Fleetwood Mac Bare Trees Rock Music CD Review

By: Clyde Lee Dennis
The exceptionally talented Rock group Fleetwood Mac have released their CD entitled Bare Trees. I am very confident and happy to announce that I believe Fleetwood Mac fans, and Rock fans alike will be pleased with this one. With the release of Bare Trees their artistic excellence is on full display as they have once again delivered a brilliant collection of tracks that could very well be their best work to date.

This one will grab your attention right out of the gate with Child Of Mine and won’t let go until the very last note of the very last song Thoughts On A Grey Day, which is another great track by the way.


These days it’s a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs.

Overall Bare Trees is outstanding from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Rock fan. Really spectacular from beginning to end.

While the entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 1 - Child Of Mine, track 3 - Homeward Bound, and track 8 - Spare Me A Little Of Your Love

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 10 - Thoughts On A Grey Day. It’s a great track!

Bare Trees Release Notes:

Fleetwood Mac originally released Bare Trees on October 25, 1990 on the Reprise label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Child Of Mine 2. Ghost, The 3. Homeward Bound 4. Sunny Side Of Heaven 5. Bare Trees 6. Sentimental Lady 7. Danny's Chant 8. Spare Me A Little Of Your Love 9. Dust 10. Thoughts On A Grey Day

Fleetwood Mac: Danny Kirwin, Bob Welch (vocals, guitar); Christine McVie (vocals, keyboards); John McVie (bass); Mick Fleetwood (drums).
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Playing Jazz Piano Sheet Music

By: Brian Shelton
Although it isn't a strict requirement, learning traditional piano is beneficial for learning how to play jazz piano sheet music. This is largely due to the fact that jazz is "classical deviation." The problem with learning jazz before learning traditional methods is that the beginner may learn to deviate, but might not appreciate what he or she is deviating from! We therefore recommend that you first learn how to play all the major scales on sheet music. Learning classical piano from sheet music will make jazz piano easier to play since the latter is a bit more advanced.


Once you've "mastered" the basic scales, you can learn how to move away from them in a way that makes musical sense. Musical deviation means playing a variation that differs from the standard or norm. It doesn't mean going buck wild and randomly pounding piano keys!

Keys And Chords
Your next step is to investigate keys and chords -- but not just any keys and chords. Remember that a chord is a group of keys played at one time and its key is the first note of a chord. To sound harmonious, these notes must correlate to one another in a pleasing way. The major 7th chords, minor 7th chords, dominant 7th chords, half-diminished chords, sixth chords, ninth chords and diminished chords are characteristic of jazz piano. You won't find these babies in a beginner's book for classical piano, but to play jazz, you'll not only need to know these chords, you'll need to know how to recognize them in sheet music. In a jazz piano book for example, you might see a song with the "Dbm7" symbol. That configuration indicates a D flat minor seventh chord.

Chord Inversions
Another tool that you'll want to learn is the chord inversion. A chord inversion begins with its second, third, or fourth note, and continues on with its remaining notes (in order). Jazz sheet music may contain quite a few chord inversions in addition to pentatonic scales. The notes of pentatonic scales are often whole steps apart (or minor thirds apart).

Improvising A Little Flavor Into The Mix
Once you've become comfortable with these tactics, you can experiment like a true jazz pianist. You can confidently add a dominant 7th chords here or throw in a chord inversion there without sounding as if you've never sat down at a piano before. A little experimentation goes a long way in jazz, and the more you play around, the more capable you become of learning even more.

Just don't stop learning at chords. Continue on to learn new harmonies, scales, rhythms, and melodies from your favorite jazz pianists and from jazz pianists you've never even heard of before. Each moment of exposure that you introduce into your lessons will give you the tools you need to improvise. Improv after all, is what gives jazz its unique flavor!
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How To Market Your Music Thru MySpace And Get Noticed!

Author: Bhatt Bijoy
Marketing on your web site always include your MySpace URL on your bands web site and vice versa. Marketing on promotional materials add your MySpace URL to fliers, business cards, media kits, radio spots, internet ads and any other places you use to promote your music.
Marketing your MySpace artist page will help you increase hits to your page which will translate into a growing fan base. But you should also promote your page in other ways.


As the internet becomes increasingly easy to navigate and to use as a marketing tool, placing your MySpace URL in various places will help people find you and learn more about your music.

Marketing on your web site

Always include your MySpace URL on your bands web site and vice versa. The more opportunities you give people to listen to your music and learn more about your sound, the more profits you will earn and the more popular you will become.

