Music
The Life and Songs of American Composer Stephen Foster
Stephen Collins Foster, the “father of American music,” wrote songs in the nineteenth century that live on to this day. He was the forerunner of today’s professional songwriter, though he died in poverty. He expanded the musical tastes of Ame [read more...]
Slide, Grind, Shuffle or Hustle. Discover How to Choose Your Wedding Day Music!
Your wedding music is the sound track for the most important day of your life. Although songs like, Reasons, Three Time A Lady, Why Have I Lost You, and If You Think You’re Lonely Now - Wait Until Tonight, Girl, are all great songs, they are terrible son [read more...]
How DJ Equipment Changed And Stayed The Same
The market for all things retro seems to get bigger every day; who would have thought that sweet wrappers from the 1970’s would one day become incredibly collectible and turn up on ebay! Dj equipment and sound recording equipment from the last century ha [read more...]
Learning To Play The Guitar
Music affects everybody in some way or another, whether they listen to the radio or simply hear a jingle for an advert. Everywhere we go somewhere along the line, on a day-to-day basis we hear some tune or note that either brings back memories, makes use tap o [read more...]
Harmonicas-An Overview of the Harmonica
Harmonica is an instrument that gained vast popularity with the blues music movement. Over the years the harmonica has remained a trademark of blues music and has also remained popular as an instrument as well. Harmonicas are made up of cover plates, reed-plat [read more...]
Learning to Play the Harmonica-Should you Consult a Harmonica Teacher
The harmonica has almost become a trademark of blues music. Harmonicas where initially brought to the United States in the 1800’s and have over 100 years of history in North America.
Initially the harmonica was the instrument of the poor but just [read more...]
Choosing the Right Harmonica to Buy
Harmonicas are great musical instruments and learning how to play the harmonica will give someone an understanding of the basics of music necessary to move on to other musical instruments. Harmonicas are great because they are versatile portable and relatively [read more...]
Cigars In Hip-Hop Culture
The association between smoking and creativity is an old one, almost stereotypical. In the nineteenth century the painter Edouard Manet, for example, used the upward drift of cigar smoke in his famous portrait of the celebrated French Symbolist poet Stephane M [read more...]
Acoustic And Electric Guitar - How They Stack Up Against Each Other
A guitar is a musical instrument, usually with six strings. This six-stringed guitar finds its origin in Spain. It can be played by handpicking or by finger-picks or plectrum. Plastic plectrums find wide usage today. However, the tonal quality is higher when t [read more...]
How to Get Free Guitar Lessons
When you want to learn guitar and you don’t have of the budget to spend on. You may want to know how you can learn how to learn playing guitar for free. I don’t really believe in free stuff but I did see some way that you can use to start learning [read more...]
