Why Many Individuals Take Musical or Singing Lessons

 

There are millions of children or adults who take a lesson in a subject that they wish to excel at. These lessons can deal with sports, academics, dance, instruments, and singing. While all of these lessons are popular it is quite possible that signing lessons are the most sought-after lessons. There are a wide number of reasons why a person may wish to take a singing lesson. In fact, a singing lesson is such a popular choice that you may already be taking one or are interested in learning about taking a singing lesson.

One of the most common reasons why a person takes a lesson, including a singing lesson, is because they are interested in becoming better. A person can take a singing lesson for just about any reason; however, it is often because they are looking to becoming a professional singer. There are some individuals who are born with a natural singing talent; however, most are not. This is why singing lessons are so popular because they can help an aspiring singer reach their dream.

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      if you are interested in taking a singing lesson to help your career as a singer, you are              taking a step in the right direction. Singing lessons will not necessarily guarantee a                  successful music career, but it can’t hurt it. There are many individuals who have a great          voice but need a little bit of assistance in another area. Many teachers hosting a singing          lesson may be able to help improve a student’s overall singing ability.

While taking singing lessons to help an aspiring career is popular reason, there are many other individuals who take singing lessons just for fun. In a way singing is often considered an extra-curricular activity and there are many parents who encourage to their children to do activities outside of traditional school hours. A singing lesson may be a great opportunity for a child to learn to sing and express themselves. A singing lesson may not only help a child when they are taking the singing lesson, but in the future as well. A wonderful opportunity could open up to a person due to their ability to sing. It is also possible that a singing lesson could help to improve a person’s self-esteem because they are working to better themselves.

Another reason why taking a singing lesson is popular is because it is so easy to do. There are several choices when it comes to taking a singing lesson. The most common way to receive a singing lesson is by meeting face to face. There are many lesson teachers who come to their student’s home, or the student meets them in an office area. Other singing lessons can come in the form of CDs or DVDs. These items are often cheaper that taking a face-to-face singing lesson and they can be purchased online or in most major retail stores.

If you are interested in taking a singing lesson the option is up to you as to how you should go about doing it. Whether you are interested in taking a singing lesson just for fun or you are interested in becoming a professional singer a singing lesson is a great way to achieve your goals no matter what they may be.

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3 Steps to Performing Comfortably for a Crowd

 1. Don't neglect to practice. Whether you sing or play an instrument practice is the key to being relaxed. The more familiar you are with what you are performing, the less anxiety you will have about messing up.

2. Don't back up. Piano teaches pass this on all the time. If you mess up in the middle, or any place in your piece, don't back up and repeat the offending passage. Keep going. Chances are your audience didn't even notice.

3. Try not to be critical of your technical skill. Focus more on your overall performance. How does it sound as a whole? If you're a pianist and you worry during your piece about your fingering then you're ignoring the song and how it sounds. Worry about technicalities when you practice. Which should be often.

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5 Advantages of Learning Music

 Creates certainty

At the point when understudies put their significant investment in music, they get an amazing sensation of achievement. Every week in illustrations, they get familiar with another expertise. As they practice that expertise, they work on their melodic capacity. Something extraordinary happens when they play a piece they have dealt with for quite a long time the whole way through interestingly. They have a restored feeling of pride and trust in their capacities.

Advances Perseverance

In learning another piece of music, understudy performers put forth and achieve numerous objectives. Understudies figure out how to peruse the notes, ace the coordination of playing the notes, and find how to expressively play. En route, understudies experience melodic difficulties. Be that as it may, they foster diligence as they work through the difficulties to achieve their objectives.

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Helps Listening Skills

Understudies who take music examples foster listening abilities that help them in different regions. Performers figure out how to recognize various sounds, which is a useful listening expertise. This capacity upgrades an understudy's musicianship, yet additionally assists students with better engrossing verbal guidance.

