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Great line from Sasha Frere-Jones in last week's New Yorker: "When you hear a rhythm that is being played by an instrument you can’t identify but wish you owned... you are hearing Timbaland" BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at http://musicthing.blogspot.com

For British blues metal pioneers Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Love was the track that launched their careers into the stratosphere. Already riding on a wave of popularity stemming from the rousing success of their first album, the band returned to the studio in 1969 to record their follow up.

After settling on a budget, here are a few tricks to help you when treating yourself to your guitar. I really can not stress enough the importance of this first tip, play with your hands and ears, not your eyes.

Once you get beyond the beginner stage in classical guitar, you are immediately looking at serious musical instrument quality. If you do not have a huge guitar-buying budget, you will need to be quite choosy and able to bear in mind the qualities you feel that your present guitar lacks. Your next classical guitar is, to a large degree, your musical voice, so do not let a tight budget make you buy a second grade instrument.

Learning to play the guitar is tough, see if you're up to snuff with this Jamorama review. Will you learn to play like a star or is this just another gimmick?

A common problem in live music is feedback, a loud, annoying squeal that occurs when sound from the main or monitor speakers "feeds back" into one or more of the onstage microphones. This article gives five tips for avoiding feedback in live settings.

I've been running eBay affiliate links on Music Thing for a few years now, but only recently got into the eBay developer API enough to see what people actually buy after clicking on MT links. As I was fiddling with the system, it produced a very boring list of items - just random... stuff. It was a bit disappointing, because I'd hoped that Music Thing readers had better taste. THEN, I fixed the code and the real list appeared, together with a huge smile. Here's a fairly random selection of MT purchases from the last few months (the links will die out if you're reading this in the future): 1. Moog Liberation keytar, complete with rainbow strap 2. 360 cannisters of nitrous oxide, for an enthusiastic chef, obviously 3. Maestro 'Rhythm Jester' vintage drum machine 4. Metal guitar pick made from an old Tanzanian coin 5. A dollar bill with Hank Williams' face on it 6. A musique concrete LP recorded by members of Paul Revere and the Raiders 7. A Suzuki Omnichord in brown, of course 8. Steampunk goggles with cracked lenses 9. A sealed tin of tobacco from the early '70s, made in Britain 10. A 150 year-old ring, a Victorian memento mori with a skeleton on it The list goes on, endlessly cool, through 3D lenticular postcards and a vintage Steinberger guitar and a CNC router and afrobeat twelves and Eames furniture and a Tablebeast SK1 and Korean soft porn and 1920s sheet music and Cuban maracas and MegaDrive games and Doepfer modules and Black Sabbath t-shirts and on and on. In fact, in the whole list of 100+ items, the only real embarrassment is one Jamie Cullum CD. You know who you are... ps: I know this post is a slightly strange invasion of your privacy. If I've linked to something you bought and you'd rather I didn't, just let me know and I'll take it down. BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at http://musicthing.blogspot.com

The world of child actresses, singers, dancers and performers is a troubled one. The price of success at such an early age would appear to take its toll later on in life, but perhaps not much later than you might imagine. Perhaps the best known, and best loved, case of them all is dear Britney Spears.

A harp is a wonderful instrument. If you are looking to purchase a new or used harp there are several characteristics of the harp to look at.

The harp is an ancient instrument, having been around since as early as 2500 B.C. Not to be confused with the lyre, the harp has evolved through the ages.

Are you wondering how to properly scream sing? There are many different scream singing techniques. This article should teach you the basic ways of how to properly scream sing without suffering from vocal strain.

Learning how to play the guitar is not as difficult as it might seem. There are thousands of guitarists in the world today, who have learned to play the guitar either by trial and error, or by hiring a guitar teacher. The truth still remains that guitars are by far the most addictive musical instruments the world has ever witnessed.

Drums are one of the few, perhaps the only, musical instruments to earn a very unique distinction in human culture. Not only are they utilized for the traditional purpose of music, but they have been put to other uses as well. One of the most interesting of these alternative uses is that of music therapy.

The term "headstock" is one of those words that has come to have completely different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. If you look up this word in the dictionary, you find "a bearing or pedestal of a revolving or moving part." However, if you it up in reference to its use in guitar terminology, you find that it refers to the bulbous portion used to hold the strings at the end of a guitar neck.

Does the artist make the electric guitar, or the electric guitar make the artist? I suspect the answer to that question would vary significantly depending on who you asked. A manufacturer such as Gibson, Fender, or Yamaha would probably reply that an artist can only be as good as his instrument.

Sure, there are lots of types of drums in the world. Snare drums and bongo drums, bodhrans and ashikos, timbales and tenor drums-if you want to learn to play this instrument, you've got a lot of choices. But what if you want to go for sheer power?

If you want to be loose with your definitions, it is possible to say that guitars have existed for over five thousand years. Prior to the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides." Ancient drawings tell us that instruments matching that description have existed since before the inception of Greek civilization.

When I was young, I always thought my father's guitar pick was the prettiest little thing. It was faux tortoise shell (although I didn't realize that at the time), and I was always driving him crazy by taking it out to play with and then forgetting to put it back where I found it. Even though I was only four or five years old, I still understood that that little piece of plastic was what allowed my father to play the guitar as wonderfully as he did.

Electronic keyboard synthesizers have come a long way since their inception. Few people know that the first electronic synthesizer was invented in the late 1800s. This model was, of course, only a very rough precursor to the musical synthesizers of today.

If one examines the average guitar, either electric or acoustic, one will find small raised bars running width-wise across the instrument's neck. These bars are called frets, and they are placed on stringed instruments to allow the player to accurately and consistently determine where to depress a string in order to produce the desired note. However, not all guitars use frets in the same way; in fact, some lack frets completely.