Musical Instruments

March 15, 2010

  • The Truth About Rocket Piano

    Learning piano does not have to be boring anymore. I can remember the times when I had to get piano lessons from an old lady who carried a stick which she would use to strike the side of the piano every time I hit a wrong note. Now, there are so many ways to learn how to play the instrument with ease and so much fun.

August 18, 2009

  • Acoustic Guitar Lessons Online Rock

    The acoustic guitar is the age old favorite dating back to 1779. It wasn’t until the 1930’s that the electric guitar screamed its way on to the music scene. Instruments that inspired the acoustic guitar have been around for a thousand years and include the lute and oud.

August 13, 2009

  • The Distinguished History Of The Beautiful Violin

    The violin, a music maker of the stringed family of instruments, has deep roots in the history of the world. Although the historians are not exactly sure of its origins, many believe it to have been created as far back as the late 700’s in Asia. But, this is highly debated and nobody knows for sure. Either way, the first of the type you notice these days was not seen until the fourteen hundreds. Before this time, many lookalikes existed but none like today’s violin. Some of these older models of violin-type instruments were:

February 18, 2009

  • Achieve Playing Acoustic Guitar Chords

    An acoustic guitar chord consists of several notes played simultaneously. There are several different acoustic guitar chords but one needs only to learn a few basic chords in order to play hundreds, if not thousands, of different songs. A basic fact to commit to memory before you begin is that major chords should sound bright while minor chords sound dark.

February 15, 2009

  • Reading Basic Acoustic Guitar Tabs

    Guitar music has its own musical notation. The standard musician\’s notation of staffs, notes, note values, ledger lines, key signatures and time signatures is replaced with a simpler, operational type of notation, called a tab. Even if you do not know how to read music, you can learn how to play guitar with the acoustic guitar tabs. Many stringed instruments use tabs or tablatures.

December 21, 2008

  • How do musical instruments work?

    Nick asked:
    The internet that can help me ive searched and need to draw pictures on the internet that can help me ive searched and havent had any charts or pictures showing how all types of musical instruments work does anyone know of any charts or pictures on the internet that can help.

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December 11, 2008

  • What has Roger Waters been doing lately? ?

    ChoralMeister asked:
    Roger Waters seems to not be doing much. I would LOVE a new album like Amused to Death to come out reflecting today’s politics and such. Does anyone know what he’s been working on (besides that French Opera)?

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