Encourages Self-Expression

Music gives an open door to understudies to foster innovativeness. As they learn various tunes, understudies understand that melodic sounds reflect feelings like happiness or bitterness. Youthful artists frequently appreciate investigating better approaches to articulate their thoughts through music.

Further develops Coordination

As understudies figure out how to play an instrument, their muscles master new abilities. Dexterity improves as understudies figure out how to understand music and play the notes on their instrument. Muscle coordination is created and reinforced as understudies figure out how to play sets of notes. Entries of music are learned through different practice exercise and redundancy that reinforce and foster the muscles.

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Audioscam- Kicking And Screaming (One of Rock & Roll's Best Kept Secrets)

 

 Audioscam- Kicking And Screaming 2018:

On a conference call circa August 2011 to promote Audioscam’s second release “When The Money’s Gone” I was introduced to Brian Pitcher.

The initial question I had was did he make a concerted effort to author songs that would somehow accomplish the nearly unworkable?  That is the fulfillment of pleasing three vastly different record buyers, the passionate British Invasion and straight-ahead rocker (especially 1964-Mid 1970’s), the rebellious New Wave, Power Pop, and Punk fan of the 70’s and early 80’s, and the exponent of the Indie-Rock scene from 2000 to the present.

Brian’s response cemented how potent he was as a songwriter and Audioscam as a band.  Brian told me “As long as I have been writing songs I have never attempted a pre-fabricated approach.  I let things take a natural course.”

With the fans of the aforementioned styles of sound as divided as the current United States political parties, it gave me an even more reinforced view of Audioscam.

After over four years we finally have the follow-up to 2014’s “Audioscam 3.”  This time around the Australian powerhouse serves up the six tracks “Kicking And Screaming.”  It is one thing to commandeer a room but another to sequester the listener.  From the first note we are secluded.  There is no outside interference, the only duty is to interpret the stellar recorded works and all else becomes secondary.     

The opening number “Just Like Jamaica” serves a dual-meaning.  Brian penned the tune first as homage to the 1988 Jamaican Bobsled team that gained world-wide attention and everlasting respect at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Canada.

Brian’s additional (but in no way taking a back-seat) message is to never let others foil your dreams and prevent your life from taking its own unique shape.  Comingling the mellow sounds of Jimmy Buffet with a dose of Rock “N’ Roll” the latest project is not only off and running but catapulting forward.

Track 2 “Baby Done Bad” is Brian’s story of meeting his wife Julie.  We the listener are thrown into the reverse time machine and land in the year 1972.  On the radio is the rock and boogie sound of Humble Pie’s “30 Days In The Hole.”  Audioscam has unearthed the Humble Pie sound and brought it forward.

Next up is “Get Used To This.”  After getting married Brian found himself in a place he couldn’t believe existed.  There was contentment and stability.  Although in the back of his mind there was skepticism that the dream would be shattered, Brian and Julie remain an unbreakable team.  The Talking Heads, Television, and Joe Jackson resonate in your mind as Audioscam sends a message of hope.

The fourth song “Batesfield” brings Brian back to yesteryear.  Written by his friend from High School, Mark Gable.  A bank robbery and a country mile removed from the crime is the thematic scene.  ACDC and Alice Cooper are prevalent in the musical beat.

Onward to “Hand Of Sin.”  Open to your own interpretation.  To quote Brian “There is an evil vibe to it.”  Talking Heads and Graham Parker come to mind in terms of the musical spectrum.

As a bonus the CD ends with a gem.  A live version of “When The Money’s Gone” the title track from the 2011 release.

Here are the players:   

Brian Pitcher- Vocals, drums, acoustic guitar

Brad Wallace- Bass, backing vocals, guitar, and keyboards

Wayne Macintosh- Guitar

Additional Personnel:

Tenor Mel Miller- Steel drums and pans on Just Like Jamaica

Jason Byrne- Guitar on Batesfield and When The Money’s All Gone

Ross Wedding- Guitar on When The Money’s All Gone

Miss Ari Safari- Backing vocals on When The Money’s All Gone

Audioscam’s gift to us for an eternal summer.

