Music for the Mind
Welcome to Octave Box. Where Popular Music meets Classical Music. What we now consider Classical Music was once the only Music around. And what is considered Popular Music is not too far off from it’s predecessor. Our goal is to bring this week separated entities back together and to bring Classical Music back to the masses. In a world this large and diverse, where everything has a solid shade of gray, the massive line that defines these two needs to be lifted again.
Listeners separate the Music.
Currently OctaveBox is under construction while live. Each day we are adding more and more musical information and resources. Our goal is to be “the” hub for music majors, music theory students and anyone interested in the pursuit of knowledge in the wonderful field of music. It can be a trying road, but probably one of the most fruitful of them all.
Music Theory 101 – basic building blocks of music theory and reading music. Starting with Pitch, Staves, Clefs, Music Alphabet and more!
Detailed analysis of all Major Scales, Minor Scales, Whole Tone Scales, Pentatonic Scales, Church Modes and everything in between.
The development and understanding of Time Signatures is critical in music. Learn tempos, beats, variations of the beat and meter signatures.
There is not enough of it.
In today’s popular music it seems the vocals never stop. There’s never a moment where we don’t hear a voice singing, talking, rapping, screaming, yelling, etc… I don’t know who started this or why but it needs to stop. The vocals need to stop if just for a second. Take a break, breathe, rest. This is a general and exaggerated statement. I’m sure you could list a slew of songs to counter what I’m saying; but I have a point.
Expanding …
The Music44 “Music for Teachers” free sheet music program gives popular music books by Hal Leonard, Alfred, Kjos and other sheet music publishers to schools like yours! Each school receives $100 of free sheet music, music books, music software, or music textbooks of their choice. To have your school entered into the next drawing, simply email michelle(at)music44(dot)com with your name, email, name of school, city and state. No purchase is required.
Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) January 12, 2010 — The Music44 Music for Teachers free sheet music gift supports music teachers …
Aside from the music itself, notation is key to getting others to enjoy your music. To do so a songwriter and/or composer must make the notation as clear as possible. If a performer can’t red or decipher your intentions then there is little hope they’ll get through the entire piece and even less hope of them spreading the good word. Also if you want your creation to be played correctly it’s best if your intentions are make sense.
In addition to standard articulations such as Marcato and Staccatissmo the …
I once got asked “How can I start playing like Jimmy Page?” As specific as this question is I was able to broadened the subject to make it more relateable: “How can I play lightning fast?”.
The simple solution: practice.
The expanded solution: Practice really, really, really slow.
Additional Materials Needed: Metronome.
Now why on earth would you want to practice something slow when you are trying to play it fast? It turns out this technique is actually derived from martial arts. The greatest martial artists practice their moves as slow …
The Coast 2 Coast New Music Industry Convention will be held this August, 22nd, 2009 at the immaculate Club TOUCH in Mid-Town Manhattan. The event will be a professional music industry networking event with many industry professionals speaking on detailed panels about the state of the current music industry. The convention is put on by Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes, the largest promotional mixtape in the world and iStandardProducers.com.
New York, NY (PRWEB) July 26, 2009 — Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes, Coast2CoastMixtapes.com, is one of the largest music promotion companies in …
