When selling your beats online or offline you can go about selling them two different ways. You can sell them exclusively or you can just simply lease them.

When you sell your beat exclusively to an artist, you are giving that person full rights and ownership too that whole beat. You can never reuse that beat again or resale it without the permission of the artist you sold it to.

When selling your beats exclusive you can sell them for a lot higher price than you can leasing rights because you are giving out full ownership. (I WISH SOMEBODY WOULD HAVE EXPLAINED THIS TO ME WHEN I FIRST STARTED OUT!!.. I was selling my beats exclusively for just $20!! big mistake But basically you can charge a lot higher because you are giving away full rights. Your price you charge for exclusive rights depends on you and what you feel your beats are worth. I now charge no less than $500 for my exclusives.

Leasing rights are basically selling limited rights of your beat to an artist. They can use the beat and record their song for a demo, mixtape, myspace, etc, but you still have ownership to the beat, which means you can continue to resell as many times as you please and continue to make profit of the same beat unlike exclusive rights. In the long run if your patient leasing rights pays off which is way I know longer try to sell exclusive rights.

Basically the decision is up to you. I used to want to be quick to sell my beats exclusively because I was getting a lot of money at once but now I see that leasing my beats is better because yes I am getting less money but I am still keeping ownership of my beats and I can continue to resell it over and over again as many times as I please.

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Nearly a year has passed since Early Bird Sunrise registration began for the coveted new .asia domain extension, the Early Bird Sunrise period (SR2a) was the first opportunity for commercial entities to register a .asia extension. Prior to this, registration was limited to Asian governments wishing to submit their public bodies and culturally or economically important domains during the pre-Sunrise period.

Throughout the commercial Sunrise period, entry was limited to those companies with registered trademarks trading in on of the 72 Asian countries as defined by ICANN, the period was split into four sub-periods which ran consecutively with the entry requirements becoming less stringent over time, and finally closed for new registration on January 31 2008. On March 26 2008 the .asia Go Live registration period started allowing anyone around the world to buy a .asia domain, and prompted a wave of speculators to begin buying up cyber real-estate from web hosts in the hope that a few companies with sloppy marketing departments had missed the Sunrise window.

So why is the .asia extension so important, when the region has functioned perfectly well over the years with .com and the other Asian regional extensions?

Put simply .asia provides a unifying sense of economic identity for the region which has over 500 million internet users (compared with 315 million in Europe and 253 million in the USA) a number which is growing steadily all the time as the cost of technology decreases. .asia also allows companies to demonstrate an online presence and expand in to a region with one of the fastest moving economies in the world. That said how many companies have taken advantage of their newly acquired domains and actually set up a live site, well fewer that you would expect, a search of the obvious key players (Coca Cola, Pepsi, Ford) returned "error page not found messages" Toyota the third largest Asian company according to Business Week's 'Top 25 Asian Companies' have not set up a .asia page, Sony the seventh largest Asian company's site is "under construction" and 7eleven the mini-market of choice for the region has their domain 'parked' in fact of the well known international brands only Honda seems to have a fully functioning .asia domain. So why this reticence to embrace .asia? Do we expect to see a wealth of new .asia sites before the end of the year? Or, are the big players just happy with the fact that they have secured their plot and are now content to sit on the fence while the price of the cyber real estate rises around them?

On thing does seem certain - this area is bound to take off eventually, and although the transition is slow it is gradually happening, with millions of quality domain names still on offer it could be time to speculate and buy your company's piece of .asia before somebody else does.

A List of Worldwide Domain Extensions.

.asia New TLD for the Asia Pacific Region
.com Top-level domain name used for commercial Internet sites.
.edu A top-level domain name used for educational sites .
.firm An ending of an address for an Internet site for a business.
.gov A top-level domain name used for a U.S. government site on the Internet.
.int A top-level domain name used for international institutions.
.mil A top-level domain name for a U.S. military site on the Internet.
.mobi A top-level domain name for a sites made for mobile phones.
.nato A top-level domain name used for NATO sites.
.net A top-level domain name used for Internet administrative sites.
.nom An ending of an address for a personal site on the Internet.
.org A top-level domain name for organizational Internet sites.
.store An ending of an address for an Internet site that is for a retail business.
.web An ending of an address for an Internet site that is about the World Wide Web.