After being engulfed in the new release you can purchase the following as well:

Abbattack August 12, 2008

When The Money’s Gone August 18, 2011

Audioscam 3 May 6, 2014

All the best,

Craig Fenton

Author: Jefferson Airplane “Take Me To A Circus Tent”

Jefferson Starship “Have You Seen The Stars Tonite”

 

Gentle Giant Progressive Rock Excellence "Three Piece Suite"

 Gentle Giant were together from 1970-1980 releasing eleven studio recordings and one live album (Posthumously there has been a treasure chest of live and studio rarities).  Their decade of musical brilliance has left an everlasting inseparableness between band and fans.

Those that were part of the journey from the 1970 self-titled album until the final curtain "Civilian" can attest to the factual reality they were not only one the most important groups to emerge out of the Progressive Rock Movement but of their time.

The Shulman Brothers: Derek, Ray, and Phil were looking for more artistic freedom and not being pigeon-holed into the three minute pop element.  They had witnessed this first hand during the predecessor to Gentle Giant with their group Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.  A European hit "Kites" (1967) was anything but satisfactory to the three brothers.

Fast-forward three years and the birth of a giant.  "Three Piece Suite" is available in three formats for the consumer.  The standard CD and vinyl recordings as well as a Blue-Ray version.

Steven Wilson (Noted musician in Porcupine Tree, No-Man, and Blackfield to name a few) who remixed the Gentle Giant "Octopus" album has been summoned again for the latest project.  As lead-singer Derek Shulman states "He brings the lows, the mids, and the highs into more perspective."  

Tony Visconti (Known also for his work with David Bowie and T-Rex) who produced the first two Gentle Giant releases "Gentle Giant" and "Acquiring the Taste" had developed an instant chemistry with the band by affording the musicians friendship, expertise, and guidance without it becoming a dictatorial affair.  Steven Wilson's willingness to enhance and not reinvent is obvious in the superlative sounds that encompass the works on "Three Piece Suite."  

Gentle Giant and Steven Wilson have been able to bridge the normal division of posthumous releases.  The fanatic often claims there is nothing of significance while the causal ear has trepidation if this is right for them.

The early phase of Gentle Giant (As a six-piece unit) is offered here.  While musicians were multifaceted the general make-up of the first two recordings were Derek Shulman- lead vocals, Ray Shulman- bass, and backing vocals, Phil Shulman- sax, trumpet, and vocals, Kerry Minnear- keyboards and vocals, Garry Green- guitars and backing vocals, and Martin Smith- drums.  Martin would be replaced for the third album "Three Friends" by Malcolm Mortimore as the band was looking for a more diverse style of playing for the ever increasing complexity of their work.  Phil Shulman would exit the group after the fourth effort "Octopus."

The allurement of the seamless blend of the selections from the first three offerings cannot be over-stated. While the thought-process each entailed differ in emotions and human feelings the band’s sound and Steven Wilson’s control room magic are able to make it a natural and never forced progression.  For the initial release "Gentle Giant" the theme is rebirth after having the albatross of Simon Dupree and the Big Sound eradicated from their shoulders, minds, and instruments.  The second "Acquiring the Taste" showcases a bitter side.  The balancing act of being truthful to oneself but paying the bills became a reality as the initial offering although magnificent to those that procured, did not sell the units the band and record company had been striving for.  Part three of the trilogy "Three Friends" signals changes in life and the reality of getting older.

For those seeking an introduction to the earlier side of Gentle Giant the selected tracks are a defectless indoctrination.  From the opening notes of "Giant" to the sheer power of "Peel the Paint" one listen will have you intrigued.  By the second helping you will be eagerly searching for an abundance of product from the boys in the band.

Those that have several decades of unwavering history with the group can add a missing piece in the "Nothing At All" edit as well as hearing nine instrumental versions of tracks where vocals normally shined (ten including “Freedom’s Child”), and by chance if your copy of "Under Construction" is not handy "Freedom's Child" never sounded better in more comfortable surroundings.   

