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  • Trance Resource  By : Trance FIX
    Trance FIX - #1 Your Trance Resource
  • Unlimited Free Music Downloads  By : John Banks
    OVER 9 BILLION FILES UNLIMITED MUSIC DOWNLOADS, VIDEOS, LIVE CONCERTS,TV SHOWS, AND MORE
  • Free PSP Game Downloads - Portable Playstation  By : John Banks
    The PSP is a very versatile piece of equipment. It allows portability for playing games in the form of small UMD disc that you can easily carry around.
  • Free PSP Games, Movies & More  By : John Banks
    Free PSP Games, Movies, & More!

    Search & Download unlimited PSP movies & much more! Not only movies!
  • Zune vs. iPod: Which is Right for You?  By : Paul Colligan
    Different people have different needs, and different media players suit them best. Here's a quick rundown of the features of the iPod and the Microsoft Zune so you can make an informed choice.
  • Microsoft's Zune Caters to Your Personality  By : Paul Colligan
    Looking for a digital media player that's all you? The Microsoft Zune has more options for personalization than other players, and lets you share your faves with your friends.
  • Microsoft Zune Lets You Pass the Music On  By : Paul Colligan
    With the Microsoft Zune digital media player you can listen to all your favorite songs and podcasts and share your favorite media with your friends completely wirelessly.
  • Find Your Tune with Zune Software  By : Paul Colligan
    Zune software is the place to find music, videos and pictures for use on the Microsoft Zune. Here's a sneak peak at how the software works and what it can do for you.
  • A Quick Guide to Zune Accessories  By : Paul Colligan
    The Micosoft Zune is great right out of the box, but with the right accessories you can have the ultimate digital media machine. Here's a quick look at some of the must-have Zune accessories.
  • Kate Nash Site!!  By : Jonesy
    katenash.net : for all your latest info, media, gigs, forum, comps & much much more!!
  • Musicmaza.com Is a Wonderful Resource for Bollywood & Pakistani Songs and Online Videos  By : XiberGuru
    I was recently searching online for some recent Bollywood movie songs. I knew I wanted to find the song “Mitwa” from the Bollywood movie Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna.
  • Role of Music at workplace  By : morgan
    This article is all about the benefits of music at workplace. Music helps to relieve stress at workplace. Recent study and researches have confirmed that music contributes towards better performance by employees.
  • Shakespeare has well said  By : Irissa
    Shakespeare has well said “If music be the food of soul, then play on”. Surely, music puts a balm on all your worries and it sooths and relaxes your mind. And music has been regarded as the voice of the soul too.
  • Active Production Music "Changing The Rate Card Regime"  By : Marie Penlington
    Active Production Music, www.activeproductionmusic.com , launched a brand new way to buy production music in the UK in 2005 by taking the unprecendented step of operating outside the MCPS rate card. This means they can offer prices at least 50% cheaper than what AV clients have been used to paying without sacrificing quality.
  • Starting a Band  By : Netvalar
    When starting a band you want similar minded people to share with. Also think hard about what instruments you want to be involved with. Being part of a band is about joining together as individuals to share some great joint masterpieces. Other great masterpieces can be made with others too though.
  • Consumption of Music on a Rise  By : Justin Burge
    Music is being consumed in more ways than one and at a higher rate then every before. The MTV generation is use to not only hearing their music but seeing it as well. If they see a song that they like they can then buy that songs in multiple media forms from vinyl and CD to digital with DRM (digital rights management) and Mp3 without DRM.
  • Unsigned Artists: Succeed Without a Record Label  By : Lathum
    Unsigned artists have a greater chance of success today than ever before. On one hand, composing and performing songs without the shadow of a struggling record label hanging overhead leaves musicians free to express themselves instinctively from the soul. On the other, it requires a lot of work behind the scenes, but can offer can offer greater rewards in return.
