If you are a fan of country music, you need to know what Christmas albums are hot in 2009. There are some new Christmas country releases and some classics that you will certainly want to add to your collection this year.
Sugarland leads the Christmas country album race this year with their album entitled “Gold and Green”. If you have not yet heard of Sugarland, they are the country duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. Their “Enjoy the Ride” CD sold more than one million copies in 2006 and now their Christmas album is taking over the charts. If you are looking for classic Christmas songs, you will enjoy this album by two of the newest and purist country voices.
One of the great genres within best Christmas albums is the compilation album. This year we have a two disc release called “Now That’s What I Call a Country Christmas”. If you buy one Christmas album this year, you will want it to be this one. On this special album, you have all the Christmas classics sung by the country favorites that you know and love. From Vince Gill doing “O Little Town of Bethlehem” to Brooks & Dunn’s rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, you will find both classic and new country artists singing the songs you love. Don’t miss this country Christmas album!
You have got to have Faith. Released last year, Faith Hill’s “Joy to the World” Christmas album continues to be a top seller. You know Faith and you know her voice. Singing top Christmas songs such as “Joy to the World” and “O Come, All Ye Faithful”, the album has broken through to the pop charts and is one of the great Christmas CDs that you want to have in your collection.
One of country music’s bests has gotten together with his friends and created an album called “A Bluegrass Christmas”. Who would that be? None other than Charlie Daniels. With unique renditions of the Christmas songs you love, Charlie Daniels adds a bluegrass twist to Holiday tunes that any country music fan will love.
You cannot mention country music without bringing up Johnny Cash. He embodies all that is great about the genre. Re-mastered and released last year, “The Johnny Cash Christmas Special” is a must in your country music Christmas collection. This album, taped from Johnny’s live Christmas special includes many guests such as Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge. And, like all of Johnny’s endeavors, this album also features his beloved wife June Carter Cash.
Last but certainly not least, we have the album name “Hag’s Christmas”. We all know and love Merle Haggard and his special country crooning. On this album, we hear so many great Christmas songs presented only the way that Hag can do it, in his unique style. From “Silver Bells” to “Jingle Bells”, you will enjoy having Merle filling your house with Christmas joy.
All of these old and new classics have been digital mastered and can be purchased on both CD or MP3.
About the Author
To purchase or preview these songs, visit the Country Christmas Music page at the Christmas Store Online, where you can find all of the Best Christmas Gifts for 2009. The author, Richard Mas, is a retail specialist and senior editor at The Christmas Store Online.
Marketing Creates Value, Wine And music Provide The Evidence
In their bones sales-oriented entrepreneurs believe that marketing is a cost centre. Some might quote Peter Drucker in support, “Nothing happens in a business until somebody sells something.” Financially-oriented entrepreneurs “know” that marketing is a cost centre best placed on a starvation diet along the way to zero overhead growth. Technically-oriented entrepreneurs are often not even sure of the value of the sales function. After all, sales people are coin operated, the antithesis of devotees of product beauty and elegance. Build it and they will come is the techie’s belief and sometimes that does happen, for a while. In most techies eyes, marketing is management stuff: sales is also redolent of management. Technically-oriented entrepreneurs might also quote Drucker in support, “(M)ost of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Aside from alleviating entrepreneurs’ angst about marketing and sales by the consumption of wine and enjoyment of music, how else can wine and music help entrepreneurs succeed, particularly new entrants?
Wine
Useful and usable empirical evidence comes from an experiment on wine tasting undertaken by scientists at CalTech and Stanford. People were given the same wine but some were told that it cost $5.00 a bottle and others up to $90.00. The value the subjects placed on the wine, measured as “tasting good”, was recorded in conjunction with a scan of their “brain waves”. When expectations were not set, the cheapest wine got the highest ratings. When expectations were set, the higher the price, the better the taste. The research supports the view that, “people experience reality not the way it is physically (objectively), but as they expect it to be.” The subjects’ brains made the wine taste better, not their taste buds. A financially-oriented person might assert that, the brain “cooks the books” in line with expectations.
