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The Advantages of electricity drum E-Drum

             

Probably the most important advantage with the electric drum kit is the ability to practice with ear phones or turn down the volume of the drums meaning noise issues can be avoided. This makes the electric kit ideal for flats or houses with grumpy neighbors.

                                           Here is the video talk about 5 benefits about E-Drum

Most electric drum kits have built in tools for practice such as metronomes and multiple drum kit sounds allowing drummers to experiment with their sound and playing styles. This can be a lot of fun and great for learning.

Most mid-range electric drum sets are cheaper than most mid-range drum kits, especially when you consider having to purchase cymbals and stands for acoustic kits. Mid-range electric drum kits start at around $1000

Drum sticks tend to last much longer with an electric kit as they are not hitting real drum rims and sharp cymbal edges. A minor advantage I know but still…

You will get more stick bounce on an electric drum kit as they are basically rubber pads that never loose tension. This means that playing becomes slightly easier.

You will obviously never have to worry about tuning an electronic drum kit.

Electric drum kits can be plugged directly into recording equipment/PC for practice or writing sessions. Some higher range electronic drum kits have built in recording facilities already.

Electric kits have a smaller floor foot print than most acoustic drum sets and so can fit into small rooms or onto small stages.

  Post by -Ruikun Li

How to Improve Your Piano Playing Skills

 

In this blogger, I will tell you how to improve your piano skill steps by steps .I will be showing you how to improve your current piano skills. The blogger takes into account people who learned playing by ear, using instructional materials such as books and DVDs, or using lessons from a professional teacher. So, if you feel that a certain step has already been accomplished, go ahead and skip it to the next step.

1. Plan your practice

2. Manage your learning and practice time.

3. Improve your musical notation reading skills

4. Improve your finger placement and speed on the piano keys

5.Practice the different scales using proper finger placement.

6. Memorize and practice musical scales, especially the most prominent ones

7. Improve your musical aptitude (commonly called musical ear) by practicing listening to musical pieces and trying to infer their notes

8. Improve your musical "mind playing"

9. Make sure your posture on the piano is proper.

POST BY -RUIKUN LI

 

Beijing opera

Peking opera or Beijing opera is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century. The form was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China. Major performance troupes are based in Beijing and Tianjin in the north, and Shanghai in the south.The art form is also preserved in Taiwan, where it is known as Guoju . It has also spread to other countries such as the United States and Japan.

Peking opera features four main types of performers. Performing troupes often have several of each variety, as well as numerous secondary and tertiary performers. With their elaborate and colorful costumes, performers are the only focal points on Peking opera's characteristically sparse stage. They utilize the skills of speech, song, dance, and combat in movements that are symbolic and suggestive, rather than realistic. Above all else, the skill of performers is evaluated according to the beauty of their movements. Performers also adhere to a variety of stylistic conventions that help audiences navigate the plot of the production. The layers of meaning within each movement must be expressed in time with music. The music of Peking opera can be divided into the Xipi and Erhuang styles. Melodies include arias, fixed-tune melodies, and percussion patterns. The repertoire of Peking opera includes over 1,400 works, which are based on Chinese history, folklore, and, increasingly, contemporary life.

Peking opera was denounced as 'feudalistic' and 'bourgeois' during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and replaced with the eight revolutionary model operas as a means of propaganda and indoctrination. After the Cultural Revolution, these transformations were largely undone. In recent years, Peking opera has attempted numerous reforms in response to sagging audience numbers. These reforms, which include improving performance quality, adapting new performance elements, and performing new and original plays, have met with mixed success.

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Analysis of Moon Reflected on Erquan Pond (Erhu solo)

Analysis of Moon Reflected on Erquan Pond (Erhu solo)

                                                                                                                              By liming Cao

Moon Reflected on Erquan Pond was created by a blind musician Hua Yanjun in 1950s. The music shows the complex and mixed feeling of a blind musician like the sorrowful and resentment feelings of the society and the love of life. The music consists of 6 parts, the last 5 parts are the variations of the first part with the different themes. The propulsion of music is completely based on the rise and fall of tone area.

The rhythm changes frequently in this music between silence and restlessness, which records the bitterness, injustice and grievances during his whole life but except the negative emotions, the music also shows his open-minded idea and the profound experience of life.

There is a relatively unified speed of the rhythm but the changes in the intensity is quite large; the blind musician plays Erhu arbitrarily with his feelings; the changes of tone in Erhu is based on the finger power, which causes a continued music with different tones.