Sitar, The Most Popular Ancient Indian Music Instrument 28 Oct 2011 8:38 PM (13 years ago)
Sitar is the most recognized of the ancient Indian musical instruments. Sitars are plucked stringed musical instruments, originating from the lute family. It is played by strumming and fingering notes out along the neck of the guitar-like instrument.
The history of the Sitar
traces its origins to an instrument first built under Medieval Muslim
influence from the tanbur, a Middle
Rap Music Is More Than Just Music 22 Jul 2011 7:39 PM (13 years ago)
Rap music made its way to the traditional music around the late 70's to the early 80's. The roots of rap music to trace the history, centuries before there was hip-hop back in American history, where griots or West African folk poets used to deliver their stories in a rhythmic tone accompanied by drums and other rare instruments.
It's a style that stays aside all the trends in the music of
Salvador Ibáñez, One of The Most Noteworthy of Spanish Classical Guitar Makers 19 Jul 2011 8:10 PM (13 years ago)
Salvador Ibáñez (1854-1920) was a luthier who designated as one of the most noteworthy of Spanish classical guitar makers. He made guitars, ukuleles, mandolins and other stringed instruments. These instruments were considered the finest of their age and are prized for their excellent quality and impeccable workmanship.
Salvador Ibáñez Guitar
Salvador Ibáñez became an apprentice in guitar
The History of The Violins 15 Jul 2011 8:25 AM (13 years ago)
The violin is a bowed string musical instrument comprising four strings tuned a fifth apart. It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola, cello and double bass. Instruments played with a bow had been known for many hundreds of years.
The history of bowed string musical instrument in Europe goes back to the 9th century
A Short History of Jazz Music 20 Jun 2011 4:03 PM (13 years ago)
Jazz is a musical tradition and style of music that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.
The word "jazz" (in early years also spelled "jass") began as a West Coast slang term in 1912 and was first used to refer to music in Chicago at about 1915.
The origins of Jazz
The Essential Drum Skills and Techniques 15 May 2011 8:13 PM (13 years ago)
Learning the drums for the first time can be a very difficult thing to do. There's more to this musical instrument that someone can lose ground very easily. Many people maybe has already know how to play drums, but it is difficult to advance their skills.
Whatever the situation is, learning the essentials of this massive instrument is a must. There are some lessons to learn to play and
A Brief History of Harps 20 Apr 2011 9:34 PM (14 years ago)
Ancient Egypt Harps
The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. The earliest evidence of the harp is found in Ancient Egypt circa 2500 BC. They were shaped liked bows or angular and had very few strings (because they lacked a column they could not support much string tension).
The frame harp, or a harp
Paiste: The World's Third Largest Manufacturer of Cymbals, Gongs, and Metal Percussion 12 Apr 2011 8:21 PM (14 years ago)
Paiste, (pronounced Pie-Stee) a Swiss manufacturer and designer, is the world's third largest manufacturer of cymbals, gongs, and metal percussion. Paiste is an Estonian/Finnish word which means "shine". Their eponymous sunrise can be seen in the logos for their 2002 line and their Twenty line.
The first Paiste cymbals were produced in 1906 by Estonian musician Toomas Paiste in his instrument
Shakuhachi: Japanese Traditional Bamboo Flute 2 Apr 2011 5:57 PM (14 years ago)
The shakuhachi is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It was used by the monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism in the practice of suizen (blowing meditation). Its soulful sound made it popular in 1980s pop music in the English-speaking world. They are often made in the minor pentatonic scale.
The bamboo flute first came
Blossom Music Center: Host of Popular Music Acts And Symphonic Performances 25 Mar 2011 12:31 AM (14 years ago)
Blossom Music Center is an amphitheatre located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The pavilion seats 5,700 people, with space for about 13,500 more on the lawn. It is the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra, which performs its annual Blossom Festival there. The venue is also host to a full summer schedule of popular music acts and symphonic performances.
Blossom Music Center is named after the family
A Brief History of DW Drums 15 Mar 2011 6:38 AM (14 years ago)
Drum Workshop (also known as DW Drums or simply DW) is a drum and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California, with their slogan being "The Drummer's Choice".
Drum Workshop was founded in 1972 as a teaching studio by Don Lombardi. It originally offered private lessons and the occasional workshop. However, Lombardi, along with student (and current Senior Executive Vice President)
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 11 Mar 2011 6:17 AM (14 years ago)
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella or Coachella Festival) is a three-day (formerly a one or two-day) annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice (a subsidiary of AEG Live) and held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. The event features many genres of music including alternative rock, hip hop,
Chord Progression : The Basics 10 Mar 2011 10:42 PM (14 years ago)
A chord progression (or harmonic progression) is a series of musical chords, or chord changes that "aims for a definite goal" of establishing (or contradicting) a tonality founded on a key, root or tonic chord. Chords and chord theory are generally known as harmony.