.ac Top-level domain name for an educational network (same as .edu).
.ad Andorra
.ae United Arab Emirates
.af Afghanistan
.ag Antigua and Barbuda
.ai Anguilla
.al Albania
.am Armenia
.an Netherlands Antilles
.ao Angola
.aq Antarctica
.ar Argentina
.as American Samoa
.at Austria
.au Australia
.aw Aruba
.az Azerbaijan
.ba Bosnia/Herzegovinia
.bb Barbados
.bd Bangladesh
.be Belgium
.bf Burkina Faso
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.bi Burundi
.bj Benin
.bm Bermuda
.bn Brunei Darussalam
.bo Bolivia
.br Brazil
.bs Bahamas
.bt Bhutan
.bv Bouvet Island
.bw Botswana
.by 1. Belarus 2. Byelorussia
.bz Belize
.ca Canada
.cc Cocos Islands - Keelings
.cf Central African Republic
.cg Congo
.ch Switzerland
.ci Cote D’Ivoire, or Ivory Coast
.ck Cook Islands
.cl Chile
.cm Cameroon
.cn China
.co Colombia
.cr Costa Rica
.cs Czechoslovakia (former)
.cu Cuba
.cv Cape Verde
.cx Christmas Island
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany
.dj Djibouti
.dk Denmark
.dm Dominica
.do Dominican Republic
.dz Algeria
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.eh Western Sahara
.er Eritrea
.es Spain
.et Ethiopia
.eu European Union
.fi Finland
.fj Fiji
.fk Falkland Islands/Malvinas
.fm Micronesia
.fo Faroe Islands
.fr France
.fx Metropolitan France
.ga Gabon
.gb Great Britain
.gd Grenada
.ge Georgia
.gf French Guiana
.gh Ghana
.gi Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.gm Gambia
.gn Guinea
.gp Guadeloupe
.gq Equatorial Guinea
.gr Greece
.gs South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
.gt Guatemala
.gu Guam
.gw Guinea-Bissau
.gy Guyana
.hk Hong Kong
.hm Heard and McDonald Islands
.hn Honduras
.hr Croatia/Hrvatska
.ht Haiti
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland
.il Israel
.in India
.io British Indian Ocean Territory
.iq Iraq
.ir Iran
.is Iceland
.it Italy
.jm Jamaica
.jo Jordan
.jp Japan
.ke Kenya
.kg Kyrgyzstan
.kh Cambodia
.ki Kiribati
.km Comoros
.kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
.kp North Korea
.kr South Korea
.kw Kuwait
.ky Cayman Islands
.kz Kazakhstan
.la Laos
.lb Lebanon
.lc Saint Lucia
.li Liechtenstein
.lk Sri Lanka
.lr Liberia
.ls Lesotho
.lt Lithuania
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.ly Libya
.ma Morocco
.mc Monaco
.md Moldova
.mg Madagascar
.mh Marshall Islands
.mk Macedonia
.ml Mali
.mm Myanmar
.mn Mongolia
.mo Macau
.mp Northern Mariana Islands
.mq Martinique
.mr Mauritania
.ms Montserrat
.mt Malta
.mu Mauritius
.mv Maldives
.mw Malawi
.mx Mexico
.my Malaysia
.mz Mozambique
.na Namibia
.nc New Caledonia
.ne Niger
.nf Norfolk Island
.ng Nigeria
.ni Nicaragua
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway
.np Nepal
.nr Nauru
.nt Neutral Zone
.nu Niue
.nz New Zealand (Aotearoa)
.om Oman
.pa Panama
.pe Peru
.pf French Polynesia
.pg Papua New Guinea
.ph Philippines
.pk Pakistan
.pl Poland
.pm St. Pierre and Miquelon
.pn Pitcairn
.pr Puerto Rico
.pt Portugal
.pw Palau
.py Paraguay
.qa Qatar
.re Reunion
.ro Romania
.ru Russian Federation
.rw Rwanda
.sa Saudi Arabia
.sb Solomon Islands
.sc Seychelles
.sd Sudan
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.sh Saint Helena
.si Slovenia
.sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
.sk Slovakia
.sl Sierra Leone
.sm San Marino
.sn Senegal
.so Somalia
.sr Suriname
.st Sao Torme and Principe
.su Former USSR
.sv El Salvador
.sy Syria
.sz Swaziland
.tc Turks and Caicos Islands
.td Chad
.tf French Southern Territory
.tg Togo
.th Thailand
.tj Tajikistan
.tk Tokelau
.tm Turkmenistan
.tn Tunisia
.to Tonga
.tp East Timor
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tv Tuvalu
.tw Taiwan
.tz Tanzania
.ua Ukraine
.ug Uganda
.uk United Kingdom
.um U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
.us United States
.uy Uruguay
.uz Uzbekistan
.va Vatican City State
.vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
.ve Venezuela
.vg British Virgin Islands
.vi U.S. Virgin Islands
.vn Viet Nam
.vu Vanuatu
.wf Wallis and Futuna Islands
.ws Samoa
.ye Yemen
.yt Mayotte
.yu Yugoslavia
.za South Africa
.zm Zambia
.zr Zaire
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You have made your proposal, and made out your wedding guest list. You have interviewed wedding vendors until you thought you could take no more. You have helped to choose the wedding location and the male members of your wedding party, and stuck to your wedding budget. What else do you need to do as a Groom, to help create a wonderfully romantic wedding event? It can seem a bit overwhelming, but here you will find a personal checklist and tips for a Groom.

