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Indietunes is aplatform that enables independent and unsigned artists to giveaway and sell their downloadable music. IndieTunes empowersindie artists of all genres by offering the highest paybackanywhere in the world. Indietunes literally pay 100% of theprofit from each sale back to the artist. Indietunes offer avery modest subscription fee to artists who want tosell their music through indieTunes. As an indieTunes customer, you can feel safe knowing that youare purchasing music on a secure encrypted server, andindieTunes never shares your information with anyone ever! Findyour favorite artist,...
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Anglican Arrogance: Small-Minded Choirmembers

What is “Episcopal” music? We often hear people express concern about losing ties to our Anglican heritage, which dates back about 500 years. One area that draws attention is music. To approach the question of what is official Episcopal music, we might look to our own denominational hymnbook, The Episcopal Hymnal (1982). Compiled by the Standing Commission on Church Music, this edition surely reflects what is both traditional and sanctioned. A brief sampling of selections from TEH 82 should shed some light on what is authorized and what is not. First, a survey of origins will be useful....
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How to Organise a Gig or a Live Music Event – the Budget

Three times in the last month Ive been asked the question, what do I need to do to organise a gig? In reality, when this question is asked it can mean several things: How do I find a venue? How do I sort out the PA? How do I get an audience? And so on. But there is a stage before all of this: the budget. I would suggest that the moment you start thinking about organising an event you should write a budget. This budget spreadsheet informs you of most things that you will need to consider and will also show you the risk, projected profit and the breakeven point. A sample spreadshhet is available...
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Creating Your Own Compositions

The idea of actually creating a complete piece of music to play frightens many students. They just don’t understand how someone could come up with something, put it down on paper, and call it their own. The good news is that you don’t need to read music to compose. All you need is to understand a little about chords and musical phrases. For example, in the lesson “Reflections in Water,” we have 4 chords to create with. We have the order in which the chords are to be played – and then we play, creating an entire piece of music. Now this piece is actually an improvisation....
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The Art of Music

Music is the art of arranging sounds in periodic time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is also the vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm. Music can also be when an aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds are produced example the music of the water falling from a tap in a vessel. Most of the time music is kept in memory and performance only. If handed down orally, this music may be considered “traditional” or not considered composed...
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Right Hand Guitar Playing Tip

This lesson can open for you a secret of high-speed guitar playing. If take the given technique for 2-3 weeks you’ll feel progress in high-speed playing of complex passages. The given principle of development of techniques “was tested” not by one generation of guitarists and not only guitarists… In this lesson we shall concern high-speed technics. Skilled guitarists alredy know that the basic brake in development of guitar high-speed technics is the right hand. Therefore when playing the most ultra-high-speed passages for simplification guitarists play legato (i.e. the right...
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