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Tips for Creating Musical Magic in the Studio

May 25th, 2011

Having recorded my new CD Sacred Love with Grammy-award winners Will Ackerman (producer) and Corin Nelsen (recording and mix engineer), here are 6 sure-fire ways to make musical magical happen on your next recording session and take your CD to the next level.

1.            Make a Budget and Stick to It

Records cost lots of money to make. If you’re recording in your home studio, you’ve probably spent thousands of dollars for a computer, software, audio interfaces, speakers, microphones and musical instruments. Whether you’re recording your CD at home or working with a producer at independent studios, you want to make a budget and stick to it.

My budget included fees for producer, studio, travel, musicians, mastering, PR and radio promotion, duplication, and distribution. Make sure you know what you expect to spend and over how long, so that you can raise the money.

Producers get paid hourly or by the song, or a custom deal plus points on a song. If you are co-producing, you can split the points.

Musicians get paid different fees from free to sky’s the limit. The more famous and accomplished musicians get larger fees than your friend might – unless your friend is Sting.

Figure all the possible costs of your recording and put them into your budget. Then try to spend money according to the budget.

And even if you do, it’s more likely than not that you’ll go over budget. So add a 10 per cent contingency right now. Then when it comes time for you to professionally master, and design, duplicate and promote your CD, you can have the cash you need once the recording is finished.

2.            Surround Yourself with the Best

Whether you’re planning on a solo or group recording, bringing together neighborhood musicians, or recording with the best producers, musicians and production staff, you’re only as good as the company you keep. As an acoustic guitarist and a composer of conscious music, I approached the legendary producer and guitarist Will Ackerman who I felt had the experience and expertise to help me take my music to the next level. As the founder of Windham Hill Records, a gifted creator of acoustic guitar music, and producer of artists like George Winston, Michael Hedges, Alex DeGrassi, Shadowfax, and Jeff Oster, Will brought his vast expertise and a unique sensitivity to my recording project.

His own Imaginary Road Studios in Windham County, VT also features customized state-of-the-art microphones and preamps that helped make me sound my best.  Grammy Award-winning engineer Corin Nelsen is the resident recording and mixing engineer. At Imaginary Road I felt comfortable because the studio was situated in the Nature on 100 acres of spacious beautiful Vermont woodlands. So I was in a great place surrounded by accomplished production people, and I was able to focus on creating the music I needed to create for the recording.

3.            Prepare

Preparation in the studio means you’re making an efficient use of costly studio and staff time. If you’re working with a producer, get together before you get into the studio to discuss and agree on a gameplan for the recording. How much time do you need to spend per song, how many total days in the studio for recording and mixing, which musicians are you planning to add to your tracks, and when are you scheduling the sessions, etc.

If you are bringing together musicians to perform on your CD, write out lead sheets and chord charts beforehand. And practice your songs. Make sure your own performances are so tight that you can deliver your best in the studio the first take. I practiced the songs on my CD, and recorded them in my home studio, so that I could perform them well in a studio-like environment. It really helps to be prepared and you’ll likely save money as a result.

I was really impressed when my studio musicians contacted me before the sessions for copies of the lead sheets and recordings, so they could practice. Tony Levin played bass on five songs and he was totally prepared.

4.            Build Time Into the Process

Sometimes in recordings, you’re pressured to record and mix without a break. When that’s due to budget considerations, you have to go with it. I suggest building time into the recording process. Time is your friend.

I scheduled about 2 weeks between the recording of the guitars on Sacred Love, and layering of other instruments. That gave me time to familiarize myself with my own performances of the songs on “Sacred Love.”  From there both Will and I heard specific instruments playing melodies, leads and harmonies on the recordings, and we had time to line up the instrumentalists.

You can watch videos of my sessions for Sacred Love on YouTube.com/ShambhuMusic.

Building in time for reflection was necessary for ideas to form, crystallize and then emerge. We added violin, drums, cello, bass, sarod and other instruments, and we sought out the most sensitive musicians to create with us. These artists included Eugene Friesen on cello (Call to Spirit, Edge of Eternal, Revelation), Jill Haley on English horn (Edge of Eternal, Revelation), Premik Tubbs on windsynth (Together) and flute (Nirab Amare), Ravichandra Kulur on flute (Humility and Call to Spirit), Jeff Haynes (percussion), Celso Alberti (drums) and Todd Boston (sarod).

