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If you want know about Indian music, then you have to know about Hindu beliefs, views and philosophy as it is believed that Indian music is originated from them. It won’t be unfair to say that the Indian music is one of the oldest and admired forms of the music in any tradition in the world. Originated from the Vedas, Indian classical music has been considered as the most legendry form of Indian music. Indian music has been getting recognized worldwide for its essence. In fact, Hindu music is classified into three types such as:
• Classical music
• Devotional music and
• Other music genres.
A perfect blend of vocal, music, instrumental music and dance, Indian music has ability to show musical excellence. Music in India has diversity; therefore culture, history and innovations come together for making songs impressing. Raga and Tal have been considered as two pillars of Indian music.
Classical Music
Classical music is a whole music structures with 12 tones and 7 basic swaras such as Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Sa. And the music has two basic forms including:
1. Hindustani classical music
2. Carnatic music
Devotional Music
Songs like Kirtans and Bhajans devoted to God come under devotional music. Kirtans derived from the Vedic traditions; while Bhajans express devotion to God. If you want to know about music, musicians or music concerts, you can browse www.in.com as the portal offers all latest updates in the music industry from the comfort of your home.
Other Musical Genres
Folk music, regional music, etc. come under the other musical genres. The regional music is performed across the different states of India in different languages. They are played with different types of musical instruments.
Finding the Collection of Classical Indian Music
www.in.com, managed by Network 18, offers millions of classical collections of the Indian music to its users. Users can register themselves with the portal if they want. The registration process is hassle free and consumes very less time. You can share your collection and deliver your comments across the available communities without any hurdles within least time.
In.com provides latest music Bollywood Music, music songs and downloadable music of different types of movies and albums. Here you can find a unique collections of Indian Music, Hindi songs, music videos and free songs.

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Developing a Good Guitar Practice Routine
by Jerry Lunsford

Developing a good practice routine is essential to becoming a better guitarist. Many whose progress is either slow or non existent may be linked to their practice routine, or lack of one. While practice can make perfect, it’s better to say that practicing perfectly will make you perfect. I want to introduce you to a daily routine that will speed up your progress.

You will need four things:

1. Metronome
2. Book of scales
3. Easy level songbook (of your style of music)
4. A notebook

The metronome gives off intermittent beeps at different intervals depending on what tempo it is set at. If you set it at 60 beats per minute, it will beep 60 times in one minute. It can also be set to different notes such as single or whole notes, eighth notes, triplets….etc. It will help you to develop a perfect tempo.

A book of scales or at least learn the fingerings of the scales in the style of music you wish to play. For me it’s blues and flamenco. So for the blues I would practice the minor pentatonic and blues scales up and down the neck. This is just not overall good practice, but it will also prepare you for when you want to begin to improvise your own music. So when your good you’ll be ready. That’s why I say, make it in the scales of the music of your choice.

I suggest a easy level song or instruction book for two reasons. One. It gets boring spending all your time practicing. And two, you’ll want to see the benefits of your practice routine. As for the easy level, the songs are easy to finish, easy to perfect and will also help give you a sense of accomplishment rather then to choose a more advanced music book where you may become frustrated at your progression.

A notebook is essential in documenting your practice routine. With it you will log what scale, song or some form of practice you are working on and at what tempo. Also, outline where you are having problems which will allow for you to focus on trouble spots rather then spend time on things that you are proficient at. Now lets put all this together into a daily practice routine in the order in which they should be performed.

To help you become familiar with the fretboard and to get your hand used to fretting in different positions, I suggest you start with the chromatic scale. The chromatic scale basically covers the entire fretboard going up and down the strings in order. Set your metronome at 60 bpm. Put your 1st finger on the 1st string on the 1st fret. Pick the note then 2nd finger 2nd fret picking that note then 3rd, then 4th. Then move your 1st finger to the 2nd fret, pick that note and your 2nd finger will then be on the 3d fret. Continue doing this until your 1st finger is on the 12th fret. Then start moving back up to the 1st fret. Then do the same with all other strings. If you do well at 60 bpm move up to 70, then 80 and so forth. But only move up to a higher BPM if you are doing good without error. Record the results in your notebook so you will know what to do for your next practice session.

For instance. If you had various problems such as missing notes or not fretting the note properly where it rings out clearly. Or maybe difficulty with the 5th and 6th strings or 11th and 12th frets. You would document this stating exactly what the problems were so you could focus your next practice routine on those areas. Then you would log at what BPM you had the metronome set at for that practice. In this case it would be 60. Because of the difficulty you had you would stay at 60 until you could do the entire chromatic scale without any mistakes. Now lets work on scales.

When first starting with scales learn the fingerings of each pattern of the scale. For instance. To practice the first pattern of the minor pentatonic scale you would do the following. Set your metronome at 60 bpm. Put your 1st finger on the 1st fret of the 6th string. Play the note, then use your 4th finger on the 4th fret of the 6th string. Then 1st finger, 1st fret 5th string. Then 3rd finger, 3rd fret, 5th string. Continue this until your 4th finger lands on the 4th fret, 1st string. At this point play that note again then head back the way you came until you end up with your 1st finger back on the 1st fret, 6th string. Do this over several times at 60 bpm until you perfect it.

