Internet did not only change the daily habits but also the way people do their shop. And more than that: Internet has also increased the space to commit piracy.
Music is a good example of how Internet can contribute to piracy. With all this revolution regarding in the means of communication, more and more files or software are available and can be downloaded. Music is one of these files.
The most common music format is MP3, which is the short for MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3. These are files of music found in a compression version but which keeps the original quality. These files are highly searched through Internet.
With this option of downloading music and creating your own CD, composers and music bands started to claim for their copyrights and royalties. This arouse another question: how to protect the bands and composers?
The exit found was to create laws to protect them. These laws presuppose that both websites that offer free MP3 downloads without the permission of the owners of the copyrights and also websites that offer paid downloads should be punished. In this case, the owners of those websites that don’t respect these laws are sued.
But of course it’s not every website on the Internet that breaks the law. There are websites that offer both free and paid MP3 download without breaking the law and respecting the composers’ or music bands’ copyrights.
And something that people are usually not aware of is that downloading a MP3 without the previous consent of the owner of this music you may also be sued. It doesn’t matter that you just downloaded it. It works like this: these websites only exist because people download their MP3, so if you stop downloading it the website will disappear. Then, you are considered to be accomplice of the website’s owner.
There are, however, some legal ways for you to download MP3, both free and paid.
www.mp3ps.comZZ

Muscle memory is the terminology used by physiologists to describe the phenomenon
of skeletal muscle activity that is learned and becomes essentially automic
with practice.

Muscle memory plays a major part In the world of drumming as well as other
things. Think of when you were first learning to ride a bicyle. You had to concentrate
very hard to make all your body parts move in just the right way, as well as
balance just right so that you could ride. it seemed very difficult but once
you got the hang of it, then riding became a very natural feeling. this same
thing happens in drumming. When playing a new beat at first may feel very okward
and difficult but with some pratice and repetition that beat begins to feel
good and gradually becomes much easier. After some practice these motions require
less concentration.

Scientists have discoverd internal brain stuctures that work together with
input/output brain structures to form fleeting images in the mind. using these
images we interpret input signals, process them and formulate output responses
in a deliberate and concious way. Scientists refer to this as kinesthetic memory
or neuro-muscle facilitation. where "seeing, thinking, and doing"
gets cut down to just "seeing, and doing". muscle memory comes into
play by eliminating the thinking process. your muscles begin to know just what
to do. and this is when one developes efficentcy to become a much better drummer.
once you are capable of playing a beat with out thinking then your mind is free
to think of how to make that beat more creative by adding fills, accents, etc.
The motions of the basic beat are now almost effortless.

It takes a certain amount of time for your drum beat to feel effortless. First
you must create the new motions or pattern, the next step is feeling at ease
with those motions. this will not always happen over it can take sometime depending
what time signature you are playing. I feel Sometimes its best to make a recording
of the new material you are working on. That way when you want to play it again
you will have that tape to help guide you.

When the motions of the basic beat become almost effortless. That is where
the saying practice makes perfect comes from. How can you be at ease with a
beat that now seems hard to you now? Practice and practice some more. and eventually
you will be playing that beat with the same amont of effort it takes to walk.
when you can play a drum beat and keep a conversation or read a book that is
a good indication that your muscle memory has developed just right.

Helping you march to your own beat drumhelper.com

Koyaanisqatsi is a nonverbal film, directed by Godfrey Reggio, and completed in 1982. Koyaanisqatsi contains no actors, no dialogue and has no script. Images from around the world are set to a moving score from composer Philip Glass.
In the movie Koyaanisqatsi director Godfrey Reggio tries to show the imbalance between man and nature. Shots showing the destruction of mankind are coupled and set against images of nature’s beauty and force. The images are very moving and provoke many thoughts in viewers. The musical score of Philip Glass is unconventional, as his scores often are, and yet it is a good balance to the images.
The images are shot by Ron Fricke who later went on to make the movie Baraka. Baraka has a similar theme to Koyaanisqatsi, but a slightly more spiritual theme. It was shot using 70mm, which gives a warmer and cleaner feel than Koyaanisqatsi. Koyaanisqatsi was shot between 1975 and 1982. Some of its scenes are stock footage, such as explosions and space rocket launches.
Koyaanisqatsi has its own page at http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/koyaanis.aspx with all of the details of the film and images of most of the scenes.
In 2003 Koyaanisqatsi was re-released after ownership disputes where settled. The re-mastered DVD image greatly improved the quality but bizarrely lost its original aspect ratio.
Koyaanisqatsi has gone on to be an underground cult movie, and often studied by film students looking to explore a deeper side of the film world.
A small genre of films has been spawned by Koyaanisqatsi. Baraka, as mentioned above has become the most popular. Other movies in the genre include Chronos: also by Ron Fricke, Powaqqatsi: the sequel to Koyaanisqatsi, Microcosmos: about insects, Naqoyqatsi: the less popular final part of the Qatsi trilogy: Winged Migration: about birds, Samsara: the Sequel to Baraka, Dogora: about the young people of Cambodia.
All of these movies where originally created to by viewed in theatres, where one gets the maximum effect. Larger and clearer televisions, as well as home cinema systems have allowed all of these movies to be enjoyed at home.

