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Do you find it easy to write songs? Too easy? Well, I at least
have had a problem with this.

If you would visit our home and my garage you would find a lot
of unfinished songs and a lot of manuscript paper with some
notes on them showing that I wanted to say something with music
but never finished it.

Maybe you always finish your songs, record them or have well
documented lists with your songs for easy access. That’s the way
I work now but obviously didn’t work before.

Nowadays I have started to realize the importance of finishing
songs that I have found enough important to start writing in the
first place.

I think it is important for you and me to complete songs we have
started to write for the following reasons:

1. It is when songs are complete that other people can benefit
from them and you can feel that you have contributed something
to the benefit of others and to yourself.

2. It has a positive effect on your subconsious mind to take
your composition the whole way to completion. It will give you
the realization that you can write songs. It’s that simple!

3. As I mentioned before you will avoid having a lot of
unfinished songs hanging around. It can be unfinished recordings
or pieces of paper with a few words on them indicating an
attempt to create something that probably meant a lot then but
now is just words.

If you are signed to a recording company you will be more or
less forced to produce things. The product will hopefully be a
CD with maybe twelve songs on it and a show for your promotion
tour.

It seems like slavery to be forced to produce a product like a
CD. But having this obvious goal to work towards and the
pressure involved can actually promote creativity.

If you are not signed to a record label you can benefit from
working with your songs in a similar way.

1. Set a goal to produce for example three songs and set the
prerequisites like writing one love ballad, one uptempo song and
a waltz.

2. When you have made the songs record them and burn them on a
CD.

3. Learn the songs by heart and sing and play them for your
friends.

Doing this will increase your faith in your ability to produce
songs and I think you will feel a greater joy and satisfaction
in your great enterprise to write songs for the benefit of
mankind and, of course, yourself.

When many people think of country music, they think of sad songs about lost loves, broken down trucks and runaway dogs. In their minds, they are hearing all of these woes sung in the traditional twangy country accents of the south. However, these perceptions of country music are far from where this style of music has evolved. Today, country music is one of the most popular genres of music, normally outsold only by rock and pop genres.

Created in the late 19th century, country music has under gone many changes over the years. There are now many sub-genres to this type of music, with some of the sub-genres being commonly played on top 40 radio stations.

To understand country music, it is helpful to know about the instruments commonly associated with it. In country music, one of the most common instruments used is the fiddle (or violin). Some of these instruments can be expensive, but most are relatively inexpensive and are very easily transports since they tare light in weight and not overly large. When country music first ‘hit the scene’, the fiddle was practically the only instrument used as accompaniment. However, as the country music style became more popular, the addition of other accompanying instruments became normal. The banjo became popular in some country music pieces in the mid 1800s, while the guitar did not break into the country music scene until the early 1900s. Electric guitars did not become a regular instrument in country music until much later in the 50s. Other various instruments used in country music are the piano (introduced in the 1930s) and the drums (used since the 1960s). Rarely used, but distinctive sounding instruments are used in certain country songs: the accordion, the harmonica, and the washboards.

Country music has roots in several different styles of music. Its beginnings started with the settlers that came from Europe. During that time, many couldn’t read or write, so songs were created to pass history down from one generation to the next. Although country ballads have changed a great deal, going from the original songs about objective, though gruesome, events to more personal, subjective ballads without all the gore.

Today, the sound of country music can sometimes be very similar to other genres of pop and rock. Some country musicians, like Shania Twain, have many songs playing on stations that aren’t considered “country”. There are also musicians, like Sheryl Crow, who are considered pop/rock, but have songs popular on country stations.

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The Ibanez SR400 bass guitar is very comfortable
to play. The neck is thin up at the headstock, you
can move your hand along it well because of the
necks finish. The SR400’s neck at the back has
a matte finish making it very easy to slide your
hands up and down the neck. Its easier to play
the higher frets because the neck is a bolt-on
with a curve where the neck bolts.

