Month: June 2010

How to Play the Saxophone : Saxophone Lesson: Chromatic Scale Articulation

Watch a saxophone demonstration on chromatic scale articulation to help you learn to play and practice the saxophone in this free video lesson taught by a professional saxophoneplayer. Expert: Brian Medeiros Contact: www.myspace.com/organix Bio: Brian Medeiros has been playing the saxophone for more than 10 years. Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

LGBT: Do you play any musical instrument(s), if not what would you want to learn to play?

I play sax, drums, clarinet, and I just started acoustic guitar…You can say I’m a music junkie, lol…Later on I want to learn piano.

Also, if your talent isn’t music, then what are some of your talents?

Is it possible to learn play the violin by yourself?

Without an instructor, only internet and some music sheets.

I learned to play the guitar all by myself and only know how to read tabs, not music.

My mom kept saying me that it’s no use since we can’t afford to pay me an instructor if ever i have bought the violin. But i really wanna learn to play it.

So.. is it possible?

Lead guitar learn wide soloing with Pentatonic blues scales

www.nextlevelguitar.com Click the above link to get three free jam tracks from Next Level Guitar. In this lesson we teach you how to expand scales and play laterally across the neck using expanded scales which combine patterns – be sure and get the free jam tracks and start practicing your licks. For many more lessons and to learn more about the expanded scales go to our full on instructional website at www.nextlevelguitar.com

Learn to Play Led Zeppelin on guitar Hey Hey What Can I Do

One of my favorite Zep tunes and really easy to play. Can You dig it!!!

How to Play Electric Guitar Solos : How to Use a Metronome for Electric Guitar Solos: Part 1

Learn how to use a metronome for an electric guitar solo playing quarter, eighth, and triplet notes in this free online music lesson video. Expert: John Armstrong Bio: John Armstrong has been teaching guitar at Keller Music for over 15 years now. He has played with countless musicians over the years, and in bands ranging from classical ensembles to rock groups. Filmmaker: Jason Sager

4 Learning & Playing Tuba/Trumpet/Euphonium/Baritone/Flugelhorn/French Horn/Cornet

In this video, Brett Youens describes the logic behind the system of overtones on valved brass instruments, with the tuba used as an example. www.geocities.com (Transcript) Hi. Let’s talk a little more about valved brass instruments and how they work. As you know by now this is a tuba, but could just as well be a trumpet, or a euphonium, or a French horn, or a flugelhorn. They all work on the same principles. The principle we want to talk about today is “overtones”. Overtones are all the notes that you can produce on your instrument without the usage of the valves. So let’s say you play a trumpet in C. What does that mean? That means, the lowest note you can produce on your instrument — without valves — is a C. That’s called the fundamental. But you can, of course, produce many other notes above that, and those are called overtones. So we have a fundamental and many, many overtones. Let’s say you play Euphonium in Bb. That means the fundamental is a Bb — that’s the lowest note you can play without the usage of the valves — and then you have many other overtones above that. One thing to know about the overtones — and we won’t get into the mathematics today — but one thing to know about the overtones is that they get closer and closer to each other as we go higher and higher up. So if the lowest note is here, and the next note is here, then the next note after that might be here, and the next one would be, maybe, here, the next one here, and the next one here, and at …

Wireless Surround Sound – Does It Untie Your Speakers?

An increasing number of vendors has started to offer wireless speakers for home theater systems or a separate wireless surround sound kit. Multi-channel audio is still a relatively new phenomenon. As such in older homes which are not pre-wired for rear speakers, not to mention 7.1 speakers, a wireless option seems like the logical conclusion. But how reliable are these wireless surround sound kits and do they really eliminate the dreaded cable clutter?

 

Looking at available wireless surround sound kits, you will notice that most of them, such as the products from Rocketfish or LG will connect two speakers to a wireless receiver unit. As a result, such systems, while eliminating the speaker cable from the front of the room to the rear, do not really eliminate speaker cable but only reduce it. As such products with separate wireless receivers for each speakers, such as the wireless surround sound product from Amphony, offer a much cleaner solution since each receiver can be attached directly to the speaker of choice.

 

The big question is: do these wireless systems have any impact on audio quality? When choosing a wireless surround sound kit, one should prefer a system where the audio is transmitted digitally. This will ensure that the signal does not pick up noise during the transmission. Another consideration is the quality of the audio amplifier inside the wireless receiver. A good-quality amplifier will have minimum audio distortion and high efficiency. Also, picking a small-size wireless receiver will help hide it from view.

 

In a home theater setting, the sound from all surround speakers should be in sync with the video and each other. Some wireless surround sound kits, such as the product from Rocketfish, will introduce a noticeable delay. As such you should look at how much of a delay or latency the wireless will introduce to the signal travelling to the wireless speakers. The product from Amphony introduces a delay of a little less than 1 ms which should be low enough for pretty much any application.

 

One of the main issues with wireless devices of any sort is interference from other devices. As more and more consumer devices go wireless, the available frequency space becomes more and more limited. Especially the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz bands are exceptionally crowded, due to WiFi hot spots, cell phones with Bluetooth etc. Picking a system that avoids these frequency bands may be the logical choice, such as systems working at 5.8 GHz.

 

While wireless speakers and wireless surround sound kits are suited for use in a home theater setting, their use is not limited to that application. In particular setting up speakers in another room often poses a challenge in terms of running speaker wires or using speakers outdoors. Just imagine being able to set up a speaker in your backyard in minutes. The possibilities are endless.

Need help looking for books on learning to play guitar?

I am learning guitar right now and I am teaching myself. I used to play piano and I remember getting books to learn the piano. The books started out very simple but gradually got more difficult, but i learned so much from them and got fantastic at piano. Can someone recommend me a series of guitar books please. The only books I have are books with songs in them, i want lessons that have practice songs in them. I heard Hal Leonard books are good