In this article I’ll explain how to make your guitar squeal with Pinch Harmonics. A lot of guitarists have trouble learning how to do these, but it’s really a simple technique.
I’m going to touch on all types of harmonics in an effort to explain how Pinch Harmonics work when your playing the guitar.
If your like me you like to add a little expression when playing your guitar, by adding some harmonics and pinch harmonics.
To get this started we’re going to go into a little detail about how the guitar strings actually work. Now I’m not going to be all technical, as that’s not who I am :o)
Basically the guitar string vibrates between the nut and the bridge. If you look closely you can see the string vibrating like a sine wave.
Natural harmonics happen at the spaces along the string where the “wave” stops and starts a new one. (Not technically correct but makes sense to me this way).
This normally happens just above the 5th fret, the 7th fret, and the 12th fret wires. If you take a minute in a well lit room you can see the spots where the vibration along the string actually seems to be stopped. When you lightly touch a ringing string on these points you will get a natural harmonic chime.
Tap harmonics are simply fretting a string and moving the natural harmonic spot up accordingly. For example: If you fret the Low E String at the 3rd fret and pluck the string, your “natural harmonics” would no longer be at the 5th, 7th, and 12th frets. You would Tap the string above the 8th, 10th, and 15th fret wire to sound the harmonic. Hence the name….Tap Harmonic.
Now..to the meat of this…the all powerful Pinch Harmonic!! I say all powerful just because I love the extra expression and sound you can get from them.
To do a Pinch Harmonic you basically “Pinch” the string between your Pick and the side of your thumb that’s holding the pick. This is the way I do them and have had excellent luck with this technique.
When you strike the string you let your thumb sound the harmonic you want. It takes a bit of trial and error to find the right areas above the pickups that sound the harmonics you want, but only a little.
The best way to learn the placement is to crank up your distortion (easier to sound them), and on put your fret hand on the Low E or A String on the 5th or 7th fret as if you were playing A note or D note.
Start with your pick in about the middle of the Neck and Bridge pickups and “Pinch” the string so that when your pick sounds it your thumb immediately touches the string. This should sound a Pinch Harmonic. The motion is similar to turning the ignition in a car, just not as drastic…it’s a slight “Turn” or “Pinch” on the string.
You may have to move your hand slightly higher or lower on the string to find the “sweet spots”. Keep trying different areas until you get it just right.
Once you’ve found the spots that give the sounds you want, make a mental note of where they are. When you move your fret hand higher or lower on the neck…the places you can hit the harmonics will move slightly. This falls in line with the way a Tap Harmonic works, so keep that in mind.
Keep practicing finding the “Sweet Spot” until you can do it each time you try. This part does take a little time and practice.
Just as a note: When you change to a different guitar, be prepared to relearn where the Pinch Harmonics sound. Every guitar I’ve played on has them in slightly different places. Differences in neck length, bridge placement, manufacturing tolerances all come into play.
So, that’s all there is to it…Keep practicing till you get the feel for it, try adding bends and sound another one, you’ll make that guitar scream like a wounded banshee in no time.
If you want to really increase your skill with Pinch harmonics after you get the feel for them, try practicing them with a clean sound. They can still be sounded and your accuracy will increase exponentially!

