Q. Black entertainers such as Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Rihana, etc have been twerking in almost all of their music videos and their concerts and the media had not made a big deal out of this dance, but now since some anorexic white woman (who has no ass at all) "tries" to twerk, the media has made such a big deal out of it. People (white people) have even gone as far as to say that this chick created this dance when in reality it had originated in africa and had been very popular in the black community. Before miley had "tried" to twerk, no white entertainers ever even tried this dance. I really think miley is trying to exploit black culture. But anyways, why have this dance become such a popular topic in the media just because this white girl tried to do it? And failed miserably at that
A. Guitar
Out of all the string instruments, guitar is certainly the most popular and has lasted for centuries. Music lessons for acoustic guitar will inspire you entertain friends and strangers at parties. It's the perfect portable instrument that doesn't require electricity, which allows you to take it anywhere. It's also a wonderful instrument to sing along with. Once you learn a handful of basic chords, you can learn to play and sing hundreds of songs. It's also a convenient tool for songwriting.
Not many other instruments are as versatile as an acoustic guitar, which can be used as either a lead instrument for melodies or a background instrument for rhythmic chord progressions. Electric guitar is also an instrument that adds imaginative techniques to your playing, but requires extra gear, such as an amplifier, cables and effects units. Once you take music lessons for acoustic guitar, you can quickly accelerate at electric guitar.
Piano
The widest range of frequencies among acoustic instruments can be found on a standard piano, which is a simple instrument to understand because the notes are laid out on a linear keyboard. It does take many music lessons to be proficient at piano, which is also true of most instruments. You don't have to learn classical pieces to be considered brilliant on piano. Like guitar, it's a great instrument for accompaniment to singing and a tool for writing songs.
Music lessons for piano will prove valuable for learning the synthesizer as well. It's the same progression of notes, but a synthesizer gives you many more variables to play with, such as adding electronic beats, altering sounds and adding effects.
Bass
A bass can be acoustic or electric and is important for adding deep tones to music. Learning the bass is essentially learning how to be creative with root notes to chord progressions, which gives music a fuller, more powerful sound. It's the bassist's job to act as the glue that holds rhythm and melody together. The bass works with the drums to form the rhythm section of music while accenting notes that help define a song's melodic structure. Music lessons for bass put you at the core of understanding a full arrangement.
Drums
The beat of music is driven by the drummer, who needs to be the clock of a band. Even though drums are typically not a solo instrument, there are many times in every musical genre when a drummer gets to shine. Music lessons for drums will help your sense of timing, as it can strengthen the foundation of music, especially for dancing. In many ways drums are the key instrument in defining a genre.
Harmonica
The harmonica is an excellent instrument for traveling because it fits in your pocket. Even though you can't sing and play harmonica at the same time it's a fine instrument for mixing with guitar and adding solos. Music lessons for a harmonica are really not that hard to learn while the instrument adds fullness and variety to music, especially for traditional songs.
What's the difference between new age and easy listening?
Q. Those sentimental sad instrumentals we hear (Song From a Secret Garden) are not classical obviously, but are they new age or easy listening?
A. George Winston is the Grand-daddy of 'New Age' music. He pretty much invented and made the style and it is defined as a recognizable genre by listening to just about any of his pieces. His record label was Windham Hill, which ventured into alot of the easier to listen to pop and semi-pop genres of the time.
The genre tends to have simple harmony, little modulation, is not overly 'busy' as far as a lot of notes. Most of its pieces are of pop-music length, three to four minutes, five already being a long cut. It is a simple sort of music where often there is not so much a melody as a little scrap of something melodic. It aims to be easily 'pretty.'
Some of us call it the 'tinkle, tinkle' school of piano music.
There is tons of George Winston playing his own music on YouTube (piano solo).
The Grand-Mama of New-Age has got to be Enya, instrumentals like "Orinoco Flow."
From there, like all pop music, there came a number of others, and like the mentality of pop, instant sub-genres were named.
John Tesh is / was categorized as 'new-age' So is pop Mormon Piano Guy piano player John Schmidt, though his form of pop music is often busier with a false sort of excitement using a 'lots of notes.' He either plays pretty loud all the time, or indulges, Yanni-like in the most cliche use of crescendo.