In another experiment Frederic Brochet at the Universite of Bordeaux gave 54 experienced wine tasters red and white wine. They described each with the standard set of descriptions for the colour. The red was “jammy” and full of “crushed fruit”. The white tasted of lemon, peaches and honey. Next day the experts were given two red wines. In fact, one was the white with red colouring added. The peaches and honey became “black current”. Brochet’s experiment provides evidence that the customer experience is, “the end result of an elaborate interpretive process, in which our brain parses our sensations based upon our expectations. If we think a certain brand is better than we will interpret our senses to preserve that belief.” “Such distortions are a fundamental feature of the human brain.” It is a fact based upon hard evidence.
Music
The musician, a nondescript man wearing a baseball cap removed his violin from its case, seeded it with a few bucks and started to play classical music in the subway entrance. A thousand and seventy people passed by. Twenty seven pitched in a total of $32 plus change with one person giving $5.00 – not quite 20% of the total. An expert who had known what was to transpire had forecast that 75 to 100 people of a 1,000 would stop and give a total of $150. The expert knew that three days before this same musician playing the same instrument, a $3.5 million dollar Stradivarius, had commanded $100 a seat for so-so seats in Boston’s Symphony Hall. Two weeks after his appearance in the subway, out of respect for the quality of the musicianship, an audience stifled their coughs until pauses occurred in Joshua Bell’s playing. The audience was in Bethesda MD., just a few miles north of the subway station.
The person in the subway who threw in $5.00 was a trained classical musician and only he plus another musician knew that what they heard was something special. Yet, though one of them is a fan of Joshua Bell, even he did not recognize the violinist during the entire six minutes he stopped to listen on his way to work that morning.
Our Take
The music story shows that product beauty in itself can get a sale or two. Product alone does not get recognized or appreciated by enough people to create a large enough customer base to generate enough money to support a fast growing business. Both the wine and music stories confirm that people don’t pay based upon the product’s technical merits. This is a fundamental fact of customer behaviour with which a new entrant has to cope. It is not just a pitch by a marketer raiding your scarce cash. Odd that the connection is not made with the well known phrase, nobody gets fired, etc.
The stories also make clear that a common engineering approach to pricing, mark up costs by a factor large enough to make a profit provides only a hit or miss basis for a pricing policy. It has no anchor in reality. People pay relative to the value they perceive as customers, not what it costs the producer. The wine story shows that by setting price expectations independent of technical product quality, marketing works with a fundamental fact of human behaviour to establish individual expectations about value and hence selling prices and margins. The music story shows that creating physical context also sets expectations about the product’s value to the customer, in this case by more than 20 to 1.
Think about what might have happened had the subway context not been no name. What would have happened had Bell been wearing a tux? If advertising had been used to tell people it was Joshua Bell? How many people would have stopped if there had also been a video showing the world famous Joshua Bell playing his multimillion dollar Strad in Boston? What sum would the 1,070 passersby have thrown into the violin case? Replay the scene but assume there had been a TV ad or a news story the day before the event and then answer the questions again.
We suggest an extension to Drucker’s first comment so it becomes, “Nothing happens in a business until someone sells something but nothing good happens unless the sales function is led by marketing.”
Great marketing works by setting favourable expectations about your product and business amongst prospects and customers. A great sales machine captures the targeted portion of the additional value created by marketing. In sum, your business gets higher gross margins. Marketing clearly and directly contributes to the overarching objective of a business, wealth creation generated from a growing positive cash flow.
Failure to understand the distinct but complementary roles of marketing and sales is rife amongst entrepreneurs. They often have sales and marketing as a single expense category on their income statement! This intellectual failure is akin to failing to distinguish between labour and materials. Simply put, the coin-operated salespeople are responsible for getting the best price possible at the client’s premises within the limits set by marketing and competition.
Because marketing creates value by creating a favourable context for prices, for example, positioning the product in prospects’ minds as a unique category and thus worthy of a higher selling price or shutting out competition, there is no link to the cost of production and sales. Because there is no automatic rule that says costs are less than the selling price, marking up costs to establish a selling price amounts to the equivalent of looking in the mirror. It is a special form of business lunacy to say you must pay this so I can make a profit. Governments and monopolies successfully get away with a cost-based approach to securing their revenues. Entrepreneurs do not.
