N-Dubz star Dappy has revealed that he is eager to secure a collaboration with Peter Andre.
The rapper, who met Andre at the MOBO Awards in Glasgow last month, claimed that the pair bonded over their shared Greek heritage.
“Peter’s my boy. He’s got flow, he’s got it all,” he told The Mirror.
“Maybe it’s a Greek thing - but working with him would be really wicked.”
N-Dubz recently stated that they have worked with Gary Barlow, Chipmunk and Mr Hudson on new material. They also confirmed that they are planning to collaborate with Kylie on her upcoming 11th studio album.
The trio release new single ‘I Need You’ on November 2. Their second album Against All Odds follows on November 16.
Peaches Geldof uses Twitter to arrange her nights out, keep in touch with her friends and communicate with her fans.
So perhaps it’s only natural that the socialite has utilised the social networking tool to make a date - with popstar Dappy of the band N-Dubz.
Peaches Twittered an invitation to the singer asking him to contact her management. In response he said he’d like to take her to McDonald’s - and she should ‘look sexy’.
And if he needs convincing of her charms, the 20-year-old has unveiled her latest advertising campaign for underwear brand Miss Ultimo.
She poses in all manner of revealing lingerie, including in a bowling alley, in the range’s Autumn Winter Collection.
In her invitation Peaches Twittered: ‘Dappy, when you sing the words to Number 1 it’s as if you’re singing just to me. I love your Peruvian hat and your dance moves.
‘Get in contact with my management. Let’s go on a date.’
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Unfair music monopoly
Because of the monopoly that exists in the Music Industry at the moment, new artists are, quite frankly, given a raw deal. Just think of the millions of talented singers, instrumentalists and bands out there who may never “make it” because they’re not given a fair go. Every day, recording companies are receiving hundreds of demo CDs from would-be stars. It’s a fact that many of them are thrown into the trash can without ever being heard! This is simply unfair to the talent who not only put their heart and soul into their music, but also their hard-earned cash.
Success is Possible!
One of the secrets is to create your own niche or style. You will need a good agent or manager who has contact with a reputable hard-working publicist. Most agents take a commission of between 10 and 20 percent. Managers tend to be more involved with your overall package, including organizing concerts and television performances. They will work on your overall image. Managers can take between 15 and 30 percent, depending on their contribution.
Always be Professional!
Your image, on stage and behind the scenes, must be impeccable at all times. A good attitude and demeanor can only be positive. Longevity in the entertainment industry, from my own personal experience, has a lot to do with a consistent positive approach, through good and bad times.
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Ostinato means “repeating pattern” and is used frequently in all types of music. For New Age piano players, it provides a great way to lay down the background of the piece while the right-hand improvises a melody!
For example, in the lesson “Winter Scene,” we have a repeating pattern going on in the left-hand using 2 chords. And 2 chords are all that is needed to create a few minutes of music!
Interest is maintained by the right-hand melody. How long you could actually play this ostinato and maintain interest is a whole new topic but the secret to really keeping the improvisation going is to stay in the present and trust your intuition.
The music will naturally wind down when you start becoming bored or indifferent and/or no new material wants to come. Then the improvisation is over and the music has played itself out.
The good thing about using an ostinato to create with is that it’s quite easy to develop a harmonic background over which you can improvise your melodies. The bad thing is that it tends to stagnate over time. That’s when you either stop playing, or introduce new material - something that adds contrast.
If you wanted, you could introduce another ostinato pattern, or go for something completely different, but you’d probably want to let your intuition guide you in this. You shouldn’t try to come up with material but instead, just improvise and see what comes up. A completely different, and much more effective approach!
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!
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Beginning piano students can become focused on reading the notes and finding the right keys on the piano and miss the point of playing - to bring their personal sensitivity to bear on the music. Hearing each note in the mind before it is played and thinking about how to touch each key is important to playing thoughtfully and creatively. Music is a language and as such it always tells a story or paints a picture.
Painting is a great analogy for children in piano as it is something that can easily relate to. In children’s music the first place kids can look to get an idea of what this picture will look like is the title of the piece. The title could be for example about the “Morning,” “Moonlight,” a “Triumphant March,” or a “Dance.”
Young students with limited experience learn by imitation and need to hear the pieces played. Parents sometimes think their child isn’t learning to read the notes if the teacher has to play the music for their child. And often children who are able to read music well will not attempt to play new pieces of music at home if they don’t know how it is supposed to sound. Over time, as students gain experience and begin to recognize melody in the music notes, they feel more confident interpreting the music on their own.
Listening to many examples over time allows children to develop their musical ear and artistic abilities. Putting too much emphasis on note reading, or not enough, creates an imbalance between note reading and artistic interpretation. For the beginning piano student these need to go hand-in-hand over time to develop the whole musician.