I also scheduled about two weeks between the final recording session and the mix session. And then two weeks between the final mixes and Mastering, and a few days before mastering, we did the ‘final’ final tweaks.

5.            When You’re Done Recording, Then there is Post-Production

Congratulations…the recording is finished. Now you need to think about mastering, design of the cover, duplication, copyrights, digital rights management, etc.

Mastering adds the simonize to ‘shine’ the recording. A good mastering engineer can match the volumes and tone of the various tracks so your tracks soundåßß like they belong on the same album. I was fortunate to work with Adam Ayan, mastering Engineer at Gateway Mastering in Portland, ME, and Corin Nelsen was on hand to make sure we got the sound just right.  Most major duplicators offer mastering services for 10-20 per cent of the cost of a Gateway. If you can afford the best, you’ll definitely get your money’s worth.

CD duplicators can deliver 1000 CDs to you in a few weeks. You get to design the cover and can work with your duplicator on all aspects of the recording. This includes design of cover and CD art, writing of a booklet or insert and inside and outside sleeves, and they can also help set up electronic distribution to iTunes, Amazon and other online retailers.

Copyright your sound recording with the U.S Patent and Trade Mark Office.

Set up your publishing with BMI or ASCAP. And if you’re expecting to get radio play, sign up with Sound Exchange.

6.            CD is Done? You’re at the Beginning.

When you have your finished CDs in hand then you’re at the staring line again. Now comes the challenge of promoting it and engaging with listeners and buyers. And you might want some help. There are people who specialize in radio promo, public relations outreach, social media and retail distribution. If you have the cash and budgeted for experts, hire them now. And if you want to get your songs into major chain stores, work with a music distributor who can help.

Sacred Love features Shambhu on guitar with:

Will Ackerman – guitar

Tony Levin – bass

Michael Manring – bass

Jeff Haynes – percussion

Eugene Friesen – cello

Jill Haley – English horn

George Brooks  – sax

Ravichandra Kulur – flutes

Todd Boston – sarod

Premik Russell Tubbs – wind synth and flute

Celso Alberti – drums

Charlie Bisharat – violin

Jeff Oster – flugelhorn

Rocky Fretz – piano

Claytoven Richardson and Noah Wilding – vocals

 

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East Meets West: The Musical Fusion of Diandian Wu

April 25th, 2011

Born in 1986, DianDian Wu began learning piano when he was only 6 or 7, back in his native Beijing. Similar to American piano students, Wu was initially taught to play western classical music, such as Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Mozart, and all the other usual suspects. He gave his first piano recital during his senior year of high school; upon graduating, he received first place in the Chinese National Piano Competition among 400 excellent pianists. With those momentous accomplishments behind him, he began to explore Chinese music and instruments.

 

“Most professional musicians only focus on one instrument,” Wu says. “I wanted to explore many different instruments and many different styles of music.”

 

In 2008, he released his first record, calling it “Dancing with Literature and Music: Diandian Wu’s Accomplishments Album of Chinese Literature and Music,” that displayed his mastery of Chinese literature, language, and music.

 

Eager to study abroad, Wu was accepted to Columbia University in the Fall of 2009, relocating to the United States and moving far from the life and family he’d always known. He now has a Master of Arts degree in East Asian Studies (Chinese Literature and Art), both of which, he attests, “share a close relationship with Chinese music and culture.”

 

It was Chinese literature, in fact, that gave Wu a better understanding of his culture’s traditional music.

 

“Chinese literature is a cultural bedrock and helps the music process,” he explains, “because behind every traditional Chinese song is a literary story.”

 

Word of Wu’s talents and ingenuity are beginning to spread. In addition to piano, he is now proficient at violin, as well as Chinese instruments such as the erhu, jinghu, banhu, guqin and bamboo flute, performing this year at esteemed venues such as Columbia University, Harvard University, and Carnegie Hall.

 

“I’d like to popularize traditional Chinese music so that more people can enjoy its beauty,” he explains. “Currently, public knowledge of Chinese music and instruments is limited to a specific group of people. I’d like to break the barrier between pop, classical, and traditional music while opening people’s minds and making it fun for the audience.”

 

By combining western classical music with traditional Chinese music and then throwing in his favorite modern songs from famous films and playing all of the above on largely obscure instruments, it is safe to say that there is no one else approaching live performance quite like Wu, and that he’s definitely opening some minds!

