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Friday, January 29, 2010

Check Out These Popular Movies For Today's Entertainment

By Ahmad Foster

Here are 8 of the best motion pictures of all time. Select one to watch today! Law of Desire - Surreal, hedonistic, and comical comedy concentrating on a gay love triangle, with equal treatments of desire, sex, fantasy, and disaster. Cast includes Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Miguel Molina, Bibi Andersson, Manuela Velasco, and Nacho Martinez. 100 minutes, 1987.

The Seniors - 4 collegians open a counterfeit sex hospital, which mushrooms into a multi million dollar business. The movie is both stupid and sarcastic, with some harmless nudity thrown in. Cast includes Jeffrey Byron, Gary Imhof, Dennis Quaid, Lou Richards, PrisciIla Barnes, Alan Reed, Edward Andrews, Robert Emhardl, and Alan Hewitt. 87 minutes, 1978.

Underworld - Evolution - The war between the Werewolves and the Vampires rage on. Now we look back to the start, and see how the dispute between the two races started out. A disagreement that began way in the past is about to be brought into the current day to finish here.

Rubin and Ed - Strange odyssey of 2 gentlemen on a mission to bury a deceased cat. Can they ever find the right spot? Glover once made a notorious appearance on David Letterman's Television show playing the identical personality he does here. Cast includes Crispin Glover, Howard Hesseman, Karen Black, Michael Green, and Brittney Lewis. 92 minutes, 1992.

Inglorious Bastards - 5 cadets getting ready to be court-martialed in WW2 take off and try to make their way through France, wanting to get to the Swiss border. Cast includes Ian Bannen, Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, and Michael Pergolani. 100 minutes, 1978.

Holiday in Mexico - Involving, well cast lyrical comedy of baby girl of ambassador dropping for recognized musician. Cast includes Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, Roddy McDowall, Jose Iturbi, Xavier Cugat, and Jane Powell. 127 minutes, 1946.

The House of Yes - On a stormy day in 1983, a youthful man brings his fiancee home to meet his insolvent Washington, D.C, family, containing his crazy twin sis, Jackie-O, whose fantasies in Jacqueline Kennedy have extended to the point of reinacting the JFK assassination-with live bullets. Well made black comedy, based on the stage production by Wendy MacLeod. Cast includes Parker Posey, Josh Harnilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Genevieve Bujold, and Rachael Leigh Cook. 90 minutes, 1997.

Wild Wild West - This is a big screen edition to the old TV series of the same name. James West and his buddy Artemus Gordon are determined to stop the evil Dr. Arliss Loveless, who is planning to kill the president. Will Smith stars as James West. - 18780

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Changing Times - From Vynal RecordsTo MP3 Players

By John Davids

It was not so very long ago, and those of us over 30, will almost certainly had a collection of vinyl albums. Along with audio cassette, this was the hight of technology, and using record player, we could listen to our songs without having to pass the time, waiting to hear them on the radio. These days, technology has changed so much it's almost unrecognizable

Today, we carry around portable devices that holdour music library in a gadget that is only just larger than our thumb. The MP3 music player technology first surfaced in the mid-1980s and we would not see digital media player in its present state until the late 1990s, 1998 to be correct. But as soon as it arrived, it revolutionized the world of music forever.

MP3 audio players utilizes audio processing technology, to convert existing sound files to the MP3 format. The MP3 format consists of compressed audio files; audio that has been compressed into very small files that can fit onto and be read by an MP3 media player. The MP3 format achieves this compression without noticably losing the sound quality.

In some instances, it can be possible, depending on the memory of the particular MP3 digital player, to fit thousands of songs on it. That's not all, because of its small size, an MP3 music player it can easily fit into handbags as well as coat pockets, and when you want something new to listen to you just simply add new or different songs to the MP3 media player

The MP3 media player transfers files by connecting to your computer. The most common MP3 music player model is the Apple iPod. One of the reasons behind the success of the iPod is that it is so easy to dock with a PC and transfer files using iTunes. Other digital MP3 player manufactures have opted to use Windows Media Player to transfer files.

Using a PC, users can either upload their favorite CDs that can then be downloaded onto the MP3 music player; or they can purchase songs online and then download them to the unit. Apple's iTunes is the most commonly used musical resource for buying and downloading songs, even though there are other services available online.

But aside from the ease of transfering music, the MP3 music player is widely admired for its portability. It can be plugged into your car and played through your cars audio system, or radio with an FM transmitter, plugged into headphones and played while you train, or connect to portable speakers and played throughout your home. In any case, the MP3 music player is the most comprehensive piece of equipment available on the market today to play music. - 18780

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Online Bass Guitar Lessons

By Marshal Yanda

You may prefer a particular style of music over many others and when you begin learning a new instrument but perhaps over time, you will develop a fondness for other styles or genres. This means that in the future you may feel the benefits from experiencing some different styles of playing bass guitar in your development period.

Whether you want to know about rhythm or playing bass scales, we have everything you could ever need to make the best decision about learning the bass guitar. The opportunities afforded to bass guitar players are growing each day and there has never been a better time to learn to play bass guitar.

This is where learning styles like bass scales can open up a whole new style of playing. A person should always try to keep an open mind when it comes to learning different skills and styles.

Taking bass guitar lessons to build up a better level of skills and techniques should be encouraged in every user and learning bass guitar should be something that never stops. If you want to hone your four string skills, you really need to take some bass guitar lessons.

Learning by yourself is okay but the pace you will pick up skills and finding out all about bass scales will greatly improve by taking some lessons. If you want to learn everything you need to know about playing the bass guitar, this website is for you.

