Blues Guitar Chords Tutorial: The Twelve Bar Blues

This article expands on your knowledge of blues guitar chords byexplaining how to play the twelve bar blues, which is the basisof many blues songs.For this article, you should know how to play the followingbasic guitar chords: C, F, G, and the following essential bluesguitar chords: C7, F7, G7. If you don't know how to play thosechords, read my article "Blues Guitar Chords Tutorial: 7Essential Blues Guitar Chords".Twelve Bar Blues BasicsNot every blues song is based on the twelve bar blues, but manyare, and it's the essential blues chord progression....

How to write hip hop lyrics

How would you like to come the next big thing in Hip Hop?Well when writing Hip Hop or rap music, rhyming plays thebiggest part compared to the likes of pop, rock, country music.But writing the lyrics to Hip Hop is still as difficult aswriting music in any other genre, but all the advice you find onthe Internet can be helpful, whatever the genre. The adviceabout writing from a title, staying focused by answering thequestions suggested by the title and using lists of related andopposite words all apply. The original rhymes are up to you!First of...

Electric Guitar Tuning: The Easy Way

Electric guitar tuning is a painless process sincethe invention of digital tuners. However some guitar instructorsstill prefer to teach their students how to tune a guitar usingtraditional methods, or rather by ear. It is important to beable to perform electric guitar tuning without the use of atuner. For example, what if you were at a friends house and wereasked to jam along on an old electric guitar that looked like ithadn't been played, let alone tuned, in a year or more and tomake matters worse nobody has a tuner. This article will teachyou...

50 Cent's Next Power Play

Hate him or love him, Curtis "Interscope" Jackson a.k.a. "50Cent," is a bread-winner. Fresh off a $100 million dollar profitfrom the sale of Glaceau's Vitamin Water to Coca Cola for $4.1billion, 50 Cent has rocketed into a new "financial space," andplans to leverage his worth in his next multi-million dollarpower play.Back in 2002, Eminem signed 50 Cent to a 7 figure deal whichcontractually obligated 50 to release four albums and a greatesthits disc, totaling five solo albums to be released underInterscope Records.In 2003, 50 Cent's debut album,...

How to Tune a Bass Guitar

This material seeks to answer your question on how to tune abass guitar. Well since I don't know exactly how many stringsare on your bass guitar I shall present you with differentoptions, namely, 4-string, 5 string, 6 string, and 7 stringbasses.First of all we shall look at the standard tuning of bassguitars.The standard tuning of a four string bass guitar from highest(thinnest string) to lowest (fattest string) is G-D-A-E.On a five string bass the tunings are similar with the additionof a low B string.On a six string bass guitar, a thinner (higher...

The History Of The Bass Guitar

In this material we take a look at the history of the electricbass guitar. When talking about bass history the first personthat people normally think of is Leo Fender. He is credited withintroducing the world to the Precision bass in 1951. The basswas called a Precision bass because of the accuracy of thenotes. Players were able to play notes that were perfectly intune because of the presence of frets on the electric bassguitar. To many people, this was the first real electric bass.This bass was mass-produced and very recognizable when it wascreated...

The Songs of Wine

When it comes to wine, we use a variety of our senses. Our senseof taste and our sense of smell helps us perceive flavors andaromas, our sense of sight helps us look for legs, helping us toidentify body, and our sense of touch, well, that just helps usto make sure we grab a glass of wine, and not a can of beer. Infact, there is only one sense we don't really use: our sense ofhearing.Now, I've done it myself: I've had a few too many glasses ofwine, put the glass up to my ear, and sworn up and down that Icould hear the ocean. Except for those rare,...

What Is The Best Bass Guitar For You?

In this material we shall take a look at some of the things youshould look out for when buying a bass guitar. This will helpyou in better understanding bass guitar descriptions andreviews. We shall talk about different types of body styles,necks, scale lengths, tuning machines, intonation, bolt-onnecks, neck-throughs, fingerboards, number of frets, pickups,woods and finishes. We shall explain what each of these featuresare all about to help you decide what is the best bass guitarfor you.Body Style:Most electric bass guitars are solid-body electrics....

Everyone Is A Social Singer

Absolutely everyone is a social singer and I'll give you aperfect example.Let's say you're at the office and you find out that today isMary's birthday. At some point in the day, everyone will beasked to gather into the kitchen and sing a rousing rendition ofHappy Birthday to Mary.If you find yourself in the back of the room count yourselflucky, because everyone in the back will just mouth the words tothe song. But, what do you do if you find yourself in the frontof the room, or worse yet, your standing next to the boss?Well this, my friends, is...

Download Music To iPod

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Guitar Scales For Country Music

The trick with music theory is to break everything down intobaby-step i.e., guitar scales for country music, guitar scalesfor bluegrass music, guitar scales for jazz music, guitar scalesfor rock music.Let's say your primary style of music is country music. we couldsubdivide the subject of music theory into: what guitar scalesfor country, what chord progressions for country, what style ofcountry music, what guitar techniques for country.What guitar scales for country:major pentatonic, major diatonic, cascading scales ... What chord progressions...

The Canadian Music Industry And The Effect Of Peer-To-Peer

There have been some changes in the laws in Canada concerningmusic and its download in the recent years. Let us look at someof the important aspects that have been affecting the musicindustry. Some of the aspects of music concerning taxes, chargesand the like deserve a closer look.There is much talk that peer-to-peer is ahref="http://www.audiomecca.com/download-music/"target="_blank">music download is responsible for decliningmusic sales. While there may be some amount of truth to thestatement, a large part of the decibels raised may well be...