 

Diandian Wu’s website is coming soon. In the meantime, videos of his live performances can be viewed on YouTube.

 

 

 

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Music Library ? Catalog of Unique Musical Compositions

April 13th, 2011

Music is the heart and soul of any entertainment product. Either it is a movie, TV commercial, a video game, website, or any other product prepared with an aim of entertainment would be unsuccessful if there is no suitable music placed within. To help the producers and the film makers find a suitable musical piece for their creation, online music library is available that is very often visited by the producers and film makers from time to time. A background music to any entertainment product strikes the strings of the heart of audiences and this is the main reason that drives the producers towards such unique creations.

A music library acts as an efficient platform for publishing unique and original creation of the budding artists. In spite of organizing so many talent hunt shows, several individuals with immense abilities are left behind. The reason behind this might be their incapability to reach such big platforms. The loss, in such a case, is not only theirs’, but it is a big loss for the entertainment industry too as it misses such immensely talented individuals. The struggling artists create their own symphonies and the music licensing agencies publish them to the music library so that their creations are noticed by the film makers and other producers sooner.

Prior to publishing their original musical piece on the music library, the budding composers and song writers must make sure that their creation is copyrighted and they possess a valid license for it. This is because without a license any second person can claim the product to be his own. Having a license gives the original artist a chance to litigate the copycat in a lawsuit and subject him to severe punishments. It will be riskier for the budding artists to publish their composition on music library if they do not possess a valid license for their product. These libraries, however, do not only contain the creations of the unknown artists, but they also publish the works of known ones.

You may wonder why the producers look for unique musical creations in the music library, in spite of having excellent music composers and songwriters in the industry. This is mainly because of the lack of originality in the present musical symphonies that are found within multiple entertainment products. Most of the opus that are placed within the entertaining products are either copied or remixed. The current group of audiences is too smart to miss and overlook these defects of the music industry. Therefore, it becomes necessary for the film makers and other producers to search for unique and original musical compositions in the music library to live up to the expectation of the music lovers.

The libraries contain a wide variety of songs as well as background music to help the producers get it placed within their creations. The producers of the entertaining products visit the music library and go through the list of compositions. They try to match them with their product sequence and accordingly select the most appropriate symphony for their creation.

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Bhimsen Joshi- An emperor of Musical Notes

March 28th, 2011

The morning of 24th January 2011 was a deep pain to all the music lovers. The Indian Classical Music lost one of his legends. The notes were orphan, saddened was the sky. The emperor of Indian Classical Music, a legend, the singer who had attained godlihood through his music, passed away. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, one of the most extraordinary singers India has ever produced, passed away in the cosmos.
India has lots of dedicated artists. It has plenty of talented performers. Bhimsen Joshi, certainly stands out among them all. He ran away at a very tender age to fulfill his musical thirst. This boy, when he was 11 years old, was so much enchanted by the divine voice of Ustaad Abdul Karim Khan, that he ran away to absorb this art. Without money in his pockets, he wandered across India to find his Guru. After a long search, he reached Savai Gandharva also known as Rambhau Kundgolkar. Bhimsen Ji served his Guru for years without even expecting anything. After testing the dedication of this small boy, Savai Gandharva was so much pleased that he opened all the treasures he had in front of Bhimsen.
Bhimsen Ji used to practice for 18 hours. This tremendous practice can be felt in the very first note of his performance. It was this tremendous practice which gave Bhimsen Ji the strength to sing any note without effort, shift from one note to another just like a lightening. Bhimsen Joshi had a voice suitable to all the types of music. Let it be Khayal, Thumri, Bhajan, Abhang, Tarana or a Natyageet. Bhimsen Ji had ability to present different types of compositions without damaging the individuality of them. His voice, though it was toned like hard rock, at the same time was very delicate also. While singing Darbari Kanhara or Miyaan Ki Malhar, it is as firm, bold and thrustful like a lightning. At the same time, while singing Jaijaiwanti or Maru Bihag, it was one of the most delicate voices we can imagine of.
All the artists somewhere have desire to showcase their talent. Bhimsen Ji, was never worried about showing his talent. Rather, he was never present in his music, only music was there. He used to be so much absorbed and dissolved in his music, that such small thoughts, like ’I must impress people, I must enchant my crowd’ was never present in his music. Thats why, his music was divine. When artist himself disappears from the art, divinity remains.
Contribution of Bhimsen Joshi to the world of music is infinite. He has hundreds of records on his name which are guiding the music explorers, quenching the thirst of all the music lovers across the globe. He gave platform to many budding artist through Savai Gandharva Music Festival which today is largest music festival in India.
Bhimsen Joshi was a car lover. He had quite a big fleet of cars at his disposals. He used to drive alone hundreds of miles  in his classic Mercedes across whole India. Along with driving, he was a good mechanic also. He was a cricket lover. He loved dogs. He was just a layman when he was with his family. He had all the respected honours like Padmabhushan, Padmavibhushan, Bharat Ratna, Platinum Disc, Sangeet Natak Academy Award on his name, yet he was much separated and elevated from all of them.
An artist is also a human being. Many a times it happens that artists with all the respect they get, consider themselves somewhat holier than others. Bhimsen Joshi was one of the most humble artists we ever had. He was almost like a saint. His music is a doorway to the divine. People used to be speechless, with their eyes filled with tears when he used to sing Bhajans. When he used to sing Abhang of Lord Vitthal, people could actually feel the presence of Lord Vitthal. So much was his totality, so much was his dedication, so much was his Sadhna.
Today, though all music lovers and performers feel like losing their father, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi is still among us all in the form of his music, Ragas he created, his infinite memories and infinite impacts which his music made in infinite hearts.

