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The King had a lot to say about his music:

“I’m not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I’m singing, I’m dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.”

“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.”

“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.”

“Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it you have it all over.”

“I don’t set any kind of bad example. My music appeals to teenagers because it’s strongly emotional.”

“My songs are a way of caressing people with my voice.”

“When rock-n-roll music dies out another type of emotional music is going to take its place.”

“I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.”

“I learned how important it was to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.”

“Man, I really like Vegas.”

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Best Buy has a 50 inch 720p Insignia flat panel plasma is a wonderful example of an affordable-priced TV. Many of consumers purchase TVs based on their sizes, they want something that would absolutely be a statement piece.

A better TV from Sony or other popular brands can cost as much as$6,000, while Insignia plasma TV will accommodate size and quality at a fraction of the price. With the price of $1,299.99, Insignia plasma TV allowyou buy all the components neccessaryfor creating a remarkable home theater.

If you are upgrading from your CRT TV, you will find out that Insignia plasma TV fixes two problems at once. It is a flat panel television which means it absorbs lesser space than the old and bulky CRTs. More importantly, the Insignia TV has built-in HDTV tuner that ensures that it would accomodate any upcoming technology changes that over-the-air TV stations produce. The TV will also contain the documents,statements and directions for quick and easy home theater installation. The TV can also support high high definition or hi-def cable television any of theHD DVD players and blu-ray discs.

The Insignia plasma TV offers massive and sharp picture, thanks to the 15,000:1 contrast ratio and the 50 inch screen. It also supports standard 16:9 widescreen ratio, however, it could also switch to zoom modes when you’d want a TV that does not accomodate the new widescreen format.

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If a friend takes to music, then maybe you should
think about learning with private voice or guitar lessons. A
professional piano school in Chicago likely has talented teachers that
will personally help you learn how to play in various types of sounds,
styles and rhythms. A music student wouldn’t have to ride her bike
terribly far to select a Chicago music school staffed with friendly
and professional music experts.

Take for instance piano lessons. It’s all-too easy to say the
guitar is a wildly popular musical device (though I wouldn’t think
twice about the piccolo). You can’t go wrong with any of them. A
gifted singing teacher might teach you a noteworthy fresh sound each
lesson! Unlike old school guitar lessons, small Chicago piano
teachers are the trendy up-and-coming way to master your favorite
songs.

Who cares if you’re a beginner or you’ve been playing music for
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fails, many will still tell you to perfect your piano scales, guitar
tabs and how to carry a beat before moving onto popular piano songs
you enjoy. But classes are typically within a waiter’s budget,

Hip musicians are training in a totally different philosophy.
Essentially you could find lots of various plans of attack! However,
the greatest matter to recall is that guitar lessons, and music
education of any genre has to be celebrated. Music is expression and
that’s the secret.. Guitar teachers can never be under valued.

Michael Jackson has held Florence and the Machine off the top of the UK albums chart yet again.

His two-disc compilation The Essential notches up a sixth week at number one, having previously replaced another Jackson collection, Number Ones, in the top spot.

The Essential is one of six Jackson albums in this week’s top 40 - one down on seven days ago.

Behind Jackson, Florence and the Machine’s debut album Lungs has to settle for second position for the fifth consecutive week. Florence and the Machine are also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.

It is an award that has always valued more offbeat acts. But this year the Barclaycard Mercury prize judges gave a ringing endorsement to a range of leftfield female artists dominating the music scene.

Florence and the Machine, who burst into the wider public consciousness when singer Florence Welch, clambered up the stage rigging at Glastonbury this year, was one of five female performers among the 12 artists chosen for the shortlist. The eccentrically coiffed electro-pop star La Roux - aka Elly Jackson - will also be among the favourites to win the award, which was last won by a woman in 2002 when Ms Dynamite took the prize.

Bat for Lashes’s frontwoman Natasha Khan, who has likened her music to “Halloween when you’re small, dreaming by the sea, pine trees, UFOs, dark night-time lovemaking”, also made it into the last 12 for her second album Two Suns.

It’s no secret that virtually everyone loves music in some form or other. After all, music is the universal language. In one way or another we all participate in it from our cradle song to our wedding song to our funeral song, with thousands of other s stops along the way.

The country-western fan may not like jazz, but he or she sure loves the sound of pickin’ & grinnin’.

And that’s as it should be. If we all liked the same kind of music, there just wouldn’t be the variety that is available to us now. We can choose from musical styles ranging from heavy classical and opera to rock to children’s songs to Broadway musicals to gospel music to the blues.

Each has its place, and each seems on the surface to be drastically different than another form of music. The key word is “on the surface.” But beneath the surface of all music is a commonality that is organic to all forms and styles of music.

So what does all music have in common? What makes music tick?

At least 3 things - sometimes more, but never less:

1. Melody

2. Rhythm

3. Harmony

The melody is the part of a song or composition that you whistle or hum - in other words, the tune of the song. In one sense, it is the most visible of the 3 elements, because melody is what identifies a song. Without melody, it would be difficult to even conceive of a song or piece.

In musical notation, the melody is almost always written in the treble clef - also known as the treble staff. It consists of a horizontal line of notes that move up and down on the clef as the tune moves higher or lower.

Rhythm is the beat - the swing - the throb of the music. It happens in repeating patterns, depending upon the type of music. It is like a horizontal line of beats which occur at regular or semi-regular intervals. A waltz, for example, basically consists of a heavy beat followed by two lighter beats. So we say that a waltz is in triple meter - one strong beat followed by two weak beats, then repeated.

A march, on the other hand, generally consists of a heavy beat followed by a light beat, then another heavy beat followed by another light beat. (I’m simplifying, of course - there are many varieties…) So a march is in duple meter - as you might expect since we have two feet and we march in left-right-left-right patterns.

All rhythms are some combination of triple meter and/or duple meter, and the possibilities are endless - from boogie to R&B to mambos and sambas and bossa novas and….on and on.

Harmony, the 3rd aspect of music, is the musical background of a song - the chords, or intervals “behind” the melody. Without harmony, a song sounds empty - like a vocalist singing without an accompanist - or accapella. Music doesn’t HAVE to have harmony to function, but in actual practice it almost always does, even if it is just the interplay of two melodies, as in counterpoint.

You could spend a lifetime learning all the nuances of music, but it its most basic form, it is these 3 elements combined together; melody, rhythm, and harmony that comprise music.

Duane Shinn is the author of over 500 music books and music educational materials such as DVD’s, CD’s, musical games for kids, chord charts, musical software, and piano lesson instructional courses for both children & adults. His book & DVD course titled “How To Dress Up ‘Naked Music’ On The Piano!” is used by adults around the world. He holds advanced degrees from Southern Oregon University and was the founder of Piano University in Southern Oregon. He is the author of the popular free 101-week online e-mail newsletter titled “Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions” with over 59,700 current subscribers.