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Guitar Instructional DVD: Begin Your Career Today
by Chris Ghiaciuc

Like you probably have done, I have read a ton of interviews with great players and articles written by many of these same players. I often found it frustrating whenever the subject of learning to play guitar came up or when advice was offered on improving one’s playing. With a small number of exceptions, very little time and space was offered on this.

Surround yourself with better players (or at least with those on your same level.) When you started out playing guitar, everyone was better than you, but now you have grown and there are less people better than you than before. The better you get, the harder it will be to find others who are superior to you to hang around or jam with.

Remember that its ok to daydream and fantasize about where you are planning to go, but it can’t stop there. Don’t wish without planning! Don’t dream without doing! And always, always, have a strategy.

You may need to revise certain aspects of your strategy as time goes on and that’s ok, but don’t try to go forward without one if you want the maximum results in the shortest amount of time. In my early days learning to play guitar, I wasted a lot of time aimlessly desiring to get better without having a clue as to how to plan for it. Sure I practiced a lot, but without direction and without an efficient path to follow. Most of my substantial progress as a musician came only after I developed a strategy and worked with it.

The way you view yourself (as an artist and not merely someone who owns a guitar and plays it sometimes) is very important to the way you will think about what you are doing musically. The way you see yourself will also effect the results you will get as you are expressing yourself.

I notice the finger responsible for playing that note is the third finger. It is not getting to the note because it is going up in the air in reaction to the second finger being used right before it in that particular scale passage. In other words, it is tensing in reaction to the movement of it’s neighboring finger, and I have not been paying attention to it. I realize this is a bad habit that pervades my playing, a third finger that tenses up in reaction to the use of the second finger.

I believe “Self Expression” is the pinnacle of all art. Anything less, “is less” in my opinion. I’m not going to debate that view or try to persuade any of you to also believe it. Instead I am going to assume you already hold that view and discuss ways in which I may be able to offer you both philosophical and practical advice.

For instance, practice chord changes. Perhaps switching from an F barre chord to a D open is driving you crazy. Spend ten minutes going over and over the change.

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Ryan Dorsey @ 6:24 am
UK Funky House Music Big Hit In Clubs Across England
by Darren Poil

Funky house music is having a huge impact on British clubbers and UK nightlife. Music producers, record labels, artists and deejays are beginning to recognize the importance of the new funky music style. Funky house music has been receiving increased amounts of airplay on television, radio stations and in clubs across the country.

“UK funky” is the term used to describe funky house music in the UK; it is a type of house music. Its a blend house music and electronic dance music from Africa and the Caribbean. The composition of UK funky music mainly consists of soulful vocals, synthesizers, samples and percussions.

The catchy hooks often used in UK funky tracks are a major contributor to the growth of interest in the genre. Hooks such as “it’s time to get funky” and “say no more” are being widely used amongst clubbers. The widespread use of these sayings has been greatly assisted by the rise in support for artists such as MC Versatile and Coldsteps.

As the significance of UK funky grows within the clubbing community many artists associated with grime and UK garage are beginning to adapt to cater for the growing trend in funky music. Also funky house is increasingly being seen as profitable market for new musicians to target their music towards. The rewards of targeting funky house are evident in the success Crazy Cousinz with their tracks “Do You Mind Ft Kyla” and “Bongo Jam Ft Calista”.

Music event promoters and nightclub owners have become aware of the importance of funky house, and are specifically targeting its audience. There are now several funky house only club nights and events. These events are sometimes called “raves”; many of these events often take place in major venues like SeOne and Ministry of Sound.

Television channels and radio stations have helped contribute to the rise in popularity for UK funky house. MTV Base and digital radio station BBC 1xtra have been expressing their continued support for funky house music.

Tim Westwood and other leading deejays have been helping to promote UK funky house music. Allowing upcoming British artists to appear on their shows, they are creating awareness for UK funky. Many Dj’s find it crucial to add funky house songs in their playlists, because they are known to be dance floor fillers.

UK funky house is consistently growing in popularity amongst clubbers in England; hopefully this will encourage new musicians. The support of the key figures within the music industry is helping UK funky house music to establish itself within British music.

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Darren Poil @ 6:20 am
Is it So Difficult To Find A Good Acoustic Guitar At Low Price?
by Arnetta F. Nielsen

A lot of guitar beginners gave up in their first year or even less. They either faced difficulty in producing good sound with their instrument or they couldn’t bear the finger pains.

