Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Online Drum Lessons In High Demand

Leading music websites are doing a yeoman service to their online drum beats lessons. As a cost effective option giving the latest updates from global teachers, drum beats online are thriving.

Websites like drumbum and music associate are considered good sources of online drum instructions.

Learners also get free online drum lessons covering practical drum beats and drum patterns with the desired accents. The value of properly placed accents is important in online learning  as it reinforces the ebb and flow. Instruction with accents help to achieve in adding accents within a snare and bass groove.

Advanced Drumming techniques including the Moeller method and use of the left foot clave on drumset and the one-handed triplet; backwards drumbeats, advanced double bass drumming including displaced rhythms are also available online.

Meanwhile, the Christian Church on Franklin Avenue in New York is giving a free African and steel drumming program for students in grades four to 12. Run by professional musicians every Wednesday its enrollment is limited to 25 students and places are available in the weekly program which meets from 5 to 6 p.m. The community outreach committee of Christ Church organizes the program.

The Music Associate is delighted to provide coverage for the music industry in terms of news, views and events. 

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Online Music Store- A Great Place To Buy Music Related Items

Online Music Store- A Great Place To Buy Music Related Items
The music is accessible all over the world and almost every individual looking for one or the other kind of music. An online music store can be a very good option for those who want to start a lucrative business. With online music stores, you can put all the show in the catalog of your website pages.

The customers of an online store can utilize this catalog according to their needs. A website can provide 24 hour service to its clients.

It is essential that your music website is entertaining and creative in its looks. You can hire skillful web designers for such websites. These designers give an innovative and attractive look to your website. With such creatively designed web site you may promote yourself nationally as well as internationally thus attracting thousands of customers.

With the advent of the internet, online shopping has become an extremely popular business. You can allow your customers to navigate the pages easily and make any purchase based on their necessities. An additional advantage of online music store is the easy accessibility. Moreover, you can access any website no matter where you are in the world.

Most of the music stores active today are delivering a lot of products and services in relation to music. You can find every kind of music production equipment, instrument, etc. here. Some people even taking music learning lessons online through these musical stores. Some music buffs even buy concerts and big events tickets through these websites.

In brief, one can say that online music store is a one stop destination for all music aspirants and music lovers.


Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Online Music Magazines- Accessible And Affordable Destination For Learning Music

Music exists in every particle on this earth whether it is living or non-living. It is loved and appreciated by everyone no matter he is in the profession or not. It’s one of the most effective ways to get rid of the worries and tensions and live a happy life.

With the advent of the internet, most of the things are available on the web. To our surprise now music is also available there. Music is not only in the form of songs and movies but one can actually learn, read, practice and enjoy music online. Several of the online music websites are like a storehouse of the music information. Some dedicated online music magazines have news, features, articles and various other updated information about music.

Most of the music magazines which were not online earlier has also turned into music websites due to the increased readers on the web. Some of the examples of the same can be “The Music Magazines”, “MOJO”, and others.

Some of the music magazines online also arranges some online training sessions in the varied arenas of the music. For example, there are online ear training, online sight reading, sheet music training and other such practice sessions. These online sources have made it easy and accessible for music aspirants to learn music in a cost effective manner.

Online music magazines even provide you subscription option through which you can access further details by paying a less amount. This subscription may last for a month, six months or for a year.


Monday, 1 October 2012

Music Production: Going Hitech

Music can be produced by the use of both hardware and software. In the past only hardware was used to produce music. The advancements in computer speeds led to software executing all music production tasks by software.

Despite the rising invasion of software hardware has not been kicked out completely in music production. Music producers still use mixing desks; hardware effects, and hardware synthesizers.

Each musician maintains his uniqueness with his choice of music production equipment. The following equipments can be described as the bare minimum to record and write music irrespective of the instrument played or genre of music created.

A faster computer is a great tool to produce music. Speed of a computer is important as music software takes up a lot of system resources. That is why the computer must have a fast processor and lots of RAM.  Needless to say, lots of hard drive space is also required since all music files and recordings to take up lots of gigabytes. A DVD/CD writer is essential to write CDs of tracks produced and back up the work.

As an important component Soundcard has a good role to play. But it must be made sure that soundcard has a very low latency. High latency makes a computer unusable as everything on the record will be behind everything else in the track.

Also make sure that ASIO Support (Audio Stream Input/Output) is there if Windows are being used and a nice amount of audio inputs is a must. Spending some good money on near-field studio monitors is helpful as the tracks will benefit a great deal in sound quality no matter where they are played.

Near-field monitors are another requirement. They are different from normal speakers/stereo systems and designed to show exactly what the music really sounds like without affecting the sound in any way. Their design is also better than conventional listening speakers. All active monitors have a power amplifier and passive monitors. A list of essential music production equipment.

•    Mixing Board
•    Multitrack pro Tools
•    Monitors
•    Mixdown
•    Auxiliary Outboard Processors
•    Dynamics Processors
•    Effects
•    Piano
•    Microphones