Wood chosen for making bass guitars plays an essential part in its tone and playback capabilities. Softer woods add warmth while harder ones provide bright, percussive tones. Alder wood is an increasingly popular choice as it’s lightweight and features tight grain patterns – which is evident by the number of bass guitars made out of […]
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Instrumental music without drums often employs more subdued beats, creating a style of electronic music ideal for listening or playing along. This genre often contains lovely harmonies, melodies and riffs. Originating from Dubstep and UK Bass music, Jump-up DnB is distinguished by heavy robotic bass leads in talking/responding patterns coupled with overdriven, hard and compressed
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If you are an avid hip hop fan, we believe you should easily be able to pass our quiz! From Tupac’s debut album and Eminem’s smash hit ‘Regulate’ song. We have questions covering everything hip hop related. Hip hop first emerged when DJs began creating beats that allowed MCs to rap over. Grandmaster Flash is
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Zayn Malik’s life is marked with many achievements: fashion icon and style expert, philanthropist and father to Gigi Hadid’s daughter Khai. He’s also grappling with the peculiarities of fame, evidenced through his debut album Mind of Mine’s singles and music videos. 1. False Starts Mind of Mine’s “Heartbreaking Track” tells the tale of a love
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A chord diagram displays which strings and frets should be played, as well as which fingers should fret them. An X is marked on the bottom left to represent muted strings while each note indicates which finger should fret it with numbers representing how. Major chords tend to sound bright and joyful, while minor chords
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The banjo-uke (or whatever other portmanteau you prefer to refer to it by) is enjoying something of a revival, though not at its height near 100 years ago. Wendell Hall, Clifford Essex and Roy Smeck were among the artists renowned for playing this instrument. Today it most commonly features nylon strings; occasionally with a wound
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Guitar chords are one of the first steps most beginning guitarists take when learning songs, providing fuller sound while helping listeners understand melodic structures of songs. ChordBank is a must-have resource for guitarists. Handpicked by experienced professionals to be comfortable to play and musically sound. Identifying a Chord A chord is composed of several notes
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Song originally refers to any musical composition written down, while today we use it to refer to any form of audio entertainment. Technically, electronic music can be considered a song; however, this doesn’t necessitate its having lyrics; instead it can simply be instrumental or have voice synthesizers replacing actual singers. How do EDM producers get
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All major scales can be broken down into two tetrachords; these consist of four notes that follow a 2-2-1 pattern. This scale can be played with your index finger on the 1st fret of each string in turn – an exercise to build fingering skills and increase finger strength. Key Guitar can be played in
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Death metal lyrics may seem intimidating and perplexing to those outside its genre, yet according to research conducted by music psychologist William Forde Thompson, fans feel powerful and joyful when listening. Death metal music combines loud and fast rhythmic thrash metal music with demonic vocals that range from low death growls to high-pitched shrieks, but
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