Thursday, December 11, 2008

Musicians Gear Double Adjustable Piano Bench, Piano Black

Double seat, each side adjustable separately from 19" to 23". Overall bench top is 12-3/4" x 37-1/2". Seat is covered in corded velour plush fabric for super-soft long wear and great looks.


So you've been debating whether or not to take guitar lessons. So, you think you’d like to learn to play guitar, but you’re put off by the high cost of lessons? Guitar lessons, in some form or another, are a necessity for anyone wanting to learn to play the guitar.

There are two ways for a person to start strumming the guitar. For a person who wants to learn, he may check the internet where he can find new updated learning tools that will help him learn to play the guitar in just a short period of time. By using your ear and a TUNED guitar it is relatively easy to find the correct key of a song and even determine the chords and scale.

Private Lessons: This is the best way to learn to play the guitar if you can find the right teacher. Once you've got past the basic guitar lessons in these tutors, you might decide the best way to teach yourself is to play your favourite songs by ear. If you're just starting, it might be best to go for the cheapest, most basic guitar lessons you can.

Not much music theory in this bit of information, but how do you determine the key of a song with just your ear and a guitar. Now just move this scale anywhere you want on the neck of your guitar, but play the same relative positions on the fretboard. If you do this for 5 minutes every time you pick up the guitar, you'll be amazed how quickly you'll fingering will improve.

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Well, that was many years ago and when I recently decided to improve my guitar playing skills, I was glad to find some excellent online guitar lessons. Recently, I've been exploring some options to improve my guitar playing skills online. Remember, you're on your own when you take guitar lessons online, but its an excellent way to improve your guitar playing from the comfort of you own home at your own schedule.

Sorting through the many options can be made easier with information dedicated to this topic on various guitar websites, such as this online guitar lessons guide. These online lessons found on the internet can help a person to play the guitar in an instant – relatively speaking. Don’t think that online guitar instruction is just for the novice, though, because many of the available lessons will teach you, not only the basics, but many advanced techniques as well.

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The best thing about a guitar lesson ebook is that it does not just contain the lessons that the learner has to know but also has some added features making the learning process easier and more fun. Many ebooks about guitar lessons contain songs that a beginner can use to learn how to play the guitar as easily and as fast as possible. Easy guitar songs initiate proper pacing and rhythm enabling the beginner to learn to play the guitar easier.

Group Lessons: Learning guitar in a group setting can be less intimidating for the beginning musician. Luckily, there are simple techniques that can help the beginning guitar player to develop these muscle memories and ear training for proper chord changes. The one drawback to online guitar lessons is that you don’t have a teacher right there in the room with you to help you place your fingers on the right strings and show you a specific chord.

I hope you understand the power of the point I’m making, and I hope you will use this idea to improve your guitar playing and break out of any rut you experience.

All beginners will remember the first time they played the guitar for an extended period. A little discipline, regardless of whether you have an inborn talent or not for playing the guitar, can better your chances of becoming a good guitar player. We have a complete selection of lessons on all these issues at our guitar playing web sites.

Once you get the beat connected to your system, take hold of your guitar, and start hitting those strings. Now you know all about the guitar, it is now time to learn how to hold it correctly before you start to play anything. Generally, once you know the basics on how to look after the guitar, it is good to start off learning the basic chords before trying anything else.

In order to find the best free online guitar lessons, you may need to try a couple of different web sites, or ask someone that you know has taken lessons before.

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Instead of giving the guitar player in your life cash to go towards the lessons, you can contact the teacher and pay for the lessons up front, or have them give you a gift certificate. Guitar lessons are a great gift for the guitar player in your life because you can take them no matter which level you are at. Video-based lessons- In my experience, pure video-based lessons are a good “icing on the cake” to help you learn, but not typically a good foundational guitar lesson program.

When somebody is playing the guitar, it is assumed that the person has taken some guitar lessons from an instructor or that he has learned to play the instrument all by himself. People who are considered experts in playing the guitar insist that the only distinction that sets a good guitarist apart from a distinguished guitarist is based on how they apply the approach “feel the beat” to their tune using their instrument. An experienced teacher Some websites are run by other newbies also honing their guitar playing so make sure the tutor is a qualified guitarist.