A chord progression can be thought of as a harmonic simultaneity succession: it offers an ongoing shift of levelOceania and South/
The Romantic Bachata Music 4 Mar 2011 4:32 PM (14 years ago)
Bachata is a genre of music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the early parts of the 20th Century and spread to other parts of Latin America and Mediterranean Europe. It became popular in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods of the Dominican Republic. Its subjects are often romantic; especially prevalent are tales of heartbreak and sadness. In fact, the original term used to
Fender Precision Bass : The First Mass-produced Electric Bass Guitar 25 Feb 2011 7:35 AM (14 years ago)
The Fender Precision Bass (often shortened to "P Bass") is an electric bass guitar designed by Leo Fender as a prototype in 1950 and brought to market in 1951. The Precision was the first bass to earn widespread attention and use. A revolutionary instrument for the time, the Precision Bass has made an immeasurable impact on the sound of popular music ever since.
Although the Precision was
Sasando : An Unique Traditional Music Instrument of Rote Islands 16 Feb 2011 8:32 PM (14 years ago)
Sasando is a stringed musical instrument or cordophone type musical instrument. It comes from Rote islands in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Sasando word comes from Rote word sasandu, means vibrant instrument.
Ancient Sasando pictures
Ana Sanggu created the early shape of Sasando in the 15th century in a small island near the island of Rote, the Dana Island, which under controlled
TAMA Drums 6 Feb 2011 4:39 PM (14 years ago)
TAMA Drums is a brand of drums and hardware manufactured and marketed by the Japanese musical instrument company, Hoshino Gakki. Tama's research and development of products, along with production of its professional drums, is done in Seto, Japan, while its hardware and more affordable drums are manufactured in Guangzhou, China. Hoshino has several offices around the world for marketing and
The Gibson SG 2 Feb 2011 3:10 AM (14 years ago)
In 1958, Gibson Les Paul sales were significantly lower than they had been in previous years. The following year, the Les Paul was given a thinner, flat-topped mahogany body, and had a double cutaway which made the upper frets more accessible. The neck joint was moved by three frets to further ease access to the upper frets.
Production costs fell significantly due to the simpler body
Power Chords : A Key Element of Rock Musics 30 Jan 2011 4:51 AM (14 years ago)
In music, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a chord consisting of only the root note of the chord and the fifth, usually played on electric guitar, and typically through an amplification process that imparts distortion. Power chords are a key element of many styles of rock music.
Link Wray is commonly cited as having introduced power chords with his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble". Wray
Pandora Radio : An Automated Music Recommendation Service and Custodian 28 Jan 2011 4:43 PM (14 years ago)
Pandora Radio is an automated music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users provide feedback on approval or disapproval of individual songs, which Pandora takes into account for future selections.
While listening, users are offered the
An Introduction to Flamenco Guitar 21 Jan 2011 5:38 AM (14 years ago)
The traditional flamenco guitar is made of Spanish cypress or sycamore for the back and sides and spruce for the top, which accounts for its characteristic body color, and is lighter in weight than a classical guitar, to give the sound a “brighter” and more percussive quality. This is achieved by reducing the amount of internal bracing and thickness of the materials used in the body and top
Music on Hold 21 Jan 2011 4:57 AM (14 years ago)
Music on hold (MOH) refers to the business practice of playing recorded music to fill the silence that would be heard by telephone callers who have been placed on hold. It is especially common in situations involving customer service.
Most MOH systems are integrated into a telephone system designed for businesses via an audio jack on the telephone equipment labeled "MOH". There are also some
A Short History of Country Music 21 Jan 2011 4:16 AM (14 years ago)
Country music (or country and Western) is a blend of traditional and popular musical forms traditionally found in the Southern United States and the Canadian Maritimes that evolved rapidly beginning in the 1920s. Distinctive variations of the genre have also emerged elsewhere including Australian country music.
The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly
Fender Stratocaster : The Most Copied Guitar in The World 16 Jan 2011 7:25 AM (14 years ago)
The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as "Strat", is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares in 1954, and manufactured continuously by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation to the present. It is a double-cutaway guitar, with an extended top horn for balance while standing. The Stratocaster has been used by many leading guitarists and
Native American Music 12 Jan 2011 7:56 PM (14 years ago)
American Indian music is the music that is used, created or performed by Native North Americans, specifically traditional tribal music. In addition to the traditional music of the Native American groups, there now exist pan-tribal and inter-tribal genres as well as distinct Indian subgenres of popular music including: rock, blues, hip hop, classical, film music and reggae, as well as unique