Free Chord/Lyrics Display Software: Digital Fake Book

Instead of reading full scores, I depend on chord and lyric sheets very much during performance. If you are playing the piano and singing at the same time, I think you will prefer to look at the lyrics with chords above it. Mike Warren wrote a piece of simple but very useful software called Digital…

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Can I Write Songs If I can’t Sing?

At first, the music is created in your mind. When you sing it out, it is already the second time of its creation. If you can’t sing, learn other musical instruments that can represent your music. A flute, a violin, a guitar or a saxophone can be played melodically that it sounds like singing as long as you can master the instrument.

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Music News You shouldn’t miss 14-Oct-2007

Many artist dumping their music label, including Madonna, Radiohead, NIN, Jamiroquai & Oasis.

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555 Fantastic Piano Festival – Largest Piano Concert

Five hundred fifty five pianos (555) were played simultaneously in Incheon, the most ever played at one time and place anywhere in the world. The concert was sponsored by Young Chang and Kurzweil, the nation’s largest piano manufacturer. The event as organized to congratulate the bidding team on winning 2014 Asian Games. One concert grand…

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The Improvisor Improvises an Improvisation, :)

Learn to play salsa montuno by solo piano, with video, transcription and analysis

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Walden Woods Arts Case Piano sold $510k by Don Henley

Don Henley raised $510k for charity via special piano auction

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Radiohead, Herbie Hancock & Steve Vai | Smart, Get Interviewed & Fooled

[MUSICIAN] Radiohead’s In Rainbows: A Look at Anti-Marketing in the Music Industry @ Dosh Dosh Radiohead is going to prove that musicians don’t need big record label to do a successful marketing. Their new album is selling for whatever you feel comfortable paying. You can pay nothing for the download. [MUSICIAN] Herbie Hancock On Apple,…

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Around the Music World in One Day

Spend a whole day surfing around for music related blogs, here are some cool stuffs I found. Enjoy.. 😀 Nice Jazz Photos – tm_marcello is a photographer who have been posting a lot of nice photos of jazz artists. Here’s a few samples. There are many more in his archives. Transposing song from one key…

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Before You Kill Yourself, Read This..

Jazz piano solo improvisation tips from transcription and video of Round Midnight by 7notemode

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