Downloading music is one of the greatest things about owning a computer. However, the most popular way to do it is illegal. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is trying to stop anyone from downloading music illegally and have recently been passing out hefty fines to prevent downloading. In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling, companies can be sued for encouraging illegal downloading, most notably and recently Kazaa. With the recent shutdown of the top music downloading networks, one has to ask:
Can I Still Download Music?
Yes, at plenty of Web sites, some requiring payments and some free. Pay sites that have licensing agreements with the entertainment industry — such as iTunes, Rhapsody, Yahoo Music and others — are panting for your business. Sites battling the industry such as Grokster and Morpheus — which were targeted in Monday’s decision — face a cloudier future. While the Supreme Court sent their case back to a federal appeals court for trial, they are almost sure to lose. They and other file-sharing services that allow for sharing of copyrighted files — and make money off it, through advertising and other means — may fold or have to change their sites drastically.
Unfortunately these top profile downloading sites often charge a hefty fee for their access. Basic membership fees often cost upwards of $30 a month, while tracks start at $1 a piece. Alternatives have arisen that promise to give you the same amount of content but at a cheaper price.
These alternatives include: MP3-share, mp3downloadhq, legal music access, and online download network. Reviews of these programs can be found at http://music.webreviews.ca managed by http://webreviews.ca

You may believe a thorough knowledge of filmmaking and the entertainment industry is enough to make you a good movie producer. While it certainly helps to know the nuts and bolts of movie production, and even the details of financing and marketing a movie, that knowledge is not enough to create a good producer. It might make for a good studio executive, or other job out of the fray, but you need to develop specific skills, to help you make an independent film.
The first and most important skill you need is organization. If you were the kid who kept the minutes of the club meetings, edited the yearbook, or organized the prop-closet by era, you already have this skill. It is something that is hard to teach, but you can certainly learn it, to become more organized.
If you are the person who can’t find his keys and has no idea how much is in your checking account, you need help. Get organized. There is simply no substitute for it.
Buy a book about getting organized. I recommend “How to Get Organized When You Don’t Have The Time,” by Stephanie Culp. http://snurl.com/gqg5
Or take a Franklin - Covey course. Do whatever you have to do, but get organized.
Second, you need to be able to make decisions quickly. Despite the best planning, things change moment-to-moment during production. You will have to decide right now whether to set up the next shot despite the looming storm clouds, or to move on to another location, completely disrupting the schedule.
The best way to develop this skill is to completely bury your doubt. Know that you are in charge, any mistakes to be made are yours to make and you will suffer the consequences of bad decisions. If you act decisively, and accept blame when necessary, your cast and crew will accept your decisions unquestioningly.
Third, you must be a good negotiator. You will have to make deals for every single thing on the set - the equipment, the sets, the crew, the film stock, everything. Even if you’re borrowing your mom’s station wagon, you will have to convince her you will take good care of it, and return it washed, and with a full tank of gas. Everything will have to be negotiated.
When negotiating rates, know the maximum you can pay for any one line item on your budget and try to shave 20 or 30 percent off of it. If they negotiate up, you may still save 15 percent or so off what you expected to pay.
There is one thing you need to know when negotiating: You can always say no. If you can’t get the deal you want, just say no. Practice it. No. There is no need to be a jerk, just make it clear that you will take your business or offer elsewhere. If a crew member doesn’t want to accept your day rate, he doesn’t have to. You will find someone else (assuming you set your rate at a reasonable low-budget level).
Fourth, a producer also needs diplomacy. It’s surprising how often a film shoot devolves into a third-grade playground. In just a few short weeks, cliques form, rumors start and friendships are formed and ruined. Crew members and actors will, believe it or not, come tattle to you. Sometimes you will have to intercede in petty squabbles and personality conflicts. The trick is to smooth ruffled feathers while not making one combatant feel like you’ve taken another’s side. That will only set factions against you, and that’s the last thing you want on your set.
And fifth, of course, you will need energy. Lots and lots of energy. Caffeine helps to get you started after only a few hours sleep, but it is no substitute for real, healthy human energy. One of the things you must do during pre-production is get yourself in shape for the rigorous weeks of shooting. You’re in training, not for a sprint, but for a marathon.
Working on lower budgets, independent films often have a much tighter schedule, making for longer days and fewer days off. Take it seriously beforehand, and train like a champion. Exercise, eat healthy, and take vitamins and supplements to build your energy stores, so you can get through it.
After you have these five basic producer skills down, you will be ready to develop your knowledge of the filmmaking process and the entertainment industry, by producing a successful independent film.
Z

