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A 31-year-old musician conceptualized an innovative concept that would change the music world forever. He said, “There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed.”

The year was 1801, the man was Ludwig van Beethoven and his concept was finally realized in 1995 with the public acceptance of the Internet.

As a violinist and violin teacher I know exactly how frustrated dear Ludwig felt. Before the Internet I too was frustrated with the limited learning resources available to my students and me. Sheet music and books were expensive, any obscure information was near

impossible to unearth and researching meant hours probing through dusty outdated library books. Most difficult, however, was living in rural Canada with no connection to other violinists, big city music groups or current ideas floating around the global music scene.

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Have you ever wonder why this little music machine attracts so many people in the entertainment world? Have you ever tried singing a good song using a karaoke?

Today, the utilization of karaoke is rapidly gaining a fair share in the market. In most entertainment places like bars, merry-making will not be complete without these remarkable music machine known as the karaoke.

However, many people are wondering what this karaoke is all about. How come that this new technology had quickly gained the people s attention in a short span of time.

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Sooner or later you are going to take your guitar along to a casual sing-a-long type jam and hope that someone will start singing in the only key you know.

Or perhaps you’ll be playing along, converting the chords you know, quite well until someone pulls the plug out by saying, “Do it in A flat”. This is followed by an embarrasing five minutes while you struggle to find chord changes in this unfamiliar tonality.

It happens to everyone, so read through to the chart at the end of this article and let a little light in.

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I wish you could have seen me play the piano when I was just learning. I was the nearest thing to hopeless that you could imagine. I was into baseball, not music and my heroes were Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Ted Williams. (And by the way, I still have a picture of those 3 guys on my wall.) My dream was to hit baseballs like them, not to play the piano.

But an opportunity to play with a combo presented itself to me when I was a freshman in high school. Seems the piano player of the group had graduated the previous year, and nobody else played piano well enough to play in the school jazz

combo. I didn t know zilch about playing in a group, and I didn t know chords. But I was excited to have the opportunity to play with older guys, and so I took the job.

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After years of helping small businesses in rural Maryland plan marketing strategies, I’m amazed at how many do not have websites. Here are the ten of the most common questions and concerns small business owners posed about getting a website.

1. Does my company really need a web site?


2. What is the cost involved?


3. I already have a web page on someone else’s website. Why do I need two?


4. I don t sell merchandise on-line. Why would I need a web site?


5. I don t even use a computer. I can’t maintain a web site.


6. Our customers like the personal touch and most aren t computer users.


7. I have a cousin who can make web sites. I ve promised him that he
   Get Your Music Heard in Commercials and TV
   ...decided if they want to use the track at all. It's not uncommon for a track to be used on a commercial until right before it airs. We may nix it because the melody needs to be reworked or the ...
   can do ours.


8. Our upcoming advertising commitments will use all our marketing money.


9. A website seems so sterile and impersonal. It won t add to our kind” of customer base that was built on personal relationship.


10. I wouldn t know what to do with a web site if I had one.

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