BEETHOVEN - THE LEGEND OF COMPONIST THAT LOSE HIS HEARING

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one of the most important figures in the history of music. He continued to compose even while losing his hearing and created some of his greatest works after becoming totally deaf.

Early years in Bonn

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany, on December 16, 1770. He was the eldest of three children of Johann and Maria Magdalena van Beethoven. His father, a musician who liked to drink, taught him to play piano and violin. Young Ludwig was often pulled out of bed in the middle of the night and ordered to perform for his father's drinking companions, suffering beatings if he protested. As Beethoven developed, it became clear that to reach artistic maturity he would have to leave Bonn for a major musical center.

At the age of twelve Beethoven was a promising keyboard player and a talented pupil in composition of the court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798). He even filled in as church organist when Neefe was out of town. In 1783 Beethoven's first published work, a set of keyboard pieces, appeared, and in the 1780s he produced portions of a number of later works. In 1787 he traveled to Vienna, Austria, apparently to seek out Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) as a teacher.

KENNY G - THE MASTER of INSTRUMENTAL music

Kenny G has long been the musician many jazz listeners love to hate. A phenomenally successful instrumentalist whose recordings make the pop charts, Kenny G's sound has been a staple on adult contemporary and smooth jazz radio stations since the mid-'80s, making him a household name.Kenny G is a fine player with an attractive sound (influenced a bit by Grover Washington, Jr.) who often caresses melodies, putting a lot of emotion into his solos. Because he does not

VOICE WARM UP EXERCISE

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Hy Guys, for you that interesting about singing and want to learn the techniques, this one maybe can help you. Check this one out!

Humming as a Voice Warm Up Exercise

Try saying the word “hmmmm?” This is called humming, and is one of the most basic exercises for vocal warm up.

• Say the word “hmm?” You should allow the pitch to shift upwards as you hum.

As your pitch moves higher, you should feel a buzzing sensation in your nose. This sensation may progress towards your eyes and move upwards into your head. The humming sound will resonate inside your head, resonating off the space inside your skill to amplify the voiced pitches.

• Repeat the voice warm up by saying “hmmm?” This time allow the pitch to shift downwards. This should be similar to the noise made when you are contemplative.

Feel the buzzing sensation move downwards into the chest area.

• Hum the first three notes of the basic scale. Hum do re mi, then return to mi do
• Repeat this exercise 3 times

Do Rei Mi Rei Do

• Repeat the do rei mi exercise, but shift up to the next pitch. Singing employs a variety of pitch ranges, so you want to warm up your vocal chords to all of the ranges.
• Repeat this exercise at each pitch 3 times

The Lip Trill Voice Warm Up Exercise

Pretend that you are underwater. Imagine blowing air out from your lips, feeling the vibrating sensation of your lips as air exits from your lungs.

Perform this same motion, only this time you are outside the water. Relax your lips as you release air from your mouth. Your diaphragm muscles should control the release of air. It sometimes help to place one hand against either side of jaw to focus the passage of air on vibrating the lips.

Special note: avoid blowing air from your mouth using your lip muscles. Your lips should be completely relaxed and air should be moved through the mouth using your diaphragm.

This video will guide you about what a lip trill should sound like.

Once you are able to perform the lip trill successfully, practice trilling a single note.

• First hum the note, in order to properly benchmark against a quality sound

MOZART – KOMPONIS BESAR ERA CLASSICAL

FAMILY AND EARLY YEAR
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart in Getreidegasse 9 in the city of Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. His only sibling who survived past birth was an older sister: Maria Anna, nicknamed Nannerl. Mozart was baptized the day after his birth at St. Rupert's Cathedral. The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. Mozart generally called himself "Wolfgang Amadé Mozart"[1]as an adult, but there were many variants.

FINAL ILLNESS AND DEATH

Mozart fell ill while in Prague, for the September 6 premiere of

TEKNIK MENENTUKAN NADA DASAR

nada dasar

Apakah anda kenal dengan beberapa ungkapan berikut?

• Main di kunci C ; atau main di C ; atau main di A.

• Mainnya di C ; atau mainnya di kunci A.

• Main di A minor (Am), dan lain sebagainya.

Kalimat-kalimat ini merupakan ungkapan yang sering dipakai ketika seseorang bermain gitar / keyboard / piano. Maksud sebenarnya dari

MENGENAL TANGGA NADA DASAR

Nada adalah suara atau bunyi yang memiliki keteraturan, maksudnya adalah suara atau bunyi yang memiliki frekuensi tunggal. Nilai frekuensi inilah yang menentukan tinggi rendahnya suatu nada. Urutan nada nada yang tersusun secara bertahap atau berjenjang disebut Tangga Nada, dan biasanya ditulis dengan abjad “A” sampai “G”.

Tangga nada memiliki dua varian yaitu yang biasa disebut “Tangga Nada Dasar” dan ada yang disebut dengan “Tangga Nada # (baca: kruis/kres) atau b (baca: mol). Simbol mol berbentuk seperti huruf ‘b’. Tangga nada kres atau mol mulai dari 1 kres/mol sampai 7 kres/mol. 

Tangga Nada Dasar adalah tangga nada dengan