Only marketing-led firms generate enough wealth to be able to afford to credibly offer competitive returns to early stage investors and to generate wealth for entrepreneurs. This is why Acorn describes its equity product for high growth rate businesses as Marketing-Led Sales-Driven Equity™.
Wine and music do indeed provide the necessary evidence that while pleasure awaits those who orchestrate marketing and sales, the duo provide only solace for those who do not.
Kingsford Consulting Ltd. is a Strategy and Business Development firm that provides business planning, market research and strategy development services. www.kingsfordconsulting.ca
music for Meditation, Reflection or Therapy, Day or Night: an Interview With the Nightdancers
When you ask someone why he or she likes a band, performer or style of music, the usual response is either, “they’re awesome,” “they rock” or “it’s fun stuff.” People tend to say that music is simply for entertainment. And as for musicians, the reason they play music either involves “the call” to do so or the ego-driven need to stand in front of a crowd. But why do we even have music? Is it, as Shakespeare stated, “to soothe the savage beast”? It’s not like it’s life or death. Or is it? For Gera Clark and John Sarantos, who perform on Native American flutes as the NightDancers, music is that deep. Mr. Santos started with the simple desire to express himself musically, but discovered that the Native American flute, by its nature, takes one beyond pigeonholed functions, including new-age “meditation” music. Ms. Clark’s journey to music started with desperately needing something of a life line at a critical time. She states: “After a prolonged critical illness, I began to put my life back together… While on this spiritual path, I discovered the Native American flute.” In this era of art-as-diversion, or lifestyle accessory, it is a wonderfully pleasant surprise to be reminded that, as Clark and Santos reveal in the interview below, music is a powerful and healing force.
[Mark Kirby] What kind of music was played in your home when you were growing up?
[Gera Clark] My mother played classical music on the piano as an escape from her existence as an urban housewife raising four children. When I started school, my mother went back to work and I noticed her appetite for opera increased dramatically. My father fancied himself as being Bing Crosby and I would catch him now and then trying to learn the cha cha. Meanwhile, my sister would sneak in rock and roll. We aspired to write music together in the style of Carol King. We also listened to some of my relatives’ records, one being Seamus Ennis, my grand uncle who played the Uilleann pipes (an Irish type of bagpipes).
[John Sarantos] During my early years, my mother would play classical and operatic music when I was in school, but very little music was played while I was home except at Christmas.
[Mark Kirby] What kinds of music have you studied prior to the Native American flute?
[Gera Clark] As a child, my mother would bribe me with soda to take piano lessons because she wanted me to be a child prodigy. When I was able to travel on my own, I took up the traverse flute, which I carried with me for three years.
[John Sarantos] I tried learning the drums from the junior high school music teacher, but he told me I had no rhythm and would not work with me. After attending a Jethro Tull concert and being inspired by Ian Anderson’s flute playing, I tried the transverse flute, but was told by my flute instructor that I was tone deaf and she wouldn’t work with me. I tried singing, but I was told that I was tone deaf by three major Los Angeles voice coaches and they would not work with me. I tried guitar and banjo, but it was hard to play just cords as I could not sing along with myself. Then I discovered the Native American flute.
[Mark Kirby] How did you come to start playing Native American music in general, the flute in particular?
[Gera Clark] After the death of my husband and a quick rebound marriage and divorce, followed by a prolonged critical illness, I began to put my life back together. I also began searching for beauty. While on this spiritual path, I discovered the Native American flute.
One day, I found myself about a hundred miles west of New York standing outside a Tibetan Buddhist Temple, when suddenly I heard the most beautiful sound. Following the powerful, yet haunting sound, I discovered it emanating from a Native American flute, played by Ed Callshim (Ponca Sioux). After this experience, I finally found a flute of my own at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Later, when traveling to Niagara Falls with my teacher, Amy Lee (Iroquois), a deep desire to connect with my earlier travels in the southwest was awakened. On one particular journey, I found myself exploring the canyons along the Rio Grande. Eventually I was led to the mountains and the Taos Pueblo, where I heard that haunting sound drifting through the air. I followed it to its source, a little adobe. Looking inside, I met a kind and talented gentleman who encouraged me to play the native flute. That gentleman, unbeknownst to me at the time, is one of the finest Native American flute players in the world, John Rainer, Jr. (Taos/Creek). Leaving New Mexico with renewed faith, I was led, via The American Indian Community House in New York, to Franc Menusan (Muskogee Creek). He became my extremely patient mentor for several years.
