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Click Here for more informationWith the increasing popularity of rock music during the last few decades, playing the guitar has become very appealing for many people. While there are many teenagers out there who dream of becoming rock superstars, there are also many people that want to learn how to play the guitar just for the sake of it. However, many of them don't find the best way to learn guitar and after a few unsuccessful attempts, they finally give up.
Different people have different learning needs. In addition, we also have different resources, different jobs, different errands to run and different schedules. If you're not at the level you want, maybe it's because you haven't found the best way to learn guitar yet. There are several ways to learn how to play the guitar. Listed below are only a few of them.
Theory Books
There are thousands of theory books on the market that teach you how to play the guitar. Some of them are even very good and can provide you with all the information you need. Books are an inexpensive and comfortable strategy to learn how to play the guitar. Unfortunately, experience shows that for many of us they just don't work. However, if you are a very patient person, a theory book might be the best way to learn guitar.
Video Lessons
Video Guitar Lessons are available on DVDs and video tapes in almost any music store, as well as on virtual shops. In addition, there are also some video lessons available online. Some of them are even free. Video lessons are more dynamic and have a better chance of keeping you focused. They have the advantage of allowing you to practice at home whenever you find the time to do it. However, the inconvenience is that you can't benefit from the personalized attention and useful feedback a teacher could provide.
Private Lessons
If you are willing to dedicate a lot of time as well as some money to this, private lessons are definitely the best way to learn guitar. A good teacher can design a customized teaching program to suit your learning style and provide you with individualized attention and positive feedback to get you motivated. In addition, he/she can also spot and correct your mistakes very fast.
Learning by Ear
Learning the guitar by ear can be very fun, especially if you have some sort of musical bone in your body, and that bone is humming with lots of vibration, you might find that this is the best way to learn guitar for you. With the modern slowing down technology, it is much easier now than it used to be for our parents' generation.
You should always keep in mind that playing the guitar should be fun. If you find it difficult or stressing, your learning strategy might have a lot to do with it. Sometimes you need to try several learning methods before finding the one that works best for you. However, if you really want to play the guitar like a pro and have enough time and money, taking up private lessons is probably the best way to go
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Whether you collect antique music boxes, vintage music boxes, ballerina music boxes for your ballerina room décor, wooden keepsake boxes, or musical jewelry boxes, disc music boxes also make lovely collectibles. Here are ten more unique disc music boxes to choose from.
The Fortuna
This music box was made by Julius H Zimmerman. He actually took over the Adler products and then subsequently changed the name to "Fortuna". Upright and horizontal items were made. The trademark is an eagle with spread wings holding in its beak a ribbon which has the word "patented" on it, with "schutzmark" above, and "trade mark" below.
Gloria Disc Box
This box comes in two disc sizes of 11 ¾ inches and 18 ¼ inches. Standard combs were used and both upright and horizontal items were manufactured by Societe Anonyme.
Gloria
This is not the same as the "Gloria" box mentioned above. This twin disc model, made by Paul Ehrlich and Company, played 26 ½ inch discs.
Harmonia
The "Harmonia" disc music box ranged in size from 8 inches to 16 inches and was made by Harmonia SA.
Imperator
The trademark of this disc box has the word "Imperator" enclosed within a circle with a flaming torch separating the word "trade mark" attached on a stamped medallion and cast on the bedplate. This box was made between 1893-1900.
Imperial Symphonion
This collectible item was manufactured by the Symphonion Manufacturing Company.
Junghas
The Junghas disc music box trade mark is a "J" within a star on the disc. It was made by Junghanssche Uhrenfabrik.
Kalliope
This interesting music box came in both upright and horizontal positions. Some even had bells. The disc sizes ranged form 5 ¾ inches to 29 ½ inches.
Komet
Komet Musikwerke made the Komet disc music box though the model was actually introduced by Franz louis Bauer in 1894. Of the two styles, the earlier style had the disc without projections. Also the 33 ¼ inch one was played on ahuge upright machine with a bell accompaniment.
Libellion
This truly was a unique disc music box. Made by Fredrich Adolf Richter and Company, it had a unique system of folding cardboard strips (music books).
Collecting items such as music boxes is an enjoyable hobby. Whether you are collecting antique music boxes, vintage music boxes, ballerina music boxes for your ballerina room décor, wooden keepsake boxes, or musical jewelry boxes, you also may wish to consider adding any one of these specialized disc music boxes. They truly will add beauty and value to your collection.
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Click Here for more informationWhen you were a kid did you use those paint by numbers projects? Many people have fond memories of paint by numbers. It hearkens back to their childhood and a more innocent time. Do you recall those pictures, with all the lines and the different numbers, and each number corresponded to a different color? I sure do, and they were great fun.
