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Your First Guitar

Posted by Gene Smith

Your first guitar can become a good friend that you'll have around you for many years. On the other hand, it can be something that you put in the attic after six months and basically forget about.

"Things Just Ain't the Same": Hip-Hop's Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity

Posted by Nat Long

Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a sub genre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). According to the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of gangster rap, the top four images associated with the genre are violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity.

Adults Can Learn to Play the Piano Too

Posted by Kemi Quinn

Are you well past puberty and have always had a hankering for tickling the ivories? Maybe you didn't have the money as a child. Or your family was always moving. Or you probably didn't even know there was such a wonderful thing as the piano. Whatever the reason it is never too late to start. Really!

Social Networking and Music: MySpace Puts It All Together in a Virtual Community

Posted by Scott G

Today's music fan interacts with a "community" that is far larger than anyone ever dreamed possible before the widespread personal use of the Internet. This social networking is changing the way people market and sell music and it's doing so on a global scale.

Does Reading Make Music?

Posted by Ron Worthy

When you read music you are deciphering the printed page and transferring the information to the keyboard. You might say that you are decoding what the composer or arranger put on the page . The symbols put on the paper by the composer are the only means he or she has to convey his/her musical ideas to the performer, hence to the listener.

Oh My Aching Head! Can Music Really Make You Feel Better?

Posted by Duane Shinn

We all know, if only instinctively, that music has a profound effect on us. If we didn’t believe...

Music History - Hip Hop, Rap, R&B

Posted by Matthew Kellmer

History of Hip Hop & Rap In the early 1970s, the cultural movement of hip hop music was born. Hip hop's...

How To Succeed In The Music Business. Part 2

Posted by David Wright

So you still wanna be a star?
Part 2

Whatever genre of music you’re in, you need to define your definition of success. If your definition is ‘being a rich and famous superstar’, then, well ‘good luck’... but if your definition is ‘being a creative artist doing what you want to do in life by sharing your music with those who will listen’, then you should succeed. And if you’ve got the bottle to stick to your own sound and style, your own beliefs of how your music should sound, then you’ve even more chance of success in the long term.
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