On my birthday, I flew out to an R. Carlos Nakai (Navajo/Ute) concert with the San Francisco Symphony, where I learned about the Renaissance of the Native American Flute workshop in Montana. I came back to New York and booked myself a flight to Montana, which was where I met John Sarantos, and our musical partnership was born.
[John Sarantos] My mother, who was 84-years-old at the time, introduced me to the music of the Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai duo. Mr. Kater, who is of German heritage, played piano, and Mr. Nakai the native flute. I discovered that I too like the sound of the native flute. I went to a Kater and Nakai concert in Chicago, where Nakai mentioned a week-long workshop at the Feathered Pipe Ranch in Helena, Montana. I had a choice of paying about $1,200 for the flute workshop taught by Mr. Nakai and his partner and flute-maker, Ken Light, or going to Japan for two weeks, all expenses paid by the school where I was teaching. I chose Montana.
[Mark Kirby] What lead you to play this kind of meditative music?
[John Sarantos] We don’t think of it as only meditative music. We worked hard to stay away from falling into that stereotype of musical style on our CD. Although a lot of people use our record for meditation, they also use it for healing and relaxation. Several people who have cancer told me that they find inner peace while listening to ‘Montana Crossings’.
[Gera Clark] In fact, after John had his cancer surgery last year, we decided that 10% of the gross sales from ‘Montana Crossings’ would be used to buy flutes for cancer patients. So far, we have donated flutes to cancer flute circles and individuals in New York City, Chicago, Lansing, Michigan and Jefferson City, Oregon.
[Mark Kirby] Are Native American flutes more like shakuhachi flutes or transverse flutes in terms of technique?
[John Sarantos] Neither. The shakuhachi can take three months just to get one note. The transverse requires many hours of playing to learn just the basic scale. The native flute is one of the easiest instruments to play. I have taught elementary children to play the native flute, and they have started playing songs in about five minutes or less.
[Mark Kirby] Describe the flutes that you use in terms of size, number of holes, type of wood, etc.
[Gera Clark] We use flutes ranging from four to six holes and from four inches to five feet.
[John Sarantos] Traditionally, most flutes were made from soft woods; for example, cedar and pine. However, when the Europeans came, they brought with them tools that made it easier to create flutes out of harder woods; some flutes were even made from old gun barrels.
[Gera Clark] Today, flute-makers are creating flutes from all types of woods, from cedars to walnut to iron wood, to even flutes made out of one of the hardest woods: ebony.
[John Sarantos] We also have a wide assortment of clay flutes based on the Aztec and Mayan cultures made by master flute-maker Xavier Quijas Xyotol.
[Mark Kirby] How did you arrive at the name of NightDancers for your musical duo?
[Gera Clark] One day John and I were talking and discovered that we both used to walk around our individual houses in the middle of the night without any lights on. We came up with the name Night Walkers.
[John Sarantos] However, most people we talked to thought that the name sounded too much like vampires or ladies of the evening.
[Gera Clark] After discussing a variety of names, we came up with NightDancers.
[Mark Kirby] When did you decide to record ‘Montana Crossings’?
[Gera Clark] John and I had been playing together for about two years. John would travel from Milwaukee during his vacations, and we would play for our friend Bob Hegler, who encouraged us to keep playing together. We enjoyed playing so much that we used to spend hours playing over speaker phones when John was still living in Milwaukee. When we started performing in local New York venues, people would ask if we had a CD they could purchase. After about a year of doing live performances, we felt that we had created a wide variety of songs that we wanted to share with others.
[Mark Kirby] Why did you choose to record at Avatar Studios in New York City?