  • Band Merchandise: Promote and Support your Music  By : Lathum
    The rewards of creating music range from the deep satisfaction of writing a new song to the glowing pride of a successful performance. These feelings bolster our confidence, but do little to compensate for the financial investment often tied to making music. While selling your music via CDs and downloads is a good start, you should also consider investing in band merchandise to promote your band and cover the cost of instruments, rehearsal spaces, recording equipment and more.
  • Metallica: Master Of Puppets  By : Nirvana
    This article reviews Metallica's "Master Of Puppets" album.
  • Download Music for Free - A Hot Issue  By : Harry Rackers
    More and more people are using the Internet to download music and various other soft-wares for free. This downloading is a hot legal and ethical issue, and it probably will stay a hot issue for a long time to come. Whatever you do is your decision, but if you use the Internet to download for free, make sure you are well protected.
  • New York's Opera Society  By : GianniTruvianni
    Chapter 1
    Getting Ready to Go to the First Opera Performance of the Season
  • Pavorotti You Will Be Remembered  By : GianniTruvianni
    Pavorotti has gone but his voice will always stay with us
  • Music And Movies Download Sites - Are They A Scam?  By : Harry Rackers
    The so called download sites are under attack.
    In America the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Hollywood's MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) are trying to shut them down, and seasoned Internet users are calling them a scam. Do they deserve this?
  • Truth and Inside About Napster  By : I Ling
    Provide facts and truth about Napster. Have some snap shots on the goods and service, the pros and cons of Napster.
  • Talkin’ ‘Bout DIY Generation.  By : Jay Harris
    File sharing and advances in technology have had a big impact on the modern music industry. The infallible industry giants still rule supreme even though they have been subjected to a loss in income but could there be a new threat bubbling under the surface in the form of little Joe Average?
  • Find Rare DVDs  By : Kausik Dutta
    It’s frustrating once you’ve fallen in love with a particular movie or TV show and can’t find the DVD anywhere. You search and search all the most popular websites for purchasing DVDs to no avail. Your search is about to come to an end. RareTV.co.uk has all of the rarest DVDs that you’ve been looking for.
  • Online Music Sharing  By : Kevin Cantera
    Floating around in the Internet, all just a mouse click away, are hundreds and hundreds of songs, the songs that you love, the soundtrack of your life, that favorite ditty, the melody you first heard as a kid and have loved ever since, the album that you grew up on. It is all so very available smack dab in the middle of cyber space. No need for a trip to the neighborhood music shop.
  • zensho and to live complete japanese music forms:Gagaku  By : T M Jordan
    Overview of Japanese court music called Gagaku. Discussion of style, form, and instrumentation as well as contrast to Western music ideas. gagaku has and still provides a time-capsule look into the court music of old Japan.
  • Meet People Online via Music Sharing  By : Kevin Cantera
    What could be better than having the very best music in the world at your fingertips, sorted by style, genre, group, or album? How about this – all that music plus a way to meet new and exciting people all at the same time! Sounds great, doesn’t it? Just like a match made in Heaven – discover some great friends while you discover some great tunes.
  • Mobile Music Sharing  By : Kevin Cantera
    Sales of portable music players are booming, and phone manufacturers would like to join the frenzy. A large and growing number of people already take their phones along wherever they go and now the era of the music phone is dawning,.
  • Music Sharing is a New Hot Space  By : Kevin Cantera
    Online music is finally getting in tune and it sure is an exciting time to be a music fan.

    Downloaded songs, once the scourge of the music industry, have gone completely legitimate and now the next great wave crossing the Internet is all about sharing music over the World Wide Web. It is a great place to be! With the industry's support, some of the biggest computing and Internet companies have launched music-download stores and portable digital-music players.
  • The Benefits of Digital Music Downloads  By : Kevin Cantera
    Let's face it, there's nothing worse than buying an entire CD after you've heard a single good song on the radio, only to find out that that song is the only decent track on the album. That problem doesn’t apply to you when you take part in an Internet-based wave that is sweeping the music industry. Music downloads that allow you to pick from among thousands of songs – singles – that sound great. And you can pick them one by one.