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Yamaha Ll6 Acoustic Guitar ? Classic Musical Beauty!

March 4th, 2011

Nothing can be better than traditional handmade acoustic guitars and searching for the best one can be really intimidating at times. With hundreds of makes and models of guitars in the market, the Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar sets itself apart from the rest.

TheYamaha LL6 Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar is the benchmark for quality and excellent craftsmanship. The classic LL modified dreadnought body along with the use of premium tone woods, insures the LL6 dreadnought acoustic guitar is sure to last a long time. The dreadnought body style of the Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar ensures a loud, potent, stable tone with lucid response and exceptional volume.

The Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar has a Solid Engelman Spruce Top, which helps in rendering a warm and responsive tone with a longer sustain. While strumming a guitar with a thinner wood base the resonance might get absorbed. Hence, the Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted acoustic Guitar uses Rosewood in the back and sides and a 3-Ply Mahogany/Rosewood in the neck to produce more vibrant acoustic music.

An imperfect bridge in an acoustic guitar is absolutely nerve-wracking as the intonation is definitely affected. To avoid such inconvenience the Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted acoustic Guitar uses an Ebony fingerboard and an Ebony bridge as they don’t wear out easily and are less prone to cracks in the bridge even at the maximum tension areas. Also, the sleek appearance of ebony gives the guitar an elegant look.

To purchase, the Yamaha LL6 Handcrafted Acoustic Guitar at an extremely reasonable price, there can be no better place than Hyson Music. With natural hard case set in a natural ivory sheen with hi-gloss finish and die-cast gold tuning machines, this acoustic guitar is perfect for a guitarist who wouldn’t settle for anything less than perfect!

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The Musical Enlightenment

February 11th, 2011

The ideas of Rene Descartes had a profound influence upon the men who followed him. Every branch of knowledge and of art was re-examined and reformulated in the light of reason and in the spirit of scientific method.

 

One of his followers insisted that the end of music was to move the passions and to attain this goal, composers must study the principles of composition in a scientific way. By the beginning of the eighteenth century the art of creating music had become almost entirely rationalized. It came to its richest fruition in the works of Bach and Handel. The two men showed the world Baroque musical architecture at its imposing best. The general basis of the work of both was counterpoint, devised with great harmonic mastery, resting upon physical laws. Bach and Handel represented a trend towards greater regularity of style in the clearly defined types and forms, in a series of standardized formulas, such as the suite, the sonata, the rondo, the opera, the oratorio, the cantata, the concerto, characterized chiefly by highly elaborate melodies and contrasting effects.

