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Musicians: Tuning a Guitar
Tuning your guitar is the most important action you take with this instrument. For all us of who play the guitar, equipment that is not properly tuned has the same effect as finger nails scratching a chalkboard. If you have not learned the art of tuning, you will never have success as a guitar player. For this reason, many stop playing before they have learned to play the guitar. So to help with tuning you will need one of the following: a tuning fork, piano or electric tuner. Tuners are an inexpensive way to assist you with getting the correct sound.
Musicians: Black Eyed Peas
Although this group is a hip-hop sensation now, its first attempt in 1992 was shelved. Starting members Will.i.am (William Adams), Apl.de.ap (Allen Pineda), and Dante Santiago originally signed with Eazy E’s Ruthless Records as Atban Klann (abbreviation for “A Tribe Beyond A Nation”. Their first album was never released, since Atban’s peaceful themes did not agree with the more marketable, gangster-style that was popular at the time.
Contemporary Christian Music: Past, Present, Future
It is difficult to define the term “Contemporary Christian music”, but most seem to narrow it down to artists who profess Christ openly, and sing music that is filled with gospel themes. The roots of Contemporary Christian Music are undeniably from the Jesus movement at the tail-end of the sixties. Many of these followers were former hippies, and so their style of music was influenced by “secular” sources. By the mid seventies, Contemporary Christian music had developed into a genre unto its own, usually being sold at Christian bookstores, but very little at major record outlets.