  • Digital Video Downloads  By : Kevin Cantera
    One of the hottest trends in the cyber world is the explosions of video downloads from the Internet, to your computer, your iPod-style entertainment device, or, more and more, to your cell phone. Microsoft has launched its version, MSN Video Downloads, which gives video junkies all kinds daily television programming, including video content from MSNBC.com, Food Network, FOX Sports and IFILM Corp., for download to Windows Mobile -based devices.
  • It’s Still Rock-n-Roll to Me  By : Kevin Cantera
    There are a lot of advantages to digital music, but it can be confusing as you try to determine what format, bit rate and file size are best suited for any given hardware solution. If you love the idea of having access to the best digital music, but you feel intimidated by the conflux of software, hardware, bits and code, maybe this simple glossary will help you navigate towards the best music available.
  • Getting Your Double Bass Chops Together - Drumming Techniques Discussed  By : Eric Starr
    While practicing double bass drumming many young drummers often ask: - How can I raise the speed, and learn double bass drumming fast, so we turned to a professional drummer with over 30 years of international stage experience Ken Sanders, to discuss ways to master foot techniques needed for raising the speed of double bass drumming.
  • Vintage Drums Versus Custom Drums - A Few Thoughts About Vintage And Custom Drums  By : Eric Starr
    Why do people buy Vintage Drums? Do they sound better than todays Custom Drums? How should one choose a vintage drum? And What is considered to be a Collectable Vintage Drum? - To answer those questions, you need to ask your self - "are you looking for a specific sound or a collectable item?" and "When exactly was the particular drum manufactured?"

    Ken Sanders shares his thoughts and tips for buying vintage drums, and how vintage drums compare to the todays custom drums.
  • My Drums Don't Sound Good Anymore! - Time To Replace Drum Heads?  By : Eric Starr
    Time to replace drum heads? Often drummers ask "When should I replace my drum heads?" - In this article we will be discussing different aspects about the time-duration (lifetime) of drum heads. Ken Sanders explains different tips about when and how to replace drum heads, he also mentions a few of his original tricks that help him keep track about time duration of each skin on every drum in his drum set.
  • Drum Tape on Drums - Different Ways to Use Drum Tape on Drums And Setups.  By : Eric Starr
    Many times drummers apply tape to the heads of the drums and other part of the drum and drum set up. What is it for? What kind of tape do they use? To answer those questions we will be discussing on stage drum set ups and tape applications.
  • How can I stop breaking sticks and cymbals and heads? - Drumming Tips and Advices.  By : Eric Starr
    Beginner drummers tend to spend a lot of money on replacing parts that got broken because of the wrong stroking techniques. And while drum shops love drummers with such problems, it is certainly not normal to break heads or sticks while playing.
  • Covers, Cases, Cardboard Boxes, Blankets. - Drum Cases Discussed.  By : Eric Starr
    In this article I'm going to discuss drum cases. The question is how do I decide what is best for my needs? Drum cases are divided in to three categories: Ata Cases, Hard Cases, and Soft Covers. Article contains explanations of the above drum cases categories with real world examples.
  • Markings For A Repeatable Set-up - Drum Setups Discussed  By : Eric Starr
    Whether you use a large kit, small kit, or somewhere in between, one thing is certain: you want a set-up that is comfortable so you could concentrate on performance. There are ways to assure the exact same positioning of the drums every single time.
  • Double Basses Or Double Beater Pedals - Drum Hardware Discussion  By : Eric Starr
    In this article we will be discussing double bass setups and setups with a single bass drum with a double bass drum pedals. While using a single bass drum with the double bass drum pedal may sound practical, it is certainly not recommended in all situations.
  • Todays Drum Kits - How Important Is The Drum Brand  By : Eric Starr
    You want to buy a really good drum kit. Why should you choose Yamaha and not DW, Mapex, Pearl, Gretsch, Tama, Premier, Sonor, Peace, Sunlite, Ludwig, Rogers, Slingerland, Taye, Leedy, or some other company? How does one choose the right brand? What to look for?