 

The Heir to a long-standing German family tradition of musical service in the church, Bach early in his career made known his goal of creating a “well-regulated church music to the honor of God”. In his pursuit of this goal he absorbed all the various contemporary musical techniques of expressing the passion in order to apply them to the most profound elements of the Lutheran tradition. By employing all the styles of sacred and secular music, Bach created a synthetic art which summarized all the developments of the Baroque era. More conspicuously than any other composer of his day, he also suggested musical techniques, devices and methods, which, with the coming of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, were soon to open up new horizons for music and pave the way for its further development during the next century. In Bach one can see the spirit of the Age of Reason. One cannot imagine what the history of music would have been had Bach never lived, for his rational influence was immeasurable. It was not an overstatement when Schumann(1810-1856) said, “Music owes as much to Bach as Christianity does to its Founder”.

 

Major Works:

 

6 Brandenburg Concertos

Violin Concerto in E major

Double Violin Concerto in D minor

Mass in B minor

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Music Licensing Company Helps You Get a Big Musical Career Break

February 8th, 2011

In spite of having immense talent around, the entertainment industry suffers from shortage of musical talents. This is mainly because of the inability of those individuals to reach the producers as they do not get much exposure. A music licensing company acts as a source of offering numerous services to the unknown artists so that they too get an opportunity to establish themselves as the renowned stars of the music industry. From license music to publishing your music creation on the libraries to get it noticed by the producers, all these services are offered by these agencies. These companies do not only help the budding stars, but the producers as well.

You might have seen many music composers litigate a person in a lawsuit due to the some copyright issues. In many cases, it has been observed that without having a license for a creation, the artists publicize their musical products in front of their close friends and others, as a result of which anyone from that group can easily copy it and present it on his own name. But if you license music and obtain a copyright on your creation, no one would dare to copy your composition and even if someone does it, you have the right to litigate him in court cases on such accusations of violating the copyright rules. To help you with these services, no one other than the professionals from a music licensing company can help.

As soon as you license music, it is important for you to ensure that the producers notice your creations. A music licensing agency helps you to publish your musical pieces online on the libraries. These are the sites that are most often visited by the producers of multiple entertainment products. Music, whether it is a background piece or a full song, plays a very significant role in any entertainment production. It may either be a movie, or a TV commercial, or a website, or video game, etc. A music licensing company helps a struggling artist with utmost efficiency and makes him aware of all the steps that are required to be followed serially to get best results.

For a struggling artist, it is necessary to license music and take help from these licensing agencies so that he could take his foot forward towards the route to success. But, you might wonder why the producers are required to search for these unknown artists, though they have several composers already available in the industry. If you are frequent observer of the music industry, you might have noticed the defects of the music that is being created nowadays. You will hardly notice any originality in those creations. The symphonies created by the budding artists have immense originality along with its own uniqueness. This drives the producers to take assistance from a music licensing company in order to live up to the expectations of their current group of audiences.

The most significant factor that makes the services of the music licensing company relevant for the struggling artists is that the payment or fees that is required to be paid is the royalty that the artists have to pay only after the producers place their symphony in a suitable entertainment creation.

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Musical Events in Edmonton

February 8th, 2011

If you are a music enthusiast then you will love coming to Edmonton. The city has its very own symphony orchestra, as well as organizes music festivals to showcase talent and culture.

Perfect weather, an exciting lineup and a cultured gathering…Imagine how relaxed you’ll feel as you soak up the melodious tunes being played by the best musicians in town.

Here are some not-to-be-missed events that music lovers can take pleasure in:

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra – You can catch performances of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Winspear Centre in downtown Edmonton. Youth and children can avail tickets at a discount. Established in 1952, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra features 56 musicians from Canada and around the globe. It has performances ranging from great classical masterpieces to pop and children’s concerts.
Edmonton Folk Music Festival – If you have a passion for great music, then plan your visit in the second week of August to attend this event. The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is staged in downtown Gallagher Park, on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. It showcases a mixture of traditional and contemporary folk music as well as celtic, bluegrass, blues, gospel, world music and much more.
Edmonton International Jazz Festival – Running from June 25th to July 4th, this ten day extravaganza is a must for jazz aficionados. It features exceptional performances by local, national and international jazz talent at a number of stages, clubs and parks in the city.

You can also see live performances by other popular performers, of different musical genres, at malls, theatres, hotels and other establishments. Quit dreaming about it. Book your tickets online before they get sold out.

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The Musical Dynamics of The Orchestra

January 30th, 2011

The great pipe organs are marvels for variety of tonal coloring. The pipe organ manual has more “stops” to pull and more gadgets to work than the dash of an airplane or the control room of a submarine.