Then take the next pattern of the scale staying in the same position and do the same thing with that pattern as you did with the one before. Go through all scale patterns several times or until you perfect them. Document the results in your notebook. If you had some difficulties, state what those difficulties were and for your next practice routine you would focus on those difficult areas. But once you successfully perfect all scale patterns in the first position at 60 bpm move your 1st finger down to the 4th fret and do the same in this position as you did at the first. Do this all the way down to the 12th fret. Then start over at the first fret moving your bpm to at least 70 or 80 whichever you can handle. These scale exercises will develop the fingerings for the type of music you will play. Now get out your songbook.

If you are a beginner and like the blues you should have a blues beginner level instruction manual or an easy blues songbook. The instruction manual is what I suggest for the beginner, as it has various exercises with introductions to music theory. Again. Go through the book documenting in your notebook your successes and failures. When you get to a song, go through that song working one measure at a time until you can play through the entire song at tempo and without stopping. Even as you progress through the book come back to those songs you first learned and play through them at least once. This will not only help you to perfect the song but will also help you to perfect your technique. Perfect everything that you do. Once you have completed all of these exercises which should take no more then 15 to 20 minutes, you will have in your hands a good practice routine.

In closing, to get the most from your practice time be consistent with the manner in which you practice. If you find the perfect way to fret a note, do it that way from now on. If moving your hand a certain way produces good results, practice that movement over and over again. And do not move forward with any concept or exercise until you have adequately learned it. Otherwise, as you advance, you will not have learned some basic principal that will be necessary for you to move forward. You’ll continue to be stuck in a beginner’s level until you do learn it. But if you continue with a serious practice routine, you will in no time develop your skills beyond the typical guitarist. One last bit of advice. Enjoy what you’re doing, and have fun with it!

Article By The Self Taught Guitarist A website dedicated to the self-taught guitarist. With guitar tips, articles, helps, free lessons, and suggested gear to help you to succeed in teaching yourself to play the guitar.

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There are still lots of people who wants to buy original Cd’s of their favorite artist, but you don’t need to be bother by those thoughts of going from one store to the other because many retail shops now have their own online sites that offers online services with big big discounts and even offers free music downloads.
The internet is also the top place to upload and promote your own recorded music for those who are freelancer artist. There are a lot of independent music websites where you can create your own profile, update fans with your news and even sell your own music that can play your music through internet radio stations, and for any music downloads and mp3 or CD sales. Through internet you can either make your own music and expose it to people by simply buying a music production and creation software by means of downloading it to your own personal computer. Plus a good sound card and microphone you can make your own beats for your music and record it. And if you want to learn about music or study your favorite instrument or have some tips on how to improve your skills about music, internet is the top solution for it. A lot of site offers those kind of services such as those music blogs and websites as well as those music forums.
Some would think that online music through internet are just hassle/osbstruction especially for those who own reatil shops and people that dwells on traditional manner of living. But I definitely disagree, the internet has totally given the whole world enormous opportunity to explore and and share knowledge even your skills, promoting oneself and build your own business like, Ijango,are now possible.. Many things can now be search through internet even those obsolete music can be heard now through online music in internet. Almost all benefits are gained, from known to unknown artist and fans especially the music industry. Through internet, online music has connected many people most especially those music lovers, songwriters, producers and the musicians itself. It opens the opportunities for those artist who are not well known even those people who don’t belong in industry who wants to build own names in music industry. By their exposure they easily get fame and sell their masterpiece.
Online music are much more accessible rather than spending your time wandering in retail shops. It is just a click away. Having your computer at home with internet and a friendly atmosphere surely you will have good time listening to your favorite music even watching the video of that music.
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There are so many guitar courses available online that it can be misleading trying to decide what to go with. I had the Learn and Master Guitar course is about 4 weeks and thought I would share your opinion about it. Learn and master guitar online is not loaded of course. You will receive all educational materials by mail which I like because I do not always want to practice in front of the computer. I was impressed from the moment I am of course from professional to see it.
Like anything else you get what you pay for. Compared with the average price for online courses guitar learn and Master Guitar seems a bit expensive but having passed it I think it is well worth the cost. I play the guitar for about thirty years but I took a short course and I started a course from the outset to see how they go teaching beginners.
There are twenty full-length DVDs which contain lessons. DVDs have a very professional quality. From the very first step every thing is explained very clearly and moved to ensure that you fully understand what you need to know. Lecturer and author of the course Steve Krenz a studio and an artist living in Nashville Tennessee and he received a degree in music recording. His method of teaching makes it very easy to follow and understand what he says. At the end of each lesson he passes on all the exercises should be practiced and he will deal with you that you never lost or confused.
All lesson material is also in a printed book lesson. There is also jam along CD follow the course that allows you to apply what you learned by playing along with songs that are configured to what you just learned. The lessons follow the steps of the method of learning all aspects of guitar playing even learning and understanding to read music is explained very clearly. This is one aspect of learning guitar that most online courses do not teach you. You get a complete picture of how work on the guitar.
Even the intermediate recording studio will benefit greatly from this course. About a fifth DVD I find much that I never heard and understood. These lessons as a private instructor of guitar at your disposal when you want. Also included in the rate of access to the members only online forum where you talk with other students and Steve himself so you will never get lost or confused about anything in the course.
If you are serious about actually learning to play guitar and not just learn some chords to play a few songs I highly recommend Learn and master guitar. This is the only way the guitar you need. If you are a beginner this course will probably take you a year to go but you will be an accomplished guitarist. My would suggest that the lessons of this course is likely to cost at least $2000 in private lessons. If you are serious about learning to play guitar learn and master guitar worth checking out. It comes with a full 60 day money back guarantee so you really have nothing to lose.

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