Jim Duff Music Blog

Growing up in Kentucky, Jim Duff counted the legends of traditional Country music as his heroes. Artists like Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Townes Van Zandt made a huge impact on the young songwriter and helped shape his sound. However, music was not his only talent and life took him in another direction for a while.


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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Learn to Play Guitar Right Now

The most popular instrument in today's society is the guitar. Everyone desires to learn how to play guitar. The more you practice the easier it will come for you to play guitar. What is your motivation for choosing acoustic guitar in the first place? When starting off playing guitar, finger strength is the most important part. Acoustic guitars require you to push down harder on the strings because they have higher tension than an electric. If you practice on one of these babies you can jam on possibly any guitar. Also, you can play acoustic guitar anywhere, there are no limits.
If you are just a beginner and starting out, I recommend you pick up a second hand guitar. You are going to be reckless, scratch it up, and even drop it a couple times in the process. When starting out you should go the inexpensive route and then spend tons of money later on a new guitar when you can actually play well. You also need to make sure to get a guitar that fits your body and hands just right. Many guitars are built for people who have smaller hands, people with larger hands or fingers have the hardest time learning to play.
Following that you have training. You can either brave it alone, you can start taking classes or tutoring, or you can find a program online to learn at home. Out of all these, the last choice is rising in popularity. If you're thinking simply try to think aspects such as cheap and convenient to ease the process. But you need to make sure you get the correct program and remember it's very serious you don't get tricked. The best way to go about it, is to read all the customer reviews and what forums are saying on the web about a product before buying.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

In Art and Music Classes - Children Learn To be Creative

Children in a music class may have more benefits than you ever imagined. Children spend their early years developing social skills, emotional and cognitive skills. This process begins at birth and continues throughout life. In order to raise a child with appropriate skills in these areas, parents should begin work when the child is young, sometimes as young as six months after birth. The experts agreed that music and movement is one of the most important tools in the development of learning skills of a child.

Most of us have to start at the beginning of anything instead of jumping to the center and jump basic steps. Whether learning to walk or drive a car, there are critical skills that need to be practiced and perfected. Learning to play an instrument is no different.

Learning music is an ongoing process. You never really stop learning. There is always an opportunity for children to learn a new technique or experiment with a different style. Advanced lessons can help a child to be even better at what they love. And I hope that by then he / she is in fact developing a love for playing music.

Children get to try the different instruments of the class to learn, explore and distinguish the unique sounds different instruments make. This is a precursor of formal instrumental lessons at a later age. It also helps children to understand better, the melodies, rhythms and beats to make music.

The classes also include other activities such as singing to improve his or her vocal skills. They repeat words and phrases, and try to imitate the vocal inflection and rhythm that is used by the instructors.

A fun idea is to offer singing telegrams. This works especially well for High School choir fund-raising because it is easy to get the word out that the choir is doing fund raising and there is a wide range of students eager to express themselves through songs.

Having said that, you should understand that while sending your child to music lessons two or three times a week is good, but it’s not enough. Why? Suppose your baby hears the human voice two or three times a week for 25-30 minutes, do you think it's enough for him or her to start talking? The same applies to musical learning! In addition to classes, your child must listen to music every day and parents must help build your database of sound impressions.

In any program, you're also likely to receive fun materials to continue learning, even after class is over. Research has shown time and time again the benefits of music and movement has on the development of a child, not to mention the benefits of a strong relationship between parents and children. Music and movement programs are available in almost every city and state, so if you're ready for a fun way to bond with your child and help their development, then look for a program and get enrolled today!

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