[John Sarantos] I had been writing record reviews for the International Native American Flute Journal for about ten years and could tell when an artist used a home computer all the way up to a professional sound studio. If we were going to put our time, effort and money into a recording, we wanted it to sound the best it could. I asked several people if they could recommend a sound studio in New York City. Avatar Studios was one of the top three studios on several people’s lists.
[Gera Clark] We were also very fortunate that Tino Passante of Avatar recommended Jim Anderson for our sound engineer. Jim understood the sound that we were striving to obtain, and he succeeded in capturing that sound.
[Mark Kirby] How are the titles connected to the songs you are playing? Are these titles indicative of what the music is supposed to evoke?
[Gera Clark] The titles are indicative of the inspiration behind the music.
[John Sarantos] Hopefully, each person will have their own emotional response to the music depending on their own journey.
[Mark Kirby] What types of events or venues do you play?
[Gera Clark] One of our goals is to help spread the beauty of the flute to others, whether it be playing our music for others to listen [to] or sharing our knowledge on how to play the flute.
[John Sarantos] herefore, we play in a variety of venues for all types of events. You can view our schedule at: http://www.nightdancersmusic.com and http://www.myspace.com/nightdancersmusic
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A recent survey of 707 families with a child conducted by a group of American researchers and published in the journal "Science" has proven that time is spent in the Internet television closely with the later in connection with aggressive behavior, particularly for the age group interval of 16 and 22 years. Similar remarks are made in France by Kriegel report that there are effects of Internet Television Violence on children, adolescents and adults. This effect is proportional to the time online. You can often read press release that a teenager hanged himself after a Model seen on the Internet, a 13-year-old boy fatally stabbed his little sister, 6 years old after watching a horror movie online.
Another teenager attack a service station following instructions from the Internet. Furthermore, rape a 18-year-old boy a 7-year-old girl, and then he explained that he was innocent one similar scene saw on the Internet TV. If a child only watches violent programs, they are pathologically him to switch from the normal. Therefore, Internet-television owners, which have to do in the situation, so many improvements in order to obtain success, to do some magic, and to prohibit such programs when children or people who are not from the mental Term stable access to them.
If you really want to live in a healthy world, before the release of a new Internet TV, you have to think the target audience very well, can lead to no adverse consequences that you regret your initiative. After all, the Internet television owners are people too!
Internet television, researchers have from the fundamental hypothesis that winning online TV viewers can run more than the newspapers' readers. To see a new video, the people up to other activities in connection with family, church, school, friends or books. Internet TV is now the most active Modeler of attitudes and mentalities.
Most people not read any newspapers and online television for them the only source of information. To continue, 95% of high school students to watch Internet TV every day, and from them only 8.7% read something every day. Therefore has the Internet television is a virtual monopoly on the modeling of the spirit of a very important part of the population. Moreover, if We highlight the variety of entertainment programs and contents, we can say that sometimes relevant Internet television removed information that is necessary is for every adult. Actually, statistics, and result, after which young people on average spend 175 minutes in front of the screen provided per day, while adults 240 minutes, only for entertainment purposes. Under such circumstances, the people must, in general, not only boys, advice on Internet-TV programs.
The bad news is that in prime time violence covers 90% of the programs. On the other hand, if there was no violence, sometimes people are cheap humor and music, low quality made available. Statistics also close to that this music is very low quality appreciated by 40% of the students. Such music can be be mixed as a rhythm with sexual connotations described. Therefore it is high time, Internet TV idea of quality first, and then the profit.
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music & Emotions: Can Music Really Make You a Happier Person?
How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes?
Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level. Researching the links between melody and the mind indicates that listening to and playing music actually can alter how our brains, and therefore our bodies, function.
It seems that the healing power of music, over body and spirit, is only just starting to be understood, even though music therapy is not new. For many years therapists have been advocating the use of music in both listening and study for the reduction of anxiety and stress, the relief of pain. And music has also been recommended as an aid for positive change in mood and emotional states.
Michael DeBakey, who in 1966 became the first surgeon to successfully implant an artificial heart, is on record saying: “Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients.”
Doctors now believe using music therapy in hospitals and nursing homes not only makes people feel better, but also makes them heal faster. And across the nation, medical experts are beginning to apply the new revelations about music’s impact on the brain to treating patients.