Groom Checklist

1. Tuxedo or Suit

2. Shoes and Socks

3. Tie, Cufflinks and Handkerchief

4. Any Medications

5. Brush, Comb and hair products

6. Shaving cream and Razor

7. Toothbrush, Toothpaste and Breath Mints

8. Aftershave and Antiperspirant

9. Drivers license, Money or Credit Card

10. Rehearsal Dinner Attire

11. Gift for the Bride and Groomsmen

12. Flowers for the Bride, Boutonnieres for the men and Corsages for the mothers and grandmothers

13. Engagement and Wedding Ring for the Bride

14. Attending Bachelor Party

15. Groom Wedding Toast

16. The Rehearsal Dinner

17. Making Out of Town Guest Lodging Arrangements

18. Obtaining Marriage License and Officiate

19. Honeymoon Arrangements

20. Finding a New Home

- Be actively happy in adding your opinions and thoughts to making the event a happy one. Relax and try to stay calm. Many brides are happy to have a groom who cares enough to be involved with all the details of planning a wedding.

- For a more formal evening wedding, you may want to consider black tie and tuxedo attire, while during a daytime formal wedding event you may also want to include tailcoats and top hat. However, if you are considering a wedding during the heat, you may prefer to wear a white dinner jacket and formal slacks. No matter which you prefer, you should always make sure that your wedding and groomsmen attire coordinates with the bride and her bridesmaid’s attire once your wedding theme has been determined. Make sure that you and your groomsmen are not wearing the very same outfit, as you will need to be a bit more distinguished than they are, so others will know exactly who the groom is.

- If you have a problem trying to think of the right thing to say when giving a wedding toast, vow or speech, be sure to search online or even in bookstores for such aids. Remember simplicity is elegant so you do not have to worry about being long-winded or boring.

- Take part in finding just the right wedding reception entertainment by interviewing bands and DJ’s. Remember that DJ’s will have a larger selection of music to play, however a band lends a feeling of formal sentimentality to the entertainment.

- Start planning the honeymoon at least six months before the wedding to secure any arrangements before hand, so you are not caught off guard by incomplete planning. One month before the wedding, you should verify your honeymoon plans.

- Do not over indulge in alcoholic drinks during any of the special events, especially on your wedding day. A couple of drinks to relax are acceptable; however, you should not over do it. When attending your bachelor party, enjoy yourself after making sure that someone is committed to being the designated driver.

- Pack ahead of time and have everything ready and for goodness sakes do not be late for your own wedding.

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Wouldn’t you love to pick up your guitar and rip out a blazing fast set of leads? Everyone who plays wants to impress their friends and family and all guys know the ****** love a good guitar player.

