Piano Lessons For Children - Home Or Travel?

There are many factors you should consider as you design a musical education for your children or yourself. The major question to answer is the location of the lesson. Will your kids be taught at home by a traveling instructor or will you travel to the piano teacher's studio? LESSONS AT HOME If you want to find a traveling instructor in your local area, try the local paper or local print media ads. Many piano teachers advertise in newspapers as well as online. Most piano teachers do not travel because of the major added expenditure on transport. It is more convenient for the piano teacher to teach at their studio, but it is more convenient for the piano student to be taught at home.

Alternative Music - Where it Has Been and Where it is Going

Alternative Music embodies a different musical approach and an "anything but" philosophy to the status quo of rock and roll. This movement in music has existed in other forms through the years. Punk, for example, was arguably a precursor to what later developed as Alternative Music. The basic idea of Punk Rock was to be antiestablishment. Punk deliberately made a different sound than Rock at that time by using different chords, more distortion, more feedback, and a real irreverent in your face attitude that at once was prevalent in Rock and Roll, but has long since subsided as Rock became mainstream.

Guitar Lessons - How to Hold a Guitar Pick

No matter you have been learning guitar for a few months or you are just a guitar beginner, the below tips will be helpful to you. You will know the correct method to hold a pick. You may think that is something fundamental but doing this thing correctly will enhance your guitar music quickly. Picks were originally made of animal bone or tortoise shell. They are now mainly made of plastic. There are different sizes and shapes. I recommend guitar beginners to choose to use medium size picks. They are easier to play with. Of course, it is not the rule of thumb. You should experiment different sizes and shapes of picks to find out the most suitable picks for yourself.

Acoustic Guitar Tuning

Whether you are playing a show or just practicing, you should tune your acoustic guitar every time you play. Playing an out of tune guitar is not fun. Beginners can become frustrated with learning because they do not understand the importance of acoustic guitar tuning. The few extra minutes it takes to tune your guitar is always worth it. It's best to use an electronic tuner for acoustic guitar tuning. Sit down with the electronic tuner on a nearby table or stool. Turn it on and strum the first string. The tuner will sense which string is being tuned using its built in microphone. The indicator will show you how close you are to the correct pitch.

Learn to Play Guitar - Tips For Changing Guitar Strings

Changing guitar strings is as important as turning your guitar. You have to check the strings regularly to see if anyone of them is missing or worn. Old guitar strings are hard to play and make your guitar out-of-tune quickly. Your fingers will always get hurt. But putting new strings on your guitar will help you produce brighter and greater guitar sound with ease. So now let us forget how to play guitar but look at how often to change the strings. The ideal plan is, of course, to change them every time before playing the guitar. The reason is that old strings easily break. You will not know when they break but you certainly do not want it happens when you are playing great songs in front of a large group of fans.

Absolute Beginner - So You Just Bought a New Guitar - Want to Know Where to Start?

So where do you start ... First thing I suggest is getting comfortable with the guitar itself. If you are right handed, you will strum with your right hand and hold the neck of the guitar with your left hand. If you are left-handed, then the reverse is true. Either way the thickest string should be closest to your face and the thinnest string towards your feet. (It is common for "lefties" to buy a guitar set up for a right handed player. You will need to get somebody to help you change the strings around the other way! ) Practice strumming the strings. Practice holding the plectrum (pick) correctly.

Musician Hazard - Hearing Loss

Are you a musician that has to turn the volume up on your TV? Is the volume turned up on the CD player you are listening to? Do you have one ear that you put the telephone to because you have trouble hearing out of that ear? Maybe now is the time for you to visit the doctor for a physical exam that should include screening for hearing loss and some other hearing tests. If you haven't reached this point yet, then it is time for you to take some measures to protect your ears. All musicians are at risk to have some sort of hearing loss if they do not take the necessary precautions to protect their ears.

Guitar Lessons - Beginners

Have you been dreaming of learning how to play a guitar, but just couldn't get around to it? Don't let the lack of time or money get in the way with your ambitions. If you belong to a group of guitar lessons beginners, here is some good news for you: I am here to point you in the right direction on your way to becoming Jimi Hendrix junior. Isn't it fascinating how music or sounds of different instruments affect your mood? We all have bad days which can drastically improve because of your favorite song coming out of the radio. Wouldn't it be great to create a pleasant melody with your guitar to get you rocking?

Effects Pedal True Bypass - Myths, Facts and Recommendations

Few subjects amongst guitar pedal aficionados arouse more strong opinions than the subject of true bypass and whether it is necessary. First of all, if you're a beginner to the debate, you should have some awareness of what bypassing is and why the debate matters. All effects pedals can be turned off by stepping on them. After all, that's why they're called stomp boxes. Well, when you turn a pedal off, in theory, you should be hearing what the guitar signal sounds like without the effects pedal coloring your sound. It's off, so it shouldn't have an effect, right? There are essentially two main ways to bypass the effects pedal.

A Brief History of the Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster is one of the World's most recognizable guitars. Simple in design, the Telecaster has been the quintessential guitar for over fifty years. It was also essentially the first recognizable solid body guitar, which provided the inspiration for some of the most recognizable music of the 20th century with regard to folk, blues, R & B, rock, and country genres. The telecaster has it's origins in early 1940's when Clarence Leonidas Fender (AKA Leo Fender), proprietor of the Fender Radio Repair Shop, started to experiment with guitar amplification. One day Leo Fender fashioned a crude solid body guitar to his test early pickup systems.