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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Guitars Guitar Strummin Fender Gibson Cotton Throw Blanket

This is a lovely high quality Woven throw, made in USA. Great decoration for you home, office, excellent to hang on wall, fold on bed, etc.
Customer Review: Unique Gift
This gift was ordered as a Christmas gift to my teenage brother who loves guitars. I searched everywhere for guitar blankets, and this was the only one I could find. I was very pleased with the seller (Cjicollectiables, LLC)as the product arrive on time and came with a customer satisfaction garentee. Needless to say, I was very satified with the blanket throw, as was my brother. I would recommend the blanket as a unique quality gift for any guitar lover, and the seller as reliable.


10. Mantra - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

3. Samba De Sausalito

Santana Welcome Rock Music CD Review

8. Flame-Sky

2. Love, Devotion And Surrender

9. Welcome

Overall Welcome is an outstanding release. Quite possibly Santana's best to date. Really spectacular from beginning to end. If you're even mildly into Rock music you'll enjoy this CD.

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - Going Home. This is a great track!

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One of the refreshingly nice things about this CD is the way all of the participating artists seem to be really enjoying themselves. Combine that with the overall presentation and youve got one of Santanas most impressive releases ever.

7. Light Of Life

I wish it werent the case but, its not everyday that I get a CD from an artist that I can just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. There is usually a song or two that I just cant force myself to get through. Not at all the case with Welcome. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

One word describes the CD Welcome from Santana... AWESOME!

5. Yours Is The Light

Santana: Carlos Santana (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, bass, kalimba, percussion); Wendy Haas, Leon Thomas, Flora Purim (vocals); Doug Rauch (guitar, bass); Mahavishnu John McLauhlin (guitar); Bob Yance, Mel Martin, Joe Farrell (flute); Richard Kermode (soprano saxophone); Richard Kermode (piano, electric piano, organ, Mellotron, marimba, percussion); Tom Coster (piano, organ, marimba, percussion); Michael Shrieve, Tony Smith (drums); Armando Peraza (bongos, congas, percussion); Jose "Chepito" Areas (congas, timbales, percussion). Producers: Carlos Santana, Michael Shrieve, Tom Coster. Recorded in 1973. Originally released on Columbia (32445). Includes liner notes by Hal Miller.

Santana originally released Welcome on September 30, 2003 on the Legacy Recordings label.

4. When I Look Into Your Eyes

While the entire CD is really very good the truly standout tunes are track 2 - Love, Devotion And Surrender, track 4 - When I Look Into Your Eyes, and track 10 - Mantra.

1. Going Home



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First Act 8 Piece Drum Set MD8900091

Customer Review: drumset
Some of the tools and the instructions were not in the box, so we had to put it together on our own. The set itself is great, but it took us a while to put it together
Customer Review: decent set for beginner
Well worth the money--tone isn't great, but a super starter set. My 14 year old and 7 year old love it. Looked at lots of sets. This one was by far the least expensive and it looks great


This playfulness is captured on several tracks but none more so than on What A World (Babygirl). Splash's vocals ride the cool keys and guitar licks like a cloud hopping astronaut - "What a world, look around, baby everything you see, we could live in a world that would be so N-IC-E. What a world, babygirl, you could make it real for me, we could live in a world, you could be my L-O-V-E."

Plant Life - Time Traveler Album Review

The Los Angeles-based group is the brainchild of Jack Splash who put together a 12-piece brand to create a sound that mixes up old school hip hop, '70s soul and a whole load of funk. Think Prince meets Andre 3000 and The Ohio Players. Their second album is Time Traveler which seriously puts the FUN in funk and sparks feelings of joy, moments of involuntary body movement and tongue in cheek playfulness.

Funk music has always had its eccentric characters - George Clinton and Bootsy Collins immediately come to mind but you can also cite Isaac Hayes, Sly Stone and more recently Jamiroquai. But if you are gonna make funky music .. it is essential to have a fun and colorful nature. Plant Life carry on this tradition.

The mellowest moment comes from the final track, Fool For U, which has Splash's vocals laid over an old Isley Brothers track (Don't Say Goodnight). Splash smooths out his delivery here and croons about a fractured relationship. My favourite cut here is Sumthin About Her which you can't help but clap along to. The bass line will get your hips grinding and you head bopping - guaranteed! This is made more fun thanks to the cheeky syth stabs laid through out the chorus.

Content isn't too heavy on the brain, with wholesome love musings being the main serve. But this album isn't about finding deep and meaningful epiphanies - it's about wrapping your ears around some cool and body moving sounds. In the end Time Traveler takes the listener on a trip back to the origins of funk through to the synthesized sonics of the 80s and right into a new phase of musical expression. Get moving!