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What a Child Learns From the Piano

You've seen the ads that tout "Research shows kids math scores rise when they play piano." There's always a children's piano method for sale at the other end of that sentence. I should know, because I'm one of the guys who created a piano method for kids and owns one of those ...

This Piano Has Got Character

Real pianists know that each piano, as an instrument, has a character: bright, muffled, slow, light, a response probably to how the pianist feels when the key is pushed down, and to the amount of sound coming from the instrument. But even more than that, what distinguishes a good pianist from ...

Music composing is an art form. Here with on my music composing blog I try to talk about composing music and whatever else suits my fancy. I would love to hear from you. I would also love to publish your music-related articles here on the blog, as well. Drop me a line at blogger at composersonline dot org.

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April 27th 2009
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Learn to Play the Guitar - Tips For the Newbie

Learning to play the guitar can be easy and hard, and what I mean by that is that it can be easy to be excited and ready to get down to playing awesome rock songs or cool acoustic tunes when in reality it takes lots of practice to get there ...
April 27th 2009
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Beginner Guitar Lessons - How to Learn the Major Pentatonic Scale and Have More Fun With Your Guitar

Guitar players often come in contact with a pentatonic scale early in their guitar playing adventures. Did you know there are many types of pentatonic scales? Technically speaking any group of five five notes would qualify to be a pentatonic. Now, that's pretty scary isn't it! Fortunately, we only need know two ...
April 1st 2009
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Subliminal Messages in Songs - What Are They Telling You?

Many people have heard about subliminal messages in songs. If you have as well, then you may be wondering whether or not there is any truth to the matter. That is actually an interesting question. First and foremost, a lot of people wonder whether or not record companies are actually ...
July 24th 2008
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Irish Music from a Composer’s Perspective

Where all of the traditional Irish music in Ireland began is vague, as the music was passed down from one generation to another orally. Some say that there were thousands upon thousands of ballads and Irish songs even before they were actually written down on paper. Most Irish songs and ...
July 9th 2008
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Music - The Great Healer

Ancient civilizations believed that music had great power of healing. The Ancient Indian sages who created both Hindustani and Carnatic music based on Ragas, believed that each Raga had unique powers of healing, depending on the nature of illness of the listener. But whether you believe in the healing power ...

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