  • Drum Rack Or Stands - Drum Racks And Drum Stands Discussed  By : Eric Starr
    Which makes more sense a drum rack or stands? Lets look deeper in to the subject and see what will make a practical and useful sense for using drum racks or the drum stands. Which is faster to setup, easier to carry, or takes less space on stage?
    Article includes real world examples.
  • Snare Drum Buying Guide - Tips And Advices For Drummers  By : Eric Starr
    This article will help beginner drummers to understand the basics of the snare drum and will guide through the process of checking the drum itself, the parts, snares skins and the existing mechanisms prior purchasing a snare drum.
  • Purchasing Drum Set Help Guide - Tips, Advices, And Recommendations  By : Eric Starr
    Buying a drum set help guide. Article is focusing on the essential ideas for choosing a drum set and will help to make the choice that is right for you, by explaining the importance of the drums, cymbals, and accessories in a drum set.
  • Maintaining Drums, Pedals And Cymbals - Guide To Help Maintaining And Storing Drums  By : Eric Starr
    Maintaining a good condition of your drum set is a mast! Learn all about proper maintaining, packing and positioning of your drum set. Article discusses the importance of utilizing cases, explains proper methods for setting and storing of drums.
  • All you need is Real MP3!  By : Jeffrey Royer
    Since mp3 music has come over CDs and become the most popular way to carry music files, your playlist can tell a lot about you. What do you type in trying to find something hot, ending with the combination “mp3”?
  • Drummers Guide For Choosing The Right Sticks And Brushers  By : Eric Starr
    This guide will help beginner drummers understand and choose the appropriate drum sticks and brushes. Article explains the use of different type of drum sticks and brushes while giving recommendations and examples of each type.
  • History of video commercials  By : Richburg21 Greg22
    Television is now the largest advertiser friendly medium in the world and the evolution of video commercials is a fascinating journey. Interestingly, over a period of time the themes of video commercials have shifted from being product centric, to themes that are designed to attract the attention of the audience first and display the product later. Today, a video commercial is expected to be more than just a video displaying the various products that an organization has to offer.
  • Time Will Come To Replace Drum Heads, Sticks And Brushes - Guide For Drummers  By : Eric Starr
    When is the time to replase drum heads, sticks, mallets and brushes? This article will help you understand the lifespan of replacable drum parts, sticks, mallets and brushers. Article also gives a few tips on expanding life time of drum accessories.
  • Proper Positioning Of Your Drum Setup - Drummers Tips And Advices  By : Eric Starr
    Proper positioning of your drums, and cymbals is crucial to your success, because it affects both your posture and your technique. This article discusses the proper drum setups that allow avoiding injury of your back, arms, wrists, and hands.
  • Why Children should learn piano  By : Andrew Collings
    An article detailing the benefits of music to children.
  • Getting Ready For Recording Studio Work - Drummers Help Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Guide for drummers to prepare themselves for studio work. This article will help understand the importance of the sense of time while drumming along with the prerecorded music and will improve understanding of what is really needed in a composition.
  • Rock And Roll History For Drummers From 1950 To Todays Rock Scene  By : Eric Starr
    Rock 'n' roll history and the evolvement of drum machines, this article unveals the transition Rock 'n' roll has overcome and the developement of the industry and the drummers along with the impact the transition has made on todays music scene.
  • Adult DVD shop UK  By : Shobhit
    If you run a search for ‘cheap adult toy sites’ you might see several thousands of results appearing on your search engine. However, how do you decide which of these discount sex toys shops are actually trustworthy? Many problems and scams plague cheap adult sex toy UK sites and you must be careful before you do business with any of the sites vending cheap adult sex toys.
  • How to share and download music online ?  By : Justin Harrison
    If you have access to the internet you will no doubt want to download music so that you can make CDs or transfer it to another device such as an mp3 player or mobile phone. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get access to free music downloads so you don’t have to spend a small fortune compiling a collection of your favorite tracks. You will be please to know that this is possible through music sharing software, you can download a client such as lime wire or kazaa which will instantly give you access to thousands of music tracks that you can download free of charge.
