Yes, You Can Learn From a Piano DVD

By Michael Mickey Charles

Maybe you are looking for a way to start playing the piano but are not quite ready to hire an instructor. Maybe you are a more advanced piano player and want to explore new types of music. A piano DVD could be just what you need. Here are 3 of the most popular piano DVD choices.

10 Easy Lessons! Piano Beginner book, CD and DVD set hosted by Gary Turner

This is an easy to follow and friendly introduction to chord and melody playing, most suitable for children under 5 who have just began to play. It contains favorite childhood songs and adds more fun for the young students of piano. The DVD and CD are accompanied by a colorful story book to add to student participation. And parents can include the piano lessons in story time and bedtime music.

Dr John's- Piano Bundle Pack: Dr John Teaches New Orleans Piano, Volume 1.

This is designed for the more advanced pianist and offers a chance to explore the unique and soulful world of New Orleans blues and boogie. The lessons in this one have a personal and intimate fell to them and Dr John, One of Big Easy's greatest talents, guides the student to develop his own style.The upcoming Blues artists can master his own licks, rhythms, turnarounds and runs. The DVD is awe-inspiring piano playing. This renowned DVD was reviewed by Time Magazine which said, "just sit back and watch Dr John work his way through the likes of "C.C. Rider And Pine Top Boogie"... you will have got a graduate degree in soul"

A Lesson with Steve Allen: An Introduction to Jazz Piano

Though most people remember Steve Allen as a comedian, author and as the original host of The Tonight Show, his abilities as an accomplished jazz pianist were possibly his most inspiring talent of all. On this piano DVD Steve Allen shows the beginner jazz pianist how to add their own flair and style to simpler jazz pieces. With comprehensive and thorough step by step lessons, the viewer is shown specific valuable skills such as fake runs, octave vibrato and trills. There is even time devoted to showing the viewer how to build arrangements and how to play basic blues such as stride, walking basses and the use of 10ths. - 18418

About the Author:

Michael Mickey Charles been teaching music in the public school system for 30 years before giving private lessons. His years of experience in teaching piano gives him unparalleled insight into what piano teaching software works and what doesn't. Don't purchase anything before you read what Mickey has to say of the top piano lesson software at his site http://www.piano-lesson-software.com.

How To Learn Guitar On DVD

By Payo W Perry

If youre pressed for time then learning guitar on DVD from home could be a possible solution. It gives you the freedom to learn at your own pace and to fit your lessons however you like around your normal schedule.

You should however bear in mind that learning this way will depend a lot on your personal motivation, desire and ability to teach yourself. Not everyone has this ability to the same degree. Learning guitar from a DVD is not the same having a real tutor there to help you.

As a guitar student you are unique. That means youre going to have your own particular difficulties and faults to solve as youre learning guitar. A guitar instruction DVD is not going to be able to recognize and isolate these things about your playing.

Taking guitar lessons on DVD is of real benefit when you already have some playing experience. This experience somehow gives you the power you need to have a better chance of being able to learn successfully from books or guitar DVDs. Its all a question of balance and how motivated you are to learn guitar, is it a burning desire or just a curiosity?

Finally when looking for a DVD try to get one suitable for your playing level on guitar, theres no point in trying to learn things which are technically too difficult. It can be hard to tell at times as there are no sample lessons to try before you buy with guitar DVDs try to do your best to judge whats going to be suitable for you.

Recently, guitar lessons on DVD have come under increased pressure from learning guitar online. Many people now see online guitar lessons as a cheaper and a more immediate way to learn guitar. Its also often the case that you can try taster lessons online which are not possible with guitar instruction DVDs. - 18418

About the Author:

The writer has been a pro guitar teacher for many years. His popular system for learning guitar is called Guitar in a Nutshell. Check out the site where you can find a free series of video lessons on learn acoustic guitar and some guitar instruction DVDs

Music Industry And RIAA

By Susan Reynolds

RIAA is a contraction of Recording Industry Association of America. This association is a syndicate of multiple large companies that handle the recording and music distribution throughout United States of America. RIAA claims to have More than 90% of the music recording companies and distributors as members of it. In 1950?s was more attentive to maintaining the quality of music. Today the main aim of association is prevention of copyright violations.

RIAA says that piracy of any kind and in any form is intolerable. There were many instances of people making commercial use of copyright protected music. There is the habit of people illegally making multiple copies of music, after having them downloaded from the net. This translates into huge losses of revenue to the music industry. Anybody and everybody are prohibited from downloading any music without obtaining prior permission and serious actions would be taken against those found violating this.

RIAA stringently opposes P2P music sharing. In the year 2000 it initiated steps to see that P2P trading of music is constrained. Though the trading could be called to have reduced quite effectively but it continues to exist even today. RIAA has not reduced its pressure against P2P sharing. It has imposed prohibition not only against the traders but even individuals are not immune from it.