If you think that you can use any cheap guitars for practicing you could be wrong. Some parents bought cheap guitars because they thought the children would abandon their guitars once they experienced the difficulties, however giving them cheap guitars might also discourage them to continue practicing.

If you are thinking of buying a budget guitar make sure it meets the criteria below:

The first thing to check is the guitar neck. Don’t buy a guitar with bowed neck. To check this you can press the sixth string at both first and 12th frets. It should leave a tiny gap only between the string and the frets.

Other important factor to check is the guitar playability. You should feel comfortable playing any chords at any places on the fretboard without difficulties or suffering muscle tension and fingers pain.

You should pick a guitar with low action. Action is the clearance between the thickest string’s bottom to the top of 12th fret. A measurement of 3mm to 4 mm is desirable. With low action you need less pressure to form chords and this means you will have less pain in your fingers. This increase the guitar playability.

The last thing to check is intonation. Good intonation means each note pressed on any fret across the fretboard should stay in tune. A guitar may sound OK when you play open chords but once you are moving your chords along the fretboard you may experience out of tune chords. This is a due to bad intonation and nothing related to the guitar tuning at all. Use guitar tuner to take some measurement in case you are in doubt.

Cheap guitars tend to sacrifice the guitar playability and/or intonation. If you are unsure it’s a good idea to get one of your friend that has guitar experience to guide you and recommend you some guitars to test. Based on his/her recommendation you then choose one that is comfortable in your hand. Guitar appearance may fool you easily.

If you follow this tips correctly you can get a fairly good guitar at a reasonable price. Don’t waste your money for something you can’t play.

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Jaspal Egdaire @ 5:35 am
What Makes the Xbox 360 Run?
by Larry Moon

The public’s interest in gaming consoles rises and falls with the ability of the company to provide a new gaming experience. However, when you come out with a new and improved product it usually comes with a not so improved price. With prices going up Microsoft was the first to step up and provide a new gaming experience that took on the higher price but sold over 20 million units. They came out with the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 was the pioneer of the seventh generation gaming consoles and provide an unreal gaming experience.

All Xbox 360 editions come with a composite cable so you can plug it in to your regular standard definition television which serves as the minimal requirement. But it is better to have an HDTV with 1080p resolution to play the best games that the Xbox 360 offers in great quality.

In order to make your gaming experience the best it can possibly be, you need to make sure that you set it up the right way. You will need a hybrid component/composite cable for your console to be able to set up on a HDTV, which comes with the upgraded version of the pro and elite but not the regular version.

Firing up the system is just like firing up any console. All you need is a wired or wireless Xbox 360 controller for inputs and then press the “Power” button to load the menu. The Xbox 360 has its own interface so you don’t need a DVD inside the optical drive for it to work. You can browse the contents of the hard disk drive if you have an Elite or Pro system or built-in flash memory if you have the Arcade system. Contents that can be read include pictures, music, video, and any downloaded or installed games.

You can also use the interface to check out things are in any USB storage drives attached or Windows computers connected. Once you place a game disc in, you can immediately play it from there.

During gameplay, this is where the Xbox 360 really starts to go to work. The Xbox 360 uses a processor named Xenon which contains three symmetrical cores having a 3.2 GHz clock speed. This ensures that loading times are as quick as possible and frame rates are smooth. These speeds can vary depending on how well the game takes advantage of the processor.

Combined with the graphics processor named Xenos, the Xbox 360 is capable of displaying really high-end graphics providing that the game uses it to its fullest. Some of the graphics capabilities include z-buffering, alpha blending, and 4x GSAA. Unlike older consoles, these capabilities can be executed without any drag in performance.

Older Xbox 360 versions would heat up real fast and cause your game play to be lower, and even the console not to work. However, the new versions of Microsoft’s latest console uses a jasper motherboard, which does not suffer near as much from heat problems that the older ones did, leading to the red ring error. If you are careful with your console and keep it in good condition you will have a great running system for a long time.

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Larry Moon @ 2:41 am
How to Promote Your Music on Twitter

Learn the best way to promote your music on Twitter using Denise to shorten the list of information that you need to learn. There are too many appllications out there and not enough time to analyse them all. Denise has made the list shorter for you.

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J I Ft 2face Idibia-Who Am I

My People Here’s Jim Iyke AKA J.I Another Nollywood Artist Trying To Break Into The Naija Music Industry Well I Will Say This Song Is Ok Could Have Been Better But It’s Ok.