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7 Simple Steps To Drumming Success
The following will do more for your training progress than any other super secret drumming technique or exercise:
Think on paper: Only about 3 percent of drummers have clear, written goals. These people accomplish five and ten times as much as people without written goals!
Step 1: Decide Exactly What You Want.
This will allow you to prioritize so that you are spending the most time on high value tasks that move you closer to your goals. If your goal is to play drums in a rock band, there isn’t much point in using up a lot of your practise time by practising jazz fill-ins!
Step 2: Write It Down.
Again, think on paper. Written goals are a powerful thing. They have an energy behind them that helps you move toward them that unwritten goals just don’t have. In fact, you’d do even better by writing down your goals every day.
Yes, every day. It will only take a few moments and will help you tremendously.
Step 3: Set A Deadline On Your Goal.
Create a sense of urgency and positive pressure. Without a deadline, you will procrastinate and do the little things that may damage your short term goals
If you wish to learn a particular technique or rudiment, set time scales on this and keep your mind focused on the deadlines which will encourage that ’sense of urgency’ to complete.
Step 4: Make a List of Everything You Can Think of That You Will Need To Do To Help You Achieve Your Goal.
Leave nothing to chance. The more planning you do ahead of time, the more likely you will stick to the plan and achieve your goals.
The more prepared you are, the more success you will experience.
Step 5: Organize The List Into A Plan.
Organize your list by priority and sequence.
Step 6: Take Action On Your Plan Immediately.
Do something. Get started. Start building positive reinforcement and momentum RIGHT NOW.
Step 7: Resolve To Do Something Every Single Day That Moves You Toward Your Major Goal.
And with drumming, you have to, don’t you? Whether it is your rudiments, listening to tapes, reading drum instruction manuals etc., you should always be doing something that moves your forward toward your goals.
If you continue to focus on and perform these 7 steps, you’ll be amazed at the results you’ll see with your drumming skills, speed and techniques.
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Did you master the Chromatic scale on the last lesson. If you did this is the next step. It’s called a moving chromatic scale and it builds from the foundation you learned with the chromatic scale lesson.
Follow the bouncing ball:
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This is the same scale played in the 5th position up and back down the scale. You then move up one position to the 6th fret and repeat the scale. Just keep moving the scale up one position after completing the ascending and descending scale. You can start at any fret and end at the 12th fret. Again this is a great lesson for working out your fingering. You play almost every possible note on the guitar.
If you can work this out then you’re ready to ROCK. Start slow and steady and then add a little speed every day. Pluck every note (alternate picking). Use a metronome or drum machine or play with a drummer. Keep your timing and rhythm tight. Yes this is very boring stuff, but it pays off big time! Your confidence will sore and you’ll make quick progress in learning how to play the guitar.
The biggest reason most new guitar player quit is because they lack patience and rush to do things they are not ready for. Work on chords, chord changes, pentatonic and chromatic scales a little everyday and you will progress faster than if you just try to start playing your favorite song.
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Ka-ha-hanye! The latest Kanye West music release, Late Registration, follow-up to the oppositely titled, The College Dropout, has Kanye going in exactly that, an opposite direction in everything, except credibility. That part’s intact.
It’s getting tougher and tougher, as opposed to the 90’s and even decades preceding, to place an artist strictly in a subgenre of a genre. Yes, Kanye West music is obviously in the hip-hop genre. But what type of subgenre does he really fall in? I mean, he does speak for “the people”, in particularly America’s African-American population, making the general population at large become aware of the crises that his brothers and sisters are going through. If not obvious from his music, it is obvious off the stage, regarding his recent opinion of U.S. President George Bush.
So what would that subgenre be? Political rap? “Folk-rap”? “Socioneconomic rap”? Can’t really think of many others…
But here’s some accurate thoughts on the subject. Kanye West music has socioenomical, and political influences. This aspect of his music is quite intact even through his latest release, Late Registration. Of the interesting approaches that he takes with this record is the anomosity that “brothers” may feel when one of their own “graduates” from their clan and “leaves” them.
Background tracks are gallore throughout both West’s releases. The latest turn on Late, however, regarding the overall look and feel music-wise, is more raw and vibrant than its predecessor.
Music patterns of the late 60’s and 70’s; for example, Major7 to “minor”7 shifts, horn orchestra sections; occupy much of the background of Kanye West music on his current release. The first several tracks are vibrant in even another more current way, with more spicing of techno in the bass.
The College Dropout was a big pleaser to both fans and critic alike. Late Registration, which keeps a great distance away from a traditional sophomore slump (interesting how we don’t see many of these anymore), should have no problem in similar pleasing, or even more, on most aspects.
