Hi all!
If you see box.net on the right bar, you will find there is a song I named Theatrical. I made it using software FL Studio 6 about a year ago. I made it entirely with FL Studio. No musical instruments involved, just the computer software. I've wanted to add guitar solo in it and I'm still working on it.
The song I made as a tribute to Dream Theater, one of my favorite band. I hope they can use it on their album (...just kidding...).
Anyway, there are other songs that I have not uploaded yet. I hope I can publish it in the near future. Feel free to download and listen to it. Don't forget to give comment about it. I know there are lots of weaknesses on the song, especially on mixing. I'm still learning about it.


Thank you.

The notes of a chord can also be determined by assigning a numeric formula, indicating the tones used from the major scale. For example, based on the C major scale, 1-b3-5 would mean play the root (C), a flatted (E b), and the fifth (G) – a C minor chord!
The chart below is a construction summary of the chord types in this book (based on the key of C only):
C MAJOR SCALE = C-D- E-F-G-A-B-C
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1)

Chord

A chord is defined as three or more notes played at the same time.Chords provide the harmony that supports the melody of a song.

Sometimes chords are indicated by chord symbols, written above the musical staff. A chord symbol is simply an abbreviation for the name of that chord. For example, the symbol for an C-sharp minor seven chord would be C#m7.

A chord symbol tell us the chord's root and type.

The root gives the chord its name. For example, the root of a C chord is the note C. Unlike trees, however, the root note is not always at the bottom of the chord. Notice the difference in these two types of C chords:

The chord's type is indicated by suffix (m, 7, sus, aug, maj9). The chord types and suffixes listed below:

Building Chords

Chords are built from intervals. An interval is the distance between any two notes. You can see below the basic intervals, using C as a root.

These intervals are divided into two groups, major (M) and perfect (P). 4ths, 5ths, octaves and 11ths are perfect; all other intervals are major.

There are many shapes and sizes of intervals, but they only have five categories, which are major, minor, perfect, augmented and diminished. These categories are related each other.The relations are:

1. A major interval lowered one half step equals a minor interval.



2. A major or perfect interval raised one half step equals an augmented interval.



3. A perfect interval lowered one half step equals a diminished interval.



An interval's type is determined by the number of steps between the two notes.

All of the interval types are reviewed on the following chart:

The guitar used be called a tavern instrument; one that could not meet the demands of classical music. In the early nineteenth century, Fernando Sor set in motion the quest that continues today, to raise the guitar to the greatest musical level possible. Sor was one of the most prolific composers for, and promoters of, the guitar as a "concert" instrument, in the last two hundred years. He, and others like him paved the way for Andres Segovia to emerge and bring the guitar to the immense popularity, and respect it enjoys today.
Guitars ranging from contrabass to treble, and with varying numbers of strings are played in Spain and Latin America. The twelve-string guitar has six double courses in standard tuning. The Hawaiian, or steel, guitar is laid across the knees of the player, who stops the metal strings by gliding a metal bar along the neck. The strings are usually tuned to the notes of a given chord.

The electric guitar, developed for popular music in the United States in the 1930s, usually has a solid, nonresonant body. The sound of its strings is both amplified and manipulated electronically by the performer. American musician and inventor Les Paul developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar and popularized the instrument beginning in the 1940s.

In the early 1940s, a California inventor, Leo Fender, made some custom guitars and amplifiers in his radio shop and already was working on an amplifier (with no controls) and a matching lap steel guitar (with tone and volume controls). This was typical of the way the electric guitar was viewed at this time, as a total package, and not as an individual instrument.

With his knowledge of existing technologies, he knew he could improve on the amplified hollow-body instruments -- and he did. In 1948 he developed the legendary Telecaster® (originally named the Broadcaster). The Tele®, as it became affectionately called, was the first solid body electric Spanish-style guitar ever to go into commercial production.

Before the advent of the electric guitar, the guitar was defined as an instrument characterised by a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides. Instances of musical instruments similar to the guitar have been found to date back as far as 4,000 years ago. The roots of the guitar can be traced back thousands of years to instruments found in central Asia and India and is distantly related to instruments such as the tanbur and setar, and the Indian sitar.

The modern Engish word, guitar, evolved from Spanish guitarra (German Gitarre, French Guitare), also loaned from the medieval Andalusian Arabic qitara, itself derived from the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the earlier Greek word kithara, a possible descendant of Old Persian sihtar.

The Romans brought their cithara to Hispania around 40 AD and it is from this instrument that the modern guitar is descended. Further adaptations and developments were made when teh Moors introduced their four-string oud in the eighth century. In other European locations the Scandinavian six-string lute became popular wherever the Vikingstravelled. In many 800 AD carvings, the Norse hero Gunther can be seen playing a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake pit.

By 1200 AD, the four string "guitar" had evolved into two types: the guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar) which had a rounded back, wide fingerboard and several soundholes, and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) which resembled the modern guitar with one soundhole and a narrower neck.

Another important influence on the development of the guitar is the Spanish vihuela. The "viola da mano" is a 15th century guitar like instrument that had lute-style tuning and a guitar-like body.

The Vinaccia family of luthiers is known for developing the mandolin, and may have built the oldest surviving six string guitar.

Scores of residents mounted a picket outside Dublin's Croke Park stadium, where the rock band finished the last of their three homecoming gigs in front of 240,000 fans on Monday night.

Dozens of trucks were blocked when they arrived in the early hours to a remove the sound system and 56 tonnes of video equipment for the group's next two dates in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Homeowners were demonstrating against Dublin City Council's decision to give stadium owners, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and promoters MCD permission to work through the night to dismantle and remove the stage after they had already suffered three nights of loud music.

U2 bosses fear the specialist equipment for the 360 stage will not be set up in the city's Ullevi Stadium in time for next two legs of the world tour on Friday and Saturday.

Tour director Craig Evans stood on the sidelines as he watched the vital audio and visual equipment - which should have already been shipped out - being packed into scores of HGVs after a deal was brokered to suspend the protest, allowing 54 trucks in.

"It will be tight," he said.

It takes a week to construct the 360-degree custom-built stage, which features a claw-shaped centrepiece.

While the band has three specially designed claws which travel ahead of the tour, it has just one sound and screen system.

Protesters will hold a meeting with officials later today.

I am not a professional in music. I just want to share my thoughts about music in life. Everything about music.