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1: The Mandolin Sounds in the Roots of Bluegrass

Bluegrass

By: Allen Newsom

2: The Mingling of Jazz and Blues

Jazz blues is a musical style that combines both jazz and blues. Jazz, blues, and popular music all got their start in back rooms, clubs, honky-tonks, and in the underground or subculture environment...

By: Allen Newsom

3: lternative rock: fiercely iconoclastic, anti-commercial, mot...

By: Tom Janison

4: Introduction to Indian Classical Music 101

The system of Indian classical music known as Raga Sangeet can be traced back nearly two thousand years to its origin in the Vedic hymns of the Hindu temples. Unlike Western classical music which has ...

By: Dhaval Shrimankar

5: Learning the Music of History Part 3

By: Jake Adam York

6: Learning the Music of History Part 2

  Part 2 M...

By: Jake Adam York

7: Learning the Music of History Part 1

By: Jake Adam York

8: The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer P...

In part 1; we discussed various metronome techniques to advance our awareness, concentration, feeling, and broaden our minds while practicing. This article will go into what we should be practicing...

By: John Belthoff

9: The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer P...

I'm not going to kid you; playing Jazz Guitar is extremely difficult at best and almost downright impossible at worst. However there are things you can do to improve your improvisation skills and feel...

By: John Belthoff

10: Jazz History Timeline

Many people argue that the beginning of Big-Time jazz in Chicago started in 1922 when the popular trumpeter Louis Armstrong moved from New Orleans bringing with him the new sound we now all know. Of c...

By: Jen Rossi

How to Make the Right Connections in the Music Industry

You know that making the right music industry connections is a key factor in developing a successful music career. The problem is, most people really don't know 'who' the most valuable music industry contacts are, where to...

By: Tom Hess

Oakville Celtic Fiddle Club

I have been teaching the ...

By: James Franczek

Mozart Requiem

The one thing to always bear in mind when you listen to the Mozart Requiem is that he didn’t write all of it. He wrote the first movement but his unfinished manuscripts had to be used to actually finish the work. ...

By: Jen Rossi

Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple...

Rapper and music mogul P. Diddy is being sued for age discrimination.

Music will fill the air and hundreds will fill Lake Park and city streets this weekend during the annual Delavan Fall Festival.   "We'll have eight live music acts who play all kinds of music coming ...

Habeas Corpus Early Music and Dance will give a free performance at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Senior Center Assembly Room, 28 S. Linn St.

The Concord Music Group has done an impressive job of summarizing the early career of John Coltrane with The Definitive John Coltrane On Prestige and Riverside. Twenty-one tunes, dating from 1955 to 1...