Posted by admin on May 26th, 2009 — Posted in Music Resources, World Of Leisure
Unless you’ve plenty of time, being in the right place at the right time to get a ticket for a sports event or music gig is never easy. For Instance, the entire Manic Street Preachers tour of the UK in 2007 sold out in just 1 hour. How does someone who’s at work when the tickets are on sale actually get a ticket?
Go online and get one.
In the grim days before the internet, you had to purchase your second-hand ticket through a tout at the event itself. This meant paying double or triple the face value, or even perhaps being given fake tickets which would inevitably be spotted as you tried to enter the event - and that means you not only miss the music gig or sports event, you’ve wasted a load of cash in the process.
However, things have gotten much better for music and sports lovers. The resale ticket market has cleaned up its act in the last decade or so, thanks to the internet. These days there is a huge amount of competition to resell tickets online, the market has become self-regulating. You’re offering the ticket for HOW much?! I’ll look elsewhere! Many ticket sellers offer insurance if the music gig / sports event is called off. And with stiff competition online, secondary tickets have come right down in price to the stage that it can sometimes be you’re not spending much more than the face value price. Many ticket purchasers look at prices between lots of traders selling resold tickets for the same concert / event. They evaluate the prices, insurance, seating, and even history of the vendor prior to deciding to purchase or not - so the force has considerably transferred away from the dodgy tout of days gone by to the ticket buyer.
These days you can get tickets for many kinds of sports events and concerts. From basketball games to soccer to cricket, to getting hold of front row seats for a world famous band; secondary tickets offer a 2nd opportunity to go to the concert you want to go to. How can you get tickets on the web? Use a search engine like Google and type in your words such as Michael Jackson tickets, and you’ll discover a huge array of secondary ticket brokers who have the ticket you’re searching for.
Not everyone is content with resale tickets though. Some people call resale ticket brokers as parasites, and they’d like to see a stop to the resale of event tickets. They are missing the aim of secondary tickets : there are people who simply are unable to obtain tickets when they are initially sold.
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Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008 — Posted in Music Resources
Looking for a musical instrument to inspire you?
There are so many beautiful musical instruments around for musicmakers. I have a soft spot for baby instruments - beautifully crafted, easily stored and surprisingly cheap.
These small scale instruments - often called travel instruments, baby instruments or mini instruments - offer intimacy and easy handling to songwriters and musicmakers at the day job, crooners on the back porch and dreamers in small bedrooms!
The lower prices of baby instruments suit both professionals wanting a unique sound and beginners wanting a small instrument to play often
How can it be that something smaller is cheaper? From my experience of building model aeroplanes as a kid, ’smaller’ involves so much more effort. (Or was it just the glue?) But much of the baby instrument range is priced low enough to warrant building a little creche of ‘babies’. And that way they can play together when you’re busy.
The size of these travel musical instruments make it possible to have several in your life without clutter
Baby instruments fit discreetly in the corner of your workplace or studio allowing you to take a break and ‘have a blow’. (Imagine lawyers, truckies and childcare workers grabbing a moment to strum their baby mandos or strumsticks to ease tension and bring a little magic into the day!)
Baby instruments are not toys. They have a tangy sound each of their own by nature of the scale and materials used. I love the sweetness and intimacy that these little babies evoke. It’s the musical version of ‘oh she’s so beautiful’ usuually bestowed on little animals and humans!
Baby instruments help save songwriters and arrangers from ‘Writer’s Block’
For songwriters the perfect antedote to ‘writer’s block’ (we’ll talk about that myth another time) is to move between musical instruments to find a new insight and to release the ‘block’. So, widen your soundscape - go into unexplored territory.Often playing an instrument you are NOT proficient at leads you to exciting new places in your musicmaking. And we all know how great a teacher a chord book can be in helping us approximate ease and competence on our instruments!
Choose your baby musical instrument of choice and then something way out of your experience from guitars, basses, ukeleles, accordians, banjos and melodicas! Having a selection of beautiful baby instruments will keep you inspired for ages! And in the digital age of ’small is beautiful’ you’ll get lots of kudos for your socially relevant choice of a baby instrument. Yeah that’s right, you’ll be the point of interest wherever you go with your ‘baby’.
Andrea rieniets works as a singer/songwriter/composer/producer/musical director/community artist in Australia. ‘A rarity amongst Australian musicians.’ Black and White Magazine. Her blog is
Crikeymoses! Tips and tools for Creatives - getting your expression and activism out into the world where you live! Andrea’s gorgeous music can be heard at gorgeousworld.com
‘Intensely tuneful songwriter with a swag of techno savvy’ Rolling Stone
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Posted by admin on May 19th, 2008 — Posted in Music Resources
Il Divo, Josh Groban, classical crossover… Who are all these people that seem to be revolutionizing the classical music world?
Musicians have been “crossing over” almost from the moment music was invented. Mozart’s famous Rondo “Alla Turca” was already using a popular style of Turkish music that was famous at the time. Later on Tchaikovsky would be inspired by gypsy violinists playing in cafés and Bach had already written music for the Zimmermann café he used to play in.
Although name labels are very useful for categorizing what type of music we are talking about, as soon as you go in a little deeper, boundaries immediately start to blur. What do we call a gipsy flamenco singer singing a famous traditional “bolero” with latin jazz legend Bebo Valdés? That is exactly what Diego el Cigala did in his Grammy-awarded CD Lagrimas Negras.
What does all this have to do with classical music? Well that is precisely the point, funnily enough classical music has somehow managed to grow apart from popular music in a way that had (almost) never happened before. What this genre tries to do is take elements from different types of music (popular music, indian music… you name it) and introduce elements of classical music to visit new, exciting places.
