is same making with castanets of ukulele (from Indonesia). Guitar first time which made fairish in fact very small as well as only owning four wire, like ukulele.

At a period of classical many there are publications conducted by makers of song as well as musicians. Like Fernando Sor, Mauro Guiliani, Matteo Carcassi, Fernando Caulli, and still many creatorses which was method developing play guitar which finally become public playing and can be accepted.

Important instrument of contribution of in growth of guitar is instrument of Cittern. This Instrument also in form of looking like pear fruit with backside which flatten, by four or five tide of string strand from metal and with fretting the permanentness whether that diatonic like Appalachian Dulcimer and or chromatic like modern guitar. Head Tuning have been attached to loo like like mandolin or guitar. Of him is equal to mandolin fifths with and fingering of chord the sameness and played with or plectrum of pick.

Four Course Guitar have 4 tide of string, body in form of and guitar of soundboard which flatten, bridge of backside and lute made semi arching but not too form circle. This instrument is fairish like children guitar.

Five Course Guitar emerge around year 1490 and look like with guitar course four with addition one tide of senar bass. This instrument is named also English Guitar.

There is also Vihuela De Mano come from Spanyol and is instrument by six tide of string. Of big enough him like classic guitar of era now and have some holes voice above him. This instrument use bridge fixed and possibility are direct ancestors of guitar 12 sting USA which step into North America through Mexico, Texas and of Louisiana.

Still many other guitar types continuing expand. Guitar such as we recognize now, that is practicing six string, newly emerge around 1750. And during about 90 next year ( untill 1840), guitar of six string this fast enough expand in Spanyol.

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