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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.

  ZESI

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.

Analysis of Horse Racing (Erhu Solo)

Analysis of Horse Racing (Erhu Solo)

                                                                   By liming Cao

The Horse Racing was created in 1964 by the composer Huang Huaihai, which describes the Racing scenes in a Mongolian festival.

The music consists of 3 parts, the first part is warm and imaginative; the rhythm is created with dotted quarter note and sixteenth note, which shows the feelings of light and powerful. This part shows the scene that the riders are galloped out with the departure order.

The second part uses the Mongolian folk song "Red Flag" as the theme and it selects the sonorous rhythm to show the brave and bold character of riders.

In the last part, the rhythm starts from the bass area and keeps increasing to the vertex. The player is trembling the bow of Erhu to express the momentum. Finally the music is stopped with the steadfast rhythm.

Generally, the music of Horse Racing has the features like the brisk and unrestrained melody; the rhythm of Erhu simulates hoofs and it expresses the live scenes of horses racing and the crowded persons. 

Hatsune Miku -Virtual singer

Hatsune Miku (初音ミク^?), sometimes referred to as Miku Hatsune, is a humanoid persona voiced by a singing synthesizerapplication developed by Crypton Future Media, headquartered in Sapporo city. She uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 and Vocaloid 3 singing synthesizing technologies. She also uses Crypton Future Media's Piapro Studio, a singing synthesizer VSTi Plugin. She was the second Vocaloid sold using the Vocaloid 2 engine, and the first Japanese Vocaloid to use the Japanese version of the Vocaloid 2 engine. Her voice is sampled from Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. Hatsune Miku has performed at her concerts onstage as an animated projection. Hatsune Miku is portrayed to be a 16-year-old girl with long turquoise pigtails.

The name of the character comes from merging the Japanese words for first , sound and future sounds like a nanori reading of future, normally read as "mirai"^[2]), referring to her position as the first of Crypton's "Character Vocal Series". According to Crypton, her name is meant to signify the "first sound from the future".
                                         Zesi

Jay Chow and his Chinese style songs

Amongst all the genres in which Jay has composed music for over the past nearly fifteen years, the most distinctive one is, unarguably, his Chinese-style songs with Vincent Fang, who frequently channelled traditional Chinese poetry and literature into his lyrics.

Jay has always been proud of his Chinese heritage and coupled with his adventurous nature in exploring different ways to make music, it was quite a natural process for their famed zhong guo feng to evolve over time. Many of the songs have been chart-toppers and won multiple awards for Jay and are still immensely popular with fans and even some non-fans, who only know him as the composer of one famous movie theme. :)

                                          post by zesi

Most speed piano player ----Maksim Mrvica

 

 

 

The most speed piano player Maksim Mrvica become famous song Kolibre. His song will affect our emotion, when you listening this song, you will feel full of passion. At same time, your body will have nameless tension. He is famous by the speed of playing piano. When he playing the piano his fingers speed would arrive 16 notes per second. This means his finger speed almost arrive the human limit. Another song Exodus will make people feel more comfortable. And he changes some old piano song into the modern rhythm. The song becomes classical and modern. There are several song changed by him. He combines songs inward meaning of old songs and adds some new age modern elements. He gives the song new soul and meanings. In the new age, I think we need more people to do that like Maksim. Update the old song could into new world. OK, everyone, enjoy it.

                                                                                      ----Vincent

Acoustic Guitar Skills

This is the skill that most guitar player wants to acquire. Most of acoustic guitar skills are speed and some dazzling strum. Those skills make the acoustic guitar have more attraction. In the greater speed and surprising skill, the acoustic guitar will express the supernormal glamour. That music gives us the inconceivable feeling and emotional resonance. Some of the acoustic guitar skills were developed by people who play the guitar in the moment of no intention. This more likes a sentence ‘developments are accidences’. The acoustic guitar skills always are used in one song. The guitar skills not only are the speedily notes in a song, but also are the dazzling strum. People enjoy a guitar player’s show; most of people hear the rhythm and watch the players’ strum skill. The player could use the several skill may need several months or years exercise. People want to be excellent need hard work. There are two songs for you. Enjoy it.

                                                                                                                                     -----Vincent

The application technology of music

In the 2014 the vocal concert of Michael Jackson. The technology created a new miracle, Michael is reviving on the stage. The troupe uses the new technology of 3D on the stage to make the Michael Jackson revived on the stage. The show will show a vivid Michael concert. For the most of fans of Michael, we are exciting that the technology can bring the great master Michael back on the stage. This time, the song name is Slave To The Rhythm. The new technologies of music and view skills are the good way for the world idol. We can see the great master have them second life on the stage. There was a world vocal concert of Michael; we can see the immortal idol to continue. The technology changes the world. Most of people who watch this concert they said the Michael is real revived. We hope the new technology could create more miracles. Enjoy it!

                                                                                                                                              ---Vincent

How to Choose the Right Music Production Equipment？

How to Choose the Right Music Production Equipment？

Instructions

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     I do not usually advocate credit of any kind, but if you are responsible, you can expand your budget by taking advantage of the credit programs available through places like Guitar Center. I bought a Les Paul from them using 12 months same as cash. Be warned, though: Miss one payment and your interest rate skyrockets to somewhere in the 20s. It also backdates to the beginning of the loan. So only take out credit if it's "same as cash" and make sure you make the payments.
   • 2
     Use Macs. PCs have great audio editing software in Sonar, but they are just too unstable. Plus, the music industry standard is Pro Tools and Mac. Yes, Sonar can convert to Pro Tools format, but why do you want to go through that? Start off with the right music production equipment, ie, something from Apple, and you can build your studio up without having to worry about random crashes, defragging hard drives every week, and re-configuring the entire operating system.
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     The base of your music production equipment system will be your sound card. Basically, you get what you pay for. You want to spend at least $500 to get decent quality. Make sure it is compatible with sample and bit rates above what you think you'll use.
   • 4
     Once you have your Mac and sound card ready, you need a sound board. Digital or analog? Analog is more expensive, and purists love it, but the average consumer can't tell. Also, digital is easier to upgrade and less expensive. You can get more bang for the buck, and when you make your millions, then go get the big purist analog studio. Digitally based music production equipment also upgrades your sound quality to a standard -- 1s and 0s are 1s and 0s forever. There's no noise or muffling.
   • 5
     Mac, sound card, and mixing board with enough audio outs and MIDI hookups for your keyboards and guitars -- now the final step in getting the right music production equipment is the audio editing software. Anything by Pro Tools is great, no matter how inexpensive. Actually, it's good to learn on the basic (LE) version, so you'll know how to really get in there and edit things. But don't discount Wavelab and Soundforge as excellent audio editing and mastering tools. Also, look for Reason for sound creation, Absynth for the best synths you've ever heard, and TRacks for mastering. Good luck getting all your music production equipment together, and I look forward to hearing the hits!
        POST BY ------Ruikun LI