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Music Teacher asked:


There are many reasons, issues and circumstances that can be associated with missed music lessons and classes. Though these incidents have been saddening and frustrating to most dedicated music teachers, such really inevitably happen. There is only one key to resolve this conflict: the Power of MOTIVATION.

Consequently, various music teachers’ resources and tips, which are designed and intended to motivate students attend their music lessons and classes regularly, have been made readily available online. There are some reliable and objective websites that can certainly provide music teachers some great resources to modify and develop their music teaching strategies.

Since you have gotten into this page, your willingness and urge to adopt music teaching resources and tips seem to be intense and obvious. Well, you are on the right track; this article tends to give you some helpful tips and resources in teaching music more effectively and efficiently.

Motivate Young Minds

Motivation is the key issue to gauge how exactly students learn. A music teacher may be puzzled or even worried when it seems to him that his students lack self-motivation. With that thinking, he must know the motivational needs of his students.

Motivation may come from the teacher himself or from the learning environment. What matters here is the students would be encouraged to attend classes with much determination and perseverance.

In a classroom setting, learners can be motivated by their own music preference, interest, background, experience, skills and abilities. Also, music teaching efforts and strategies should always adhere to the personal motivational needs and qualities of the students. With these methods, you could see their willingness and eagerness to learn and eventually love music more.

Inspire Your Students

Some would agree that motivation in a classroom setting is quite synonymous to inspiration. Meaning, one’s motivating factors are the same as his sources of inspiration. Basically, he tries his best to achieve his objectives not just because he is determined to do so but because he is indeed motivated and inspired to succeed.

Inspiring students is never easy. You need to come up with a variety of new strategies that can make them really interested and hooked with your daily activities and sessions. With you and your music teaching resources or techniques, they would surely look forward to seeing you next meeting.

It is true that teaching as a whole is a noble profession. In fact, it is more than just a vocation or a career: it is more on commitment and fulfillment. A teacher feels his worth and success when he sees his students succeed in time. Indeed, teaching young minds is a rewarding experience.

Still searching for more relevant music teachers resources and tips? Visit this music teachers website.

A Teacher’s Passion for Music

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All The Lyrics asked:


Everyone of us has music inside. And it is not an abstract statement, but scientifically proved fact. Molecules of DNA “sound” inside us and it is very important if music from outside is in keeping with music inside us.

Scientists pay great attention to researches concerning music’s influence on human beings. Attention to such researches has increased recently and their results are interesting and convincing. For example, after listening classical music cows have increased their yield of milk and mimosa and petunias have grown faster and burst into bloom 2 weeks earlier. 120 breast-feed mothers took part in experiment in Japan. Some women listened classical music, other women listened pop and rock music. In first group the amount of milk increased in 20 per cent, and in second group – reduced twice.

Such researches are the attempt to synthesise science and art (music). But in ancient India science and art were considered to be the parts of single creative power. All knowledge of ancient India one can find in the Vedas (Holy Indian Scripture) and one of four main Vedas Sama-Veda is entirely dedicated to music. According to the Vedas the creating of the world started from the primordial sound “OM”, which appeared while division of the Almighty (Sadashiva) and his creative energy (Adi Shakti). “OM” was the foundation of the universe and the first musical sound.

Human subtle system consists of 7 main chakras (energetic centres) and 3 channels, which rule mental, emotional and physical life activity of person. 7 chakras of our subtle body revolve with certain frequency and form an octave, which consists of 7 tones of proper altitude. Intervals between them should reflect intervals between chakras. These tones were called musical sounds – notes (’svars’ in Indian music). They sound – sa, re, ga, ma, pa, da, ni and they are in keeping with chakras – from first till seventh. 5 notes can change (fall and rise), creating 5 additional sounds (left and right aspects of chakras). Thus, these notes are built-in subtle body and represent the ideal “repository” of information, the repository of those feelings, emotions, wishes and thoughts, which composer or performer has.

While listening music a person receives some influence on subtle level, which later appears on physical body. Same notes can bring destruction or good, it depends on the inner condition of person. For example, anger, aggression, drug intoxication and so on, which have power over the mind of composer or musician, will find the reflection in his music. There are some styles and forms in music which reflect only such bad qualities. Such music may do harm not only the musician, but also a person who listen to it. Clear, inspired people, who have lucid mind will never create such music. They created only folk music with great variety and classical music which has its roots in folk music.