While The college Dropout had several moments in it, for example strong stand-out tracks and singles, or even “what-the-****- was-that?!” moment of lyrics, there are less tracks on Late Registration that appear to stick out like a sore thumb. Don’t get me wrong, it is still an excellent record, although as a whole, not because of just several spiky moments of ingenius Kanye West music.
The whole album is ingenius, made by a genius.
On a final note, due to overwhelming publicity - on and off stage; planned and incidental - there will virtually be no shortage of this release offline or online. It will set you back between $10-15, however, depending on where you buy it. Although the maximum price to download Late will be about $12 note that if you acquire them online, and if their are other releases from Kanye (even other than The College Dropout that you still haven’t checked) you’ll save money downloading ALL music from Kanye West, possibly paying no more than what you would for just Late Registration.
To find out reputable reputable digital music downloads services where you can save money this way, then read further as to where Kanye West music is available.
All-in-all, Kanye West, is definitely moving forward in his carrier with Late Registration, even though it may appear that he is going backward with the album title.
Copyright © 2005. D.G. Rajakaruna
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The new generation music is much influenced by the MP3 revolution that has revolutionized the whole music industry. It has provided the consumer with easy access to variety of music barring all factors such as place and time. Now portable mp3 players have even made it possible for the consumer to carry the kind of music anywhere and listen anytime as per his desire.
In the earlier times it happened that consumer was restricted to music records and cassettes to listen music. Sometimes if any one song used to be a melodious one that he wanted to listen to he had no option rather than to buy the whole album. This was just a waste of money but now consumer is open to much wider option with different free mp3 download song available on the internet. It generally comes to our mind as why mp3 and how can we get these free song downloads? Mp3 is a digitally encoded audio that is compressed so that the entire data is made smaller without any change in the quality of sound and music. Most of the times the sound quality of an mp3 and that of an original cd is distinguished much.
Thus the popularity of mp3 music has inevitably shown several music websites providing the consumer lots of downloadable material. MP3 music has become so popular that many new music recording artists are making their collection available in the form of mp3 music through different websites thereby giving the consumer a chance to listen the kind of music they would otherwise have been able to. Many sites offer quality mp3 song downloads by charging one time minimal amount.
In spite of all the benefits free mp3 player song downloads have also become a threat for the music industry because many programs allows mp3 file transfer from one computer to another by cutting down the royalty for the artist and album as a overall cost reduction for the music album. This aroused a fear among the music recording artists of losing lots of money from consumer who can easily download the music instead of buying it due to which they tried to make mp3 music illegal.
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A year ago, I wrote a passionate article on the merits of charging $15 when you sell your CDs. Some of my reasonings included: It’s tough for indie musicians and you have a good music, so don’t short-change yourself; you can always discount the CD for special reasons (2-for-1 special); and, the “high” sales prices also includes your various expenses. I made a few addendums, but that’s the gist of it.
But now, if you head over to http://mp3.com/thebards and check out the Brobdingnagian Bards page at MP3.com, you’ll notice something kinda hypocritical…none of our CDs are priced at $15! What gives??
Well first let me say, yes, I do still believe in a $15.00 sales price for many artists. Certainly, it works best for folk artists, and singer/songwriter types. But my reason is not hypocrisy it is a dramatic change in our marketing plan.
You see, when we started out, I knew that the only “real” income available to indie musicians comes from CD sales and merchandising since royalties from ASCAP and BMI are a joke. So our plan was to record every 6 months or less and put out new material. By then end of last summer the indie process was leaving us drained, and we were thinking we overextended. Then along comes MP3.com.
One of the things I’ve been raving about for the past few months is that MP3.com offers a new marketing model by offering “royalties” for listens to your music. And if you’re getting paid from people listening to your music. Then it needs to be readily available right?
Well, we’ve followed the footsteps of many of the top MP3.com artists and have about 40-50 tracks available on our site and more are coming every week. In doing so, we make a solid $20 a day from our site.
Now with each listen, the songs are tracked on MP3.com on their music charts. You sell a CD, the songs on that CD will rocket up the charts. So you want the CDs to sell, because higher charting equals higher payback. Thus, our low price on MP3.com.
Now think for a second. If you have 40 songs on your site like the Hillbilly Hellcats, you’re most likely going to make your 15 unique listens because your songs are located all over the charts. There are plenty of songs to choose from. Thus the new marketing model no longer relies on CD sales of $15.00, but listens. When you realize that you open yourself up to a whole slew of, in my opinion, simple marketing tactics that will make you more money from listens than selling CDs from your website.
I know this all seems simplistic, but the vast reality is most artists on MP3.com are still running their band with an older marketing model that does not yield the highest payback. So think about that for a bit, and next week, I have a guest writer who will give you an exciting promotional idea that could send your listens over the top. Then the week following that, I’m going to betray my secret that has my song “Tolkien” at #35 on all MP3.com…
Stay tuned. Same bard time. Same bard channel!