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Wonderful Africa Chill Out Music
Filed under: How to Play Music

***DOWNLOAD IT***
http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/47477362/file.html

**feel this great Track**

I had three songs attached

**enjoy**

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Owl City - Full Set! Live in HD w/ Exclusive Swimming With Dolphins Interview!
Filed under: Live Music Venues

As promised, here is the much anticipated full Owl City set in HD! Our exclusive hand-written interview with Austin of Swimming With Dolphins is transcribed below. We would’ve filmed it but he didn’t feel comfortable doing a video interview. And apologies if the live footage is a bit shaky at times! It was 110° in the venue so it was extremely hard to keep our hands still and up in the air for 30 minutes. lol

Set List:
Intro Video
Hello Seattle (Remix)
On The Wing
Fuzzy Blue Lights
Strawberry Avalanche
The Saltwater Room
Dear Vienna
Hello Seattle

Swimming With Dolphins Interview:

BVTV: It’s been about a year since you released your EP; have you been working on any new material?

Austin: We have been working hard on stuff while juggling both projects. Hope to have a full length out by late summer.

BVTV: Do you plan to collaborate with anyone other than Breanne Düren?

Austin: Potentially, other female vocalist. Not sure who yet.

BVTV: How did you come up with the name “Swimming With Dolphins”?

Austin: Something we had never done and we couldn’t think of anything more we’d like to have our music be a soundtrack to.

BVTV: Any music videos in the works?

Austin: Maybe, Sunset 1989 or new songs to come.

BVTV: Anything else you’d like to say to your fans?

Austin: We never could have planned or imagined the response of the fans for the music so it’s all thanks to them (you) that we are where we are.

BVTV: This is your first time coming to California, are you having a good time?

Austin: California rules!

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Zac Brown Band- Chicken Fried (Live)
Filed under: Live Music Bands

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You know I like my chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
I like to see the sunrise
see the love in my womans eyes
feel the touch in a precious child
And you know a mothers love,

Well I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia pine
And thats home you know
Sweet tea pecan pie and homemade wine
Where the peaches grow
And my house its not much to talk about
But its filled with love thats grown in southern ground
And a little bit of chicken fried

Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well Ive seen the sunrise
See the love in my womans eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mothers love

And its funny how its the simple things in life that mean the most
Not where you live, what you drive or the price tag on your clothes
Theres no dollar sign on a piece of mind this Ive come to know
So if you agree have a drink with me
Raise you glasses for a toast
To a little bit of chicken fried

Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well Ive seen the sunrise
See the love in my womans eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mothers love

I thank God for my life
And for the stars and stripes
May freedom forever fly, let it ring.
Salute the ones who died
the ones that gave their lives so we dont have to sacrifice
All the things we love
Like our chicken fried

Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well Ive seen the sunrise
See the love in my womans eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mothers love

You know I like my chicken fried
Cold beer on a Friday night
A pair of jeans that fit just right
And the radio up
Well Ive seen the sunrise
See the love in my womans eyes
Feel the touch of a precious child
And know a mothers love

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FETE The Wedding Experience
Filed under: Live Music Venues

FETE The Wedding Experience

A fresh take on weddings for today?’s modern couplesFilled with practical tips to help anyone at any income level plan the wedding of their dreams Extraordinary weddings are the ones that bring the marrying couple?’s vision to vivid life. Every element-??venue, music, food, decor??resonates with meaning, reflecting the pair?’s own taste and style. Putting all those elements together in a way that ensures a magical time for the wedding party and all the guests entails much more than just ticking off the boxes on a preset checklist. It requires introspection to discern the bride and groom?’s true wishes??and it takes the impeccable orchestration of the total experience. By focusing on introspection and orchestration??and by enabling couples to realize their wedding-day fantasies, no matter where they live and no matter what their budget??Jung Lee and her company, “F??te,” have rocketed to the top of the wedding-planning industry. In “F??te: The Wedding Experience,” Lee shares her secrets with every bride- and groom-to-be, walking them through the same planning process she?’s developed for her sophisticated clientele. Knowing that every memorable wedding is uniquely personal, Lee tells the stories of eight “F??te”-produced weddings, each highlighting a different aspect of planning. Lavishly illustrated with 150 stunning photographs, “F??te: The Wedding Experience” will provide endless inspiration as you plan the f??te of your dreams.

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