Singing, dancing, and acting are common hobbies that people may take with them through adulthood. Not everyone can do these things professionally, of course, but they are things that can be fun, lifelong hobbies for those that really feel as if they have a gift for what they are doing. Singing is something that can [...]
A Guide to Guitar Lessons for Kids
Playing a musical instrument is something that, if you want to be good at, you need to commit to at an early age. Yes, adults can learn musical instruments, but it is much easier for children to pick up an instrument. Of course, one of the hardest musical instruments to learn is the guitar. There [...]
Manic Depression by Jimi Hendrix
Manic Depression is one of my favorite songs to come out of the 1960s, a hardcore guitar riff with a driving drum-and-base backup, all punctuated by Jimi Hendrix’s mellow voice singing over the stew of sounds. It’s considered one of the band’s best by many, which is why I love it so much. It’s considered [...]
When the iPod came on the scene, all and sundry looked on it as the biggest and best thing since sliced bread, and so digital on the go music was born. When those lovely game designers decided to go ahead and make playing air guitar a thing you could do in groups on your computer, [...]
Spark Creativity with Music Lessons for Kids
Today’s children have a wider variety of free-time activities to choose from than ever before. Nearly every middle-class household in the U.S. has cable television with hundreds of channels, sophisticated gaming systems like Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3, or Xbox 360, and a broadband Internet connection that keeps them wired to the rest of the world. [...]
Easy Guitar Playing: Learning Guitar Chords
For those of us endowed with a reasonable but not extraordinary degree of musical interest, learning guitar chords in place of complicated riffs is sufficient for impressing our friends. Just learn G, C, and D and you can play almost any song, some will tell you. This is of course not entirely true, but its [...]
Electric Violin: Not the New Electric Guitar
Most notably publicized through Yellowcards Sean Mackin, the electric violin combines the classic sound of strumming strings with the power of rocking acoustics. The instrument is not unheard of, but it remains to be seen whether it will achieve as much mainstream acceptance as the electric guitar. Public reaction to the electric violin is varied. [...]
Making Good Music: How to Tune a Guitar
It is absolutely essential for any aspiring pro guitarist or future rock star to learn how to tune a guitar. One of the most important prerequisites to creating awesome, tolerable music is making sure that youre playing in tune. Music is called music for a reasoncalling it such separates it from the uncivilized species of [...]
In almost every area of electronics, solid-state is, and has been since its invention, the best way to go. Transistors have long ago replaced the vacuum tube. Vacuum tubes are big and clunky, slow to operate, and inefficient. Transistors are so small and efficient that you can fit literally tens of thousands of them on [...]
Kids love making noise. Its part of the package of having a child. When they are small they still seem to have trouble understanding what their inside voice is and as they grow older, theyre apt to want to blare their music and maybe even play an instrument of their own. If youve got a [...]
Though it will depend on what type of music you play, acoustic guitar can almost always be a great addition to any live show. There are some kinds of music that it wont fit in with very well, but there are also many types that depend on it to get the perfect sound. Though you [...]
The guitar is the defining instrument of blues and rock and roll, so by default it has become the defining instrument of the American music experience. If you want to learn about guitars, you should really understand that you’ll be learning the history of music in America.
The guitar became so omnipresent because it’s such [...]
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