With practice almost anyone can master the guitar. No matter what style you want to learn there is a course that will make your learning much faster than you could ever learn on your own.

The modern guitar courses out will teach you to play like a pro in the shortest time possible and you don’t even have to know how to read music. In my days that was the hardest part. Today I can play any song I want by ear and almost never go by written music.

So where so you start? First get the best guitar you can afford. If you are on a tight budget you can get a great deal at your local pawnshop. They are usually full of musical instruments. If you do buy a used guitar do yourself a favor and take it to a music shop for a tune up. Have then set the action, clean it and put on a new set of stings. This will make all the difference in the world.

Next decide on a guitar course suited for you and begin practicing. At first your fingers will get sore. After a while you will develop calluses and increased finger strength making it easier to play.

Practice as much as you can. I used to sit and do scales while watching TV. I remember hearing a story of Stevie Ray Vauhn sitting on his bed practicing his guitar and his room mates would ask him to go out to some local bars with them. He would turn them down. Five or so hours later they would come back and Stevie would be in the same spot still practicing.

Don’t get sloppy. Try not to go too fast at first. This is one of the biggest mistakes for beginners. When learning your scales, play them real slow. Be precise and steady. The speed will come to you later. Learn your scales backwards and forwards in every position on the neck.

Almost all the great guitar players have listened to and learned how to play classical music. Study classical music. If you master that you will be able to play anything. It may not be your style but look at Eddie Van Halen, Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads and other greats. They all are great classical musicians.

If you are learning on an electric guitar, play it unplugged or with a completely clean sound. This will force you to play clean. Pedals and effect boards make you sound better than you are. Most of all have fun. Learn songs you like and want to learn.

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The Dow is plunging, financial institutions are failing, credit is drying up and long-time Wall Street icons are plummeting into bankruptcy. The U.S. economy seems to be collapsing like a poorly stacked house of cards. The news is full of doom and gloom and more gloom. Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

In a word, yes. But it may be a long tunnel, manufacturing experts warn. Successfully weathering the storm will require a two-pronged attack: tighten up your business practices and calm worried employees.

Make Cash King

Keeping a sharp eye on cash flow will be essential in the coming months. With few exceptions, manufacturing markets are contracting. According to a recent report by the Institute for Supply Management, the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a composite index indicating manufacturing health, dropped an alarming 43.5% between August and September, posting its lowest numbers since 2001. Exports offered a glimmer of hope, but overall the manufacturing market is expected to show negligible growth for 2008.

Experts recommend taking the following steps:

1. Monitor cash flow. Watch for potential cash-draining trouble spots. You may need to reign in credit terms or be more aggressive about collections. Base every decision on a "cash is king" model.

2. Control expenses. Expenses should never exceed income. In a tight economy, there are no fixed expenses; every expense is negotiable. Review and update purchasing/service contracts regularly. Be prudent in purchasing policies. Don't stockpile supplies and decrease order quantities as demand decreases. Limit buying to what you use and what increases sales.

3. Tighten credit policies. Over-extended credit can lead to bankruptcy. Maintain good credit policies in your borrowing and be clear about credit policies to customers before finalizing a sale. Don't continue to offer credit to slow-payers. You could be left holding the bag.

4. Be aggressive about collections. Collection should be a daily task. Don't allow late accounts to linger. Instead of traditional 30-, 60-, 90-day payment schedules, age accounts receivables by the 15th and month end or even weekly. The sooner you start collections, the better the chance of collecting.

5. Scale back inventory. Constantly track individual inventory items and cull out poor sellers weekly or monthly. Don't make the mistake of relying strictly on accounting summaries to track inventory. Accounting tracks dollars, lumping moving and non-moving inventory into an average. To effectively control inventory, track the physical items.

6. Evaluate capital investments. Evaluate capital equipment and technology purchases for their ability to enhance the production of a quality product and increase competitiveness. Judge purchases against the potential to recoup their cost through savings in energy, floor space or worker health and safety.