  • Tuning Your Drums - Comprehensive Guide For Drummers  By : Eric Starr
    Drums can be stubborn instruments, but with a little know-how, you can make even a cheaply made instrument sound good. The three types of drums you need to know how to tune are the tom-toms, the snare drum, and the bass drum.
  • Taking Care Of Drums, Cymbals, And Other Equipment On Gigs.  By : Eric Starr
    Having a problem taking care of drums, cymbals and other equipment on gigs? - This article reveals the potential hazards of rock clubs and discusses the most common on and off stage situations that can compromise your equipment and its condition.
  • For The Irish In You  By : John Eva
    An article made about Irish music for CDWorld an online music store in Ireland
  • All The Music Lyrics You Ever Wanted At Your Fingertips  By : Fariz tajoedin
    The dailyrics offers an excellent platform for all the music lovers out there who want any information about past or present songs. There is something for everyone in this website – check it out today.
  • Contemporary Jazz History From The Drummers Point Of View  By : Eric Starr
    Jazz history, among other subjects is a mast to know for any drummer, actually any musician out there. Todays article will walk you through the contemporary jazz history and will unveil the developments of different jazz styles and techniques.
  • Breaking Too Many Cymbals Is Not Normal For Any Drummer Out There  By : Eric Starr
    Cymbal setup is a common problem with inexperienced players. This is usually due to an improper striking or inappropriate stick choice. This article will explain the proper care and striking techniques needed for expanding your cymbals lifespan.
  • Remembering Legends: Late Great 90s R&B Artists  By : Martin Fister
    90s R&B music brought out many incredibly talented musicians, some which lost steam after one album, while others continued on to grace listeners with album after album. Unfortunately, many careers ended short, not because of conflicts or financial difficulties, but because death took these talented men and women before their time. This article serves as a testimony to all the great 90s R&B artists whose memory will not be forgotten. Please take a moment and remember these late great musicians.
  • Unlikely Places: Faith and spirit guide Kent Curtiss Band’s exuberant renditions  By : Brian DAmbrosio
    Unlikely Places
    Faith and spirit guide Kent Curtiss Band’s exuberant renditions

    For Kent Curtiss, the quest for God begins in his own heart. He remembers Him in his prayers, and he makes sincere attempts to heal, protect, and nourish divine correspondence.

    It is such strong faith that makes Kent Curtiss Band’s music stand out in the vast milieu of devotional music that has saturated, perhaps even overwhelmed, the country for more than a decade.

    Indeed, the Corv
  • Joan Zen: Harmonious band’s second CD, “Youniverse,” delivers funky fusion of form and content, congruously reflects the feelings of its founders.  By : Brian DAmbrosio
    Illuminating and vivid, Joan Zen’s music has a sly, unlikely way of being able to reassure the optimist and silence the cynic. Within the funky bars, rich chords and thoughtful lyrics of the band’s recently released second CD, there’s an agreement, an accord, and a harmonious relationship between word and deed, action and intent, sound and frenzy.

    This curious consolidation of musical and lyrical forces asserts that enlightenment can be attained not just through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition but also through the quintessential love of, and devotion to, the peppy practice and pugnacious spirit of music.
  • The Integral: The Next Big Rock Band  By : Shane Skinner
    “The Canadian Quartet has been Rock’s best kept secret…UNTIL NOW…”
  • World Beat - Soukous - Bikutsi - Jazz Styles History Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    World Beat is associated with various African styles including Juju, Afrobeat, Afropop, and Highlife. Learn about styIes originated in the early 20th century in Ghana and Nigeria along with the history and examples of Jazz styles like World Beat, Soukous and Bikutsi..
  • Acid Jazz - African Contemporary - Rai - Jazz Styles Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Acid Jazz draws on many musical styles Funk (mainly 1970s Funk), Soul, R&B, Hip Hop, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian and it has no standard beats. This article will be discussing Acid Jazz, African Contemporary and Rai Jazz styles along with their history and developments.