The body of the Ibanez SR400 is contoured very
well. There are no sharp edges anywhere. You
can play the SR400 standing up or sitting comfortably.
If you are sitting down and put the bass on your right
thigh, it will stay balanced and not lean one way
or another.

The SR400 bass guitar is very playable because
the strings are loose. You won’t have to play with
much force to get a sound, and it won’t wear your
fingers out so much.

The pickups of the SR400 Ibanez are in “P/J”
configuration. There is a split “P” pickup at the
neck position and a single humbrucker at the
bridge. For each pickups volumn there are three
knobs and one for tone.

The Ibanez SR400 bass guitar stays in tune very
well. The tuners at the head are 2 on each side,
and they are Gotoh tuners. The tuners are not
to tight or loose, but they are light enough to keep
the strings in tune.

The SR400 bass is good for an intermediate guitarist,
and the best thing about it is its neck is so smooth,
playable, and thin.

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When most people think of learning how to play piano, they already have a certain style in mind. Classical, Jazz, Contemporary, New Age… all these styles are available to learn.

The problem is, most students, especially adult students don’t want to wait months or even years before they can play something that sounds like music. Especially with classical, students are expected to master note reading and do everything “correctly” before they get to play something. And what they play is not of their own creation. It’s usually a piece that was written before their grandparents were born.

The solution to this is to learn a chord-based approach first!

What do you think Bach, Beethoven and other classical composers used to create their music? Chords! They knew how to compose certainly, but by using chords, they were able to think creatively and quickly block out entire sections of music.

You don’t need many chords to begin with. Just a few to explore the world of music. One chord position I’m fond of, the Open Position Chord, allows beginning students to create a modern sounding seventh chord and use both hands right away. It’s really a great way for students to begin their study of chords.

Think of guitar players as an analogy for music making. Do they begin their study of the guitar by learning how to read music? Usually not. I say usually because classical guitarists have to read music but in every other genre - rock, jazz, fingerstyle, chords are what is emphasized. Students choose the style they want to play in, then find teachers or books that give them instruction on how to construct chords on the guitar. They’re also taught how to create chord progressions.

Within an hour or so, the beginning guitar player is creating their own music! Piano lessons can be the same way. Of course, teachers can and do teach a chord-based approach to playing the piano but they can make a lot more money by dragging students along for years as they read notes and play other peoples music.

If you want something a little less daunting start by learning chords. It’s simple, fast, and a very focused way to learn the piano!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

A piano is a musical instrument that is classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of categorization used. Playing the piano is wide-spread in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and is also trendy as an abet for composing and rehearsal. Materials used for pianos are strings, pin blocks, strings, plates and soundboard.Pianos also have pedals.

They are of three types:

• Damper pedal

• Soft pedal
• Sostenuto pedal

A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument designed to serve primarily as a substitute to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play as well as sound produced. Digital pianos are also premeditated to look like an acoustic piano. While digital pianos may plunge short of the genuine article in feel and sound, they nevertheless have many advantages over normal pianos:

• They are relatively inexpensive and are considerably lighter.

• They do not necessitate tuning.
• They usually manufacture several different piano timbres.
• They integrate MIDI implementation and have extra features to aid in learning and composition.
• They embrace headphone output and have a transposition feature.

When a key is struck on an acoustic instrument, digital pianos fabricate overtones that reverberate around the room creating a sound that no digital instrument can accurately capture. Today’s digital pianos are so good that most listeners can not tell the difference between a “live” piano and a digital one. Add to that the fact that they are the most inexpensive of the kinds of pianos you can buy and you’ve got an instrument that’s hard to beat. Digital piano manufacturers are getting better and better at duplicating the tone of real acoustic pianos. But no matter how well the piano sound is sampled, it will always sound digital. The acoustic sound is far superior to that of a digital piano. Due to portability, economical and MIDI capabilities piano and keyboard players choose digital pianos over their acoustic counterparts.

Advantages of digital pianos:

• Built-in rhythm accompaniments

• Ability to record your performance

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