Being a lady is no barrier to knowing bass scales so if you are a girl and want to learn an instrument, don't feel as though you can't as the bass is an equal opportunities instrument! There are so many things to do with your time these days but if you learn to play bass guitar, you'll never regret it. So whether it's for fun or you want to make a living from it, don't forget about the four string instrument and what you can do with it.

The vast majority of guitar music, from the most complex classical guitar piece to the most hassle, bass lessons are available in tablature. This lesson will show you how to read some easy bass tabs, and introduce you to some fun and important bass tabs for beginners to learn.

If you're unsure what strings to use, you can walk into any music store and tell the guy behind the counter what kind of guitar you have and he'll hand you the strings you need. If you tell him that you are learning to play guitar, or plan to enroll in beginners bass lessons he may take a minute or two to show you how to tune a guitar, and may even share some guitar licks with you or give you some tips on how to teach yourself to play bass. - 18780

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Learn How To Play Bass Guitar Online: Reinforce The Concepts Many Times As You Need To

By Stacy Williams

Have you considered online bass guitar lessons? What usually gets people started with bass guitar is the desire to form a band, or to be a part of a band. Maybe you already know how to play guitar, and your friends play guitar too--but you all can't be the lead guitarist or the rhythm guitarist. Someone needs to play bass. Maybe that someone is you.

A bass guitar is heavy and cumbersome to carry around, because of all the supporting gadgets that come with it, not to mention the long cables that accompany all of the gadgets. Bass guitars are expensive to purchase, and also tough to learn. But these are indispensable in any pop or rock band. A bass guitar can indeed be the most prized possession of a devoted bassist.

Bass players want to be able to play the type of leads, licks and arpeggio runs that the pro players are doing, yes since most bass players have a really poor knowledge of their fretboard patterns and their application of them is so limited that it becomes a set back to their ability to play more and do more with their instrument.

In struggling simply to get out the notes, though, it's easy to neglect developing the hand's small muscles. The result can be a great deal of wasted energy and motion, limiting one's technique. So here's a few suggestions about the slap technique:

Feel the beat, playing the bass guitar differs primarily from playing a regular guitar because it entails an emphasis on the beat of the music. One can compare the bass guitar into a drum or percussion set that is made into a guitar. Beats are very important in playing bass guitar because this type of guitar gives depth and timing to any song.

Make sure you learn all the most common scales. The scales you should learn are the major scale, minor scale, melodic minor, harmonic minor, pentatonic, blues, and minor blues. These are all really common and should prepare you for just about any situation.

Also, crucial to slap bass is the "snapping" sound produced by pulling the strings up and letting them snap back onto the fretboard - this is called "popping". Of course, all the other more usual techniques of bass playing are still used, such as hammer-ons and crosshammers, lift-offs, slides, string bends and harmonics - but rather than plucking the string with the finger or pick, it might be slapped with the thumb or popped.

With all these in mind, strum your way to mastering how to play the bass guitar and be a rock star in your own right. - 18780

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Guitar Lessons DVD: Become a Pro Learning With The Pros

By Ryan Dorsey

Educate yourself! No matter what level you are at today, you can be and should be learning more. If you are currently studying with a teacher or enrolled in a music program at a high school, college or university, you are on the right track. If you aren't doing this (or if you feel that your current teacher is not helping you enough in reaching your goals) I strongly recommend looking for a new teacher.

I wanted to write great music. Watching the movie Star Wars when I was a kid, reading Lord of the Rings, etc. inspired me as well. There are lots of non musical things that have been inspiring to me.

These are questions you should ask yourself. The two biggest practicing mistakes I have seen in students (besides not practicing enough) are: 1. Practicing is not goal orientated. 2. Not understanding the difference between playing one's guitar and practicing one's guitar. If you are having any difficulties with practicing, talk to your teacher about it. He/she should be able to help you.

You should be able to play all the techniques of the guitar. Van Halen did tapping but not with all his fingers as others have done. He didn't play finger style much either, but we still regard him as an important guitarist, the same thing can be said for Vai and many others. Classical guitar master John William's probably doesn't play well with a guitar pick (I am assuming this to be true, I have no proof of it), but he is considered one of the greatest classical guitarists alive today.

They started to feel like that song by Al Yankovich, "Everything You Know Is Wrong". They realize that even though they may have been playing for 25 years, there are certain really fundamental things they have never known, and if they did know them from the beginning, everything would have gone differently for them in their growth as guitarists.

Absolutely spend a good amount of time in practicing reversing that habit. Practice in a new way, where you make sure you do what you weren't doing before. Analyze the essence of that bad habit, extract it from it's musical context, and perhaps make up "auxillary exercises" based on the essence of it. Use all the practice techniques that I teach to effectively begin this process of reversal.

In fact, it makes learning things like bar chords an orderly, if still somewhat demanding process. And the result is a very comfortable feeling while doing them, and the proper basis for more advanced techniques, such as keeping a bar down while the other fingers do all sorts of things that demand great control.

For instance, the process may go like this: I notice I have trouble with a fast scale passage in a piece I am playing. I notice a particular note starts disappearing when I reach a certain speed. The note is being missed. I notice the finger responsible for playing that note is the third finger. It is not getting to the note because it is going up in the air in reaction to the second finger being used right before it in that particular scale passage. In other words, it is tensing in reaction to the movement of it's neighboring finger, and I have not been paying attention to it. I realize this is a bad habit that pervades my playing, a third finger that tenses up in reaction to the use of the second finger. - 18780

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