Blow Your Nose If You Like The Music
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Posted March 10th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Canada's Interior Provincial Exhibition in British Columbia is renowned for its prize-winning pigs, 10-gallon hats and cowboys being flung from the backs of snorting bulls.Did I mention classical violin music?In 2001 the IPE hosted the Festival of the Arts, an all classical, jazz and theatre venue in the heart of the fairgrounds. I'd honestly never been out to the fair before but was hired to emcee and play violin in the new event.From the moment I pulled into the dusty parking lot full of picku...
The Fretboard Master
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Posted March 1st, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Having been a guitar player for over 20 years, I am often amazed at the number of guitarists that have never taken the time to learn the notes on their fretboard. I have met guitar players that gig on a regular basis, and yet are unable to find a C# on the 3rd string, an A natural on the 4th string or an F natural on any string! Little do they know that by learning this one simple thing, their playing and enjoyment of the instrument will increase ten fold!It was while studying at the Guitar In...
The History Of Jazz
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Posted February 20th, 2010 at 5:02 am
American classical music, also known as jazz is a diverse genre of music that stems from native American and African music. Most jazz is inspired by blues music. Jazz first became popular in the early 1920?s in clubs in cities like New Orleans and Chicago.In the 1930?s Jazz was so popular that there were even white jazz singers. Big bands came into play such as Ben Goodman and Glen Miller, although some viewed them as swing more than jazz.Jazz led into more conventional methods that made it like...
The History Of Jazz
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Posted February 19th, 2010 at 9:02 pm
American classical music, also known as jazz is a diverse genre of music that stems from native American and African music. Most jazz is inspired by blues music. Jazz first became popular in the early 1920?s in clubs in cities like New Orleans and Chicago.In the 1930?s Jazz was so popular that there were even white jazz singers. Big bands came into play such as Ben Goodman and Glen Miller, although some viewed them as swing more than jazz.Jazz led into more conventional methods that made it like...
Tips For The Solo Musician: Just Who Are You?
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Posted February 18th, 2010 at 5:01 am
So...just who are you? That is a question that every solo artist, solo musician, and every solo instrumentalist has probably asked themselves down through the years. The ones who can answer that question will find themselves on the road to a very eventful, and interesting musical career.Who am I?...Who do I want to be?...Who do I sound like?...Who would I want to be like? These are all legitimate questions, and ones that should be asked. Every one has strengths, and weaknesses. We all have our d...
Jazz Music: History Of Jazz Music In Kansas City
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Posted August 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
From its beginnings as nothing more than a simple trading post on the banks of the Missouri river, to its raucous heyday in the 1920's and 30's, Kansas City has retained the independent spirit of its frontier beginnings. Even though an assortment of colorful characters, cowboys, politicians, criminals, and even wagon trains populate the history of Kansas City, you can forget everything you've ever heard about it being a cow town. Today, the outgrowth of that colorful history and frontier spirit...
New Age Music How It’s Made
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Posted July 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Different styles of music have different sounds. We can all pretty much agree on that point. For example, Jazz uses seventh chords almost exclusively. This, and the kind of chord progressions used in Jazz gives it its unique flavor. But what about new age music? Does it have it's own special ingredients? Yes it does.Now, there are no hard and fast rules here but for the most part, new age music is a consonant music. That is, there is little or noharshness going on in the music. No Saxes wailing ...
Art Of Band Creation
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Posted July 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
No wonder we all seek to express ourselves in some way. To achieve success in music we need a band, as a solo career is no longer popular. And now you are between decisions how to choose the band members to share you dazzling ups.Well, there are two ways out: 1.To involve professional musicians into the project and to divide obligations in advance. The only thing acquired is your own professional skills. 2.To surround yourself with deer friends and start following the path of studying altogethe...
Jazz Shrinks Complex World Jazz History
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Posted July 11th, 2009 at 10:01 am
When I've had a belly full of the complexities of current events I find a jazz band in some out of the way place and retreat for awhile into melody with a big beat.For those of you who are turned on by horns, I recommend a small watering place in Cleveland called the Lake Shore Club.There, Ted Witt and his Forest City Jazz Band hold forth on Saturday nights with the best music this side of New Orleans.Located through the courtyard of an old motel, it is not the kind of joint you would wander int...
Jazz As A Language: What The Improviser Does
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Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Jazz is a language. Its practitioners are public speakers. Think of what happens when one learns to speak English, Korean or Japanese, for example. The process is the same as when learning jazz. You learn by listening and picking up figures of speech, then you learn to use them in your own personal manner to make statements by putting them together in paragraphs and sentences to tell your story.If you were to speak publicly, you would want to know the story well (in this case the tune or com...