  • How to transfer mp3's to your mp3 player  By : Justin Harrison
    Many people are sharing and downloading music completely free of charge which makes life easier as well as cheaper in the long run. You can spend a fortune on music because your taste changes and new music is being recorded all the time. By knowing how you can take part in free music downloads you can guarantee that you will save money and be able to get access to all the music downloads you need.
  • Henry Rollins: Punk rock's renaissance man  By : Andrew Regan
    For over 25 years Henry Rollins has been active as a musician, writer and spoken word artist; and with a new year just around the corner he shows no signs of slowing down.
  • Afro Cuban Jazz History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Within 50 years after Columbus discovered the New World, the Spaniards instituted slavery in Cuba. The slave trade was concentrated in the western part of the island, caused Afro-Cuban music to develop in Matanzas, Havana Province, and the city of Havana.
  • Clave - Afro Cuban Music - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    The most important feature in almost all Afro Cuban music is the clave rhythm. Clave is Spanish for "key," as in instrument key. Styles presented in this guide include order and type of clave: 3-2 or 2-3 son clave, 3-2 or 2-3 rumba clave, and 6/8 clave.
  • Afro Cuban 6/8 - Cascara - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Cuban clave rhythms would emerge in Africa, in the Nigerian Yoruba tribe. Unlike the rumba clave, which is based on a duple feel, the Afro Cuban 6/8 rhythm is based on a triple feel. In this article we will be discussing the Afro Cuban 6/8 and Cascara styles.
  • Guaguanco - Mambo - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Guaguanco is the most popular form of Afro Cuban Rumba. Other Rumba styles are the Yambu and the Columbia. In this article we will be discussing Guaguanco and Mambo, instrumentation, improvisation along with musical voicing, development and the history.
  • Cha Cha - Mozambique - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Cha Cha is the North American term for the Afro Cuban Salsa dance known as the "Cha cha cha," which refers to the sound of the "3 note rhythm" in the dance step. In this article we will be discussing Cha Cha and Mozambique, styles their development and history.
  • Songo - Bomba - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Just as Jazz from United States influenced the Mambo, Funk and Soul inspired the Songo, which combines Cuban rhythms with Funk, Rock, Jazz, and musical styles from the Caribbean and Brazil. In this article we will discuss the Songo and Bomba and their development.
  • Merengue, Beguine And Bolero - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic, officially promoted as such by the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In this article we will be discussing Merengue, Beguine and Bolero musical styles, the development of rhythm, dance and history.
  • Pilon And Plena - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Pilon pioneered in the 1970s in the eastern part of Cuba, most notably by the group Los Bocucos. Its rhythm is influenced by the sound of workers pounding coffee beans. In this article we will be discussing Pilon and Plena styles their development and history.
  • All About Finding Rare DVDs  By : Kausik Dutta
    It can be frustrating to search for forgotten but cherished television shows and films. So many movies and shows come and go over the years, and some of your favorites don’t meet national acclaim, making it easy to drive to the closest video store and purchase them. Now, you have an alternative: Rare TV.
  • Buying Rare DVDs from Rare TV  By : Kausik Dutta
    When you’re trying to find a forgotten TV show, film or game that’s dear to your heart, your first stop should always be Rare TV. The company prides itself on its specialty: finding and restoring forgotten classics. Each item that the company carries is sent in a DVD box with original artwork on both the box and disc. Rare TV also gives you that extra care that you’re looking for.
  • Danzon And Palito - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Danzon ("Great Dance" or "Grand Dance") first appeared in the latter part of the 19th century and is the cornerstone of almost all modern Cuban music. In this article we will be discussing Danzon and Palito musical styles, their development and history.
  • Cuban Conga, Cumbia and Pilon - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    The Cuban Conga rhythms are performed in the "conga de comparsa", an ensembles similar to the Samba schools of Brazil, during the Cuban festivals. In this article we will be discussing Cuban Conga, Cumbia and Pilon styles their developments and history.
  • A Merry R&B Christmas  By :
    As Thanksgiving comes and goes, it's time to get into the Christmas spirit! This article provides recommendations for some great R&B music to listen to during the holiday.
