Scratching Videos - 3 Tips to Help You Choose The Right Videos to Learn From

Without doubt one of the best ways to learn to scratch as a DJ is to watch and learn via videos! This is by far the best way to learn the techniques if you don't have someone at hand who is experienced to show you. With videos, you get to see exactly how to scratch with vinyl! In this article we will talk about scratching videos and some of the tips you need to keep in mind when looking for videos to learn from. So let go straight into the tips... Tip 1 Has the video been produced by a reputable DJ? Anyone can produce videos to show you how to scratch... but learning from the cream of the crop is what you want to be aiming for right?

Memory Booster - Using Music to Memorize Lists and Facts

The popularity of shows on television, like Fox's "Don't Forget the Lyrics, " and party games such as "Encore, " emphasizes the power of music to help us remember words and numbers. If I write the phone number 867-5309, you may naturally start singing the hit song by Tommy Tutone! I often use music to help my clients remember phone numbers, addresses and lists of information like the months of the year or counting by twos, fives or tens. The children I work with have a range of disabilities from autism to mental retardation, but the principles of music that facilitate memorization remain the same for helping anyone remember key items of information.

Piezo-Electric Equipped Guitars from PRS, Parker and Ernie Ball Music Man

Electric guitar players have been spicing up their tone for years with piezo-electric bridge pickups. Capable of creating realistic acoustic tone from electric guitars, piezo systems are no longer novelty items relegated to aftermarket add-ons, as these three top-shelf instruments demonstrate. PRS McCARTY ARCHTOP II The Archtop II was the latest incarnation of the Paul Reed Smith's McCarty series. Featuring a body of carved maple and a connecting center block (somewhat like a violin's soundpost) beneath the bridge, the Archtop II produces an acoustic sound that's as loud as you'd expect from a good semi-hallow electric, but without the pronounced midrange of most semi-hollow guitars.

Getting Back to the Guitar - Music Theory Basics Part I

Honestly, who doesn't want to be able to melt faces off a 30, 000 person crowd with a 10 minute solo so deadly it will make the first nine rows of the stadium cower in terror from the awesome shred? I know I do. I also have this burning desire to express my musical majesty with the world, but I just never knew the proper way how. I played the guitar for a couple years now, taking some basic lessons getting me started in the right direction, even learning how to play most of my favorite songs on the radio. The thing was, I was mostly just fiddling around here and there without getting down to some serious business with my guitar playing.

DJ Tips On Mixing - Where Can A Beginner Learn To Mix?

Its important when you start out to learn the skills as a DJ that you get as much help as possible! Finding as many tips, tricks & methods as possible will help educate yourself as a DJ. In this article we will talk about some of the DJ tips on mixing you need to understand as a beginner DJ and find out where you can learn to mix. So lets jump straight in on this... Where can a beginner learn to mix? Well there are a number of places a beginner DJ can learn to mix. If your old enough to hit the clubs, you can watch the DJ from a distance. This is always a good starting point as you get to see a DJ perform in real time in front of an audience.

Songwriting Techniques - 7 Tricks For Improving Creativity

Have you ever wondered how the great songwriters of our time keep the ideas coming? They seem to have an inexhaustible supply of great ideas that we connect with again and again. How do they do that? They must have gathered a good store of songwriting techniques somewhere along the way, that's for sure. The best songwriters usually achieve their fluency by writing about everyday topics such as love, using a different angle each time. In this way, their audience remains interested and entertained by having an old and familiar subject treated in a new and interesting way. It would be interesting to know exactly how songwriters achieve this.

The Amazing Blind Musician Ray Charles

Born September 23, 1930, Ray Charles Robinson would become one of the most famous and influential pianists in the twentieth century. Though he was blind from about the age of seven, he was able to learn how to play and compose music at a school he attended for the deaf and blind. Originally from Greenville, Florida, Ray Charles would become well-known for the many different genres he played in, including Rhythm and blues, country blues, piano blues, pop, soul, country, jazz and gospel, to name a few. He would shorten his name to Ray Charles and would continue to have many hits throughout his musical career.

How to Play the Piano - The Proper Posture

Don't Let The Music Move You! If you turn on the TV nowadays, chances are that you're going to see piano players swaying and in some cases, jumping up and down while they play. This has been a controversial topic in learning how to play the piano. Students often mimic what they see on screen, thinking that it's the right thing to do. What they don't realize is that many of these performers simply jump around for show- if you saw them practicing, they would probably look very different. Some people argue that posture is something that goes with the style of playing. While classical music calls for a more dignified pose, blues and jazz is more relaxed, right?

House Music DJ Magazines

Here is a review of the best house music dj magazines on the planet. Over the past decade a lot of magazines in the electronic music dj arena have gone down, and only the strongest have survived. Recently there has been a major increase in people who are interested in electronic music and the following magazines are blooming with advertising dollars pouring in! MixMag - has been noted as the best selling dance magazine in the world. Unfortunately they don't have an online version of this magazine but their inclusion of cd's with each release makes it a pretty good subscription to have. For instance, they had an amazing new compilation from Paul Oakenfold in a past issue!

The Wizard of Keyboard and Piano Music Chopin

Frederic Chopin was born March 1, 1810 in the Duchy of Warsaw in Poland. He was not very old when his potential was recognized. In fact, he was regarded as a child prodigy pianist. As early as seven, Frederic Chopin was performing in front of an audience and composed two of his first pieces in the same year. When he was a young man, he left Poland and would never return. He eventually made his way to Paris where he worked as a piano teacher and a composer. He did not perform very often as most of his time was put into his teaching and personal work, though he did perform in a few concerts from time to time.