What do music, chili peppers, bamboo, wine, watermelon, ice cream and Eeyore the donkey from Winnie the Pooh have in common? They all have festivals devoted to them in Austin or nearby towns. In fact, there are so many festivals of all kinds in the Au...

Corporate clients have the most interesting ideas for promoting products/concepts on CDs or DVDs. These tend to be the more creative/specialist packaging ideas. If you are at a conference/seminar where CDs & DVDs are handed out, the packaging for this ...

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - The prestigious LA Music Awards has nominated Kris Searle for Best Record of the Year and Best Male Vocal. London recording artist Kris Searle's new Album Slowly Diabolical has been receiving rave reviews and accolades from music pro...

Reggaeton is a style of music which began during the early 1980's with a few pioneering artists. However, it was not until the 1990's that the Reggaeton style took root and from that time onward it has continued to grow in popularity and flourish. Current...

Like choosing the perfect partner, knowing the guitar that fits your music personality is of crucial importance before you start your music lessons. Here is a list of guitars and guitar styles you can choose from. Electric guitars are popular these day...

One effective way to do is to prepare a list of your favorite songs then start with practicing with those. If you like what you’re playing, then you will have the drive to learn it faster. The process of learning chords can also be a lot easier if y...

First of all, a good guitar player starts with learning the basics. One must be able to exercise the fingers well with various chord transitions, and rhythm. If you are very much open to all the frustrations that come with this new undetaking, then you ar...

Chords and tabs are two different things. Chords can be played as easily as memorizing some patterns, while tabs can be much more detailed and specific. And if you really consider having a long-term career in the guitar music circles, being adept in the m...

One of the basic lessons that you need to know and learn is to read guitar tabs. A guitar tab is a specialized notation made by guitarists for guitarists. It is quite different from the solfeggio learned by pianists and other classical instruments. It has...

The abovementioned quotation was from the legendary guitarist Andres Segovia. It is by far the most appropriate description given to everyone’s favorite musical instrument – the guitar. Guitars are arguably the most popular and widely used among th...

I red few years ago an article that hip hop music alienate the youth from the society. I think this can not be true, because hip hop community is a society. It can be true that people can lose the sense of reality, when they are in touch with an art and t...

Americans disagree, often fanatically, on the definition of a barbecue. In Texas, where I come from, for example, it means smoking meat — most prominently brisket, sausage and ribs — “low and slow,” with indirect heat from hardwood coals; variants...

That, probably, is the exact rationale behind the invention of guitar tablatures, more commonly known as guitar tabs. Before, if you did not study music, it would be extra difficult for you to learn a song as you may need to listen over and over again to ...

No wonder the influence of 20th century guitar gods has sank in into the mindset of the generation of rock and roll way beyond the boundaries of music. Lots of bands and solo artists today have been inspired to be at par with their very own guitar hero wi...

Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock is the third installment in the Guitar Hero series of music video games developed by Neversoft. It was first released for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Soon after, it was developed for Playstation 2 and then in 2007, was r...