Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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These figures likely represent a combination of factors inherent in the popular music industry (such as the ubiquitous presence of alcohol and other substances of addiction, irregular hours, touring, high levels of stress, performance anxiety) and the vulnerability that many young musicians bring with them into their ...
C major and G major, along with their relative minor counterparts A minor and E minor, are often considered the best key and scales for Pop music.
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Jazz was invented by black Americans playing chord progressions on European instruments. Some musicologists suggest that jazz is more closely...
Read More »Do all popular musicians live hard and fast, take risks and die young? This article is the third in a series examining mortality in popular musicians. To recap, the first article examined longevity, suicide, murder and accidental death rates in pop musicians compared with population data from the U.S. As expected, longevity was significantly reduced in pop musicians, who also had higher rates of suicide, homicide and accidental death. The second article explored the “myth” of the so-called 27 club, explaining how this idea emerged and why it has taken root in the public imagination. In this article, I’d like to look at whether membership of different music genres is associated with different risks of early death and different causes of death. The chart below plots genres over time (oldest to youngest genres), showing the average age of death of popular musicians by genre and gender against life expectancy for U.S. males and females born in the same year. Musicians from the older genres – blues, jazz (including bebop and dixieland), country (including country and western, boogie woogie, honky tonk and bluegrass), and gospel (including spiritual and Christian rock) – enjoyed, on average, similar lifespans as those from the U.S. population with the same year of birth and gender. The next group – R&B (including doo wop and soul), pop, folk (including ballad and polka) and world music – had lower life expectancies compared with the U.S. population. Thereafter, the gap between population lifespans and average age of death for the more recent genres – rock (including rockabilly), electronic (including experimental, techno, disco, and funk), punk, metal, rap and hip hop – widens. This pattern reflects, to some extent, a confound in the data: musicians who are dying youngest belong to newer genres (electronic, punk, metal,rap,hip-hop) that have not existed as long as genres such as jazz, country, gospel and blues. Consequently, they have not had the same opportunity to live a full lifespan.
There's a little variation in the bridge (“daa, daa, dah”) but it's the same pattern starting on a different note. His brief solo is little more...
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The United States has never issued a million dollar bill. However, many businesses print million dollar bills for sale as novelties. Such bills do...
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If you want to become decent at reading sheet music, have a proper technique as well as understand basic theory, it will take you approximately...
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There is no single correct way to mic up a piano. You can use a variety of techniques to capture your instrument's wide range of tones. Probably...
Read More »These figures likely represent a combination of factors inherent in the popular music industry (such as the ubiquitous presence of alcohol and other substances of addiction, irregular hours, touring, high levels of stress, performance anxiety) and the vulnerability that many young musicians bring with them into their profession from adverse childhood experiences. Add to this the subcultural values and philosophies in distinct music genres with which young musicians become imbued, and you have a complex, multi-faceted picture of musician mortality. Other studies have reported similar significantly-reduced life expectancy in popular musicians from the newer genres compared with matched general populations. Mortality rates were between two and three times higher for popular musicians than matched population data. The median ages of popular musician death in the two Bellis studies (links above) were 41.78 and 45.2 years respectively, which closely aligned with my findings. Many musicians from younger genres – rock, electronic, punk, metal, rap, and hip hop – appear unlikely to live long enough to acquire the illnesses of middle and old age. Subsequent research decades hence, when the newer genres have matured sufficiently to potentially contain members with ages spanning population life expectancies, may confirm the findings and tentative conclusions drawn from this series of studies.
What causes tears when we're angry? The most immediate reason for angry tears is probably that you feel hurt, embarrassed, betrayed, or unjustly...
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That is, an instrument may be rarely used to convey sadness in music, even though you may think that it is very well suited to convey sadness. ......
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Eight Great Tips for Practicing Piano Set aside at least 20 minutes each day to practice. ... Don't forget to warm up. ... Don't try to take on too...
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Look for an ultraviolet torch. Hold it above the piano keys. If you notice the keys reflect either bright white or violet-blue colours, the keys...
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