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Musical Instrument Gift Day Helps Combat Wounded Veterans

Keller, TX (PRWEB) August 16, 2011

On September 21, 2011, the National Pawnbrokers Association (NPA) is sponsoring its third annual Musical Instrument Gift Day, where pawnbrokers from around the country make generous donations of musical instruments to organizations in need.

This year, NPA is working closely with Wings for Warriors, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide necessary tools, insights and resources for combat wounded veterans as they go through the recovery process and transition into new realities.

Anthony Ameen, the organizations founder and a combat wounded veteran who served in Afghanistan, stated, My recovery was helped immensely through music therapy by playing the guitar. We are excited to be working with the NPA to deliver the gift of music to help speed the recovery of combat wounded veterans. Visit WingsForWarriors.org to learn how the organization is changing lives.

Now in its third year, Gift Day has donated thousands of musical instruments to charity organizations supporting underprivileged children, families, and veterans. This year, NPA members will donate guitars and other musical instruments used for physical therapy and fun to three leading Army Medical Centers and other related groups.

If you are interested in participating in this years event you can sign up by visiting the Gift Day website GiftDay.org/contact/ and submitting a contact form.

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Electronic Music

New Hip Hop Beats Source: Budding Musical Talent Allowed Access to the Same Rap Beats, Pop Instrumentals as the Stars

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 14, 2008

Every year, so many artists seeking to get established in the hip hop, rap, pop and r&b genre mix their demos and try to get the attention of major recording labels. They aspire to get noticed by standing out through talent and major hit sounding hip hop beats, rap beats and pop instrumentals. By now, the ruthless and uncompromising nature of the music industry is well known, and it is a difficult and trying process for anyone, even the best, to get through.

Of course matters are scarcely helped by the simple fact that the beats that form the very core of the sound for such talents are often of a quality that leaves much to be desired. Most of these beats are generally sourced online, and sound very similar to one another which results in the final product that is produced being indistinguishable from the crowd.

For any talent that should be looking to stand out, and get noticed, this is a potential career killer.

As such, the new service that Beatslocker is now providing should be all the more interesting for anyone that wishes to enter the music industry. Instead of the same old rehashed beats, this service provides professionally produced, arranged, and mastered beats of the kind that are used by top artists themselves.

Indeed, their track record is impressive, having worked with such big name stars as Usher, P. Diddy, Outkast, Pink, and Alicia Keys. In line with this, they have developed a network of producers and beat makers that are working for such celebrities, and now bring that same type of quality to the new, talented crowd of artists.

In their own words, “We offer these hundred thousand dollar beats in the hope that it will enable talented new artists to rise above the mediocrity that the ‘dime a dozen’ beats commonly sold online have to offer.”

Everything about the set up at Beatslocker is professional, and all of the beats that they provide go through stringent approval processes by the same A&R Executives who work with major music artists. End of the day, this means that by either purchasing a single beat, or by signing up to their VIP membership, budding talents will be gaining access to a collection of the very best beats to use in their mix.

In short, by totally standing out of the crowd that is offering beats online, Beatslocker is offering the chance for new music talent to similarly stand out too.

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Music Library ? Catalog of Unique Musical Compositions

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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How To Read Piano Music And Play A Musical Composition

For anyone who intends to learn how to play the piano, the first step towards achieving this is to know very well how to read piano music. If you have already seen a musical piece or composition, you at least have an idea of what a piano piece looks like. This is what you have to learn to read in order to play the music right on the piano.

Learning how to read piano music takes a lot of practice and familiarization. Once you are familiar with the notes and their positions, you will be able to play music. The very first step is to learn the different notes. As long as you know the English alphabet, you will find this part of the lesson very easy because the musical notes only go from A to G. So that is A, B, C, D, E, F and G.

These are referred to as the natural notes and they correspond to the white keys of the piano. The black keys of the piano are referred to as the sharps and flats. There are only a total of 12 notes if you combine the natural notes and the sharps and flats. These actually repeat over and over on the piano which is referred to as octaves.

In a musical composition, you will see the treble staff and the bass staff. Most piano compositions are written on the staffs which consist of five lines and four spaces. The treble staff is being played by the right hand and the bass staff, by the left hand. In the piano, the treble staff and the bass staff are joined together. You will find the notes that you have to play on the piano along the lines and spaces of each staff.

Each line and space actually corresponds to a piano key. In the treble staff, the lines corresponds these notes E, G, B, D and E; the spaces correspond to the following notes F, A, C and E. In the bass staff, the lines corresponds to these notes G, B, D, F and A; while the spaces corresponds to A, C, E and G. In order to learn how to read piano music, you must familiarize yourself with these notes and their respective positions on the treble staff and bass staff.

Learning the basics is the start of the entire learning process. It takes a lot of practice and some personal technique. As long as you know the notes and how to read piano music, you can position your hands on the piano keyboard and start playing a simple tune. Do not overwhelm yourself with the technicalities; you will discover these as you go along and as you become more and more comfortable with playing the piano.

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Musical Composition

Musical composition can happen in advance with an aim towards repeat performance or it can happen on the spot when musicians improvise or jam. Composition describes the formal construction of a piece of music, both it’s incarnation on paper and its performance incarnation. Originally Western music was composed for the church and for worship. Its function was to be repeated but the artistic/creative elements of musical composition were lacking as the music itself was more pedagogical in purpose. Once polyphonic sounds began to creep in, composers began to record music on paper for future performance. This begins to happen when the view of music starts to change from that of a form of worship to a form of worship that also provides audio pleasure.

There is a mathematical precision to musical composition that is present in most studies of musical theory. Though music is a creative art, its composition and performance is both scientific and mathematical and adheres to certain rules of rhythm and spacing on the page in order to sound a particular way.

Traditional Gregorian Chant notation, some of the first written music in Western culture, is written in “neumes”. Neumes are the most basic building block of musical notation and predate the introduction of the five line staff notation. These original notations were simple dashes on a page. They did not always indicate a note to be sung as far as the pitch was concerned, but, rather, were an indication in what kind of sound was to be made and sometimes in what order. Though neumes are visually reminiscent of their later incarnation in the five line staff notation, their rules were completely different. Two, dashes, one a top of the other, might mean that the bottom “note” was to be sung first followed by the top. Other things are very close in range. For instance, when a dot was placed after a neume it was meant to indicate that the note was to be a held for a length of time. This same structure exists in modern music in the five line staff notation.

The earliest neumes were actually Aramaic, and did not originate in the early Christian Church. They were originally used to indicate how and with what tonal attributes a religious text was meant to be read. The utilization of neumes was the first step towards the composition and formal construction of music.

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