In one study, researcher Michael Thaut and his team detailed how victims of stroke, cerebral palsy and Parkinson’s disease who worked to music took bigger, more balanced strides than those whose therapy had no accompaniment.
Other researchers have found the sound of drums may influence how bodies work. Quoted in a 2001 article in USA Today, Suzanne Hasner, chairwoman of the music therapy department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, says even those with dementia or head injuries retain musical ability.
The article reported results of an experiment in which researchers from the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Meadville, Pa., tracked 111 cancer patients who played drums for 30 minutes a day. They found strengthened immune systems and increased levels of cancer-fighting cells in many of the patients.
“Deep in our long-term memory is this rehearsed music,” Hasner says. “It is processed in the emotional part of the brain, the amygdala. Here is where you remember the music played at your wedding, the music of your first love, that first dance. Such things can still be remembered even in people with progressive diseases. It can be a window, a way to reach them.”
The American Music Therapy Organization claims music therapy may allow for “emotional intimacy with families and caregivers, relaxation for the entire family, and meaningful time spent together in a positive, creative way”.
Scientists have been making progress in its exploration into why music should have this effect. In 2001 Dr. Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre of McGill University in Montreal, used positron emission tomography, or PET scans, to find out if particular brain structures were stimulated by music.
In their study, Blood and Zatorre asked 10 musicians, five men and five women, to choose stirring music. The subjects were then given PET scans as they listened to four types of audio stimuli – the selected music, other music, general noise or silence. Each sequence was repeated three times in random order.
Blood said when the subjects heard the music that gave them “chills,” the PET scans detected activity in the portions of the brain that are also stimulated by food and sex.
Just why humans developed such a biologically based appreciation of music is still not clear. The appreciation of food and the drive for sex evolved to help the survival of the species, but “music did not develop strictly for survival purposes,” Blood told Associated Press at the time.
She also believes that because music activates the parts of the brain that make us happy, this suggests it can benefit our physical and mental well being.
This is good news for patients undergoing surgical operations who experience anxiety in anticipation of those procedures.
Polish researcher, Zbigniew Kucharski, at the Medical Academy of Warsaw, studied the effect of acoustic therapy for fear management in dental patients. During the period from October 2001 to May 2002, 38 dental patients aged between 16 and 60 years were observed. The patients received variations of acoustic therapy, a practice where music is received via headphones and also vibrators.
Dr Kucharski discovered the negative feelings decreased five-fold for patients who received 30 minutes of acoustic therapy both before and after their dental procedure. For the group that heard and felt music only prior to the operation, the fearful feelings reduced by a factor of 1.6 only.
For the last group (the control), which received acoustic therapy only during the operation, there was no change in the degree of fear felt.
A 1992 study identified music listening and relaxation instruction as an effective way to reduce pain and anxiety in women undergoing painful gynecological procedures. And other studies have proved music can reduce other ‘negative’ human emotions like fear, distress and depression.
Sheri Robb and a team of researchers published a report in the Journal of Music Therapy in 1992, outlining their findings that music assisted relaxation procedures (music listening, deep breathing and other exercises) effectively reduced anxiety in pediatric surgical patients on a burn unit.
“Music,” says Esther Mok in the AORN Journal in February 2003, “is an easily administered, non-threatening, non-invasive, and inexpensive tool to calm preoperative anxiety.”
So far, according to the same report, researchers cannot be certain why music has a calming affect on many medical patients. One school of thought believes music may reduce stress because it can help patients to relax and also lower blood pressure. Another researcher claims music allows the body’s vibrations to synchronize with the rhythms of those around it. For instance, if an anxious patient with a racing heartbeat listens to slow music, his heart rate will slow down and synchronize with the music’s rhythm.
Such results are still something of a mystery. The incredible ability that music has to affect and manipulate emotions and the brain is undeniable, and yet still largely inexplicable.
Aside from brain activity, the affect of music on hormone levels in the human body can also be quantified, and there is definite evidence that music can lower levels of cortisol in the body (associated with arousal and stress), and raise levels of melatonin (which can induce sleep). It can also precipitate the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkiller.