Value Your Employees

Failing to value your employees can be as harmful to your business as poor financial practices. Customer satisfaction is the single-most important factor in driving business and repeat business to your door. When economic times get tough, competition for customers gets even tougher. Employee satisfaction goes hand-in-hand with customer satisfaction. When employee satisfaction plummets, production quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction suffer. It's a downward spiral that can kill a business in a recessive economy. The bottom line is that it's the human element that guarantees business success. When you're struggling to keep your head above water, it can be easy to forget that important lesson.

Experts recommend the following:

1. Communicate with your employees. When the economy tightens up, employees worry about job security, providing for their family, even putting gas in their car to get to work. All that worrying takes a toll on worker productivity. To bolster employee morale, be honest about what's happening in your company. "Workers are going home and they are hearing bad news every day," says Jay Kuhn, president of business improvement company Definity Partners. "It's important they know what's going on because everything the company does is really going to be taken as a negative sign, whether it's meant to be taken that way or not." To reign in employee nervousness, employers should be prepared to answer questions and explain even minor changes like switching an insurance carrier or office supply provider. Keeping employees in the communications loop alleviates their fears and keeps office gossip in hand.

2. Keep things positive. Worry and stress take a physical toll on workers that can increase absence rates. Keep things positive in the workplace so workers want to come to work.

3. Embrace patriotism. Historically, Americans respond positively to hardship and sacrifice when they believe they are helping their country. Remember how people came together after 9/11? "Small and medium-sized businesses need to realize they're the backbone of our economic growth and job creation," says David Velie, managing partner of Amend Consulting/Techsolve. "Remind teams that they're the strength of the economy, not the Fortune 500s and the housing sector."

Things may be rough for all of us for a year or two; but as Kuhn points out, "The economy does come back; it always comes back."

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I remember 5 or even 2 years ago it was pretty difficult to watch movies online. This was the time wheb sites like Napster were getting sued for allowing individuals to share their hard drives with the world on a peer to peer network. Thus, allowing people in other countries and states to play and swap music that was not accessible on their own drives. The record companies did not find this practice to be beneficial or above the law so they stopped the service. Well, this same concept of stopping people from sharing their movies online was stopped also.

The problem was that film and music companies were not getting their share of the money. They were unable to come to the table and get their piece of the pie. But how was this any different from the days when I could tape my local DJ mix and dub it and pass it on to my friends back in the 80's. At that time no one complained about music swapping by hand. Or even dubbing movies and giving it to someone else. No money swapped. So, what is the problem???

Well, aside from that it seems that some very innovative companies have figured out a way to make the record and film companies happy and also line their pockets with money. Companies like iTunes and Amazon.com are now some of the leaders of online movie download. Both services charge a fee for individuals to download either a movie, music or a TV episode. A portion of that money goes to the company that owns the film or show. But a portion of the money goes to the distributing company.

These services have been a god sent blessing to most people that want to see a movie the day they comes out, without having to go to the local Walmart to buy the DVD. They have made it simple to just buy the movie online, save it on my local computer and watch it whenever I fill fit. This makes it easy to watch the movie online on a computer, on a ipod or import it to a device like a xbox 360 and watch it on a TV.

But let's say that you don't want to buy the movie. Maybe it is not worthy of a full purchase price. Well, iTunes and Amazon still have you covered. You can rent the movie and then you will have a month to watch the movie once within a 24 hour period once you start watching the movie. This is more than enough time to watch the movie a number of times.
With the way technology is going these days it is just easier than ever to watch movies online without all the hassle.

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Fear Of A Blank Planet is the latest release from Porcupine Tree, and is another winner from this talented group.

Refreshingly, this was one of those CDs I was able to just pop in and comfortably listen to from beginning to end. Every track is enjoyable and was pretty easy for me to listen to from start to finish.

Fear Of A Blank Planet is a pleasantly varied, mix of 6 tracks that are very well written and brilliantly performed songs by these clearly gifted musicians. Most of the songs display a lot of the kind emotion that makes for a really great listen. Clearly drawing from what I can only imagine are their own real life experiences. At different points touching on the most real emotions of love, and the pain of failed relationships can certainly be heard.

Overall Fear Of A Blank Planet is outstanding from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Rock fan. Really spectacular from beginning to end.

While this entire album is really very good the truly standout tunes are track 1 - Fear Of A Blank Planet, track 5 - Way Out Of Here, and track 6 - Sleep Together.

