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The Axis of Awesome perform a history of pop music using only 4 chords. Recorded live at the comedy store Sydney.

Where can I find a resource for the history of all genres of music ?

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A library, especially one in a college.

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T-Bone Walker Master Guitar Playing Blues Man

Blues music has been famous for a long time and there are many renowned artists in the music industry who are responsible for making it this way. There are many young and old people across the world today who are so influenced by this kind of music that it is the only source of their inspiration. There have been many artists on the rise who have tried to become great blues musicians however, no one can really beat the power of the blues musicians from the 90s era.

They were some of the best and are so regarded even today. Many of them were even awarded well and have been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their music still sells worldwide and their concerts are something people would still give so much to attend. These people have really carved a niche for themselves and created a very powerful kind of genre for the world of music.

Blues is very soulful music and it is something that touches the heart. Over the years, there have been a number of variations of this kind of music as it has slowly descended from the nineties into the two thousand era.

But even then, till about fifty years ago, there was a man by the name of T-Bone Walker who is solely responsible for making some of the best blues music that people have ever heard and even today in many bars, pubs and cafes, his music is widely played and acknowledged. It is also a source of inspiration for many young people all around the world because his unique style of playing blues music incorporates the use of the electric guitar as well and is not all soft and harmonious.

If you want to learn to play the blues guitar then you must learn to take inspiration from people like him. He has been known for his music, and if anything, you will definitely learn the art of making music and new compositions by listening to his stuff.

He himself has taken a great amount of his inspiration from people like Jimi Hendrix and BB King and if you go along his footsteps then the music you make yourself will be bound to have a lot of variation of fresh tunes and grooves.

You can easily learn how to play guitar by taking up beginner guitar lessons either on the internet or by joining some guitar tutorials in your area. This way you will also meet a number of people interested in the same kind of music and it will be easier for you to jam with others and come up with new compositions and lyrics all the time.

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Bruce Lamb is the founder of The Guitar WorkShop, and inventor of the Guitar Flight Case the Clam. Visit http://TheGuitarWorkshop.com for awesome learn to play  guitar lessons. Also check out the crazy videos http://www.Casextreme.com if your ever thinking about taking your guitar on an airline.

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The Development of Classical music along the Period (II)

Music in XVIII century (1600-1825)

There were two times in this century. The first era was called the baroque era. This era was around 1600 to 1750. Baroque was the beginning of modern music because it has experienced the revolution from both theory and technique of its cultivating.

The key characteristics of this era included the merger of major and minor scales, many dissonan tones, the development of the orchestra, and the regular structures, but monotony. They also included the use of violin, harpsichord, organ, and flute.

In this era, people also knew basso continuo technique, namely the bass accompaniment that brought harmony. There was repetition in the structure of music.

Composers who lived in this era were Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Friedrich Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Claudio Monteverdi, and Henry Purcell.

The second era was called the classical era. Sonatas and chamber music grew with more dynamic melodies. All of the classical era rules were applied intelligently by the composers.

The key characteristics of this era were the development of musical harmony, a very strong element of the dynamics that colored the composition, and a dynamic atmosphere that was expressed through the tempo, melody, and harmony. In this era, people also knew the pattern of ‘question and answer’. Piano, with its ability to create dynamic, became a very important instrument.

The popular composers in this era were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, and John Gay.

Transition period of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

This period represented the transition time from classical music to romantic music that was initiated by Beethoven. He brought a dynamic element by using wider harmonies and more emotional techniques of music cultivating.

This period was called as transitional because there were some principles of classical era that were violated by Beethoven. For example: the use of the intro was considered to be the outside of the classical composition theory. However, it was precisely a characteristic of romantic music. Through his works, Beethoven influenced the transition of classical to romantic music greatly.

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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.

(Quoted with permission from www.acornpartners.com)

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Indian music encompasses some of the richest most remarkable traditions of the world.In this documentary we intend to present the complexities behind Indian classical music for a western listener.

What's your favorite composition of Billy Joel (see details)?

Trivia: Billy is really into classical music … but that is not, where he makes the money … His first wife, model Christie Brinkley, was that I personally know someone who got married – before she met Joel. He had a large "downside" "52nd Street", but I can not find it anywhere … I really like "You're Only Human", but you need to watch the video, its importance to understand …

Ooh! I love Billy Joel and him in concert twice. My all-time favorite? Hard to pick just one …. Only the good die young! But BIG SHOT is probably a close second.

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Music is the way of life. Music is a form of art that all boundaries and prejudices overcome the related class, culture and religion. All other languages have the coordination of sensory skills such as aural, oral, visual and Gesture for freedom of expression, but the music has only a grateful ear. Music has the power to melt Stonehearted person.

Music LA is the pioneering music and Art is the leading School of Music in Los Angeles. The school was founded in the late 70s for the sole purpose of teaching the art of music for those who studying the finer nuances of the harmonic music want. The Institute provides quality education through music is a wide range of courses covering all areas, with the learning Music linked. The students are free to choose their subject of interest from the extensive curriculum offerings.

Why Music School LA?

Many of the aspirants are initiated, no idea how and who is responsible for obtaining quality music have coaching approach. Many schools provide excellent training in music, but their fees may be beyond the reach of every pocket. Learners must not lose hope. Music Los Angeles, the modern school of music groundbreaking, personalized instruction in vocal and instrumental music, in addition to courses in audio recording. The following list gives an overview about some of the most important and popular music courses are available at the best LA music school.

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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.

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These Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas boys will be dropped into Iraq using commercial airlines and have been given only the following facts about terrorists:

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