Marketing your MySpace artist page will help you increase hits to your page which will translate into a growing fan base. But you should also promote your page in other ways.
Band web sites can be used to promote your latest CD, downloads, or upcoming gigs, while your MySpace can be used to find new fans, to upload samples of your music, and generate buzz within the online music community.

Marketing on promotional materials

Add your MySpace URL to fliers, business cards, media kits, radio spots, internet ads, and any other places you use to promote your music. Unless you have a recording contract, you will have to do all music promotion yourself.

Take advantage of local newspapers and magazines that do write- ups about your band by asking them to mention your MySpace URL. This is especially important if you don't have a web site yet.

Adding URLs to CDs and other merchandise

If you release a CD, you can promote your web site and MySpace page by including both on the CD or other merchandise you want to sell.

Many musicians are producing their own albums these days instead of waiting for a recording contract. Use MySpace to draw more people to your web site or third-party distribution site. Including URLs on your CD will give others a way of finding out more about you and your music.

Include URLs when contacting record labels

If you decide to contact record labels or are approached by a record label, make sure they have your URLs and other contact information. This will make it easier for them to contact you.

Blogs, forums, and other communication online

Include your MySpace URL on the bottom of all blogs and forum postings. This will help spread the word and peak the interest of those who are on the message boards. While you dont want to promote your page when leaving a comment, it is fine to leave your URL. This is considered your online calling card.

This can be an extremely useful way to market yourself, especially if you are an expert in the topic that is being discussed or know a lot about the music business. People are more apt to look up information of those who leave well written, intelligent responses.

Conclusion

Self-promotion can be very time consuming. While it is one of the most important parts of earning a living as a musician, it is also one of the toughest.

MySpace can make self-promotion easier by introducing you to many types of people on the internet. By promoting your profile page, you are giving others the opportunity to learn more about your and your music.
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The Life And Times Of The Great Wolfgang

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in the sovereign archbishopric of Salzberg, now in Austria in January 1756. His father was one of Europe’s foremost music teachers, who, in the year of Mozart’s birth published a highly influential textbook for the violin. The Mozart biography is unusual.

By the time he was three Mozart’s genius was already in evidence and his proud father was already giving him intensive music lessons in the violin, clavier and organ. By the age of four he could play several pieces and by five he even composed a few. His piano playing was extraordinary as a six year old and he could even play blindfolded.

Mozart had a very unusual childhood, as he accompanied his father all over Europe for several years, beginning with a trip to Bavaria for the 1762 exhibition; on to the Imperial Court in Vienna; then to Prague. During the next three and a half years concert tours took them to many courts all over Europe, including London, Paris and The Hague. After returning home they went on to Vienna in 1767, remaining there for almost a year.

Another year in Salzberg followed then three long trips to Italy. Two particular highlights of this time included Mozart being accepted as a member of the acclaimed Academia Filarmonica; and the occasion when he heard Allegri’s Miserere for the first time in the Sistine Chapel and was able to write it out in full from memory. An astonishing feat.

In 1778 Mozart embarked on a concert tour accompanied by his mother who died in Paris.

By this time of his life Mozart had met many great composers and was a superb concert pianist and composer. He used the style of many of the composers he respected in his earlier music whilst at the same time developing his own.

By 1781 he had become Konzertmaister to the archbishop in Salzberg but after a visit to Vienna he became disenchanted with the strictures of his employer, and was keen to take his music further. Whether he was actually sacked or not is a matter of conjecture, however he moved and settled into Vienna life, and indeed got married to Constanze Weber in 1782, against his father’s wishes.

The year of 1782 was a great one for Mozart; he had success after success with his piano concertos as director and soloist and with his opera “The Abduction from Seraglio”. During this period he became familiar with and studied the Baroque composers, particularly J.S.Bach and G.F.Handel the result of which is very evident in his music of these and subsequent years.

The Mass in B minor, partially written to bring his father and wife together, for she was the soloist in the premier in Salzberg, whilst being a popular success did not bring the two together.

Mozart met and was friendly with Hayden in Vienna, and Hayden was very aware of Mozart’s extraordinary talents. Meanwhile he appeared as a soloist until 1785 enjoying financial success, but by this time he is suspected of having hand injuries, and his composition decreased.

Whilst his lifestyle and suite of 7 rooms were somewhat lavish during this time, entailing his occasional borrowings, he was by no means a pauper. His compositions and commissions from the rich earning him a very good living, and his frequent visits to Prague earned him fame and considerable financial considerations.

