Imagine an autumn afternoon filled with music and an evening of spectacular fireworks. Sound good? This year’s Sydney Autumn Beats Music and Food Festival comes just in time to replace a chilly weekend at the beach with a day of family fun. The Autumn Beat Music and Food Festival will take place on April 28, 2024 at the Abbotsleigh playing fields (Abbotsleigh Ovals, 1666 Pacific Highway Wahroonga, NSW 2076). Have a relaxing morning at home and then come over to the Autumn Beats Music and Food Festival at 2:00pm when festivities kick off with the Abbotsleigh Jazz Ensemble. There...

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Now I know this is a tough one but I’m really excited and interested to hear people try to break down and analyze their top 10 best Hip-Hop beats of all time! That means best beats ever ladies and gentlemen. What do you think even qualifies as sounding like a great beat? Are great beats made up of head nodding rhythms, a great baseline, melodic soundscape, a danceable drumbeat, original patterns, etc.? The bottom line is that it should qualify as being one of the hottest, sickest, flyest joints ever heard that can stand the test of time, and...

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If you’ve been trying to find a place to get pre made beats that you can add your lyrics to, I’ve got a great place for you to check out. Soundclick.com has a great selection of beats and music to check out and a lot of it is free. They have tons of music and some that already have a hook with them. Some can be downloaded for free, some can be bought so that you have the exclusive rights to them. Read below and I’ll tell you how to find them, download them, and run them. ** Going...

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Ever want to make your own “beat ‘em up” games in the style of Double Dragon, Final Fight and Streets of Rage? Beats of Rage, by Senile Team, makes it possible without programming. The game comes packaged as a simple fighting game starring a bunch of King of Fighters characters, but the trick is that you can create your own modifications from scratch. Most interestingly, Beats of Rage has been ported to the Sega Dreamcast, Xbox, Playstation 2, GP32, PSP, Linux and various Pocket PCs, so it is possible to burn your creations to a disc and play them...

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Breaking into the music industry is difficult enough without diluting your efforts by trying to wear multiple hats. Yes, there are big time artist/songwriter/producer/engineer types but most of them added their multiple slashes after becoming established at one discipline first. A few were born multi-talented but even they have limits, no one can do this alone. I would strongly urge you to focus. If you’ve dabbled at many things narrowing to one musical activity will be difficult, but before tackling the music business in earnest you should ponder the following questions: Where does your talent really lie? Can you...

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Let’s face it good talent can be found on every corner and standing out in the crowd has become the biggest challenge. Truly how did Beyonce or Jessica Simpson become overnight successes? They put a great PR campaign in place and received massive equity returns from free publicity coverage. Most people wanting to break into the music business often overlook using public relations which is a great opportunity to receive repeated free publicity. Public relations can be the ultimate tool to use to make a name when trying to enter into the music industry. The music industry is polluted...

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Blues was virtually born in Louisiana, as it set about making its own special versions of the blues over the years. Spring is the time to see history continuing to unfold in the bayous of Louisiana as it has for decades as the music continues to develop from the past to the present . Before the blues blacks sang with each other, in groups as they toiled in the fields and gathered in churches to pray. It wasn’t until the blues began that individual voices began to predominate. This meant that music took on a whole different character, with...

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Although music and the arts are often considered last in a long line of school requirements, including reading, writing, mathematics, science, and passing those all-important standardized tests, students have been proven to benefit from involvement in the visual and performing arts. While there has been extensive scientific research about the neurological benefits of music and music in regards to higher test scores, below I have outlined some basic benefits of being involved in a music program. Concentration Skills Playing a musical instrument improves a child’s ability to focus, while children that learn how to play “by ear” learn how...

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The music industry is dying a slow, painful death and most of their problems can be laid right at their own doorstep. For the past ten years we’ve all witnessed a digital revolution which is out-pacing the legacy music industry. Yet, instead of innovation and creative change, what do we see the music industry engaging in? Futile protectionist tactics and bullying like suing music fans for downloading content, wrangling with ISPs over p2p networks, shutting down guitar tablature sites, harassing online radio broadcasters and threatening online music download sites that don’t sell music at the proper “price” or pay...

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Imagine an autumn afternoon filled with music and an evening of spectacular fireworks. Sound good? This year’s Sydney Autumn Beats Music and Food Festival comes just in time to replace a chilly weekend at the beach with a day of family fun. The Autumn Beat Music and Food Festival will take place on April 28, 2024 at the Abbotsleigh playing fields (Abbotsleigh Ovals, 1666 Pacific Highway Wahroonga, NSW 2076). Have a relaxing morning at home and then come over to the Autumn Beats Music and Food Festival at 2:00pm when festivities kick off with the Abbotsleigh Jazz Ensemble. There...

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