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Congratulations! Your singing has become amazing, and it’s time the world knew. You’ve also written some songs that are just kick you-know-what. They need to be recorded, MP3ed and put on the net ASAP. But you’ve got two problems. First, you can’t afford a studio, let alone a band for all this stuff. Second, you don’t play all, or any, of the instruments.
Well there is good news. With a deft combination of the internet and today’s software, you can do wonders. While it’s never going to be the same as a true band in a real studio, which you had better hire for that big record company showcase, you can still create great backing tracks.
First, repeat after me. “I love MIDI.” Thank you.
MIDI, to refresh your memory, is like sheet music for a pianist. The paper itself makes no noises, but the pianist gets all the information he needs from it to let us hear Beethoven (especially if the music is also Beethoven!). In your computer set up, the MIDI file is the sheet music, the MIDI sequencer or playback program is the pianist, and your computer’s sound card and synthesizer are the piano. That’s all you need!
Before we get started, I’ll mention the ultimate cover song shortcut - the Internet! There are tons of great MIDI files of almost every piece of popular music out there. All you have to do is find them. If you can’t, or you’ve got your own material, read on. Be legal, though!
If You Play Keyboard or Guitar Well
First, thank your parents for the lessons. Then, get your hands on a sequencer program and record your tracks. Using MIDI, you can choose the instrument sound for everything - all you need to do is input the notes. For drums, you can either record them from your keyboard or use a plug-in drum machine. If you choose to record them, a quick way to do it is to record a couple of measures and then copy/paste to fill out the song. But don’t forget to put in some drum fills!
If Your Playing Is Limited to Little or Not at All
For you there are wonderful programs, like Band in a Box and Jammer, to create backing tracks. They are very stylish, meaning, they function in styles. You must, at the very least, know the chords for your song. You simply enter the chords, choose the appropriate musical style, and click a button called “compose” (or some reasonable facsimile). Before you can say “Holy guacamole, Batman,” your music is playing. The drawback here is that your band will sound canned. And well it should, for it is! But, have no fear, there are ways to mitigate that quite well.
Making it Human
Best thing? Play what you can, at least the melody. That, in and of itself, will help tremendously, as it’s no longer just a band style playing chord progressions.
Next up, record a counterpoint. Counterpoints make ordinary songs exciting. They are secondary melodies that complement the main melody. They usually have a slightly different rhythm, and fill in where the melody has breaks. A great example is in the song “The Winner Takes It All,” by Abba. Listen to the theme that is always playing underneath the melody - it really drives the song.
Another thing you can do to put life into your tracks is to customize the style. Depending on how good you are with your software and its capabilities, you can create your own riffs and mix them into the song. Also, vary similar styles throughout the song to break the monotony. And, again, don’t underestimate drum fills!
Creative use of layering is a very effective technique. When all the tracks play all the time, it can be very boring. Wait to bring in some instruments till later in the song. That creates a “building” feel. Then, at some point towards the end, take them out again briefly to create a “break” or “bridge”. When you bring them back, it is very powerful.
Finally, don’t allow any perfection. Yes, you read that correctly. If your music is perfectly aligned rhythmically, it will sound artificial. Live musicians are never precisely on the beat. Almost all programs have a “humanize” function which corrects this automatically. Otherwise, take the time and slide some notes in the piano roll editor window. If you need quantize (rhythm correction) on the recorded tracks, set it to less than 100%.
When you’ve got your MIDI file, there are two ways to convert it to audio (wav, mp3) for CD burning. The quicker way is with a dedicated program that renders wave files from MIDI files directly. Most software synthesizer programs that have a stand-alone playback feature can do this. Otherwise, open an audio recording program, play the MIDI file, and simultaneously record the output. Make sure your audio recorder is set to receive from the correct input.
If You Play Nothing, and Don’t Know Chords or Theory or Anything
Guess what? You are the one who should hire a musician. Yes, I know that some programs will offer both a chord progression composer and even a melody composer. All you would need to do is choose the style. If you are considering going this route, I have one request for you.
PLEASE DON’T!
Sorry to yell, but think about this. The melody is composed by a computer, the chords are composed by a computer, the band is composed by a computer. It is music that is completely composed by a computer. Oh my gosh! How revolting is that?
No, my friend, hire a qualified musician. You sing the song to them, they create the magic. Do not sell yourself short. Your song is important — it’s part of you! Show it the greatest respect and make it as beautiful as you can.
Seth Lutnick is a singer, songwriter and arranger. Visit his website, http://www.getitdone.biz for more on creating and using a home recording studio, and personal action planning.
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