2013年6月12日星期三

Getting Back To The Guitar – Music Theory Basics (Part 3)

We can continue on like we did previously in a continuous circle of our fifth notes of each new scale until we find all the major scales. So we started at C Major, went to G Major which had one sharp, then to D Major which had two sharps, A Major, which has three sharps, and so on. Write out all the notes of each of these major scales on a sheet of paper and keep them in front of you to determine a song's key, or to know which notes to use within each key. Now, you can play any note on your guitar, go up two frets to find the next note in that key's major scale, go up another two frets for the next note, then one fret, then two frets, then two frets again, then two frets again, and then one fret, and you will have just found out the major scale for that beginning note. Pretty nifty huh?Now we will get down a little deeper into the harmonies of each note in our scale, which chords to play, and which chords were used in pretty much every old rock and roll song. We can place a number value on each our C Major scales' notes and learn another new formula that shows each notes' harmony. We will start at C and call it 1, number fake oakleys the next note D as a 2, E as a 3 and so on, from 1 to 8. This is another formula you can just take at face value, memorize, and then apply. Here is the formula and then I will explain after: 1-Major, 2-minor, 3-minor, 4-Major, 5-Major, 6-minor, 7-diminished, 8-Major. Taking our new numbered valued system where 1 is C, 2 are D, 3 is E, 4 is F, and so on, we apply our previous formula to each of those notes. Once applied, we now know the notes in cheap oakleys the scales' harmonies by playing the specified chords. This would mean that the chords for the key of C would be as follows: 1-C Major, 2-D minor, 3-E minor, 4-F Major, 5-G Major, 6-A minor, 7-B diminished, and 8-C Major again.In old rock and roll, the first, fourth, and fifth chords where used as a main chord progression. So play these three major chords in any key, and you will have a basic progression. The 5th chord is known as the “turn around chord” that brings you back to your first chord, or a different chord cheap ray bans to lead into another verse, chorus, or bridge. Many old love songs included the 6th chord, known as the relative minor chord into the mix as well. Now this becomes a numbers game. You write out your major scales as we learned before, apply the number value and major and minor chords accordingly, and then mess around with those chords to come up with your own progression. Hopefully this short series was helpful to some people, keep on learning and playing fake oakley sunglasses guitar.

Getting Back To The Guitar – Music Theory Basics (Part 2)

Let's pick right back up where we left off. With every major key, there is a certain pattern that is followed in terms of half and whole steps. Taking a look at cheap oakleys a C Major scale—we will start with this key because it has no sharps or flats to confuse one with—we can see how many half and whole steps there are in between each note. Starting at one C and going up C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C by applying this simple formula that every aspiring musician should memorize, we can tell how many half and whole tones are in this scale, and therefore knowing how many frets between each note so one can play the scale effortlessly. Here is our “magic formula”—it may not make much sense at first, but will come in handy later—W W H W W W H.What this means in plain English is whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. What this means in even plainer English is that in the C major scale, the intervals between each note is as follows: between C and D there is a whole step, (because there is a C# or Db between them), between D and E there is a whole step, (because of the D# or Eb between them), between E and F there is only a half step, (because there is no such thing as an E# or Fb; notice on a piano how there seems to be a black key missing), between F and G there is a whole step, and so on and so forth.C D E F G A B CW W H W W W HNow when you see any major scale, you can know that if you start at the root or tonic note (if it's an E major scale the tonic note would be E), there are two whole steps, then a half step, three more whole steps, and then a final half step. How does this help us now? Using something called “the circle of fifths” we can find out every major key and the notes that are in it.Starting again with C Major, there are no sharps or flats, so it would be from one C to the next knowing the intervals between each note. Now, we go to the fifth note cheap oakley sunglasses in our C Major scale, which is G. Now we write out G-A-B-C-D-E-F-G and we can see that it follows our previous W-W-H-W-W-W-H formula except at one point. We need to have a whole step between E and F, and a half step between F and G. The rest of the scale is in line with the formula. So to do this, the simplest way of remembering this is when we find the fifth note of C (which is G), and then write out that note's scale, we put a sharp (#) on the second last (or seventh note), which is the F. This would fix our problem by making the interval between E and the new F# a whole step, and cheap ray bans the interval between F# and G a half step.From there, we keep following our previous step, by taking the fifth note of our newly created G Major scale—which is a D—and writing out the letters from D to D again, but this time, we keep our F# from our previous scale. So the D Major Scale looks like this: D-E-F#-G-A-B-C#-D. Notice how the second last note—the C—is sharpened to fix our problem we had before, and the F is still sharp. Now we go on again ray bans outlet. Try it yourself, take the fifth note of the newly made D Major scale (hint: A), write from A to A, keeping our F# and C# as before, and sharpening the second last note (it's going to be the G this time.) Next lesson will deal further with our “circle of fifths” and I will show you which chords you can play in each key to start your own chord progressions—the base of every song.