The standard CD and vinyl release (which is a blessing to those that grew up with the warmth an LP delivered) include remixes:

• Giant (from Gentle Giant)

• Nothing At All (from Gentle Giant including the Martin Smith drum-solo as heard on the original album)

• Why Not? (from Gentle Giant)

• Pantagruel’s Nativity (from Acquiring Taste)

• The House, The Street, The Room (from Acquiring Taste)

• Schooldays (from Three Friends)

• Peel The Paint (from Three Friends)

• Mister Class And Quality? (from Three Friends)

• Three Friends (from Three Friends)

• Freedom's Child (written before the recording of the first album)
• Nothing At All (Steven Wilson 7 inch edit without Martin Smith drum-solo)

The Blue-Ray edition includes:

Disc 1 – Blu-Ray Audio (The first 10 tracks are remixed in 5.1 DTS Stereo).  Of the twenty-one songs that encompassed the first three albums only the above nine songs had the availability of multi-track tapes as well as the non-record release “Freedom’s Child.”

As an unanticipated surprise the Blue-Ray lets us experience the ten tracks in instrumental form, making it a must own for the completest.  The entire contents of the first three recordings follow and then the aforementioned material from the standard CD of “Three Piece Suite.”  To further enhance the listening and viewing experience there are animated videos from the Steven Wilson remixes.

1. Giant (Steven Wilson Mix)

2. Nothing At All (Steven Wilson Mix)

3. Why Not? (Steven Wilson Mix)

4. Pantagruel’s Nativity (Steven Wilson Mix)

5. The House, The Street, The Room (Steven Wilson Mix)

6. Schooldays (Steven Wilson Mix)

7. Mister Class and Quality? (Steven Wilson Mix)

8. Peel The Paint (Steven Wilson Mix)

9. Three Friends (Steven Wilson Mix)

10. Freedom’s Child (Steven Wilson Mix)

11. Giant (Instrumental)

12. Nothing At All (Instrumental)

13. Why Not? (Instrumental)

14. Pantagruel’s Nativity (Instrumental)

15. The House, The Street, The Room (Instrumental)

16. Schooldays (Instrumental)

17. Mister Class and Quality? (Instrumental)

18. Peel The Paint (Instrumental)

19. Three Friends (Instrumental)

20. Freedom’s Child (Instrumental)

21. Giant (Original Mix)

22. Funny Ways (Original Mix)

23. Alucard (Original Mix)

24. Isn’t It Quiet And Cold? (Original Mix)

25. Nothing At All (Original Mix)

26. Why Not? (Original Mix)

27. The Queen (Original Mix)

28. Pantagruel’s Nativity (Original Mix)

29. Edge Of Twilight (Original Mix)

30. The House, The Street, The Room (Original Mix)

31. Acquiring The Taste (Original Mix)

32. Wreck (Original Mix)

33. The Moon Is Down (Original Mix)

34. Black Cat (Original Mix)

35. Plain Truth (Original Mix)

36. Prologue (Original Mix)

37. Schooldays (Original Mix)

38. Working All Day (Original Mix)

39. Peel The Paint (Original Mix)

40. Mister Class And Quality? (Original Mix)

41. Three Friends (Original Mix)

Disc 2 – CD

1. Giant (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

2. Nothing At All (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

3. Why Not? (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

4. Pantagruel’s Nativity (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

5. The House, The Street, The Room (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

6. Schooldays (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

7. Mister Class and Quality? (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

8. Peel The Paint (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

9. Three Friends (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

10. Freedom’s Child (Steven Wilson 2.0 Mix)

11. Nothing At All (Steven’s 7” Edit)

Blue-Ray version?  "Why Not."