My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 4 - Sentimental. What a nice track!

Fear Of A Blank Planet Release Notes:

Porcupine Tree originally released Fear Of A Blank Planet on April 24, 2007 on the Lava/Atlantic label.

CD Track List Follows:

1. Fear Of A Blank Planet

2. My Ashes

3. Anesthetize - (with Alex Lifeson)

4. Sentimental

5. Way Out Of Here - (with Robert Fripp)

6. Sleep Together

Porcupine Tree: Steven Wilson (guitar); Richard Barbieri (keyboard); Colin Edwin (bass guitar); Gavin Harrison (drums).

Additional personnel: Alex Lifeson (guitar); Robert Fripp (sound effects); John Wesley (background vocals).

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Chicago's second surge of house music was influenced by Curtis Jones aka Green Velvet, Roy Davis Jr, Chicago then, had not comprehended the potential of its new house sound until Farley Jack Master Funk, released Love Can't Turn Around, and he became an overnight sensation in the USA. Chicago house  forefather was recently nominated for a 1998 Grammy -- in the "new re mixer of the year" category other stars including The Chicago house  producer-re mixer-songwriter Steve Silk Hurley, went on to be a four-time Grammy nominee.

The Chicago House Music Association a non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding and developing house music. The Chicago House Music Association CHMA strives to preserve and inspire local and international awareness and appreciation of the origins, history, culture, and future of Chicago house and its artists, producers, and DJ's via the Internet, conferences, forums, and events.

At a time when the Chicago House music scene was on the verge of an international explosion, Terry debuted his first release, a House track entitled Madness. Meanwhile, the largest concert and dance party in the history of Chicago House  will take place on September 15th at the newly renovated Congress Theater in Chicago with 30 of the hottest artists and DJ's in the genre performing live sets for the first time ever.

By 1990, a lot of styles were seeping into the regional purity (odd term, that, since house was the result of such a melting pot to begin with) of pure Chicago house  and as the mixes after this cutoff point just went to all to hip-hop and other styles of dance music, house music evolved.

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The flute is a woodwind instrument that is still widely popular even though it has been around for hundreds of years. The flute is the highest pitched instrument in most bands (especially beginner ones, as the piccolo is not always used), and it is made of metal. Unlike the other members of the woodwind family (the clarinet, the saxophone, etc) the flute does not utilize reeds. Rather, the sound is produced by pushing air through the cylindrical instrument.

The proto-flute has been around for thousands of years - archeologists unearth bones with holes in them can be played very similar to a flute all the time. As of writing this article, every civilization past and present has some instrument that resembles a flute; yet the flute as we know it is a relatively modern invention. The final product, the flute still used today in beginner bands to professional orchestras, was created only a couple hundred years ago.

Flutes are deceptive in their appearance - although the flute can be very easy to play once you get the hang of it, they can be very tricky in the initial learning stages. Sound is created by pursing the lips, blowing into a hole, and the new wind stream (introduced by the breath) bounces around and interacts with the air already in the cylinder. Specific notes then correspond to whichever holes are opened or closed, which ultimately lengthens or shortens the cylinder (or resonator, to be more specific). A good, strong tone is only achieved when the air flow is constant. That may sound easier than it actually is, but practice will strengthen the diaphragm and thus lead to loud clear tones.

Most flutes people will encounter are the transverse flutes - these are the flutes that are side blown. Transverse flutes can accommodate each individuals arm length, which is important to ensure all proper fingerings can be achieved. Other flutes include Pan Flutes (as depicted in Greek mythology, most famously), Ocarina, Xaio, Indian Bamboo Flute, Bass flute, and the list goes on and on. On the professional level, virtually all flautists play "open hole" flutes, which in appearance are like beginning transverse flutes, but are much harder to play.

Flutes are common in beginner bands, high school bands, and university level bands. However, the flute is still used in the military, orchestras, symphonies, jazz ensembles, rock bands, woodwind ensembles...the list is endless. Interestingly enough, the flute is enjoying a resurgence in popular music, for its' tones can add just the right amount of pizzazz to any music.

