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Fender: Survey Shows Music Games Drive Students To Play Real …
MTV.com
***Today Fender and Little Kids Rock a non-profit music education organization announced that an informal survey they conducted in November 2008 revealed that music games like “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” actually do inspire students to play real instruments. The survey polled 812 music instructors and said that enrollment in music programs has increased in the past year. This information corroborates what Harmonix co-founder Alex Rigopulos had.
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Slack-key guitar virtuosos gather for all-star concert
Long Beach Press-Telegram CA
It is believed to have been the 1830s and the workers were cowboys brought to the Waimea area of Hawaii’s big island. “They were Spanish and Mexican cowboys and they taught the Hawaiians the art of ranching as well as guitar playing” said guitarist Jeff Peterson in a phone interview from his car while driving to a gig in Hawaii. The Hawaiians set about learning to play the unfamiliar instrument and ended up developing a Hawaiian guitar style that mixed elements of the Mexican music with traditional Hawaiian rhythms chants and phrasing plus music of the early Portuguese settlers and even church music. Maybe it was because there were no music schools at first to teach the new guitarists the right way to tune their instruments but the Hawaiians began to experiment with unusual tunings especially open tunings to a chord so that the chord could be played with no fingers on the neck. In Hawaiian this kind of playing which called for the guitarist to turn the keys at the end of the guitar strings to a different tuning was called ki ho’alu “which means to loosen the keys” said Peterson. This became slack key guitar in English. Today Peterson and other masters of the style tour around the world to play before a growing number of slack key guitar aficionados and Hawaiian expatriates.
‘The Nation’s Heartbeat Set to Music’ ‘America the Beautiful’ Adds …
Washington Post United States
Those skirmishes often rise and fall in concert with the political season. Then every four years comes a morning in January with its precisely choreographed transfer of power and the legato of "America the Beautiful" swells toward the sky. It is a national hymn that never has seemed more fitting to this occasion and this new president and this challenging time. It is not a triumphant boastful affair "America the Beautiful.
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