2013年6月10日星期一

Fascinating Information About Kung Fu Movies

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Fantasy Stories, A Genre For All Ages

Who hasn't engaged in the luxury of creating an alternate reality (for example) where one can fly or have a conversation with an imaginary animal or occupy an unusual landscape? One could safely say that from the time we are children, thoughts such as these and many others have occurred in all of us.Although there are many different definitions for the word fantasy, the common thread between all of them could be summed up as; imagination unrestricted by reality! Anything goes in fantasy! A child's fantasy often can be as simple as, what will I be when I grow up, to spontaneously mocking up a character they've perceived and temporarily adopt that character in play. There was a fantastic culture created for teens fake oakley sunglasses who immersed themselves in the game “Dungeons and Dragons” followed by graphic video games and super hero movies, such as X-Men where each characters displays a unique ability far surpassing man's current ability.Geography plays an important role in fantasy novels. Take for example Arabic based stories such as; Aladdin, Sinbad or Ali Baba, all have elements of its culture. The Genie that is common in such stories may have been born out of the hallucinatory and desperation of men traversing the desert. Pre-twentieth century Briton produced many sword and sorcery novels, many of them historically based but still having elements of fantasy. Asian cultures brought to the table many a dragons tale.Some individuals maintain a high degree of imagination and cheap oakleys have the uncanny ability to conceptualize especially wondrous and strange fancies. Many of these people are writers. The extravagant and unrestrained mental image pictures of the realistic coupled with the unrealistic from the vision of its creator, have fueled generations of satisfied readers and budding authors world wide and continue to entertain current and future generations.One such author was L. Ron Hubbard. His extensive travels around the globe as a young man gave him a unique prospective about christian louboutin sale various cultures, traditions and superstitions which is demonstrated in his prose. As a writer in many genres such as mystery, western, air and sea adventures, far-flung adventure, tales of the orient and science fiction, his unique blend of fantasy stories continue to inspire new writers and readership of his works that remain in high demand to this day.His early fiction stories from the Golden Age of Pulp Fiction are still available today. One such story is a fantasy fiction called “The Tramp”. This story tells the tale of a down-on-his-luck tramp, Doughface Jack, who survives a terrifying scull crushing accident running from a cop and a train brakeman. Miraculously, not only does he survive but as a result of patching up his brain injuries, he develops phenomenal mental powers where he can heal or kill instantaneously and make the old young again. Terrified of the new found abilities, he flees from the university that has been keeping a watchful eye on him. As is wont with a good story, the evil person in the story turns out to be a beautiful but vengeful power lusting individual who wants to use Jacks ability to obtain her goal and tory burch outlet nothing will stand in her way!This story was published in 1938 so you will experience the flavor of the story that reflects the time period. As fantasy goes, Hubbard knew what would spark the imagination and then some. Its an enjoyable read all around.

2013年4月20日星期六

Argentina Colón 1-1 San Martín

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Argentina Colón 0-1 San Lorenzo

El partido comenzó abierto, bien jugado por ambos lados, que buscaban el arco contrario. El partido se mostraba abierto, aunque las jugadas claras de gol brillaban por su ausencia. A los 10 minutos Franco Jara tuvo una casi sin ángulo, desde la izquierda, en lo que fue la aproximación de mayor peligro del Matador en el primer tiempo. Por el lado de Colón, la más clara fue un mano a mano de Emanuel Gigliotti que salvó Pablo Migliore de manera espectacular. A los 33, Mauro Cetto vio la roja por insultar al juez de línea loewe bolsos outlet. El segundo tiempo arrancó igual de apagado que el primero. San Lorenzo, ya con uno menos, no se metió atrás e intentó resistir con la tenencia de la pelota. Y lo logró bolsos loewe outlet. El Sabalero, que tenía el empuje de su gente y la obligación de ganar para salir de perdedor, se hundió en su propia falta de ideas. De todas maneras, creó un par de situaciones bien resueltas por Migliore ante remates de Rubén Ramírez y Gigliotti.Hasta que a los 30 del segundo tiempo, cuando parecía que el empate ya no se movería, un corner de Buffarini fue peinado en el primer palo por Stracqualursi y Rubén Ramírez la metió, con la mano, en su propio arco, justo antes de que llegue Enzo Kalinski replica loewe. El gol tranquilizó al Ciclón y abatió totalmente el ánimo de los santafesinos, que no pudieron reaccionar.El triunfo le vino bárbaro a un San Lorenzo que de a poco empieza a alejarse de la zona de abajo, aunque todavía falta mucho camino por recorrer. Por el lado de Colón, habrá que esperar qué pasa con el futuro de Norberto Sensini, ya que en las seis fechas jugadas, el Sabalero sólo sacó 2 puntos.. bolsos amazona loewe.

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