And that, simply put, is what is happening behind the scenes when you listen to any artist that sings or plays classical crossover music, whether it is Josh Groban, Bond, Yo-Yo Ma or the IberoAmerica Ensemble.
Luis Diez is a violist that lives in The Netherlands. He holds Music degrees (Madrid, Brussels) in violin and viola performance. He also followed some courses on his free time and ended up getting a Masters in Business Administration.
Right now he is studying viola at the Prins Claus Conservatorium in Groningen (Holland) and plays in the IberoAmerica Ensemble, a string ensemble that plays classical crossover.
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Posted by admin on April 18th, 2008 — Posted in Music Resources
Many beginning guitarists struggle when it comes to tuning the guitar. It’s a major stumbling block for them. Some end up quitting altogether because every time they start to play what comes out doesn’t sound right. A beginner should understand that guitar tuning is something you get better at with practice. Ear development takes time.
A beginner should practice tuning the guitar so that he can become better and better at it. Your friends won’t be around all the time to tune your guitar for you.
How does one tune the guitar?
Well firstly, here’s the standard tuning of a six string guitar:
6th string: E
5th string: A
4th string: D
3rd string: G
2nd string: B
1st string: E
The first string being the thinnest, and the sixth string the fattest.
Relative tuning: tuning an electric guitar by ear.
Let’s assume that your 6th string is already in tune (an E note). You can tune your 6th string by using another guitar that is in tune, a tuning fork, a piano, an electronic tuner or even a midi file on your computer. Then, all you have to do is match notes on the adjacent strings.
Play the 6th string at the 5th fret. It should match the tone of the 5th string open.
Play the 5th string at the 5th fret. It should match the tone of the 4th string open.
Play the 4th string at the 5th fret. It should match the tone of the 3rd string open.
Play the 3rd string at the 4th fret. It should match the tone of the 2nd string open.
Play the 2nd string at the 5th fret. It should match the tone of the 1st string open.
You can also tune your guitar by octaves.
An octave is the interval between two notes with the same name. In the scale: C D E F G A B C, the two C’s are one octave apart.
Play the 6th string open. It should be one octave apart with the 5th string at the 7th fret.
Play the 5th string open. It should be one octave apart with the 4th string at the 7th fret.
Play the 4th string open. It should be one octave apart with 3rd string at the 7th fret.
Play the 3rd string open. It should be one octave apart with the 2nd string at the 8th fret.
Play the 2nd string open. It should be one octave apart with the 1st string at the 7th fret.
When your ear is sufficiently developed you should be able to tune your guitar by using chords. Just play a chord and tune the strings so the chord sounds right.
Learning to tune the guitar is very important. A must! But it is so much more convenient, faster, and more accurate to make use of a guitar tuner. Particularly in live situations and noisy environments. You will find an electronic tuner for 10-50 bucks online easily. You can order one today.
Mantius Cazaubon offers a buying guide to helping you choose an electric guitar that meets your needs on his site, http://www.electric-guitars-guide.com. Visit Electric Guitars Guide for electric guitar lessons, tips, and reviews.
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Posted by admin on April 1st, 2008 — Posted in Music Resources
Ka-ha-hanye! The latest Kanye West music release, Late Registration, follow-up to the oppositely titled, The College Dropout, has Kanye going in exactly that, an opposite direction in everything, except credibility. That part’s intact.
It’s getting tougher and tougher, as opposed to the 90’s and even decades preceding, to place an artist strictly in a subgenre of a genre. Yes, Kanye West music is obviously in the hip-hop genre. But what type of subgenre does he really fall in? I mean, he does speak for “the people”, in particularly America’s African-American population, making the general population at large become aware of the crises that his brothers and sisters are going through. If not obvious from his music, it is obvious off the stage, regarding his recent opinion of U.S. President George Bush.
So what would that subgenre be? Political rap? “Folk-rap”? “Socioneconomic rap”? Can’t really think of many others…
But here’s some accurate thoughts on the subject. Kanye West music has socioenomical, and political influences. This aspect of his music is quite intact even through his latest release, Late Registration. Of the interesting approaches that he takes with this record is the anomosity that “brothers” may feel when one of their own “graduates” from their clan and “leaves” them.
Background tracks are gallore throughout both West’s releases. The latest turn on Late, however, regarding the overall look and feel music-wise, is more raw and vibrant than its predecessor.
Music patterns of the late 60’s and 70’s; for example, Major7 to “minor”7 shifts, horn orchestra sections; occupy much of the background of Kanye West music on his current release. The first several tracks are vibrant in even another more current way, with more spicing of techno in the bass.
The College Dropout was a big pleaser to both fans and critic alike. Late Registration, which keeps a great distance away from a traditional sophomore slump (interesting how we don’t see many of these anymore), should have no problem in similar pleasing, or even more, on most aspects.
While The college Dropout had several moments in it, for example strong stand-out tracks and singles, or even “what-the-****- was-that?!” moment of lyrics, there are less tracks on Late Registration that appear to stick out like a sore thumb. Don’t get me wrong, it is still an excellent record, although as a whole, not because of just several spiky moments of ingenius Kanye West music.
The whole album is ingenius, made by a genius.
On a final note, due to overwhelming publicity - on and off stage; planned and incidental - there will virtually be no shortage of this release offline or online. It will set you back between $10-15, however, depending on where you buy it. Although the maximum price to download Late will be about $12 note that if you acquire them online, and if their are other releases from Kanye (even other than The College Dropout that you still haven’t checked) you’ll save money downloading ALL music from Kanye West, possibly paying no more than what you would for just Late Registration.
To find out reputable reputable digital music downloads services where you can save money this way, then read further as to where Kanye West music is available.
All-in-all, Kanye West, is definitely moving forward in his carrier with Late Registration, even though it may appear that he is going backward with the album title.
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