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My Life As A One-Man Band | Tommy Emmanuel | TEDxMelbourne

   Denise RQ Thank you. Hello. Hello there, thank you very much. I'm going to start by telling you that I'm a musician, and I travel the world playing concerts, I play about 300 concerts a year that's how I make a living. It's also my calling in life, I'm one of the luckiest people on the planet. I get to make a living doing what I love, and people say,"Are you in the music business?" I call it "the happiness business." I play music and you get happy.That's what matters to me. So I was on a long flight in business class, I was hobnobbing at up in business class. A gentleman beside me starts talking to me, and he says, "So what do you do for a living?" And I said, "I'm a guitar player." And he looked at me like I was in the wrong place, I should have been downstairs. And he said, "You make a living playing the guitar? Wow! What band do you play with?" And I said, "I don't. I don't play with a band
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Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland

 It's true I was born into a band; very literally, I mean that literally. When I was born, my four older brotherswho were already playing music, knew that they needed a bass player (Laughter) to round out the family band. I was born into that role. As I'm older I'm looking back right now,now that I'm called a teacher. When I look back on that,and how I was taught, I realized that I wasn't really taught. Which is why I saythat music is a language; because if you thinkabout your first language, for me, and probablymost of us here might be English, so I'm just going to go with English. If you think about how you learned it,you realize you weren't taught it. People just spoke to you. But the coolest thingis where it gets interesting because you were allowed to speak back. If I take the music example, in most cases, our beginners are notallowed to play with the better people. You're stuck in the beginning class. You have to remain there a few years, until you

Dananjaya Hettiarachchi - World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 - Full Speech

 “I See Something”. “I See Something”, Dananjaya Hettiarachchi. You and I are not very different from this flower. Just like this flower is unique, you are unique. All of us have something special that makes us beautiful. Do you know what makes you special? Now the answer to that can be a little difficult to find because sometimes life has a cruel way of picking out your petals, breaking you in two, and throwing you into the trash. And when you’re broken, it’s very difficult to feel special. Mr. Contest Chair, my fellow flowers. I can remember the first time I broke I was seventeen years old. I had already flunked high school and managed to get myself arrested. Now, I wasn’t afraid of the cops, but there was one person I was terrified of, and that was my mama. Raise your hand if you had an emotional mother. Let me see. Put them all together you get my mama. I can hear her scream outside the police station. Even the cops were afraid. She came up to me held the iron bars looked into my e

The New Entertainer

  Computerized music players caused a furore when they previously showed up on the scene, as music head honchos wherever expected that without the need to buy a printed copy of a collection, customers would make the most of craftsmen's difficult work for nothing, and the benefits got from a massively rewarding industry would be drained in a genuine manner. A couple of years on, clearly the business of music creation hasn't fallen under the heaviness of such computerized music players as the iPod, which holds a 90% portion of the advanced music player advertise. In any case, presently, it appears, another region of the music business is in dread of its life.  You may have heard the term 'iPod wedding' being bandied about, however have confidence that humankind has not yet lost all regard for the holy obligations of marriage and started to enjoy formalized responsibilities to their electronic devices. The term, indeed, alludes to the new, cash sparing pattern of dumping t

3 ways to Playing Comfortably for a Crowd

  The vast majority are not happy with performing in front people. At the point when I state of performing, for example, an instrument, or singing, or acting, I mean something beyond knowing how to get along nicely at your picked create, I mean doing it well and in front of people. It's the "in front of people" part that gets us inevitably. What number of us sing like a winged animal in the shower yet then when people are watching we can't convey a note. Here are three stages to begin you making a course for comfort (never complete) when approached to shine.  1. Try not to disregard to rehearse. Regardless of whether you sing or play an instrument practice is the way to being loose. The more comfortable you are with what you are performing, the less uneasiness you will have about messing up.  2. Try not to back up. Piano shows pass this on constantly. On the off chance that you jumble up in the center, or wherever in your piece, don't back up and rehash the offend

‘Things Just Ain’t the Same’: Hip-Hop’s Reconstruction of the Gangster Rap Identity

Gangster rap, or no-nonsense rap, is commonly viewed as a sub class of the bigger classification of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-jump. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it utilizes pictures of urban life related with wrongdoing (Haugen, 2). As indicated by the Encyclopedia Britannica meaning of gangster rap, the main four pictures related with the class are savagery, medications, realism and sexual indiscrimination.  Gangster Rappers as Defining the Hip-Hop Social Group  As the hip-jump development has picked up acknowledgment all through the United States, it has set up itself as one of the quickest developing social gatherings anyplace. In the late 1990s promptly following the homicides of both Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, two broadly known gangster rappers, a promulgation crusade raised against rap music and the hip-bounce culture (Slaughter). Despite the fact that gangster rap just spoke to a little level of the hip-bounce cultu

Learn To Play Guitar Using Free Software

On the off chance that you need to figure out how to play guitar for nothing there's a lot of programming accessible to support you. This article will empower you to characterize for yourself how to move toward learning the guitar and guide you in setting up the reality important to gain strong melodic ground.  Envision yourself plunking down to play the guitar. You need to play to your own melodic measures and to make music that intrigues your crowd. You will play from start to finish easily. Your consideration will be on the music, not anxiously envisioning the bits that you can "scratch through" when you are separated from everyone else in your room however could be your demise before a group of people.  To figure out how to play guitar with a serious extent of familiarity, the principal free asset you will require is time. Regardless of whether you have a bustling day by day plan you can discover say, thirty minutes to put aside to learning guitar. Consider what you d