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Don't Shoot The Beginner Piano Player! 2007-08-18 03:59:00 By Rhiannon Schmitt As the back to school flyers pour in and I visually digest the crisp images of mechanical pencils and Shrek lunch boxes, I am compelled to seek out new learning opportunities to make the rainy dying days of summer a smooth transition into winter.Between Toastmasters Club, community orchestras, night classes at the local community college and a botched attempt at learning saxophone five autumns past, I have realised my school-aged programming has left a permanent impression: I see brown leaves and I run for the nearest sign-up sheet.I decided this year, after having delved into expensive hobbies and projects started and soon abandoned, to limit my fall learning frenzies to those activities which are affordable, work well with my busy life as a wife and mother and which I am sure I will stick to long-term.So I went out and bought a piano.Affordable? Not really. It set us back from buying a new couch, but as I explained to my loved ones that if you dexterously avoid th Read more:Beginner
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Amazing Technique for New Age Piano Lets You Create Rich Harmonic Backgrounds 2007-08-18 03:49:00 By Edward Weiss When I first heard the piece "Rain" by George Winston I was blown away. Here was a solo piano piece that sounded so rich and full, you could swear more than one person was playing it. Yet it's just one man on one piano.When Winston released his video, I got to see how he did it. It all has to do with the left hand. He uses the left hand to create a beautiful ostinato pattern. But this is no ordinary pattern. The secret to how he gets his sound is in the thumb.You see he moves the thumb back and forth past an octave to add in more notes. Not too complicated once you understand how it's done.Once the ostinato pattern is "down" in the left hand, the right comes in with the melody.The trick to creating something like this is to really get the pattern down first in the left hand. There's a lot you can do here - even with 2 chords!After the left hand is secure and the right comes in with improvised melody, Winston does something else that mystifies those who've never seen Read more:Amazing
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What's Easier- Electric Or Acoustic Guitar? 2007-08-13 08:41:00 By Kathy Unruh There seems to be a misconception floating around that starting your first lessons with an electric guitar is somehow more difficult than starting with an acoustic guitar. The opposite is actually more true.The neck of an electric guitar is longer and thinner than an acoustic guitar. The action (space between string and top of fretboard) is generally lower on an electric guitar also. As a result, less strength is required to push the strings down onto the fretboard, thus making it easier to play.The classical guitar would be next in line as far as ease of playing is concerned. This is because it has nylon strings which are more flexible than the wound steel strings of a dreadnaught acoustic guitar. The challenge with classical guitar, especially for those who have small hands, is playing a wider neck.So, when rating guitars from 1. being the easiest to play, and 3. being the most difficult, my opinion is:1. electric2. classical3. acoustic steel string (dreadnaught)Now, w Read more:Acoustic
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The Story Behind the Documentary Behind The Album - Metallica's St. Anger 2007-08-21 10:33:00 By Nick Adama The book that is the subject of this review is Metallica
: This Monster Lives: THe Inside Story of the Hit Film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, written by Joe Berlinger with Greg Milner and published in 2004. The subject of the book should be obvious by its various titles and subtitles, but it is an inside look at the film in question by one of the two directors of the project. Joe Berlinger, along with his partner Bruce Sinofsky, spent nearly two and a half years with the band Metallica, documenting their struggle to undergo therapy and repair their broken relationships, record a new album, and face their inner struggles.Berlinger focuses on three main themes throughout the account: Metallica's story, the story of the documentary film, and his own personal story . The book is told in a mostly chronological sequence, but many discussions necessitate a simultaneous looking forward and backward for the reader to understand the context. This is, of course, quite logical, as Read more:Album
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