All of the colors came in a little package with the picture, and at the end you were supposed to get a picture that looked like the picture on the box or on the back of the package. It didn't usually work out that way, but I remember that I gave my best shot. For kids, these paint by numbers kits eventually got to the point where very little actual painting was needed, and soon just getting the paper a bit wet magically produced the color for you. There were a lot of take-up is on this concept and continues to be today. Kids can still get traditional paint by numbers kits though, and produce wonderful watercolor pictures of whatever subject matter is available.
In the 1950’s, though, this was considered to be an actual art form, every bit as valid as oil painting and sculpture. You could take classes in paint by numbers, and many hobbyists took up paint by numbers, painting very nice copies of other people’s art and happily framing them or having them professionally framed and hanging them on the wall. They even had copies of the classics such as Picasso and Renoir.
People actually had jobs creating paint by numbers pictures, which must have been an interesting way to make a living. For those that used paint by numbers it was a wonderful way for some month otherwise would have limited artistic talent to create beautiful masterpieces.
Some individuals even honed their skills with the paint by numbers and became accomplished artists in their own rights, creating their own works of art. But the vast majority were simply more than happy to create whatever set up was included in and hang them proudly on their walls.
It was still an accomplishment in something that people enjoyed doing. It was a nice way to dabble, yet still having the certainty of knowing what your masterpiece would look like at the end. Believe it or not, paint by numbers pictures actually became rather popular and could be seen in many homes.
Paint by numbers allowed people to begin using their free time to do a craft. It was a wonderful way to pass the time and just great keepsakes. And just because the numbers were there, didn’t always mean you had to follow them. Of course, paint by numbers artists were limited by the drawings that the cake came with, but that wasn't always the case. Many of the artists individualized their work by altering the picture slightly, perhaps blurring some of the lines, perhaps by omitting a part of the picture that they did not like. And of course having full discretion of which colors to use and where.
Paint by numbers was a rather fascinating phenomenon, and its popularity still surprises people even now. I know it surprised me. I always thought of it as something that small children did. Paint by numbers was nice though because it actually allowed the average person to create a wonderful work of art by their own hand.
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If you have the desire to play the piano but neither the time, the funds, nor the inclination it takes to devote to full time study why not try chord piano or more simply learning chords. Most chord piano is learned by self instruction through books and videos and contrary to popular belief you can be playing your first song in the time it takes to read this article.
With chord piano you will learn the specific notes that make up different chords, the formula that creates them in any key and then spend more time playing them over and over, usually in songs, training your hands to memorize their positioning. Of course it's not that cut and dried and there is a bit more to it. To be truly effective you should learn your scales, be able to read a smattering of sheet music and practice in more keys than just C. But once you start you will wonder where chords have been all your life.
Chords are multifaceted and you can play them in such a way that people think you are playing the most difficult sheet music imaginable or you can happily play full chords with such rhythm and finesse in both hands that as you accompany family and friends they will stare in amazement as they sing merrily along.
Okay so I'm exaggerating, but just a bit.
Let's get you started.
Each piano has a total of 88 keys (electric keyboards can have less). These keys are both black and white and are set in a specific pattern up and down the piano. As you move to the left on the piano the sounds get lower and deeper. As you move to the right the sounds become higher.
The first part of this specific pattern has two black keys. The key to the left of the first black key in the two black key pattern is the C note. For some reason this is the easiest note to remember and find on the piano. The white piano keys are named for the first 7 letters of the alphabet. Starting with C, C-D-E-F-G-A-B-and back to C. Although the alphabet begins with A when thinking musically you will find that your starting point will be the letter C. As you move along your musical path in life this C note will become as familiar as the A.
Now since we are only taking a brief look at chords so you can get an idea of the concept we will stay in the key of C. In the key of C the notes are C-D-E-F-G-A-B-and back to C (just the same as the white keys). Let's also number these keys 1 to 8 beginning with C.
A Major Chord is built from the 1st, the 3rd, and the 5th note of a scale of the same name. For example C Major chord is built from the 1=C, the 3=E, and the 5=G. So C-E-G is the C Major chord.
Now let's number your fingers from thumb to pinky in both hands 1-5. Match up the C Major chord, C-E-G to the 1,3 and 5 of your fingers. C on 1, E on 3, and G on 5. If you have a keyboard or piano go to it and play these fingers on these notes in both hands. Sounds pretty huh?
Want to try a song? Keep playing this C chord in the left hand and try counting as you play it. Count 1,2,3,4 playing the C chord on count 1 only.
Remember those notes from the key of C? C-D-E-F-G-A-B-and back to C. We're going to use them now. So in the right hand the thumb is number 1 and lands on C, 2 is D, 3 is E etc.
So let's play the E with the 3rd finger 2 times.
Now play the 4th finger on the F key once.