Let’s listen to music, which is in keeping with music inside us.

Isaiah G. Henry asked:


For anyone with a computer, iPod, or Mp3 player, free music and movie downloads are a real asset. As disk space grows by Gigabytes, users have more room for both work and entertainment files. Unfortunately, the cost of filling the pleasurable space can be astronomical. So, it is really nice to find a place where Internet patrons can share and enjoy files.

Wal-Mart used to be the best place where you can get good music from. But times are changing and now this place is the Internet. The Internet gives us so many opportunities for work, communication and free music and movie downloads, so that you simply can?t neglect them.

But when you download from the Internet, you should be really careful about copyrights. Many illegal sites lie that what they offer for free is legal. Additionally, some of these sites disappear overnight, so you still have nowhere to download music and movies from. But don?t get desperate ? there are many good sites, which offer unlimited monthly/yearly downloads in exchange for a small fee.

However, the price is understandable. The fees cover the websites overhead costs to provide the music and movie downloads free of charge. In other words, customers can download as much music and movies as desired without paying an additional charge per file.

There are also sites, which charge per file. This is a better option if you want a couple of files only. But if you are a music-hungry teenager, then paying a monthly fee and downloading as much as you can could be the better alternative.

With a teenager in the house, a personally interesting site is My Music, Inc. Subscribers can download music, movies, games, and software free of charge. Basically, it has all genres and computer entertainment files to satisfy the entire family. Fill the iPod, forget spending an arm and a leg at the movie theater, download a couple of games for fun during a work break, and check out the software that may help users better utilize the computer, while protecting files and personal information.

ITunes has become one of the most visited sites for downloading mp3 and iPod music. Truthfully, it may be the most popular. Also, YouTube is a popular source for shared files and music videos. Only two well-used sites are mentioned in this blog, but a plethora of web pages are now dedicated to providing everyone, regardless of age, with free or reasonably priced resources to download mp3 music unlimited. Regardless of the preferred genre, something is available for everyone in the home. From the toddler learning his or her first songs, to the oldies but goodies that Grandma loves, the Internet is the place for finding music.

To summarize, you have many options to get free music and movie downloads. What you choose depends on your personal preferences and the amount you plan to download. If you don?t plan to download heavily, you can go for a per file fee. On the contrary, if you?ve got gigabytes to fill, you will save a lot if you subscribe for a flat fee. In any case, the Internet is a great place to look for movies, music, software, or games and to have lots of fun!

Clyde Lee Dennis asked:


I Sing The Body Electric is the latest release from Weather Report, and is another winner from this talented group.

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

I Sing The Body Electric is a pleasantly varied, mix of 7 tracks that are very well written and brilliantly performed songs by these clearly talented musicians. With many of the songs displaying a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Seemingly drawing from what I can only imagine are their own personal experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions of love, and the pain of failed relationships can certainly be heard.

Overall I Sing The Body Electric is outstanding from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Jazz fan. Really sensational from beginning to end.

While this entire CD is really very good the truly standout tunes are track 4 – Second Sunday In August, track 5 – Medley, and track 7 – Directions.

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 – Unknown Soldier. Outstanding!

I Sing The Body Electric Release Notes:

Weather Report originally released I Sing The Body Electric on April 20, 1990 on the Legacy Recordings label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Unknown Soldier 2. Moors, The 3. Crystal 4. Second Sunday In August 5. Medley: – (live): Vertical Invader / T.H. / Dr. Honoris Causa 6. Surucucu – (live) 7. Directions – (live)

I Sing The Body Electric Album Notes Weather Report: Wayne Shorter (reeds); Joe Zawinul (keyboards); Miroslav Vitous (bass instrument); Eric Gravatt (drums); Dom Um Romao (percussion).

Additional personnel: Josh Armstrong, Yolande Bavan, Chapman Roberts (vocals); Ralph Towner (12-string guitar); Hubert Laws (flute); Andrew White (English horn); Wilmer Wise (piccolo trumpet).

Recording information: Columbia Recording Studios, New York, New York (11/1971 – 01/1972); Shibuya Kokaido Hall, Tokyo, Japan (01/13/1972).