All the best,

Craig Fenton

Author- Jefferson Airplane "Take Me To A Circus Tent"

Jefferson Starship "Have You Seen The Stars Tonite"

Music Learning Benefits Are Greater Than the Sounds Created

 Research has found that learning music works with mastering different subjects and upgrades abilities that kids definitely use in different regions. "A music-rich encounter for offspring of singing, tuning in and moving is truly carrying an intense advantage to kids as they progress into more proper learning," says Mary Luehrisen, chief head of the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation, a not-for-benefit affiliation that advances the advantages of making music.

Making music includes more than the voice or fingers playing an instrument; a kid finding out about music needs to take advantage of different ranges of abilities, frequently at the same time. For example, individuals utilize their ears and eyes, as well as huge and little muscles, says Kenneth Guilmartin, prime supporter of Music Together, a youth music advancement program for newborn children through kindergarteners that includes guardians or parental figures in the classes.

"Music learning upholds all learning.

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A review distributed in 2007 by Christopher Johnson, teacher of music training and music treatment at the University of Kansas, uncovered that understudies in grade schools with unrivaled music instruction programs scored around 22% higher in English and 20 percent higher in number related scores on state sanctioned tests, contrasted with schools with bad quality music programs, paying little mind to financial differences among the schools or school locale. Johnson looks at the fixation that music preparing expects to the spotlight expected to perform well on a state sanctioned test.

Beside test score results, Johnson's review features the beneficial outcomes that a quality music training can have on a small kid's prosperity. Luehrisen makes sense of this mental peculiarity in two sentences: "Schools that have thorough projects and top notch music and expressions educators presumably have great instructors in different regions. Assuming you have a climate where there are a many individuals doing imaginative, shrewd, extraordinary things, euphoric things, even individuals who aren't doing that tend to go up and improve."

What's more, it doesn't end there: alongside better execution results on focus based errands, music preparing can assist with essential memory review. "Formal preparation in music is additionally connected with other mental qualities like verbal review capability," Pruett says. "Individuals who have had formal melodic preparation will more often than not be very great at recollecting verbal data put away in memory."

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Benefits of Music (Why not learn an instrument and or to sing?)

It's heart sound. Research has shown that blood streams all the more effectively when music is played.

It can likewise lessen pulse, lower circulatory strain, decline cortisol (stress chemical) levels and increment serotonin and endorphin levels in the blood.

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It decreases pressure. Research has found that standing by listening to music can alleviate pressure by setting off biochemical pressure minimizers.

It raises temperament. Music can help the mind's development of the chemical dopamine. This expanded dopamine creation frees sentiments from tension and discouragement. Music is handled straight by the amygdala, which is the piece of the mind associated with temperament and feelings.

It facilitates torment. Music can definitively diminish the apparent force of agony, particularly in geriatric consideration, serious consideration or palliative medication.

It lets side effects free from sorrow. While you're feeling miserable, music can assist with getting you - similar as exercise.

It animates recollections. There is no solution for Alzheimer's infection or dementia yet music treatment has been displayed to let some free from its side effects. Music treatment can loosen up a fomented patient, work on the temperament and open correspondence in patients.

It oversees torment. By diminishing feelings of anxiety and giving areas of strength for an improvement to the aggravation flags that enter the mind, music treatment can aid torment the board.

It assists individuals with eating less. Playing delicate music behind the scenes (and darkening the lights) during a feast can assist with peopling delayed down while eating and eventually eat less food at a time.

It increments exercise perseverance. Paying attention to those top exercise tracks can support actual execution and increment perseverance during an intense activity meeting.

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Learn To Play Piano (Piano For All)

 Piano practice can be fun too!

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Most people don’t really want to ‘learn’ to play the piano or ‘practice’ the piano, they just want to ‘play’ piano. ‘Play’ sounds like fun, ‘practice’ sounds like a chore. We get this image from childhood – some kid stuck indoors ‘practicing’ scales while all the other kids are outside the window ‘playing’.

So, first thing we need to do is to see our piano practice in a new light. See it as a way of accelerating the learning process so that SOON you’ll be able to ‘play’ piano and play it well. If you don’t practice and you just play old familiar tunes you move rather slowly. Yes, you’ll get better at playing those old familiar tunes but technically you won’t be pushing yourself to greater heights.