But the orchestra excels even the pipe organ in the variety of beauty of its tonal coloring and in the amazing wealth of its musical effects. The orchestra conductor can “pull stops” on the orchestra that are the envy of the organist and the despair of the organ builder.


In the lower regions he can call out the ominous thunder of the tympani, the sonorous boom of the tuba, the Plutonic mumble of the bassoon, the dark, muffled zoom of the string bass, or the sepulchral moaning of the bass clarinet.


To carry the melody or tell the story of the composition, the conductor can call upon the versatile virtuoso violin, the coloratura-soprano flute, the lyric-soprano oboe, the dramatic-soprano clarinet or the martial trumpet and piccolo.


For middle voices he can choose the tenor trombone or viola, the English horn or alto clarinet, the French horn or cello. To beat a rhythm or set a tempo or punctuate a phrase, the conductor may choose among the many varieties of drums and bells and chimes, or call upon the strings to play pizzicato or the trumpets to play staccato.


The high harmonics of the strings can picture the ethereal realms of heaven, or the brass and the battery can blast the ^hearing with the echoes of hell. The flutes and oboes can paint a Corot scene of pastoral contentment, the trumpets and trombones can fan our warring spirit to white heat, the French horns can call from Alpine peak to Alpine peak, or the bassoon can perform the antics of the clown and picture the zigzag, uncertain course of the drunkard. The clarinets can dance the swift, sgrightly folk dance, the drums and piccolo can beat the cadence of marching armies. Or the slow, measured beat of the tympani and the low, muffled swish of the string bass can pace the funeral march. There is nothing, apparently, beyond the capacity of this greatest of all musical instruments the symphony orchestra.


The symphony is composed of about a hundred instruments and has a range of about a hundred semitones. Since the sound limits of the human ear are about 125 semitones, the symphony orchestra utilizes about four fifths of the range of human hearing.


The lower threshold of hearing is usually set at sixteen vibrations per second, and while the pipe organ sometimes uses this tone, four octaves below Middle C, the lowest note used in the symphony is the Bb in the fourth octave below Middle C, sounded by the giant contrabass tuba and having twenty-nine and a fraction vibrations per second.

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Entertainment: Musical Entertainment in All Settings and All Cultures

January 9th, 2011

There are very few people who can honestly say they don’t like to listen to music. No matter what type of music you like, the availability of the internet means you can buy or listen to the music that fits your style. There are so many web sites that have music links or musical downloads that you can listen to.

Those people who like cultural selections from Brazil, for example can type in the word Brazil dance or Brazil music in the YouTube search field and watch many pieces that fit that category. You can choose Indian music if you prefer or music from almost any culture in the world, you can find examples on the internet. It’s interesting to see how dance and music sequences are treated in various cultures.

Some pieces of music you listen to are hard to enjoy without wanting to dance. Some of the joyous Irish pieces for example would be hard to listen to and remain in a melancholy mood. Still one wonders how there can be so much energy during the music and dance known as Celtic or Irish.

Straight instrumental music is popular in many cultures. You can listen to everything from symphonies to classical guitar music. On the lighter side, there are music pieces that feature one man bands or novelty instruments such as the kazoo. At the other end of the spectrum is the big bands and rock and roll groups.

Music is used not only for entertainment, but has been shown to have physical and psychological impact on a person as well. Music in a minor key, for example will often sound sad or mournful, while some chords are almost a signature sound for various rock groups. Because different musical scales are used by different cultures, you can often feel a different atmosphere or personality reflected when you listen to music from China as compared to music from Ireland.

Whatever your country of origin or whatever type of music you prefer to listen to, you can now find examples in recordings. Everything from drum solos to full symphonic orchestra now can be found and purchased. What’s more there are many ways in which you can listen. Radio and music videos are obvious choices, but you can also listen to your favorite pieces with an MP3 player. Many mobile phones today allow you to download and play your favorite music pieces.

Probably the most complete experience in music enjoyment no matter what your favorite music type is, is to attend a concert. You can sit back in a comfortable seat in a concert hall and enjoy the full sound of a top symphonic orchestra where the sounds of the various instruments are carefully tuned and balanced so that you can pick up the emotion of the music.

Alternatively, you can attend a soul thumping rock concert where you feel the bass reverberating in your back teeth. The lights and energy of the audience adds to the total experience so that more than one sense is involved than hearing.

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