There is that dubious heading on YouTube "sad piano song" - they're not songs, of course, but piano pieces - where about half are new-ageish, the other half I guess 'pop contemporary instrumental.' A lot, you can tell, are bare bones very limited bits of a few chord first attempts at 'composition' by teenagers with a digital piano they can record or or record and play back via midi. Many of the 'sad piano songs' are Really Sad, but for not the reason the composers think....
Yanni (unbelievably cheap and low-end music) is categorized both as 'new-age' and sometimes 'world music' depending on what he's doing. (lowest common demonimator schlock - wildly popular, makes a good living)
The group 'Secret Garden' is under a new pop category, the wrongly named "Neoclassical" That group is more quasi-Celtic pseudo-classical than 'neoclassical' Neoclassical is a classical genre started about 1920, where modernist composers used modern harmony in fairly clear old baroque and classical forms - the pop genre perhaps used the word because once in a while they have a chord progression that sounds more like a simple chord progression from the baroque. There is nothing very 'classical' oriented about any of the pop neoclassical stuff, including secret garden.
"Easy Listening" is more like Mantovani Strings, (before any young person's time) or 'lite' classical like the music of Leroy Anderson. Unlike 'chill music' of a later era, you would never find a pulsed drum backbeat behind any of the Easy listening Music - almost none of it had any strong rhythmic drive.
'Easy Listening' could / should include some of the minor composers like Frederick Delius, etc. and I suppose a lot of different sorts of film music. Nothing too upsetting, nothing commanding a lot of attention or thought. Usually has a low-key dynamic, too, no huge crescendos, etc. 'Easy listening can readily be used as unobtrusive background music. Easy listening is supposed to be pleasant, never gets loud, and is also understood as completely of the moment, nothing meant to be 'memorable' about it.
The term is often used in the negative, meaning there's just not much substance to that sort of music.
Can I play them by a simple keyboard?
Q. Hey everyone !
I have always had this very simple keyboard !
It repeats the tones from C to B 3 times with an extra C at the end after last B ! I know my description may sound funny, but I know absolutely nothing in music ! & I've realized that I've had this keyboard since forever but never tried to learn playing anything by it! Now I'm ready to go through some music adventure & I want to learn more about music and playing instruments! I think this type of keyboard is likely to be played by one hand BUT all the music I'm trying to learn to play and all the tutorials there on youtube are made by using very large keyboards (ones to be played by two hands)! What shall I do? Can I actually use this keyboard to play those songs ??
I'm not welling to buy a piano or a larger keyboard cause I'm getting a guitar soon & I can't afford buying both! so is there anyway I can play my favorite music on this very basic keyboard??
& I'm very sorry for making it this long =(
A. Hmm...
Not certain by such a description of your 'old' keyboard other than it either has a 'by finger' learning system that is built in, or is broken, to be doing such an exercise.
You really should have described the thing, and said how many keys it does have and if there is a system that is set up for learning by any program or lighted keys.
Otherwise, a good start in a digital keyboard of which to learn on would have at least the 61-key manual layout. And, many features that would include some basic music principles to come to understand.
And, provide all the range for any popular music one could think of, and eventually learn to play on, as well.
This appears to be more important than your desire to get a guitar for now as you still want to continue to learn more about your favorite songs, and how to express them on your own.
Look for: Casio; Kawai; Korg or Yamaha brands of digital keyboard (and digital pianos) of which to try out and find if they can fit your needs for now.
Both a good enough keyboard (new) OR a guitar (new) good enough to start out with will cost around the $125 - $500 range.
Really.
But you still have to try them out no matter what, in order to understand what you will be getting in the end.
p.s.: Forgive me, for not including some advice for personal learning on ones own.
Get to a music store (even a piano/organ dealer) and get some books on piano key chords (hand charts) and progression patterns. They will help in fingering positions for the basic key chord for left hand and, other books will assist you on the right hand melody parts.
There are CD, DVD and other combination courses as well available.
One course I would recommend is that of a Scott Houston 'The Piano Guy' and his system of learning to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, to the point fashion.
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