Piano Sonata

When most people hear the word composer, they automatically think of classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven. This is the point where many “would be” composers freeze up because they tell themselves that their music could never be as good. And this is also the point where would be music makers end their desire to create.

When you compare yourself to another person you are really defeating the whole idea of creating to begin with. Why? Because your music is as unique as you are!

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What is the connection between music and the brain? Is it possible that music can help you think better? The research says yes, and after telling you about some of it, I’ll let you in on an even faster way to boost your brain power with music.

Music And The Brain - The Research

The research shows that music actually trains the brain for higher forms of thinking. Listening to, and participating in music also creates new neural pathways in your brain that stimulate creativity. An article in a Newsweek (2/19/96) reported on a study from the University of California.

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MP3 stands for MPEG layer 3 audio, where MPEG stands for a form of compression used both in video and audio. The reason why compression is used, why not just capture digitally? The reason is size, in this case, size of captured files is a WAV file (the standard for CD) which produces massive files which even with the event of broadband connections are just too big, for example a 1 minute file equates to 10mb of storage.

CD’s provide a high quality recordings that faithfully reproduce the music but in ones and zeros (digits). It does this by sampling 44,100 times a second and storing the value of each sample. This is a from of compression and it means that

the whole analogue signal is not stored but the human ear can’t really tell the difference between a sampled version. Plus digital recordings do not suffer from noise or degradation which allows copies to be made without losing quality much to the annoyance of the music industry. Peer-to-Peer file sharing softwares such as Kazaa, Morpheus, iMesh, Grokster, and Blubster or widely used Macintosh file-sharing programs like Poisoned, LimeWire, and mlMac are used to share music files on the Internet.

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When most people hear the word composer, they automatically think of classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven. This is the point where many “would be” composers freeze up because they tell themselves that their music could never be as good. And this is also the point where would be music makers end their desire to create.

When you compare yourself to another person you are really defeating the whole idea of creating to begin with. Why? Because your music is as unique as you are!

(more…)

When most people hear the word composer, they automatically think of classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven. This is the point where many “would be” composers freeze up because they tell themselves that their music could never be as good. And this is also the point where would be music makers end their desire to create.

When you compare yourself to another person you are really defeating the whole idea of creating to begin with. Why? Because your music is as unique as you are!

(more…)