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Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Music

Today there are many new and exciting online music sites offering iPod downloads with a variety of music from Country/Western music to Christian and Gospel music to Classical tunes. Now you can download your favorite music at the click of a mouse and carry it with you wherever you go!


Here are some great tips to get your favorite online music downloads for your iPod without a hassle.


Three Types of Online Music Download Sites


Online you’ll find about three kinds of online music download sites. Each uses its own business model. One type of iPod site may offer a monthly subscription for a certain quantity of songs each month or they may charge per music download. Another type may

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charge a one-time (or lifetime) membership fee and give you unlimited access to iPod tunes to download. The third type may give you free music downloads and earn their money from advertising alone.


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Piano Music - How to Begin and End a Piece

How do you begin a piece of music? That’s a question I’m often asked. The answer I usually give is that you begin as soon as you start playing - that is, if you’re trying to “compose” something, the piece begins the moment it has energy and is something you want to capture. If it’s an improvisation, the piece begins the moment you set your fingers on the keys and hit the first note. It’s like free flow writing and writing a chapter to a novel.


The writer can both improvise and enjoy the process or can structure the ideas more - or, as I like to do, combine both procedures into one. I start out by improvising - always. Then,

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if I want to memorialize a musical idea, I write down the first two bars of melody along with the chord(s) I’m playing. I throw this on a chart and voila - the idea remains fresh until I want to either expand on it, or ignore it completely.


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Open Position Piano Chords - Perfect for the New Age Style

The Open Position Chord (OPC) allows you to create a vented sound. A sound that is open, literally, as opposed to the closed triads taught in most course books.


The OPC covers more than two octaves of the keyboard allowing you to create without moving the hands around too much. Perfect for the beginner and advanced player. New Age music in particular has an open quality that is created in a number of ways. The first way is by the chord choices used. Most of this music is in a Major Key. The sound is pleasant without any dissonant tones.


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Piano Notes - How To Achieve Hand Independence on the Piano

“I’m losing the left-hand,” cried one piano student. “Every time I try to add in my right hand, the left stops” exclaims another.


These are common complaints for students who wish to learn hand independence. And for most, this is a big problem. They want to play the piano with both hands playing different parts. But the main reason most piano students have problems with this is because they try to play too fast!


Hand independence is one area that takes some time (not too much time) but some time to achieve. And this too depends on how complicated the hands tasks are.


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Piano Tabs - Who Needs Them?

As a piano player you have three choices available to you for learning; these are, note reading, piano tabs, and chord-based approach.


Most students who use piano tabs do so because they want to avoid the note reading approach altogether. They just want to be able to quickly play their favorite tunes without having to invest a substantial amount of time learning musical notation. These same students would be able to learn the piano even quicker if they learned a chord-based approach first. Here’s why.


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