Many “How To Hire A Disc Jockey” articles overlook one of the most important criteria for choosing entertainment. Your ears.
Forget checking for a business license (anyone can get one), or endorsement by some distant, “official” DJ association.
How the DJ’s system sounds is critical. Most DJs are not experts in the technical realm of sound technology. They may not even know what signal to noise ratio, total harmonic distortion or frequency response is. DJs often put together a sound system that is limited by how much they can afford to spend. The resulting sound may turn out to be shrill (too many highs), unclear or “muddy” and even distorted.
This is where your ears come in. Ask for a live audition so you can gage for yourself how the DJ’s equipment looks and sounds. We always offer a live listening experience to our clients. This is the only way to know if you like it. If your DJ is not willing to “audition” for you, it may be because he is embarrassed by the look or audio quality of his rig. This is a red flag.
Have your prospective DJ play a song you know. Think of one that that incorporates bass, drums, keyboards and vocals so you get a full range of sounds. Dance songs are usually good. Ask the DJ to turn it up for a moment. Now close your eyes and listen.
You don’t have to be an acoustic expert to know if you like it. Is it full and warm or hollow and “tinny”. Does it sound like an AM radio or more like what you might hear in a movie theatre? Is the base “punchy” but not overwhelming, allowing room for the mids and highs? Are the highs making dogs howl? Are the mid-range (vocals) present enough? Is the overall sound flat or is there “depth”?
Remember, this is what you and your guests will be hearing all night long.
While the sound can be enhanced by the use of equalizers and sonic enhancers, the right speakers are key. Whether it’s JBL, Yamaha, Mackie or others, speakers have their own sound characteristics. And off-brand, budget speakers are often lacking in sound quality. Ask the DJ why he chose the speakers he has.
I personally dislike “hissing” brass or cymbal sounds (highs) or too much bottom end (bass). For me, the midrange is where the melody is and I like to hear it. Warm and full vocals, keyboards and guitar with the highs and lows serving as complimentary bookends. For example, I’d rather hear emphasis on Sinatra’s voice over his bass player.
Now go find the sound YOU like. You’re already an expert as you’ve been listening all your life. And you will have piece of mind as your event approaches, knowing your guests will experience sonic satisfaction!
-DJ Craig
http://www.djcraig.net/

Disco Biscuits- a name too hard to forget. “Disco Biscuits” is perhaps the only Street Team non-profit volunteer program that is playing for kids, so that the kids can also take part in supporting and promoting The Disco Biscuits. The name Of “Disco Biscuits” was suggested by one of their friend’s Rob Hainey. They all liked the name and named their band after it, though later on they realized that the name doesn’t go with the band but with the time passing the sound of the band has developed to match the name. They distinct themselves from the conventional Philadelphian Grateful Dead-type jam band music by intermingling electronic beats and jams in their music.
This style of mixing is known as “Trance-fusion”, but with reference to “Disco Biscuits”, it is known as “Bisco”. For “Disco Biscuits” this is just a start, they knit innovation in anything they play. They are famous for their own unique trends of Music. They have the potential to sing long sets together. They use “inverted” and “dyslexic” style in their songs, in these styles they sing their songs backwards. In inverted adaptation of a song, a band sang a song by its ending segment first, which is followed immediately by its beginning segment and a jam carry on with inverted style and fuses into another song. Dyslexic song is somewhat similar to inverted but with the variation that the segments of a song are not played consecutively like, ending of 1, 2, 3, 4 songs but the beginning of 1 and 5. Additional technique used by “Disco Biscuits” is very famous known as fakeout. In fakeout the band plays jam which normally heads into one song, but continues into another unexpectedly.
Wow! Quite confusing hmmm, imagine “Disco Biscuits” use all these techniques in their music. God they are talented. Using inverted and dyslexic techniques their songs can begin on one night’s show and end the next night. Their approach toward music is at the same time highly interesting and confusing. One has to know their nature of music. Their die-hard fans enjoy their anticipating trend of singing. Actually these fans are very much in the game of fascination of guess like what song they are going to play next? And it lessens their enthusiasm to know it before hand. For their fans this mingling of different medium of music is the most electrifying part. On the other hand for a new listener it could be quite offending. Their technique of playing music indulges the listener immediately to their style of singing to enjoy. Which is rather a difficult task for a new comer.
Disco Biscuits is a Philadelphian band. The band having four principals Jon Gutwillig on guitar, Marc Brownstein on bass, Allen Aucoin on drums and Aron Magner on keyboards. Former drummer Sam Altman played his last concert as drummer for The Disco Biscuits on 8/27/2005.This four-member jam/rave band first began its career in 1996 after they met while attending a college in Pennsylvania. They all share vocal duties-with the drummer of the band Sam Altman. The Guitarist and the lead vocalist Jon Gutwillig once declared that the ambition of the band is to create the wildest — or craziest — music of all ages. And to a great extent they proved it. Another reason for fusion is to get the entire kids fan that like both jam and rave and it certainly worked. Their alluring dancing style has been dubbed “Trance Fusion”. Most of the people says that their dancing style have resemblances with Frank Zappa, though the group members always deny that. Disco biscuits are renowned to leap into a classical or a classic jazz slice in the middle of an extended rock jam. Their music beautifully intervenes rock, techno, jazz, soul, blues, and classical. This fusion took them to the upper level of the jam/groove outlook. Unconventionally Disco Biscuits’s songs are first written for live shows and then recorded. Normally musical bands first record their songs then sing them live. Disco Biscuits was signed by Hydro phonics Records in 1998 and then released their second CD “The Uncivilized Area”. Their third, “They Missed the Perfume”, was an overall hit in 2001. Continually moving into a more daring combo with the passage of time, the cruder “Senoir Boombox” came out in the fall of 2002.
Philadelphia has been a main force in Rock music, for almost half a century. Disco Biscuits are the jam/rave band, which is making Philadelphia’s history even richer; they are mixing culture and traditions along with music.
For more details visit: http://www.ticketnest.com/concert-tickets/Disco-Biscuitx.php

