“The Picture of Music” is an ultimate step-by-step guide to playing piano that cannot only help teach the beginner, it can brush up the advanced player as well. Lesley Anne Sears has changed my view of sheet music from one of undecipherable symbols with only faint recognition to one of order, patterns of notes, and beauty. For most of us, the adages “How soon we forget” or “Use it or lose it” applies to music.
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Title – The Picture of Music – Author – Lesley Anne Sears – Book Reviews
There are a zillion reasons why Vans Warped Touring Festival has become the greatest of all times. Out of all the reasons, the most predominant one is their insistent tendency to ‘stay ahead of the curve’ which in turn, provides them with a competitive advantage to gauge the changing tastes of the crowd.
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Why Vans Warped Festival is Famous
Despite the fact that the main focus of the Vans Warped Tour happens to be on putting up great music for the people, but raising concern about environment issues has also been an equally important priority for them. Vans Warped Tour launched a Warped Eco-Initiative which made it the most environment friendly event in North America. With the initiative, the Vans Warped Tour switched over to bio diesel for running their tour buses and production trucks.
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More Than Just Music and Stunts – A Corporate Social Responsibility
We are pretty much aware about the tasks of music bands and the extreme sports athletes at the Vans Warped Tour but have we ever thought about the people who are raison d’etre for putting together such a great show? With over 100 bands performing live each day on the Vans Warped Tour, it takes a colossal task to plan and execute properly, so that things are up and running. Who are the real heroes behind the success of the grand festival?
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Unsung Heroes – People Who Make it Happen
The Vans Warped Tour is not a show anymore. It has turned into an annual tradition. Band artists often address it as ‘Punk Rock Summer Camp’. Fans from far off places travel along with the tour from city to city.
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Experience Unfolded – A 360 Degrees Perspective
James Taylor certainly is one of my all time favorite artists, although mostly known as a singer to evergreen numbers such as Fire and Rain, Carolina In My Mind and You’ve Got a Friend, he is also a virtuoso fingerstyle guitar player in his own rights. His intricate finger picking style is prominent in his songs that never fail to make their way in to our hearts. If you’re looking for an easy way to learn some of these classic tunes on the guitar, now you can.
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The New James Taylor Easy Guitar Tab Book
This book – a follow up of sorts to Bass Lessons With The Greats (which I’ve also reviewed) is written by Glenn Letsch. It features short ‘master classes’ with bass players Mike Chapman, Larry Graham, Jaco Pastorius, Rocco Prestia and upright bass player (and no relation:) Ben Wolfe.
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Glenn Letsch’s Bass Master Class – Book Review
Bernard Edwards of Chic laid down some essential funk grooves during his time with Chic. Finally someone has had the foresight to transcribe some of his greatest grooves and present them for the bass community. Stuart Clayton has released a book of both Bernard’s bass lines AND Nile Rodgers’ guitar lines. The book is called Funk & Disco Grooves For Bass & Guitar. Here’s a review.
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Funk and Disco Grooves For Bass & Guiitar – Book Review
I’m a great fan of people learning how to play bass to learn some basic technique and acquire some basic fingerboard knowledge and then apply that to some real world songs. But I’m also realistic enough to know that it’s difficult for those new to learning how to play bass to work bass lines out for themselves from records. A lot of beginners use the tabs that proliferate on the Internet – often these are inaccurate or even plain wrong. Published books of transcriptions usually form a much better source of material for beginners to learn from. This Article looks at a book of Police Bass Transcriptions.
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Book Review – Play Bass With the Police
I’m a great fan of people learning how to play bass to apply their knowledge of the bass in real world situations – i.e. songs – as quickly and as often as possible. It’s a great way to push your playing forward – much better than the rote learning of scales for example – and for those interested in rock bass lines who want to move onto some harder material the bass lines of the band Muse give great material to work on. This article reviews the book Play Bass with Muse.
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Play Bass With Muse – Book Review