Brian Farley asked:


In the UK for the last 18 years at least, a whole generation has been virtually starved of live musicians for a variety of reasons. The advent of computers being a standard household utility with their accompanying music production and downloadable music format devices, together with widespread video and latterly DVD technology has kept many a youngster indoors for most of their leisure time. Coupled with the rising overheads and prohibitive licence fees and conditions imposed on UK venues such as pubs and restaurants to house live artistes (or even play recorded music), this has had a devastating effect on professional musicians and potential artistes alike. The biggest losers are the members of our younger generations – many of whom have never even heard a live musician or band.

It is easy to see why therefore, that during my live gigs lately, I am frequently faced with a young person totally agape watching the live musician at work. They have no doubt become conditioned to accepting music as an impersonally generated medium and find it fascinating to witness the live, hands-on music creativity. Fortunately, this seems to be having an inspirational effect. Having spent most of my career working with theatre orchestras and larger musical combos, I have recently returned to working a lot of solo gigs as a cocktail pianist playing a variety of music styles but often older standards such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin, etc. The thing is, not only am I now finding I’m being booked by the youngster that first saw me a few years ago, but they are requesting that I play the same style of music for their wedding reception or birthday party. It seems that they have got into this sort of music through being made aware of it when I first played for them and they were so intrigued by it.

There is very little coverage on UK radio or television of any music style other than the most recent commercial music. The sad thing is that if younger people do not get the opportunity to witness other musical styles because it is not in the mainstream broadcasts and because live music is so rare, we are not giving them the chance to decide if they like it or not. We have therefore been creating a generation for many years that is one-tracked in its musical culture, when we should have been giving our youngsters much more choice.

Tom Aaron asked:


usiness trip to Kobe, Fred and I went out for a drink. I wondered aloud if there were any statistics on pachinko fatalities. I was talking about the small children who suffered and died because of their parents’ gambling problems, not the gamblers who played pachinko. Immediately understanding exactly what I was talking about, Fred gave a mournful sigh. Every year at least several of the babies and small children left in cars parked in parking lots with the engine running and the air conditioning on die from the summer heat. Eventually, the car engine stops, the air conditioning stops, temperatures in the car rise to over 100, and the heat kills the children. There is also other news of fatal accidents almost every year, when some parent leaves children alone to go and gamble on the pachinko machines. Sometimes the children die in fires and sometimes it is something else.

Fred said that he had not seen any statistics but that it was not that many, especially compared to the hundreds of thousands who died from smoking and drinking and the tens of thousands who died in car accidents. I said that was true, but it just defies reason to leave your children like that. He agreed, but stated that gambling is an addiction.

Pachinko started out as a pinball game in the United States but never became popular. Introduced to Japan, the game was modified and spread like wildfire. Basically, the idea is to shoot little balls into the right places and get more little balls. One reason that pachinko spread so quickly in Japan is that it is gambling. Money is not given out at pachinko parlors, just prizes. Near almost every pachinko parlor, however, is someplace where you can convert your pachinko winnings to cash. Research has shown that when gambling is illegal, many people gamble and approximately 1% of the population have a serious gambling problem. When gambling becomes legal, more people gamble, and the number of people with serious gambling problems doubles.

Parents in Japan who become addicted to the game can’t control themselves and some children pay the price with their lives.

He challenged me to think of a single modern country without any problems. I could not. Japan may have problems with pachinko fatalities, deaths from overwork and more. Still, these problems pale when compared with gun deaths and drug problems in America.

I asked Fred if he had ever played pachinko. Fred said he had never played pachinko and asked me if I had. Remembering my single foray into a dark and smoky pachinko parlor, I nodded my head and said I tried it once.

I remembered going into a dark smoke-filled room where grim-faced men sat in dark clothes chain smoking and shooting balls into machines. The image was sadder than blank-faced senior citizens feeding slot machines in Reno. The room was full of noise of pachinko machines and incredibly loud music. I stepped up to a machine to buy some balls, popped 100 yen in, and some balls came out. Scooping them up in my hand as 100 yen worth of balls was not enough to need a bucket, I stepped to a machine, fed them in and pushed the button again and again and again. After a few minutes, all the balls were gone.

I never played again.