RIAA has sought to actively educate people about its policies. It has identified the youth as a special target. Through many seminars, forum discussions, and presentations attempts have been made to raise the awareness of youth RIAA?s set of rules and guidelines. RIAA has approached many colleges and universities to help them in this campaign. This has resulted in universities and colleges taking care to not only educate their students about it but also seeing to it that inside the university or college premises no illegal music is downloaded.

RIAA has nothing against copying a CD for personal use. If an individual has bought a CD legally he can burn a copy of the same. The objection is when the burning is done for commercial purpose. RIAA will take legal action againstpeople making copies for illegal sales.

RIAA has also nothing against the latest tools and technologies which are coming into the market and help in piracy of music. The organization places the onus of misuse of technology on people and not on technology.

RIAA also holds belief that pirated music hurts the artists as their music is played on inferior quality CDs and without their due permission. The due permission here actually refers to legally buying the music. "It makes people listen to poor quality music that was actually developed with so much hard work? is the belief of RIAA.

Other than the field of copyright protection, RIAA is also busy with watching the sales and tracks the same. RIAA labels the records as "Gold? or "Platinum? depending on the number of CDs sold. It can be said in conclusion that RIAA has succeeded in keeping music industry business clean and good. - 18418

About the Author:

Susan Reynolds is the webmaster for a website that lets you Download Music for Free. For more information visit: http://www.sharepanel.com/

I-pods And Their Popularity Over Competitors

By Cauldwell Pipps

The i-Pod as we all know is one of, if not the biggest portable media displayer available on the market today. First released in 2001 with 5 gigabytes of memory which was an unheard of amount, it took the world by storm and launched the already well known Apple to new corporate heights.

This classic version has now undergone five updates and re-releases and is therefore in its sixth generation. The release of the latest version puts into perspective just how far the ipod has come from the 5 gigabyte model which only supported mp3 files.

The latest version can play most music formats along with being able to store and play back videos, games and images and you can store pretty much anything on it. With eighty gigabytes to one hundred and sixty available, it is basically, a pocket sized portable hard drive.

Over the last few years there have been different models of the ipod, the first of which (apart from the classic of course) was the ipod mini. This was the first to be available in multi-colours and was much cheaper than the classic version and so for a while, ipod minis were to be found everywhere.

Then there was the ipod shuffle, which was essentially a cheap version without the screen. The shuffle is a much simpler version and only plays songs. The lack of a display screen means that they are far cheaper to manufacture and therefore far cheaper to buy.

Moving on to more recent additions to the ipod back catalogue, the ipod touch is the largest ipod to date and has a full length touch screen. It looks quite similar to the iphone and some have even said that the only way in which they differ is that you can make phone calls on the iphone. There are obviously more differences than this but on first use of both of them you would probably say this is true.

So with its many models and updates that we have seen over the last eight years, the ipod is surely the best portable media device that the world has ever seen, or at least the most popular. - 18418

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Adams Sixth Grandson Lamech Created the Oud

By Steve West

The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument many believe to be the predecessor of the western lute. It is distinct among stringed instruments mainly because it does not have frets. The instrument is still being used in Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Armenia, and Israel.

The words oud and lute might have come from the Arabic al-d or a thin piece of wood shaped like a straw. Or it could be a reference to the wood plectrum used to play the lute traditionally, or to the narrow wooden strips used to make the instruments back part. Or it could simply mean that the top is made of wood.

Although, some research have suggested that d is just the Arabization of the Persian rud; string, stringed instrument, or lute. The instrument is also widely used in Azerbaijan, where it is called an ud. The instrument has existed in Azerbaijan since the 7th century.

It is very likely that the Arabs brought the instrument with them to Western Europe in 711 AD, as created the Umayyad Caliphate of Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula. Instruments that look like this musical instrument, the ancient Roman pandura and Greek pandoura, may have wound there earlier to the Iberian Peninsula. It has been established, though, that Al-Andalus royal houses fostered the environment that promoted the instruments popular use.

Zyriab was the most renowned player of the instrument in Al-Andalus. He put up Spains very first music conservatory. He also added the instruments fifth course and developed playing technique.

This European version of this instruments became to be known as the lute -- luit in Dutch, luth in French, laute in German, liuto in Italian, and alaud in Spanish. Also of French origin is the word luthier or a stringed instrument maker. The use of frets distinguishes the European lute from the Middle Eastern version.

According to legend, Lamech, Adams sixth grandson, conceived the instrument. Torn with grief by the death of his son, Lamech suspended his sons body from a tree. The form of his sons bleached skeleton inspired him to come up with the first oud. - 18418

About the Author:

Oud is a musical instrument that is pear-shaped and belongs to the string family. It is ethnic as it is believed to have originated from the Middle East and moved its way to Europe. It does produce a unique and distinguished sound of music. Simply visit this site at http://www.yourworldinstruments.com to know more about it.