There is no doubt that Mozart died at about 1.00am on 5th December 1791. However there is some conjecture as to how long his illness had lasted. It is generally understood that he was pretty healthy until soon before his death, and so the Requiem he did not manage to finish was written during the time when he was healthy.

His family and friends were shocked by his sudden death at such a young age. Mozart was buried, as was the tradition at the time, in a regular communal grave pursuant to he 1784 laws of burial. Memorials were later set up.

This brilliant composer is certainly amongst the Great Composers and despite living only 35 years managed to complete an enormous number of works, most of which we still listen to and enjoy today.

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'Alone' Lyrics– Avril Lavigne

Alone lyrics

Uh uh oh oh oh
Uh uh oh oh oh
Hey man.
Tell me what were you thinking
What the hell were you saying?
Oh come on now,
Stop! and think about it.
Hey now,
maybe you should just listen,
maybe you should stop talking for a second.
Shut up, listen to me.

[CHORUS:]
You're so obvious,
you're so oblivious,
and now you wonder why,
you're the one alone.
So don't apologize,
you don't even realize,
you screwed it up this time
now you're the one alone

Uh uh oh oh oh
Uh uh oh oh oh

Hey bro,
I'm just tryin' to let you know,
you really think that you're special,
oh come on now,
I've seen so much better,
hey there,
did you actually think that I cared?

Don't know if you want to go there,
oh come on now,
keep on, keep on dreaming.

[CHORUS:]
You're so obvious,
you're so oblivious,
and now you wonder why,
you're the one alone.
So don't apologize,
you don't even realize,
you screwed it up this time
now you're the one alone

If you,
want to,
be my,
uh uh oh,
you know,
you can't,
play games,
and you know what I mean,
sorry,
but you don't,
get my,
my-y-y-y,
I'm gone,
you're still,
dreaming,
about me,
over and over and over and over and over again.

[CHORUS:]
You're so obvious,
you're so oblivious,
and now you wonder why,
you're the one alone.
So don't apologize,
you don't even realize,
you screwed it up this time
now you're the one alone

You're so obvious,
you're so oblivious,
and now you wonder why,
you're the one alone.
So don't apologize,
you don't even realize,
you screwed it up this time
now you're the one alone

Uh uh Oh oh oh
Uh uh Oh oh oh
Uh uh Oh oh oh
Uh uh Oh oh oh
Alone.

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Celine Dion Falling Into You Pop Music CD Review

By: Clyde Lee Dennis
One word describes the CD Falling Into You from Celine Dion... AWESOME!

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

Celine Dion possesses the characteristic of being able to win you over with her talent alone. The kind of artist I frankly just flat out enjoy listening to.

If you're even mildly into Pop music you'll enjoy this CD. Overall Falling Into You is an outstanding release. I give it my double thumbs up. You will not be disappointed with one single track.

While the entire CD is really very good some of my favorites are track 2 - Because You Loved Me, track 10 - If Thats What It Takes, and track 14 - Fly

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - It's All Coming Back To Me Now. It’s a great track!

Falling Into You Release Notes:

Celine Dion originally released Falling Into You on March 12, 1996 on the 550 Music label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. It's All Coming Back To Me Now 2. Because You Loved Me (Theme From "Up Close & Personal") 3. Falling Into You 4. Make You Happy 5. Seduces Me 6. All By Myself 7. Declaration Of Love 8. Dreamin' Of You 9. I Love You 10. If That's What It Takes 11. I Don't Know 12. River Deep, Mountain High 13. Call The Man 14. Fly

Personnel includes: Celine Dion (vocals); Gary "Headman" Hasse (conductor, bass); Paul Buckmaster (conductor); Aldo Nova (guitar, synthesizer, drums, percussion, background vocals); Jeff Smallwood, Ottmar Liebert (acoustic guitar); Steve Farris (electric guitar, cavaquinho); Tim Pierce, Eddie Martinez, Michael Thompson, Russ DeSalvo, Andre Coutu, Chris Taylor, Basile Leroux, Patrice Tison (guitar); David Foster (piano, keyboards); Roy Bittan (piano); Jeff Bova (keyboards, synthesized bass, programming); Jimmy Bralower (drums, percussion); Sue Ann Carwell, Carl Carwell (background vocals). Producers include: Jim Steinman, David Foster, Rick Nowels, Billy Steinberg, Ric Wake. Engineers inlcude: Steven Rinkoff, Felipe Elgueta, Humberto Gatica.

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