Netflix pioneered online movie rental offering a monthly subscription to rent DVD's from its website. Users create a list of movies they want to see then Netflix delivers them by mail, usually 3 at a time, with no postage cahrges and no late fee's. When the customer is finished with the ...

Practicing with a metronome will improve your time keeping dramatically! What... you say you can already keep time Try to keep time with a metronome for about twenty seconds. It will show you how good you really can keep time. If you have never tried it...try it! You will see t ...

Congratulations, you have just acquired a wonderful new addition for your home! This new addition will not only add beauty to your home, but will also bring musical pleasure to you and your family. Now that you have your new piano, you will want to make sure that you are caring for it ...

"I'm a musician, you know..." said a delighted Condoleezza Rice while strumming the charango - an Andean five-string lacquered guitar - which the Bolivian President had just presented to her. The occasion was a meeting between the U.S. Secretary of State and Evo Morales, Bolivia's first ...

Getting a job in the film industry can be very challenging. It is not like other industries, which are based upon how well your resume is written or how well you interview. Industry jobs are very lucrative and highly sought after. This is in part because they can be very rewarding experi ...

Over the years I have had many conversations with music artists about commercial music, which usually leads to them disclosing their disdain and hatred of it. Some refer to Pop music (Pop, as in whats popular now) as commercial music. Others think of anything that is receiving heavy ro ...

We Americans are singing our hearts out in over a quarter of a million choral groups all across the U.S., explains Jon Rose, owner of MyMusicFolders, a company which now is even providing folders for the U.S. Coast Guard Marching Band! According to a recent study, over 28 million Amer ...

Music has a great effect over our mind. It directly affects our on the subconscious and the conscious mind. Music has a great effect on the Cognitive part of the mind. Music generates internal, abstract or symbolic illustrations. Music has a great capacity to stir up deep and rich emotio ...

A good friend of mine attended the CMA awards in New York last year and very kindly brought back a bunch of CDs which he thought may sit well in the 'shelves' of our Americana online music store. Finally managed to get around to listening to the collection of fairly well known, and some ...

It's not official but Madonna may be bringing her phenomenally successful CD, Confessions on a Dance Floor, live to a venue near you. To date, Confessions has sold nearly 1.29 million copies in the United States alone. It continues to top sales charts in the UK, and Madonna was r ...

Everyday you pick up a pen and a piece of paper. Theres thumping in your head. Its not a migraine. Its the percussion of the tribal band you envisioned backing you up on stage at your first major performance. Whats that Voices Its not that eight year old. You know the one. Your t ...

Millions of radio listeners in the United States and all over the world have become so much happier with the introduction of satellite radio. Now, people can listen to literally hundreds of stations that offer music, news, radio talk shows and more in virtually real-time and at a much h ...

Familiar with the name "Francis O'Neill" The current wave of interest in Celtic music owes him a great debt -- he's the person who collected and published the music for thousands of Celtic tunes, making them available to musicians all over the world. O'Neill was born in 1848 in Irelan ...

Gary Allen a country singer from Long Beach, California, who mesmerized the city audience too. He was born in Montebello, California on Dec 5, 1967. He was named Gary Herzberg. Gary was raised in La Mirada, California. In his early teens, actually at the age of twelve he began to play th ...

Drums are the backbone of most bands. Because of this fact the other musicians rely very heavily on the drummer to provide a strong beat that will keep a song together. A drummer who is off beat, or off tempo, will lead the entire band astray. Therefore, if the drummer is weak, the whole ...

Practicing with a metronome will improve your time keeping dramatically! What... you say you can already keep time Try to keep time with a metronome for about twenty seconds. It will show you how good you really can keep time. If you have never tried it...try it! You will see there is ro ...

There is no substitute for practice. By spending a couple of hours with your instrument every day you develop a special relationship with it. You need to have a regular practice routine that contains certain constant elements (such as warm-up exercises) as well as variable elements tha ...

Recording drums can be one of the hardest things when recording a band. Many people are unsure what to do and how to go about it. Although when recording drums mic placement and choice is a big issue, the biggest issue of all is how good the drummer places. ie a solid drummer is going to ...

Mixing everything The most common noises youll get rid of are things like some one breathing, a note book page of rhymes being turned or better yet the under lying tone of the room that starts build up as your track count increases. Using the automation of your DAW is essential to this ...

One of the most popular guitars today and one of the best is the Fender Stratocaster. It has been around for years and has established a well known reputation for having an original sound and been great to play. Many top guitarists of the past and present played Strats - Eric Clapton, Ji ...