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Bagpipe Lessons In Your Own Home !

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Songwriting - The Art of Writing a Good Song

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Your First Guitar

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How to Improvise Using a Few Chords

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Musicians Injuries: OUCH, It Hurts When I Play (But Please Dont Tell Me To Stop!)

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How Can You Make A Rock Vocal Sound Better?

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A Brief History of Gongs

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Guitarists...Are You A Victim and A Loser?

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Guitar Players...Learn About The Point Of Discipline

Have you ever started learning a lick or exercise and stopped practicing it before you... Read More

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12 Reasons You Should Learn to Play the Piano

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Tips for Buying Digital Pianos and Keyboards

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Music for Cross Cultural Accelerated Learning

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All About Eminem

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Taps; Piping Military Honors: A Ceremonial Guide for Highland Bagpipers

It has become increasingly popular for U.S. military veterans and their families to specifically request... Read More

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Mp3 music is audio that has been digitally encoded and compressed to make the amount... Read More

How Has Eminem Risen to the Top?

How is it that a little white boy from Kansas City has become the most... Read More

The Strange Days (mostly nights) of Guns N? Roses

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Is your heart in the music? If so, it won't matter what you play so... Read More

Music, the Spiritual Connection

All through the age's music and spirituality as served hand in hand. As for instruments,... Read More

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I have always believed that success, in practically any subject you can think of, is... Read More

Self-Expression Without Criticism

When I was 9 years old I played the Saxophone and thought I was pretty... Read More

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We all have so many critical voices in our heads.Telling us what's good, what's not,... Read More

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Most people look forward to the summer months because they bring warmer temperatures, vacations, outdoor... Read More

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What in the world is "naked music?"You know it when you hear it, but the... Read More

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Rarely is a chord played with its tones contained in a single octave, the root... Read More

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Pakistani Pop Music

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John Lennon wasn't always my favorite Beatle; at first it was Paul. But gradually, over... Read More

Is the Record Album Dead? Not by a Long Shot

In 1982, Sony and Philips introduced the compact disc, a digital music playback format that... Read More

12 Reasons You Should Learn to Play the Piano

All right, folks, here you go: My 12 reasons why you should start learning how... Read More

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Chord symbols (for example, Fm7, Cmaj7 or G6) are a type of notation used frequently... Read More

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Your best music will always come when you are in the moment and just playing... Read More

Improvisation and Musical Form

Do you ramble on endlessly with your improvisations? If so, good. This has its place... Read More

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You've probably heard the saying "practice makes perfect" and it sounds true enough, but is... Read More

The British Invasion

The Kasabian concert at the Kool Haus seemed like a concert somewhere in England (even... Read More

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Betty Kresin, Eminem's grandmother from the maternal side , got married at the... Read More

Learn Piano the Easy Way!

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Make Money with Your Music ? the Top 5 Ways

Songwriters dream of making their living by writing, and sometimes performing, their songs. But until... Read More

Your First Guitar

Congratulations, you just bought you first guitar! Now that you've met the love of your... Read More

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The Search for the Right MusicEver since Georgi Lozonav, the noted Bulgarian physicist and accelerated... Read More

Memorizing Music - How Is It Best Achieved?

When memorizing music there are several things you can do that will make your job... Read More

These MIDI Tools Are Music To My Ears

Curious about MIDI? Want to find out what tools are out there and what they... Read More

Does Your Band Need a Manager?

New bands looking to book gigs and establish contacts often start looking for a manager... Read More

Review: The Bled - Pass the Flask

Released in 2003, Pass the Flask turned this little quintet from Tucson, into a mainstream... Read More

A Dying Cat And A Nylon String Guitar

"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, you learn notes to play to the... Read More

Music Licensing: The Cold Cash Facts About Money for your Music

Where music meets licensing, there's money to be made. How much money? "I have synched... Read More

How to Compose Using ABA Form

ABA form is like a musical sandwich. You have the 2 slices of bread with... Read More

Creating Stark Atmospheres

One of the things New Age pianist George Winston is known for is what he... Read More

Review: Coheed and Cambria - Second Stage Turbine Blade

Ever wonder what would happen if you mixed the progressive showmanship of Rush with Dashboard... Read More

A Guitar Lesson to Help You Develop Your Vision

Have you ever done any of the following?1. Made excuses for not practicing because you... Read More

Beauchamp Brings Diversity to Music

Everyone has a talent. For Miami, Okla.'s, Brian Beauchamp, it's playing music. Beauchamp who began... Read More

How to Create Interesting Textures

A lot of new age piano music consists of repeating patterns, or textures in the... Read More

Acoustic Or Electronic Drums - What Is Your Choice?

A debate rages on in the drumming world! You might think that the debate centers... Read More

Record Collecting Still Thriving in the Twenty-first Century

It may surprise many to find that the hobby of record collecting, long thought dead... Read More

Tips for a Great Recording Session

You know your songs are great (and so does your girl/boyfriend, family, pets etc), and... Read More

Alternative Sales Sources for Your Music

Following, is a list of alternative sources that may be interested in carrying your music... Read More

Play Too Loud And Well Cut The Power!

"Turn it down!"How often have you heard that command in your musical lifetime? It's a... Read More

Piano Lessons For Adults: More Fun, Easier, & Faster Than Piano Lessons For Kids

Piano lessons for adults is generally LOTS more fun than it is for kids, primarily... Read More

14 Ways Musicians Can Increase Their Tips

I was listening to NPR the other day when they did a report on tipping... Read More

50 Cent

More so than any other music since the blues, hip-hop is all about stories. And... Read More

Fiddle Tab Makes Learning Fiddle Fast and Easy

Learning fiddle tab is so intuitive and so easy that a student picks it up... Read More

Warner Music Executive Payments

"In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so,... Read More

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