With the ever growing popularity of Country Music and their inevitable subgenres spanning out across the globe, the desire to break into the music business as a Country Music singer has become a popular ambition. But breaking into the music business is hard in any genre, so how do you ensure your success?
Talent: Talent can not be overrated in Country Music, you need to be able to sing, because more often than not the backing track is a single guitar playing simple chords, unlike other genres, where the back track is loud and overpowering instrumentals and the voices are hardly heard at all. In Country Music, your voice will make or break the song, if it is less than perfect, consider another career.
Instrument: You will need to be able to play an instrument yourself, Country Music fans will expect you to be able to pluck a few chords on some stringed instrument as you sing, so work hard learning to play, it will show the world just how dedicated you are to becoming a ..Read more
How to Become a Country Music Singer
TV And Video Games Have Destroyed Our Children’s Musical Potential
Does TV rot your brain? Unless you believe the Hulu commercials, no, TV doesn’t rot your brains, but does it dumb you down and destroy your potential as a human being? I think you could probably make an argument for that, but hey why should I wait for you. I’ll go ahead and make an argument for it. And why stop at TV? Let’s toss in video games as well.
So, am I just out to rant today? Actually no. I’m not really into ranting much and I don’t really have anything against TV and video games in general, but I was thinking about how human society, especially American society, doesn’t seem to produce childhood prodigies any more. Consider a few of the more well known musical prodigies:
• Franz Liszt: Performing major concerts at the age of 11
• Samuel Barber: Attempted to write an opera at the age of 10
• Felix Mendelssohn: making public concert appearances at 9
• Frederic Chopin: Writing polonaises and performing concerts at the age ..Read more
Bass Music Theory Is A Key Element For Beginner To Advanced Jazz Bass Players
Bass music theory knowledge of jazz scales, arpeggios and chords is necessary to be able to solo and improvise with the bass.. Being one of the essential foundational building bases of learning the bass, music theory is a subject that you should engross yourself into seriously as you continue to play the bass because for you to become the type of player that can solo and improvise of all kinds of chords progressions with jazz as weel as other styles, you will need to have this skill at some point in time.
For example, since generally more than three tones are used to construct jazz chords due to the extra chordal notes which are inherent to the nature of the jazz style, you will need know that scales come in many names and alterations. This means that there is a great deal of music theory to be understood in regards to improvising with them. Beginners will never have a clue as to what to do at all unless they can just rely on their “ear” for playing, because there ..Read more