How To Move Music From iPod to iTunes

By Sandi Kanne

Transferring music from an iPod to an iTunes library has been a desire for many people, even though they may have previously downloaded music from the iTunes store or personal cds to their iPod. Though Apple should have expected this to be a valuable characteristic, it determined that iTunes should not assist in allowing this to happen.

Some people suspect that Apple took these steps to protect music from being illegally traded. But what about people who wan to transfer their own music between their own computers using their iPod and iTunes? This isn't wrong or illegal!

You also might want need to transfer your iPod music to your own laptop or computer at work.

The default settings of iTunes will transfer the iTunes library on your new computer to your iPod. These settings will wipe out the library on your iPod, along with any music you have stored on it, and use the new, empty iTunes library. This is troublesome!

However, many people quickly learned how to get around this difficult issue. It unfortunately that meant deciding 'no' when presented with the option of automatically syncing your iPod and iTunes library.

To transfer music from your iPod back to your computer, a complicated series of steps is necessary, from deleting files from your iTunes folder, revealing hidden files, copying the iPod Control folder, creating a new folder and putting your songs somewhere else for safety. There were more steps, but you get the drift.

To avoid this very aggravating scenario or the complicated process necessary to avoid losing all of your music, third party vendors intervened and established some very helpful software.

Three programs that were created to aid you in easily transferring your iPod music to your iTunes library are iPod 2 iTunes, PodMaxx, and Tune Tools.

You can also copy playlists and videos to your computer from your iPod, for a small cost. Each of these programs includes features that iTunes hasn't yet included in their own software. These programs cost around $25 to $30, which is much cheaper than finding that your iPod library has been deleted! - 18780

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Neal Schon - Oklahoma City's Guitar God

By Nathan Spencer

It is impossible that you have not heard about Neal Schon if you are a music fanatic and one that has a craving for guitars. This world renowned Oklahoma guitarist is considered by many to be guitar's God. Born on the 5th of February, 1954, this American guitarist is famous for his performances with the world famous band Journey. Of all the members of the band Journey, Neal is the only one to have played in all of their recordings. Neal, who was born in an air force base situated close to Oklahoma City, picked up the guitar at the tender age of 5.

Few people know that his father too was into music and was a jazz saxophonist. Neal was a fast learner and at the young age of 15 he joined Santana. Neal was associated with Azteca prior to forming the group Journey in the year 1973, which he still leads. Those who are familiar with the playing style of this guitarist consider it as soulful. Apart from the fourteen studio albums he has made with the group he founded, Neal has also cut albums with many other musicians.

Early on in his career, Neal had been requested by another guitar great, Eric Clapton, to join his group, Derek and the Dominos. Since he was first called upon by Santana, Neal turned down this offer. Santana was joined by Neil Schon for recording the album Santana III. Those who are interested in learning electric guitars will be interested to know that the first guitar used by Neal was an acoustic Stella. A Gibson ES-335 replaced this guitar two years later. Neal substituted his stolen Gibson with the 1956 make Les Paul Goldtop reissue and he performed using the same for quite a number of years.

Gibson guitars are currently endorsed by Neal. Some limited editions signature models also available and they are known as the "Neal Schon Signature Model Custom Les Paul". According to Gibson's official website, only thirty five of such custom guitars were built. A number of other guitars were also used by Neal during his vast career and Goldin guitar is one of them which he had used for the single album "Beyond the Thunder", which was released towards the end of the 1980's. Gibson, which manufactures some of the best solo guitars, is endorsed by Schon. - 18780

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How To Initiate Your Child Into Music Lessons

By Amy Nutt

Introduction

There are many parents these days that want their children to learn how to do something musical. This could be vocal music lessons or it could be learning to play an instrument like the piano. People tend to feel that their children will be far more accomplished in life if they learn some musical skill. Furthermore, people tend to feel that their children will have a hobby that can carry them through the rest of life if they learn how to be musical at a very young age.

This can certainly be a good idea, but you need to be careful if you want to broach the idea to your child in such a way as to make them accept it. Generally, there are three approaches that you can take when it comes to initiating your child into music lessons.

The Hardliner Approach

Interestingly enough, the hardliner approach is actually the easiest approach to pull off. You don't need any level of dexterity when it comes to this approach. In fact, all you need is a willingness to take a mallet and just go into the conversation swinging (metaphorically of course).

Basically, you need to announce to your child that you have decided on their music lessons. Your child might not want to go, but you should not waver in your hardliner approach once you have adopted it. If you do that, the hardliner approach instantly becomes less useful for future situations. You need to drag your kid to the first few music lessons with this approach and keep doing it until their natural enjoyment of the activity starts to take over.

The Coax Approach

The opposite strategy of the hardliner approach is the coax approach. When you are using this approach, what you basically need to do is coax your child into coming with you to the music lesson. You need to make it seem like an exciting adventure that you and your child can share together and therefore pique their interest in the topic.

When you are using this approach however, you need to avoid being overly enthusiastic about the music lessons. Children can sense false enthusiasm in their parents quite easily and are generally not fooled by it. At the same time, they can sense a lack of interest too. It is a fine line to work, but if you know how to work that line you can certainly get more success out of the coax approach than out of the hardliner approach.

Conclusion

Music lessons for children can be very rewarding if done right. If you want your child to truly benefit from music lessons though, you need to get them to the point where they are regularly attending the music classes. If you don't do that, you can pretty much kiss goodbye any of the long term benefit that they might get out of the exercise. Keep that in mind when you are evaluating what your next move is going to be in this particular area. - 18780

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Music For Tantra

By Hans Havasi

Polarity In Tantra

In Tantra one of the fundamental principles is the principle of polarity. The universe has a masculine principle called Shiva and a feminine principle called Shakti.