  • 20th Century Musical Renaissance  By : Jason Cobble
    Explores the possiblity of a musical renaissance in the 20th century and gives historical evidence and facts to back up the argument.
  • 5 things songwriters do to make you listen  By : Natalie Star
    What do songwriters do to make you listen? Here are the top 5 things that songwriters do to make the song popular!
  • Blues - History And Development Drummers Guide Part Two  By : Eric Starr
    In United States Blues has evolved from an unaccompanied vocal music traditions of African American slaves into a wide variety of styles, sub genres, and regional variations. In this article we will be discussing Blues development and history - part two.
  • Blues - History And Development Drummers Guide Part One  By : Eric Starr
    In the post civil war united states, a mixture of field hollers, spirituals, and dance music gave birth to the Blues. By the early 20th century, Blues had emerged as its own genre. In this article we will be discussing Blues development and history - part one.
  • Brazilian And Samba - Styles, History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    By becoming familiar with the various grooves in this and other Afro Cuban articles, a drummer will be able to recognize and play appropriate rhythm in almost any Latin style. In this article we will be discussing Brazilian and Samba styles, their developments and history.
  • Batucada, Samba And Bossa Nova - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    The word Batucada refers to the percussion rhythms of street Samba from carnival in Rio de Janeiro and is played solely on percussion instruments. In this article we will be discussing Batucada, Samba and Bossa Nova styles their development and history.
  • Cajun And Zydeco - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    The terms Cajun and Zydeco refer to two distinct styles, both stemming from French cultures in southern Louisiana. However, as current Cajun and Zydeco musicians often cover both genres, it's appropriate to include development and history of both styles in one article.
  • Calypso And Soca - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Caribbean music is a fusion of many different musical cultures, including South American, Cuban, African, North American, and even European, the compositions, rhythms, and instruments of Caribbean music, reflect a celebratory atmosphere.
  • Ska And Reggae - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin says that musicians created the word Ska "to talk about the skat! skat! skat! scratchin' guitar that goes behind." This pattern is largely what gives Ska its characteristic sound. In this article we will be discussing Ska and Reggae musical styles, their development and history.
  • Country Music - History And Development Drummers Guide Part One  By : Eric Starr
    Country music is popular around the world and serves an age-old function: storytelling. Its themes of love, heartache are exceedingly popular. In this article we will be discussing Country music style, development and history - part one.
  • Country Music - History And Development Drummers Guide Part Two  By : Eric Starr
    In the 1950s, Ray Price, with drummer Buddy Harman, developed the Country Shuffle. In the same decade, the heavier back beat influence of Rock n' Roll emerged. In this article we will be discussing Country music style, development and history - part two.
  • Bluegrass, Western Swing, And Country Two-Beat - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Growing out of the instrumentation of early 20th century string bands and the influence of Blues, Bluegrass received radio exposure in the 1930s. In this article we will be discussing Bluegrass, Western Swing, and Country Two-Beat styles, their development and history.
  • Country Western, Train Beat And Country Rock - Styles, History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    In the 1970s, Country music, with artists such as Charlie Daniels, began incorporating the sound and influence of mainstream Rock n' Roll. In this article we will be discussing Country Western, Train Beat and Country Rock styles, their developments and history.
  • Disco, Country Ballad And Country Waltz - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Disco music style incorporates different elements of Rock, Funk and the Motown sound. It is above all else drum driven dance music. In this article we will be discussing Disco, Country Ballad and Country Waltz music styles, the development and history.
  • Drum And Bass Jungle - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    The history of Drum and Bass Jungle rhythm and music style is relatively short. It has, however, attained immense popularity within a musical subculture. In this article we will be discussing the development and history of Drum and Bass Jungle rhythm and style.
  • Funk Rhythm And Music Style - History And Development Drummers Guide  By : Eric Starr
    Like Jazz, Be Bop, and Rock n' Roll, Funk acquired its name from a slang expression with sexual connotations. In musical terms, Funk means anything that was off the traditional path or funky. In this article we will be discussing Funk development and history.

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