But how does music succeed in prompting emotions within us? And why are these emotions often so powerful? The simple answer is that no one knows yet. So far we can quantify some of the emotional responses caused by music, but we cannot yet explain them. But that’s OK. I don’t have to understand electricity to benefit from light when I switch on a lamp when I come into a room, and I don’t have to understand why music can make me feel better emotionally. It just does – our Creator made us that way.
You are the director of the remix of Van Halen's "Right Now "….. What advice would you offer as yours?
For those that I confused have, in the original Van Halen music video for "Right Now" as the video played, you would scroll across the screen, things like "Right Now see "Youth is King", "Right Now, we need to show appreciation for the love" Please tell me some of yours?
"At the moment, nothing is more expensive than regret" Right Now, is somebody Missing You Right Now, a new mother, while an old mother dies Right Now, our troops need our support Right Now is a good time for love Right Now, do you talk to love it, right now, ends a new life as another bgins
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Celebrating around Allen, Afro-American history, the Richmond Punch Jazz Quartet presents a mix of jazz, classical and gospel music at 3 clock Sunday 21 February, in the Allen Public Library, 300 N. Allen Drive. Lotus Music & Dance
NPR host to lend his voice to BSO Production Scott Simon, the mellow-voiced moderator of "National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday ' and Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have to go a mutual admiration society. Something like 4 million people listen to, whenever the two in the air together. The Soloist Trailer (2009)
Im 16 and i was messing around on the drums at my friends house before and they thought i knew how to play… i was like nope first time just going by what ive heard (listens to mostly metal but has an appreciation for all music) i see myself playing drums took up guitar for a year(parents forced me to get lessons) and i quit forcing makes things totally not fun i got pretty good but its not “my thing” so should i envest to buy a drum set if so what kind for metal? rock? and my favorite bands are like Children of Bodem, As I lasy Dying, Metallica, Dream Theater stuff like that thanks!
Drumming is awesome…. don’t delete my answer Im still typing
I’m only 14 but drumming is easy to learn, awesome fun, and overall a great hobby. You can probably play any type of music on the one drumkit, but if you’re willing to spend more money ask a pro to get a “tuned kit” if you wanna play Metal only.
One of the other answers said to pursue your talent. This is perfectly good advice. Do it and don’t be discouraged if you can’t play Dream Theater on your first day!
You can learn drumming without lessons, and you will be able to play Metallica. Dream Theatre and Children of Bodom will be hard to learn.
I prefer making my own beats and solos, its a lot funner than playin other songs. Also your parents might dislike the noise – then you won’t be forced to do anything!! So yeah definetly take up drumming, if you have the money, go for it.
If your kids have pestered you for a real live doggy, Nintendogs is for them. For the younger kids there is Interactive Storybook DS which features several classics, only the kids can interact with each story for extra fun. They contain humour and fun along with a moral message that most parents will appreciate. No need to cover ears and eyes with this game.
Child and parent can spend quality time together with it. Only you have to import it, so the kids will get impatient waiting for it to arrive. This Nintendo DS game will teach them just what they have to do to look after a real dog. Maybe they’ll be so busy playing the game they’ll forget to pester you. They not only learn what they need to look after a puppy, but how to socialise with it, go out and meet doggy friends and earn money to buy needed doggy items. They can also choose the breed they like best.
High School Musical: Work it Out is for the fans of the movie of the same name and they can become any of their favourite characters playing, singing and dancing their way to fame in a talent show. All ten songs from High School Musical2 are featured and you can still listen to them even when Nintendo DS is closed.
For the younger kids there is Interactive Storybook DS which features several classics, High School Musical: Work it Out is for the fans of the movie of the same name and they can become any of their favourite characters playing, singing and dancing their way to fame in a talent show.
All ten songs from High School Musical2 are featured and you can still listen to them even when Nintendo DS is closed. Only the kids can interact with each story for extra fun. They contain humour and fun along with a moral message that most parents will appreciate. No need to cover ears and eyes with this game. Child and parent can spend quality time together with it. Only you have to import it, so the kids will get impatient waiting for it to arrive.
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