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Using Drums for Kids' Storytelling
These drum lessons for kids bring the life of drums to children's stories and folktales. Use anything from a Remo drum for kids to an electronic drum set.
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Free Drum Lessons for Kids
Kids drum together and create rhythm patterns with these free drum lessons for a kids gathering drum, Remo drum for kids, kids drum set, or kids electronic drum set.
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3 Games for Drum Lessons Kids Will Love
Here are 3 games to play on a kids gathering drum, Remo drum for kids, kids drum set, or kids electronic drum set. The fun activities introduce tempo, rhythm, and volume.
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Four Fun Drums Kids Make Themselves
Need a drum kids can bang around on? Here are instructions to make four fun drums for kids: bongos, tom toms, water and steel drums children will love to play.
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Jake Shimabukuro's Thoughts on Beginner Ukulele
According to Jake Shimabukuro, tenor ukulele is a great beginner instrument. Read about his first ukulele lessons and his encouragement to all musicians playing ukulele.
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Chord Voicing and Fingering for Tenor Ukulele
Jake Shimabukuro outlines advantages of tenor ukulele tuning and offers tips for playing the ukulele with fresh fingering and unexpected chord voicing.
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Playing the Tenor Ukulele Without a Pick
Jake Shimabukuro covers the reasons he prefers playing fingerstyle tenor ukulele and how the technique impacts his music. He also discusses his unique strumming style.
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Shimabukuro Takes Playing Ukulele to New Levels
Jake Shimabukuro discusses techniques that transformed the world's image of the tenor ukulele and offers tips on playing ukulele outside the box.
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Playing Flute With a Little Beatbox Flare
Playing flute and beatboxing are separate feats on their own, but Greg Pattillo manages to perform both simultaneously. Here are his flute tips for musicians.
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Greg Pattillo Shares His BeatBoxing Flute Tips
Over 20 million visited You Tube to see Greg Pattillo beatbox while playing flute. With these flute tips, musicians learn to play and make percussion with their mouths.
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What Happens When Classical Flute Meets Beatbox?
Millions of flute players logged onto You Tube and were blown away by Greg Pattillo's fusion of flute and beatbox. Here's how the seeds of that sound took root.
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Meet Pattillo, You Tube's Beatbox Flute Player
Greg Pattillo's You Tube videos and persistence in the New York subways breathed new life into a classic instrument and launch his beatbox flute playing career.
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Howard Levy's Tips for Improvising on Harmonica
Howard Levy shares a harmonica lesson to help harp players break away from the sheet music and start playing their own harmonica music.
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Is Transposing on a Diatonic Harmonica Possible?
In his DVD Outside the Box, Howard Levy uses overblowing and bending notes to demonstrate the possibilities of transposing into 12 keys on one diatonic harmonica.
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Overblowing and Bending Notes on a Harmonica
With overblowing, Howard Levy rose above the harmonica's limitations and gave musicians the possibility to play three chromatic octaves on a diatonic harmonica.
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Interview With Howard Levy, Harmonica Innovator
Howard Levy describes his introduction to harmonica and the overblowing, or overbending breakthrough which harmonica players all over the world are imitating.
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How to Find or Start Local Drum Circles
Because drum circles are so enjoyable, it isn't difficult to find drummers who want to get together and jam. Here are tips to grab some hand drums and get started.
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Popular Hand Drums at Drum Circles
Musicians visiting drum circles may wonder what type of drum to bring along. A few hand drums they're likely to run into include djembe drums, conga drums, and more.
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Etiquette for Newcomers at Drum Circles
With a few tips on drum circle etiquette and proper care for hand drums, beginners can have a great time and look like they've been part of a drumming circle for months.
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What Musicians Can Expect at Drum Circles
Percussionists bring their djembe drums, conga drums, and other hand drums to explore a collective creativity as they let group rhythm take over at drum circles.
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Looking for a Travel Guitar? Try a Charango
Portability and a fun, ethnic sound are taking this instrument from Bolivia and Peru to musicians in every corner of the world.
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Free Guitar Lesson on Guitar Tab Pros and Cons
Guitar tab is extremely useful, but has its limitations. Here's an online guitar lesson to help beginner guitarists learn to read guitar tab and deal with its drawbacks
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Common Symbols Found When Reading Guitar Tabs
Hammer ons, pull offs, taps, vibrato, and pitch bending are a few techniques found when reading guitar tabs. Here are the symbols guitarists most often encounter.
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Free Guitar Lesson on How to Read Guitar Tabs
Learning to read guitar tab is the easiest way for guitarists to figure out a new song. Here are the basics of turning tab on the page into fingers on frets and strings.
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How to Keep Time as You Read Sheet Music
By learning to understand time signatures, notes, rests, and measures, musicians can easily follow the rhythm and timing of a tune as they read sheet music.
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