Now play the 5th finger on the G key once.
In other words, E-E-F-G. And while playing this play the C chord with your left hand at the same time you play the first E.
What you have now played is the first bar of Joyful Joyful. Congratulations!
I encourage you to look further in to playing the piano with chords. There are many, I mean many books out there to help you on your way.
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When we count we go from1 to 10 and repeat that pattern of 10 by going from11 to 20, and 21 - 3 and so on. In music we use the alphabet instead of numbers and it is A B C D E F G (7 notes) and repeat with A B C D E F G A and so on. However we tend to talk in 8 note structures in music i.e. A B C D E F G A so we are back to the starting note this give us the 8 notes. This is called an octave, the oct part being Latin i.e. eight think; octopus, octagon and we will pass over the month of October as an anomaly. So we have an 8 note pattern that is called an octave and abbreviated to 8ve.
An 8ve can start on any note, all it has to do is progress through the musical alphabet and finish on the note it starts on. An 8ve can go from B to B i.e. B C D E F G A B or from C to C....C D E F G A B C.
Chords are made from notes taken from a scale. If we take those notes and play them together we have a chord. Some notes sound better together than others and the 1st, 3rd & 5th notes (also called degrees) of the scale are used as the building blocks of all other chords and the 1st 3rd & 5th degrees are called a major chord because of it's importance. Sometimes other notes are added into the mix, taken out or altered and in order to understand this we need to look at Steps and Half-Steps (Nth America) also called Tones and Semi-Tones (mostly the rest of the world).
Steps and Half-Steps (Tones & SemiTones).
On a guitar a Half-Step is the same as moving up or down from one fret to the next on the same string. A Step is equal to two frets up or down. A scale has a set order of half-steps and steps and regardless of which note you start form the pattern goes the first note then Step-Step-Half Step-Step-Step-Step-Half Step which places us back on the first note the 8ve. We can thank that ancient Greek mathematician dude Pythagoras for dividing an 8ve into this pattern, he played with a string fixed at each end and divided it into sections according to the harmonics and overtones that the string produced - heavy.
Using the C scale we have; C to D is a step, D to E is a step, E - F is a half-step, F - G is a step, G - A is a step, A to B is a step and B - C (8ve) is a half-step. E to F and B to C are half-steps, all the rest are steps. So you can work your way up and down the guitar neck and figure out a scale the name of the scale is taken from the first note. I'm sure you're wondering about the half-steps that are on the fret in-between the steps. These are the Sharps and Flats using the symbols # (sharp, greater than) and b (flat, less than). For example; the C scale; C to D is a step and in-between is C# (C sharp), D to E is a step and in-between is D# (D sharp), F# is between F & G, G# is between G & A, A# is between A & B. That takes care of the sharps. Some scales have sharps in them and some have flats and C is the only scale that has neither. When the scales have flats the note between C & D is named Db (D flat), the note between D & E is Eb and so on. This tells us that the in-between notes can be a sharp or a flat depending on the scale, i.e. between C & D the note can be either C# or Db. This applies to all other notes that are a step apart.
If we work up the notes on the 6th - E string the notes/frets would run; E - F - F#/Gb - G -G#/Ab - A - A#/Bb - B - C - C#/Db - D - D#/Eb - E which is the 8ve on the 12 fret, the pattern then starts again with the next 8ve.
There are many versions of each chord however they are broken into two main groups; Major and Minor chords.
Major Chords
Major chords are made up from particular notes from a scale and a Major scale uses the 1st 3rd and 5th degrees. When we strum a chord that has six strings (notes) we may have 3 of the 1st note, 1 of the 3rd note and 2 of the 5th note, however we still only have the 1st 3rd & 5th notes. For example; Scale of C; C D E F G A B C and the 1 3 5 notes are C E G, this is a C Major chord. We don't usually say the Major part so a C Major chord is usually just spoken as C.
Minor Chords
The only difference between a major and a minor is the 3rd degree, it is lowered a half-step. E is the 3rd degree of the C scale so it would become Eb. Cm (C minor) would then use the 1st b3rd 5th degrees of the scale. This would give us C Eb G as the Cm chord.
The next bit to understand is chords that have a 7 in them. If we look at the C scale again then we see that B is the 7th and you would be correct to think OK we add the B into the chord. Well, guitarists being a strange breed will place a b7 into the chord instead of the 7, so B would become Bb. All 7 chords would read 1 3 5 b7. However when we speak or write the chord we do not mention the b we would say and write C7 or G 7. Now to confuse even more there is a chord called a major 7 e.g. Cmaj7 and in this chord we use the true 7th degree, so Cmaj7 reads 1 3 5 7 as would all other maj7 chords. To re-cap; any 7 chord - 1 3 5 b7 and any major7 chord - 1 3 5 7. That part is the worst of it.