Proper, structured piano practice helps you stride forwards. I say ‘proper’ because a lot of people have an idea that practice IS just playing songs over and over. Practice needs to involve unchartered territory. The golden rule is – ‘practice what you CAN’T play, not what you CAN play’.

First of all, work out what you want to achieve. Do you just want to know all your chords without thinking about how they are formed – then work out a practice routine that leads to that goal. Maybe you want to learn about inversions or chord substitution – again, make the practice fit the goal.

Split your practice session into two halves. In the first half play the difficult stuff – your mind is sharper to begin with – then reward yourself with some enjoyable but reasonably difficult tunes. Make sure you are comfortable. Many a bad back has happened because of a bad piano stool at the wrong height. Make sure your piano is in tune. If you don’t have a good piano and are serious about learning GO BUY A GOOD ONE.

Every fifteen minutes stretch your arms and shoulders and roll your neck to combat stiffness. Check out some Yoga exercises for shoulders and back.

Follow the 3 times daily rule. Repetition in practice is ESSENTIAL. If you find something particularly difficult make sure you practice it at least 3 times every day. Don’t worry if it takes months to master – you’ll get there.
Don’t play for the neighbors. Practice piano at a time when you don’t care who is listening so that you can make lot’s of mistakes and play things over and over. Organize your piano music carefully – don’t keep it in a heap where you keep playing the ones on top. If you download sheet music put it in a folder. Have plenty of shelves near the piano. Be realistic – I truly believe that anyone can learn piano and learn it to an enjoyable level but no two people are alike – some are more ‘naturally’ gifted than others. If you have an average ability then it’s all down to practice. The more you practice the more you learn.

Now and then, practice with your eyes closed – or don’t look at the keys – this really sharpens you up. Organize your life so that practice is possible (this where Mindfulness comes in). Too many people think they don’t have time to practice when really they just haven’t found the time. How long should you practice – that’s up to what you want to achieve. You don’t have to be a concert pianist. Even if you just play for yourself just enjoy that. The archer who’s mind is on the prize cannot stay focused on the target. Accept the bad days when it seems like you can’t play a note. Sometimes it’s better to walk away. So remember that ‘playing’ piano and ‘practicing’ piano are different. Which do you do? Aim for a bit of both.

Which is better.. Keyboard or Piano?
Real pianos are great but the one big drawback is you can’t turn the volume down so with a piano you tend to end up playing for the Neighbours. With a keyboard you can stick on some headphones and play whatever turns you on – you can experiment, make mistakes and sound silly and play something a thousand times without driving other people nuts. Ideally – have BOTH!

If you are buying a piano it is preferable to buy an overstrung piano not a straight strung! How to tell: Lift the top lid of the piano you should see the tuning pins at the top of the piano. If the tuning pins are evenly spaced along the pin block and the strings are all parallel and vertical this is a straight strung piano. If there is a group of tuning pins at the left and a separate group at the right and the strings cross over in a X shape this is an overstrung piano. Also get a tuner to check it out. I bought a piano once that needed to have the wood treated because all the pins (that tighten the strings) were coming loose very quickly after being tuned – disaster!

What Keyboard should you choose?
A lot depends on what you want. Do you want a keyboard that sounds and feels like a Piano – then you’re looking for a keyboard or Digital Piano with WEIGHTED keys. Listen carefully to the piano sound – don’t be bamboozled by all the other buttons. If you want something portable then you are looking for a keyboard. Personally I would still look for one with weighted keys – I hate the feel of light plastic keys.

Get a keyboard with at least 61 keys – anything less and you will be craving for more keys after a few days. Also make sure get a sustain pedal, a keyboard is absolutely a dead thing without one. Without a sustain pedal as soon as you lift your finger off a key the sound stops dead – with a piano at least the strings vibrate for a second or two – the difference is quite noticeable.

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