Grazzhopper Festival

Audio technology especially in the last 10 years has advanced rapidly. I can’t even imagine how fast and smaller the future music format we’ll be using. Going to a music store to buy cassettes is history now and I guess CD’s won’t be around in the next 10-15 years. Music market is going more digital and online every day and there are a few advantages we all really like;

Take it with you.

You can take your entire music library anywhere you like; you can easily connect your mp3 player to your computer and get all your favorite songs you would like to listen.

Reduce clutter.

You probably have more shelf space for CDs than anything else in your room. With music download services, you will be able to get whole CD collection into your PC or laptop. Buying digital music online is great for the environment as well since you will have no CD’s. Read the rest of this entry »

With the advent of the internet there is no longer any excuse for not learning music if a person wants to learn. Learning music online has revolutionized learning, since it is the first time in history that anyone with a computer can virtually find out anything they want to know about music — and find out quick!

There are sites galore teaching everything about music from chords to trombone lessons to drum lessons to music theory lessons to guitar lessons to piano lessons, and a whole lot more. Many are free while others charge a very reasonable tuition. But think what a bargain that is; no travel, no traffic jams; no rescheduling lessons; no missed lessons; and because the lessons are online (or in some cases on CD’s and DVD’s) they can be replayed over and over until the lesson is thoroughly learned, which is not the case in a personal lesson or a college classroom. You have one chance to understand, and if you don’t, you’re immediately behind the curve and have to do extra studies to catch up. Not so with online music lessons.

Back just 15 years ago if an individual wanted to learn music, about the only places he or she could do so would be from a private teacher, a music school of some sort — private or public or correspondence, or self-taught from a music book. All of which is fine, but slow if an individual is really chomping at the bit to learn, and learn fast.

But today there are literally hundreds of sites on the internet from which any ambitious person can access and learn virtually anything they want about music. There are sites dealing with music instruction for beginners as well as college-level sites that deal with figured bass and advanced music theory and composition issues, as well as improvisation and arranging music. Read the rest of this entry »