Want to take up guitar, but confused about which learning method would suit you best After you've read this article, you won't be: you'll know exactly what the seven basic types of lesson are, and be able to identify which is best for you right now.

Training your ear is much the same as training your dog: you keep shouting orders at it until it recognizes what a certain sound means.

They make use of the root and either the third or the seventh any chord. Sometimes referred to as "shell" voicings, these are commonly used as left-hand accompaniment in the piano stylings of Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Sonny Clark, and others who play primarily in the "be-bop" idiom.

You are neither too young nor too old to play piano and compose. If you think otherwise, get that fairy tale out of your head.

Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a sub genre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2)...

If you are like most people, your performance of a piece of music at first sight could probably stand some improvement. Oh, to be able to breeze through a brand new piece without all the stops and starts!

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Why does music affect our emotions? In our stressful lifestyle how can we use sounds and music to calm and relax? Composer Martin Mayer looks at the relationship between music and relaxation.

So many guitar players do not know the names of the notes on their fretboard. This article explains why it is important to learn your guitar fretboard inside and out.

Whether your entertainer is "certified" on paper or not, how his or her system sounds is critical. Using your ears makes all the difference.