35 mm film - short history.
When it comes to photography and motion picture it is impossible not to hear about 35 mm. film when going technical into the conversation. It is called 35 mm. film as it is 35 mm. wide and will have perforations on both edges at each 4.23 mm along it.
With a history dating back since 1889, when it was first introduced by Thomas Edison, the 35 mm film is still used today with some variations in format based on what it is used for but basically its form stayed the same all these years. It was first introduced into photography in 1913 and is still very popular amongst several professional photographers.
If we are to talk about film we have to talk about sound as well. In the beginning the idea of synchronizing sound and video was appreciated but was quite difficult to realize. That’s when the sound started to be stored directly to film, forming the analog soundtrack that takes out of the film a small margin to the left. In the search for perfection the display ratio changed together with new methods of storing the sound.
Nowadays digital soundtracks have been implemented. The technology break through behind this was the storage of the sound between perforations in Dolby Digital, in 2 strips along the outside part of the edges in SDDS and lately on a special compact disk synchronized thanks to a time code with the film in DTS.
With technology evolving as it does at the moment new techniques and features will probably be available in the future but so far the main format of the 35 mm film has remained unchanged with just mild modifications that are better suited for the purpose it was designed for. The most common aspects of the film nowadays is considered the one that has 4 perforations, a vertical pulldown and a density of around one frame in 19 mm.

Hip hop record labels are the companies that sponsor and produce the music that you love to hear. Hip hop is one of the hottest types of music on the market today and that is due at least in part to the advertisement and promotion of these artists by their hip hop record labels. So, we can thank them for bringing the artists we love to the forefront in music, but that is not all that they do. In fact, the hip hop record labels play a large part in the production of the music itself.
In hip hop music, the producer or the hip hop record label is responsible for much more. In fact, they often are responsible for composing the music along with arranging it. They often times create what is called an instrumental track or the beat of the music. Then, artists will often work with them to finish the recordings making them their own in their own way. But, there are still those hip hop record labels featuring producers who do it in the traditional way of supervising a team of musicians. One example of this is Dr. Dre.
Such hip hop record labels often have been founded by huge names within the music genre. For example, Dr. Dre’s record label that includes 50 Cent is one of the largest and most popular. Look for Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment to feature some of the best that is out there in hip hop. 50 Cent is also working under the record label of Eminem called Shady Records. Another famous hip hop record label is Death Row Records and No Limit Records. Both have been brought to light by some of the hottest names in hip hop including Snoop Dogg.
Hip hop record labels offer you the ability to find new music as well as to listen to the old. It is through their promotions and advertisements that stars like these come to light. If you want to learn more about the various hip hop record labels and who they have signed lately, check out the web where you will likely find all the information that you need.