The masculine represents the transcendent aspects of the universe: The consciousness, the spirit, the world of ideas, while the feminine represents the imminent aspect of the universe: The material, the body, nature, our moods, life itself.

Shiva without Shakti is but a corpse, concepts with no "body", no "life". Shakti without Shiva is chaos and destruction. It is the universe with no master plan and no essence to keep it together.

Together they make the dance of creation, the dance of preservation and the dance of destruction.

The polarity of Shiva and Shakti exists on all levels of the universe. On the large cosmic scale as huge galaxies (Shakti) revolving around black holes which are singularities (Shiva) around which the galaxies dances.

The dance between Shiva and Shakti can be seen in the couple relationship and even in our own beings as the interplay between our awareness and our bodies.

Shiva is the spark of consciousness and Shakti is the energy. Shiva is like a mirror who reflects Shakti so she can become aware of herself.

The Law Of Resonance

The law of Resonance is a fundamental tantric law. As we mentioned before, the universe is Shakti or energy vibrating in different frequencies.

Energy with one frequency will be attracted to other energies of the same frequency (the law of attraction).

A system which pulsates with a specific frequency can transfer data from another system vibrating with the same frequency.

For example, if you vibrate with an energy of happiness you will start to transfer data from the huge universal storehouse of happiness: inspiration and ideas associated with happiness, insights of all people that have been happy and who have transferred their ideas to the universal storehouse of happiness etc.

Similar resonances can be transmitted through different mediums. A landscape can give you happy thoughts just as well as music and colors can.

We should therefor be very careful with which resonances we allow into our being. Listening to heavy metal for instance will put you in resonance with all the people that ever listened to heavy metal and as experiments with plants show, it is not an energy which is very conducive to life.

Some say that you have to expose yourself to negative energies to become stronger. This may be true but only if you have the consciousness (Shiva) to go through it with awareness. Otherwise you will be overwhelmed and it will do you no good.

You should rather put your attention on the good beneficial energies!

The world of Tantra

Tantrics study energy (Shakti) in order to understand the essence (Shiva) of that energy. In this study the world has been categorized into a large pantheon of Gods and Goddesses each being the lord of a specific range of frequencies or aspects of the universe.

For example the energy of compassion has a specific frequency of vibration. In the west we would call it compassion and we do not see the need to have it represented by a Goddess.

But deifying an energy has an important function: It enables us to identify easier with the energy as it gains a human face. It is easier to digest and to take in.

Through the process of identification we gain a kind of empathy with the object and start to experience the world through "the eyes of the object".

Each Goddess has a bija mantra associated with it which has the core vibration of that range of energies associated with the Goddess.

This sound or mantra is repeated silently inside the worshipper of the Goddess.

The word Tantra in fact means "Network" as the universe consists of a huge range of energies interconnected to each other. Tantra offers us the opportunity of going into resonance processes with all these energies through its pantheon of Gods and Goddesses and their associated Mantras.

These tools enable us to get into contact with any aspect of creation.

Tantra and Music

Music offers us a powerful way of getting into a resonance process.

An artwork created by an artist in a specific resonance will transport these resonances directly to the observer/listener of the art.

Music can be made for any Goddess, for any idea, for any concept. It is the responsibility of the artist to enter as best as he can into that resonance and to convey it through his music.

In this way the artist can be a priest, a person who through his spiritual practice vibrates with the Bija and who can convey it to other people through the music. - 18780

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Hans Havasi is a musician and computer scientist who leads a yoga and tantra retreat centre in the north of Copenhagen. Together with his wife Mariah they form the meditation music group Ibis which makes Tantric music for Goddesses.

What's So Hot About Guitar in a Nutshell?

By Payo W Perry

The web is full of guitar websites however one in particular is turning heads called Guitar in a Nutshell. It's a specialist site built for complete or struggling beginners and promises to teach a unique and compact system of strums and chords. Once learnt the method opens the door to 100's of popular songs in a short space of practice time.

These fast results are attained largely through it's system of strums and how they can be applied universally to an enormous range of guitar songs. The ethic of practicing correctly is guaranteed through the use of a separate Practice Module and a Songbook shows you how to put the Guitar in a Nutshell system into immediate effect with real songs.

The method is learned in it's basic form with just 4 lessons, available to watch online from a Guitar in a Nutshell DVD recording. Following that, lessons are also expanded into improver and intermediate levels which ensure an even learning curve, crucial for successful learning.

The main focus of Guitar in a Nutshell is not only to provide a super fast way for beginners to start playing songs but also to break frustrated beginners out of their stagnant ruts. This is particularly important as one of the biggest and most common problems is not being able to escape from a beginner level on guitar. In fact, many guitarists stay stuck in this way for years without making progress.

It's mostly through inferior instruction, confusing and unnecessary lesson content plus a general lack in understanding of how beginner students learn that lead most people to this situation.

Guitar in a Nutshell prides itself on truly understanding how to teach beginners on guitar. In fact, the system was born out of teaching guitar to hundreds of real students through 1-1 lessons. It was seen through this experience that most beginners share the same common problems when learning to play guitar.

It was in response to the teaching challenge of "How can I get these classic problems solved and deliver a simple system to beginners for playing guitar songs?" that created Guitar in a Nutshell.

Well be sure and check out the sample lessons they have on offer on the website, you might be pleasantly surprised about how easy it is to learn with Guitar in a Nutshell! Good luck. - 18780

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The author is a contributing tutor with Guitar in a Nutshell. Visit the site for lots of free sample videos to try out. There's also a series of important articles on learning to play acoustic guitar which you can sign up for.