Guitar: Alternate Picking: An Open Learning Guide
Alternate picking is an important skill, because it allows you to play more than twice as fast than with just down picking. The basic idea is that if you are picking just on down strokes, ev
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Sound Synthesis Theory: Modulation Synthesis: An Open Learning Guide
When we talk about modulation from an audio synthesis point of view, we refer to a time-varying signal (the carrier) being affected in some way by another (the modulator). Modulation can be
Guitar: Alternate Tunings: An Open Learning Guide
Many guitar players use alternate tunings, which differ from standard tuning. The use of alternate tunings (non-standard tunings) are found throughout the history of the classical guitar and
Guitar: Arpeggios and Sweep Picking: An Open Learning Guide
The word arpeggio (ar-peh-jee-oh) is Italian for "like a harp". It is a common technique for playing chords on the harp. To play an arpeggiated chord on the guitar, pick each note of the cho
Sound Synthesis Theory: Physical Modelling: An Open Learning Guide
Physical Modelling synthesis is not confined to a particular technique, but rather represents a family of approaches to synthesis. Physical modelling systems attempt to model the propagation
Guitar: Authors: An Open Learning Guide
This book has no authors other than the public: it is open for anyone and everybody to improve. Therefore, this is more properly a list of acknowledgements of contributors than a list of aut
Guitar: Barre Chords: An Open Learning Guide
Barre chords are chords that involve using one finger, usually your first finger, to press all the strings down at once on a single fret. Barring turns your first finger into a movable capo.
Music festival: History and Background
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical musi
Music cruise: History and Background
A music cruise is a type of cruise ship tourism whose purpose centers around a musician, band, or musical lineup with performances by the act or acts and interaction between the cruise-goers and
House music: History and Key Facts
House music, or simply house, is a type of electronic dance music which is characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.
Techno: History and Key Facts
Techno is a genre of electronic music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm).
Wall of Sound: History and Key Facts
The Wall of Sound is a recording approach and style of music production developed by American producer and songwriter Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in the early 1960s.
Roland TR-808: History and Key Facts
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 808, is a drum machine manufactured by Roland Corporation between 1980 and 1983.
Blond Ambition World Tour: History and Key Facts
The Blond Ambition World Tour (billed as Blond Ambition World Tour 90) was the third concert tour by American singer Madonna, launched in support of her fourth studio album, Like a Prayer (1989),
The Monster Ball Tour: History and Key Facts
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga.
Tin Pan Alley: History and Key Facts
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Northern soul: History and Key Facts
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s.
3 Doors Down discography: History and Key Facts
The American rock band 3 Doors Down has released six studio albums, four extended plays, 29 singles, one video album and one compilation album.
Absolute music: History and Key Facts
Absolute music (sometimes abstract music) is music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to program music, it is non-representational.
Music genre: History and Key Facts
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
Anchor point: History and Key Facts
In audio and recording, what is known colloquially as an anchor point is a center position in a stereo mix reserved for only three or four important tracks.
Electronic musical instrument: History and Key Facts
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
Acousmonium: History and Key Facts
The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the Maison de Radio France.
Born This Way Ball: History and Key Facts
The Born This Way Ball was the third concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga, in support of her second studio album Born This Way (2011).
Love On Tour: History and Key Facts
Love On Tour was the second concert tour by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, in support of his second and third studio albums, Fine Line (2019) and Harry's House (2022).
Music history: History and Key Facts
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view.
History of music: History and Key Facts
Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal.
1999 (Prince album): History and Key Facts
1999 is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter and musician Prince, released on October 27, 1982, by Warner Bros.
3OH!3 discography: History and Key Facts
The discography of 3OH!3, an American electropop group, contains six studio albums, four extended plays and 23 singles.
Acoustic music: History and Key Facts
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.
Audio engineer: History and Key Facts
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics pro
AirHarp: History and Key Facts
AirHarp is a musical instrument that uses motion detection and software (of the same name) to create pitches.
Alternative rock: History and Key Facts
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.
Backing track: History and Key Facts
A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm
Audiocubes: History and Key Facts
AudioCubes are a collection of wireless intelligent light-emitting objects, capable of detecting each other's location, orientation, and user gestures.
Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway: Date: 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969: Museum Object and Cultural History
Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969: Date: 1969. Photograph by: Robert Houston, American, 1935 - 2021. Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003.
Tambourine used on stage at Wembley Stadium during Prince's Nude Tour: Museum Object and Cultural History
Tambourine used on stage at Wembley Stadium during Prince's Nude Tour: Date: 1990. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Subject of: Prince, American, 1958 - 2016.
House of Prayer For All People Church band: Museum Object and Cultural History
House of Prayer For All People Church band: Date: 1977. Photograph by: Milton Williams, American, born 1940. Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men.
Copy of press release for Scream music video: Museum Object and Cultural History
Copy of press release for Scream music video: Date: 1995. Created by: Susan Blond, Inc., founded 1986. Subject of: Janet Jackson, American, born 1966.