If you are considering playing a flute, there are innumerable flutes instructors all over the country. Once you learn the basic fingerings and how to read music, there is ample sheet music, spanning all music genres, designed specifically for flutes. With practice and a decent amount of dedication, you can be playing this beautiful instrument in no time.

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Have you ever wondered what to do with all of those guitar scales and guitar chords that you've been working so hard to master? The answer is simple. Turn your experience into income. In short, play the guitar for money. That's right, turn your hard work into good old fashioned dollars. Think of it this way, if you don't, someone else will.

The professional guitarist already knows how to make a good living by playing the guitar. Further, most top-end guitar players spent years and years playing local clubs and showcase houses before progressing on to higher paying Gigs. However, it's encouraging to know that, even the best had to pay their dues in the early years. Therefore, this article is dedicated to the guitarist who is attempting to find his/her way on the path to musical success. Generally, this is the intermediate player.

Right now, throughout the entire world, and in every city and in every country, there are thousands and thousands of guitarists wondering what to do with their developing talent. They've practiced some guitar chords, guitar scales, and have, most likely, learned a few songs on the guitar. In some cases, many have studied some music theory. These guitarists are ready to progress. But, to where and how? These questions, for many guitarists, are haunting until resolved.

Learning to play the guitar is difficult enough for many, let alone, reaching a good level of mechanical proficiency and then being confused as to what to do next. This confusion has shelved the careers of many potential guitarists. However, these days, there should be less confusion due to the vast amount of educational material available on the internet, etc. There is plenty of education to go around for everyone.

It's important to remember that playing the guitar should always be fun. Learning a new guitar chord should always be fun. In fact, everything that one does with the guitar should be fun (except breaking it). What then, is the answer to progressing into a paying situation as an intermediate guitarist? Let's examine some possibilities.

First, consider what type of playing scenario you desire. Are you a solo act? Do you prefer playing in a Duo? A Trio? Do you desire to be part of a full-blown band? Your decision is imparative in order to move forward in a timely manner. Remember, we're attempting to prepare for an income situation, not a friendly neighborhood jam. Therefore, how do you picture yourself as a working guitarist? Once you've answered this question, the rest is actually quite simple. Surround yourself with only those musicians that are of like-mind. In other words, associate and build your band or act around those who desire to make an income.

There are literally thousands of paying Gigs out there. One just needs to dig in and find them. Have a demo made of your band or yourself as a guitarist before you start searching. A good promotional package goes a long, long way. Don't leave home without one if you expect to have anyone take you seriously.

The truth of the matter is that, while there are thousands of guitar players (and musicians) that are capable of playing the guitar for their income, few will actually take the steps necessary to make it happen. Why? Lack of motivation is probably very high on the list of answers. Further, many just don't know how to get started. This is great news for those who are truly motivated to earn an income playing the guitar.

Potential paying Gigs include dance clubs, weddings, festivals, community events, church events, beach parties, commercial events, city sponsored events, fashion shows, high school dances, college dances, and many, many more. Networking is essential.

For the intermediate guitarist, there is a whole world waiting for you, that could prove quite prosperous. After all, why spend hundreds of hours learning guitar chords, guitar scales, songs, and music theory if you're not planning on actually making a living playing the guitar? Of course, the exception is the guitarist that is perfectly content playing simple songs around the campfire. This is great fun, and for some, this is as far as it goes. Once again, this is fine.

Looking back, I can honestly tell you that all of those years that I spent playing clubs throughout the United States and abroad, really paid off. Those years were preparation for larger stages, bigger venues, and larger audiences. Those years were the fun years, and very profitable. The trick is to plan your work and work your plan. Not everyone can do that. Once again, this is good news for you.

Every aspect of playing the guitar should be fun. No matter how successful one becomes, it's important to love your chosen profession. Weed out the individuals who are just there for the ride. Never waste time, because time waits for no man.

The next time you're practicing the guitar, playing songs, learning a new guitar chord or guitar scale, and wondering if there's a place for you, remember that there is. However, you'll have to take action. No one can sit around waiting for a result. A desired result can only be achieved with implementing the appropriate steps. So, get up, get busy, and get out there today. You'll be glad that you did.

© 2008 Michael E. Fletcher. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

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