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Coldplay - Lost? (Acoustic)

Coldplay - Lost? (Acoustic)

Secondhand Serenade - Fall for You

Secondhand Serenade - Fall for You

Featured Artist: Keith Barbour

Chart debut year: 1969

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Playing Live With Guitar FX Pedals - Getting the Right Sound

When you are playing around with your guitar at home or doing some recording, it can take a bit of work to get the right tone, you play about with the knobs and settings, get the sound you are looking for and let rip. When you are playing live, things can get more complicated, especially if you require different sounds for different songs.

Myth Busted - Play and Learn Guitar Truth Exposed!

Play and learn the guitar is what you hear all the so called gurus of guitar telling you. They make it sound as though it is a walk in the park, wouldn't it have been wonderful if it was. You can make it exactly that way if you like; you just have to commit to it.

Why Piano Teachers Should Go Slowly

Children don't have the faintest idea why a piano teacher is presenting the concepts of piano skills in a particular order. They only know that they feel a certain way on that day. If they feel bad, you can have the most brilliant lecture on fingering planned, but it will fall on deaf ears.

Piano Speed Limit For Kid's Piano Teachers

Every child has their own internal speed limit for the piano. This is the pace at which they can comfortably learn the piano. It is different for each child. Because one child learns Beethoven's Fur Elise in five minutes doesn't mean any other child will be able to do so as quickly.

Fun Tools For Piano Teachers

To utilize what we call the "fun" piano method, you'll need certain things wholly unrelated to piano lessons. You'll need quarters. These I use to balance on the back of a child's hand to help them find a proper hand position.

10 Ways to Maximize Your Guitar Playing

By way of this article, we will take a look at ten fool proof ways to drastically improve your guitar playing. These simple principles can be played to any type of playing, and can be used by a guitarist of any skill level.

The low tech music leak of the year

I’ve finally got around to hearing the “leaked” versions of AC/DC’s new single “Rock’n'Roll Train.” Don’t pay no mind that they had any digital device to record the song from the video shoot last week. A bit of old fashioned ingenuity and YouTube had the song in the public domain. Not being able to sing [...]

Pure Pitch Method - The Quick and Easy Way to Develop Perfect Pitch

Did you know that perfect pitch can now be taught to anyone? It doesn't matter how old you are or your level of musical skill. Ear training courses like the pure pitch method now make achieving perfect pitch possible. Read on to see how easy it is to find the perfect method for you.

What Age Should Your Child Start Piano Lessons?

There isn't a parent who doesn't want their child to be good at something and one of the more common aspirations is playing piano. There's something about being able to dance your fingers across the ivory keys that appeals to both parents and children. The big question on every parent's lips is "When should my child start piano?"

The Music Downloads

Music Downloading is becoming more popular every day, and the best part is that there is so many resources it's not even funny. Choosing the right one can be difficult sometimes.

So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

"Just get an electric guitar, then take some time and learn how to play" to be a rock 'n' roll star, according to the 60s' super rock group the Byrds. But which guitar should you get? The band never addressed that question in their famous song "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star."

Methods of Analysis of Schoenberg's Die Gluckliche Hand

Die gluckliche Hand is a difficult work to analyze, and various approaches have been used in order to explain it. These various methods are discussed in this article, written as a graduate school paper in 1993, and posted on the author's blog in 2008.

How to Tune Your Electric Or Acoustic Guitar

Tuning your guitar to itself is easy. There are just a few things to remember to stay in tune and keep you playing beautiful music.

The Top 5 Rock and Roll Bands

You know, this is actually a very debatable topic. Who really are the greatest 5 rock and roll bands of all time? Well, this is definitely an opinionated article, but in all honesty, there really are no bands that beat these 5.

The Importance of Wave Files

People in the recording industry spend a lot of time thinking about the best way to produce recordings in order to get the best possible sound onto CD. Engineers and other professionals work on mixing wave files using various techniques in the attempt to create a great finished product.

Beginners Guitar Lessons, Scales - 4 Tips to Get the Most From Your Lead Playing

Scales can "free your fingers and freeze your brain" the whole idea of scales is to help you play music. Think of music as a language, scales are our musical alphabet, knowing the alphabet is just the beginning, it's how we use the alphabet to communicate that's important.