Music

Contemporary Christian music is becoming more and more popular. There are many places to find the music you hear on Sunday morning or what you hear on the local Christian radio station.

A vocal isolation booth allows a performer to record without external sound from other instruments bleeding into the recording. Additionally, a vocal booth can create a safe environment,...

Learning to play a musical instrument is never easy. Each instrument has its own process for making sound. As a woodwind instrument, the alto saxophone sound is produced by a wooden reed that is...

The bamboo nose flute is a traditional instrument of the South Pacific. In Hawaii, it is known as "ohe hano ihu," and is made with a thin-walled length of bamboo. Played using air from either or...

The Floyd Rose Tremolo is affected by two opposite forces: string tension and spring tension. The strings create a force that will pull up on the floating bridge, while the bridge's springs...

Trance is a type of electronic dance music that originated in Europe in the early 1990s. It gets its name for its hypnotic quality. Trance music has had many offshoots over the years, one notable...

As with any musical instrument, learning to play the guitar requires patience and a disciplined approach to practice. Although it's entirely possible for a beginner to learn to hold down a basic...

Making music should be a part of every child's life. However, musical instruments can be expensive and are not available to everybody. In fact, many types of music originated with homemade...

If you want to improve the sound of your car by adding new speakers, but can't fit them into any existing speaker locations, speaker boxes are a good solution. A pair of good speakers in boxes can...

Playing an Eb (E flat) chord on the guitar can be a challenge to the beginner. But by referencing knowledge of other common chords, and a bit of music theory, playing Eb and other tricky chords...

The digital age has put a new spin on music. If you had a specific piano piece you wanted to learn 30 years ago, a piece like "All My Life," you would have to either play it by ear or purchase...

A song's URL is simply the Web address of the download. When downloading songs from websites, it is necessary to find the URL that is specific to the song. Finding a song's URL is useful if you...

Musical instrument cables fail for a number of reasons, but the most common failures occur when solder joints or wires become loose inside the connector. Improper wire pulling, faulty solder work,...

A musical scale is a collection of pitches, either in ascending or descending order, which forms the basis for musical compositions. The methods for dividing octaves into scales varies widely...

After students learn the fundamentals of music, it's time to teach the scales. Without scales, students won't be able to gain an understanding of how music is constructed and won't be able to...

Reading music is an important skill for singers. Even though singers can learn their parts by ear, this can be a long and tedious process of memorization. However, learning to read music is more...

Rotary valves on a French horn have exceptionally narrow clearance between the rotor and the valve casing. Any sediment or build up of gummed lubricant or minerals, or warping of the rotor or...

Getting a recording contract can be one of the most exciting and scariest points in an artist's career. Many new artists are offered standard contracts by labels, and there's not usually a lot of...

Because of the quickly expanding nature of Internet technology, creating you own Internet-based radio station is easier and less expensive than ever before. These technologies can be employed in...

A musical scale is a group of notes arranged in a specific pattern of steps (or distance between each note) to make a set of tones grouped into what musicians refer to as a key signature. The key...

Our system of notes and keys has seven different note names, designated with the letters A through G. A C major scale is C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C. The only way to get any other major scale is to change one...

Making your own music beats can be a great experience. You get a tune going in your head and then you want to get it recordede and put to music. It can be addictive when you get the right software...

Here's a brief introduction to making your own electronic music for free. In this particular quick-start guide, I will be using the Reaper audio sequencer and VST plug-ins.

Augmented chords are not difficult to play on the keyboard or piano. In fact, they are easy to play. Just follow the simple steps below.

Have you always wanted to be a great singer but thought that your vocal chords just weren't quite up to par? Think again! Anyone can be a good singer. It is all about finding your own style, and...

Anyone who plays a keyboard or piano would like to play perfectly. While you may not always be perfect, you can certainly learn to play more accurately and make much better music! Here’s how:

Making music, either by singing or playing an instrument, is a very rewarding and enjoyable experience. To expand variety of music you're able to perform, you'll need to learn to read music. ...

With these quick simple steps, your Garageband track will be full, warm and LOUD.

Writeralley.org is a cool free classifieds site that lets musicians and writers showcase their work to browsing publishers and producers across america. Upload writing, songs, photos and videos to...

The guitars neck is mostly wood. Some actually use a steel beam running through them to ensure that the neck stays straight even when exposed to different conditions. If you neck becomes bowed...

When writing songs everybody faces trouble at one point or another, here are some tips to help.

Compression and decompression in audio technology are related concepts dealing with simplifying the handling of sound files and digital audio streaming (such as internet radio or sound clips on...

Creating your own musical instruments can be a very fun hobby and mind-expanding activity for kids. Musical instruments can be very expensive so by creating your own instrument you will save...

Sheet music is the written version of the language of music. Notes are used to express the sounds and rhythms that we play. The beauty of sheet music is that we can know what Beethoven wrote a...

The chances of landing a contract from a major record company such as Atlantic are very slim, but by following a few steps, you can get your foot in the door. Relationship building will get your...

How you adjust the amount of compression on vocals is related to the nature of the track and the kind of singing that you are working with. Softer music often needs the dynamics of soft and loud...

Walk into just about any music shop and you will quickly be confronted with a wall of guitar and bass amplifiers, each with different features and different sizes. It is no surprise that trying to...

Rosin is made from the simplest of substances, pine resin, but without it a violin would not be able to make the kind of beautiful music we are used to hearing. The use of rosin on a bow allows...

The reason there are only seven letters, A through G, in our musical alphabet is because our music is based on a diatonic, or seven note scale.

If you wanted to learn a piano piece 30 years ago, you would have to play it by ear or go to a store to purchase sheet music. To really excel, you would have to own a piano and spend money on...

Learning to play the violin is an intense and challenging undertaking under any circumstances, but for those with disabilities, the process of setting up an educational plan for the instrument is...

Ever been in a situation where you had some music, but no words? Even if you aren’t a member of a band, writing song lyrics can be a fun activity or a nice hobby. Maybe you think you need to be...

The C clef, which is familiar to most musicians, can be placed in 2 different positions on the staff. In the past, it could be placed in many different positions on the staff, but all except 2...

It seems that some people just naturally have good rhythm, but a lot of us have to work at it. However, good rhythm, like everything else, is learned. Maybe some people automatically practice...

Of the different clefs, the Bass Clef (also called the F clef) is the easiest to draw. You may have seen this clef at the beginning of music for various instruments, including cello, tuba, piano...

Drawing a Treble Clef (or G clef) in music can be tricky until you memorize how to do it. It is easy to confuse the direction of the lines when first learning to draw Treble Clefs. To make...

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This article offers tips on how to submit demo music to record labels free showing how to use the digital music age to enhance the submission process and gain easier recognition than was...

Guitar strings can be adjusted to improve two main factors, intonation and string action. Intonation is a string's ability to stay in tune over the length of the neck, while action refers to the...

You would like to be able to use two, four 4 ohm bass speaker cabinets, but your amplifier is rated at a minimum 4 ohm load and you don't want to fry its output section. Wiring both cabinets in...