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1: The Mandolin Sounds in the Roots of Bluegrass

Bluegrass

By: Allen Newsom

2: The Mingling of Jazz and Blues

Jazz blues is a musical style that combines both jazz and blues. Jazz, blues, and popular music all got their start in back rooms, clubs, honky-tonks, and in the underground or subculture environment...

By: Allen Newsom

3: lternative rock: fiercely iconoclastic, anti-commercial, mot...

By: Tom Janison

4: Introduction to Indian Classical Music 101

The system of Indian classical music known as Raga Sangeet can be traced back nearly two thousand years to its origin in the Vedic hymns of the Hindu temples. Unlike Western classical music which has ...

By: Dhaval Shrimankar

5: Learning the Music of History Part 3

By: Jake Adam York

6: Learning the Music of History Part 2

  Part 2 M...

By: Jake Adam York

7: Learning the Music of History Part 1

By: Jake Adam York

8: The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer P...

In part 1; we discussed various metronome techniques to advance our awareness, concentration, feeling, and broaden our minds while practicing. This article will go into what we should be practicing...

By: John Belthoff

9: The Art of Playing Jazz Guitar - A True Preparation Primer P...

I'm not going to kid you; playing Jazz Guitar is extremely difficult at best and almost downright impossible at worst. However there are things you can do to improve your improvisation skills and feel...

By: John Belthoff

10: Jazz History Timeline

Many people argue that the beginning of Big-Time jazz in Chicago started in 1922 when the popular trumpeter Louis Armstrong moved from New Orleans bringing with him the new sound we now all know. Of c...

By: Jen Rossi

Rock Lyrics of The 1980’s

One of the most well-know eras of music is the nineteen-eighties. In this period the virus AIDS hadn’t been quite discovered yet and everyone was still under the notion that having a good time with as many people as pos...

By: Cindy Kenny

How Music Can Help You Burn More Fat

Browsing one of the Russian websites I have recently found a little article claiming that music can affect our health both improving and worsening it. That sounded very interesting and I decided to research how can music actu...

By: Arina Nikitina

The Day the Music Died

If you are one of those few remaining souls who still gets music the old-fashioned way, and if you live in one of the twenty states home to at least one of Tower Records's eighty-nine American stores, chances are you've heard...

By: Max Fraser

New York, NY -- MUSIC CHOICE celebrates Black History Month January 30th- March 4th with a look at the past, present and future of Black Music with a campaign entitled "Writing History Today.&quo...

Music Review: Various Artists - The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broad...

( CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) We all could use a good laugh, right?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Country Music Association is helping thousands of students learn music in sc ...

The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra's Youth Concerto Competition concert finalswere held Saturda