Tip: Lower damping extends the tail fast. Tip: Bigger spans soften the modal pitch. Tip: Heavier alloys usually feel denser. Tip: Raise drive for a thicker plate hit. Plate reverb is a mechanical ...

Bluegrass dates back to around the time of the Second World War. It evolved from what is called ‘string-band ‘ music that pre-dated what came to be known as Country Music today. String-Bands as you ...

Because the flow from amp is AC, not DC as from a battery, you call it impedance. In a DC circuit, where the flow goes only one way, it matches simple resistance: you count it dividing the voltage ...

As a musical genre, Funk has its roots firmly embedded in jazz. Funk incorporates many elements of jazz alongside soul and earlier African-American styles of music. Following on from the immense ...

Composers being influenced by the wonders of nature is quite a common theme. The French composer Olivier Messiaen is well-known for using bird song in his works with breath-taking results. Camille ...

A dulcimer is a stringed folk instrument which basically comes in two different varieties: the hammered dulcimer – which has strings stretched over a sounding board with a trapezoidal shape, generally ...

Compare lowest and highest comfortable notes, tessitura, range span, and passaggio clues against classical voice-type ranges for practical singer classification.

Over the years of working on Liszt’s substantial catalog of piano music, my somewhat harsh judgment has been tempered towards the fact that Liszt was not only a virtuoso pianist but a composer who ...

Musical tradition is at times a rather odd element of this popular art. One of those traditions that still holds true for today is that of using Italian terms to instruct a performer in notated scores ...

French composer Claude Debussy did not align himself with the movement that became known as Impressionism. Understandably, Debussy resisted this classification as with it could come restrictions, ...

Reggae music has had a profound influence on many aspects of Western culture from fashion to popular music. Across the United Kingdom, the USA and Africa, Reggae secured a strong foothold in the ...

The influence of W.A. Mozart across all areas of culture has been colossal, from the Baby Mozart Project through to contemporary song. You can hardly pass through a day without encountering the music ...