I am going to host a blog carnival with articles about music and piano lessons. This is a great way to get free related back links for your website or blog. If you have written any music related articles, including music lesson, piano, synthesizer reviews, or videos, please feel free to submit to the upcoming carnival post which is scheduled on August 5, 2007.Submit your blog article to the music & piano lessons carnival using our carnival submission form.Technorati Tags: blog carnival, music lessons, piano lessons

Many jazz students start out improvising by playing the blues. With the standard blues chord progression, where one single blues scale can be applied all the way throughout the whole 12 bar. It is one quick and nice way to make your solos sound hip. However, after doing the same thing for some time, students normally will start to question, "what else can I do over a standard blues progression instead of just a blues scale?". It is the purpose of this post to answer this question. First listen to this solo ...

If you watch the season 6 American Idol this year 2007, you will be familiar with this beatboxing master - Blake Lewis. I've never seen anyone who can beatbox better than Blake. I just fell in love with his every performance. During the competition, he was interviewed about his secret of beat boxing. He likes the drum but his father just wouldn't get him a real drum. Under this circumstances - want a drum but couldn't get one - he was forced to beat box. He use his vocal cord ...

Berklee professor Paul Schmeling explains how to master the toughest jazz standard with ease and improve your left hand technique by utilizing shell voicings to represent chords in the left hand.Frankly, this is the first time I heard about shell voicing. What's shell voicing?Does it sound like the voice you hear when you speak into a shell?Image: blow the shell to hear the natural shell voicingAfter some googling, oh .. this is what shell voicing is all about: A shell voicing is a chord which contains only the root, third, and seventh. Often ...

You can listen to jazz standard tunes categorized by artist at Jazz On Line.The website owner is asking downloader to contribute to the hosting cost by subcribing to pay US$5 with Paypal for 3 months unlimited download. The streaming is smooth. These are all very old tune which are probably the standard jazz we used to learn when starting out playing jazz piano. I really enjoy the site. Download some songs that are found in the fake book you have. Listen to the original song and practice with your fake ...

The piano was nicely wrapped. Is it stupid?Oh! My God!Better hide it before the owner saw us!Technorati Tags: piano mover, piano destroyed

Joshua Nemith wrote an articles explaining about the use of the piano pedals. Even though I've played piano for years, I still learned something from his post. The Damper Pedal (on your right) produce sustained sounds the sound is reverberated within the framework of the piano when you press the pedals, all the dampers are lifted. Yes! All dampers of all notes! That means all the string can vibrate freely. Thus, it creates a resonating sound. in my present day performance, I use the pedal 95% of the time The Soft Pedal (on your left) mostly ...

The old Chappell piano, which Blunt used for funeral favourite Goodbye My Lover and wedding favourite You're Beautiful, was snapped up by a doting dad for his six-year-old daughter.His ballad You're Beautiful reached No 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100 in 2006, making Blunt the first British artist to top the US singles chart in nearly a decadeRead the full story at Life Style Extra.Image: James blunt playing his pianoTechnorati Tags: james blunt, piano auction

Similar to Soundsnap which is covered here at Pianologist, The Freesound Project is another similar website that compile a huge collaborative database of audio samples and recordings. Released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License, this project provides new and interesting ways of accessing free samples, allowing users to browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license interact with fellow sound-artists! browse sample by tags randomize samples browsing for surprise rate the samples you listen you can ...

There are quite a number of software, application or flash that will enable you to play piano with your computer keyboard. If you want to have a taste of playing the piano but don't want to spend any money to buy yourself a music keyboard, please try out the MidiPiano.Up to date, the latest MidiPiano version 1.8.3 is released on December 18, 2006. You can download it here.If you like the software, you can donate whatever amount your feel comfortable by Paypal International donate(USD): ziziiwan@hotmail.com. Note that we won't get any ...