If you are interested in the reasoning behind this it is.....technically speaking when we lower the 7th degree of a scale by a half-step the 7 becomes a minor 7 and would be written as Cm7 in a however as a guitarist we would understand the minor to be the b3rd and the 7 to be the b7 so Cm7 to a guitarist would be 1 b3 5 b7 when we should be using 1 3 5 b7 which is C7. Also we cannot write Cb7 as it looks as the b refers to the C and not the 7 so we would have a Cb chord with a 7 added into it so through necessity guitarists say and write it a 7.
Chords with 11 13 15 in them.
If we link two scales one after the other we have 16 notes rather than 8 so 11 13 15 chords have a note from the next 8ve added into them. Please note here that once we get into the second 8ve all chords need to also have the b7 in them. C11 would read 1 3 5 b7 11, and C13 would be 1 3 5 b7 13. You're probably thinking at this point that there aren't enough fingers for the job. We can omit other degrees from the mix. The 5th can be left out and if need be the 1st can also go. The 3rd must remain so we know which group (major or minor) the chord belongs to.
Slash Chords
e.g. C/G The first entry C is the chord and the G refers to the bass note that is in the bottom of the chord. C/G would read G C E G i.e. a C chord with G in the bass. All notes after the / refer to a note that needs to be in the bass of the chord. Other examples; Am/E puts an E note in the bas of the chord, D7/F# puts an F# note in the bass of a D7 chord.
Below is a list of chords showing the degrees of the scale.
Major - 1 3 5
Minor - 1 b3 5
7 - 1 3 5 b7
Minor 7 - 1 b3 5 b7
6 - 1 3 5 6
Minor 6 - 1 b3 5 6
9 - 1 3 5 b7 9
Minor 9 - 1 b3 5 b7 9
11 - 1 3 5 b7 11
Minor 11 - 1 b3 5 b7 11
13 - 1 3 5 b7 13
Minor 13 - 1 b3 5 b7 13
Major 7 - 1 3 5 7
Augmented - 1 3 #5
+9 - 1 3 5 9
sus2 - 1 2 5
sus4 - 1 4 (5)
½ Diminished - 1 b3 b5 b7
Diminished - 1 b3 b5 bb7
Chords and examples of how they are written.
DMajor - D
CMinor - Cm
E7 - E7
CMaj7- CMaj7
AMinor7 - Am7
F9 - F9
Gadd9 - G+9 or Gadd9
A11 - A11 or Am11
Bb13 - Bb13
CDiminished - C0 or Cdim
D½ Diminished - D or D½ dim
F#sus2 - F#sus2
Asus4 - Asus4
DAugmented - D+ or Daug5
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Click Here for more informationThere are many ways to paint a guitar body, some are simple, some are multi-staged and hard to follow. I'm going to try to keep this tutorial simple and hopefully you will be able to paint your guitar body without wanting to kill me.
The truth is you should not expect your first guitar painting job to be any good. You might have to do it a few times before you get to the stage where you have the confidence to paint the body of a guitar you really treasure.
You can buy aerosol cans of paint for car bodies that will do the job on your guitar or you can buy guitar paint in cans that will duplicate your popular Fender or Gibson colors. You will do well to get a face mask and goggles unless you plan on your lungs and eyeballs matching your guitar. The alternative to cans is a spray gun in which case you will get a better finish that needs less sanding.
Wherever you choose to do your painting, make sure you remove the neck and hang your guitar from a taut wire so that you can walk around it concentrating on spraying without having to stop and move the guitar.
For more information and more tutorials in painting your guitar body, you must visit The Guitar ReRanch website. This is the place to go if you need some more info on whatever stage of repainting you are at.
Your guitar will already have a coat of lacquer on it and this must be removed totally before you can begin to add a new coat of paint. There are lots of chemicals that will strip the paint off your guitar, many of which will have no hesitation in killing you if you go near them with your mouth open. Get advice on which lacquer removal product is best to start with on your particular guitar.
If you have experience in painting, which I hope you have, you know the kind of surface you need to get down to. The guitar, if it is getting a complete repaint, should be a nice sanded down palette waiting for your artistic interventions. Any holes and dents should be filled.
The final coat of paint for your guitar body will look as good as the layers of primer beneath it. You took great care on your sanding and now you need to do a careful priming job. Now you can give your primed guitar a nice light sanding. Your surface should be smooth. At this stage, if you are a beginner to this kind of work, you will be starting to want the job to hurry up and get finished. Don't be tempted to rush. If you are sick and tired of all the effort, take a day off.
Keep applying coats of paint till you are happy with the color you have achieved. This means maybe six coats. Then a clear coat of lacquer. Hang the guitar up to dry for a month so that the lacquer is hardened.
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