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TWELVE BENEFITS OF MUSIC EDUCATION

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Bruce Springsteen

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On the Cover

D e p a r t m e n t s

E d i t o r i a l s

F e a t u r e s

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

BENEFITS OF MUSIC EDUCATION

REAL GUITAR HEROES

TOP ALBUM REVIEWS

INSTRUMENTS

INTERVIEW WITH ‘THE WIZ’

FROM POP TO PUNK

In 2010, they released 2nd EP Get It Better from CATCH ALL RECORDS. Then they had CD release Japan tour include 48 shows. The EP Get It Better was sold about 3,000 stuffs. And still now, it is keeping constant sales.

Few musicians anywhere consummate symbolic oc-casions and mass events better than Bruce Spring-steen. He’s used to working on a stadium scale, and for decades his concerts have been nonstop singalongs that perfectly embody the yearning for community in his lyrics.

Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning. It is thought that brain development continues for many years after birth.

Like Jimi Hendrix, he singlehandedly showed the world what the guitar COULD sound like, and made it sound like no other. One of the best guitar-ists in the world, BB King is still touring today.

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HeroesReal Guitar

I don’t think there is anyone who wouldn’t have Jimmy in the top 10 greatest guitar

players. Many people would say he was the best ever. He could do things with a guitar that I have never seen anyone else do.Born Nov. 27 1942 in Seattle Washington. Jimi got in trouble with the law and was forced to join the army in 1961. He was discharge in 1962 because they said he was not a good soldier. He was stationed in Ft. Campbell Ky, so he moved to Clarksville TN because it was close. He start-ed a band with an army buddy. He then moved to Nashville.

He was having no success, so he moved to N.Y. There he got together with the Isley Brothers and Little Richard and started to get some fame.In 1966 he signed with a London record label and formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He became a big hit in Europe first. He became famous in America in 1967 at the Monterey pop festival. Then as the headliner at Woodstock in 1969, and the Isle of Wright festival in 1970.He developed the use of ampli-fier feedback which until that time, everyone tried to avoid. He made extensive use of the wah-wah pedal and string bends like nobody else could do. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the U.K. music hall of fame in 2005. He died in London on Sept, 18 1970. The real truth about his death is not really known.

Joe SatrianiBorn July 15 1956 in Westburry N.Y. Joe was inspired to play at

age 14 by Jimi Hendrix death. Joe has played with or been inspired by all of the other 9 greatest gui-tars players on my list. He played with Mick Jagger on his 2nd solo album. Joe has also played with Frank Zappa.He spent most of his early career as a guitar teacher, teaching some other great guitar players, like Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Marty Friedman, David Bryson, Kevin Codogon, Larry Lalonde, Alex Skolonik, and many other heavy metal guitarists.In 1987 he released Surfin with the Aliens, which was the highest charting instrumental album in many years. He then produced several albums for other bands. In 89 he released Flying in a Blue Dream. In 92 he released The Extremist, his most suc-cessful album. Joe toured with Deep Purple in 1993 - 1994 in Japan.In 1996 he formed a group G3, with Steve Vai, and Eric John-son. There have been many other big name musicians who

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MUSIC FROM THE SOULhave toured with G3 over the years. He has released several more albums since then, and is now in a band with Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, and Chad Smith called Chickenfoot.

Eric Clapton

Clapton was born in Ripley Surey England on March 3 1945. He was raised by his grandmother after he mother just moved to

Canada. His first band in 1961 was the Roosters. In 1963 he joined The Yardbirds. He played in a couple of other bands be-fore he formed Cream in 1966. He was by this time considered one of the top guitar players in England, but was virtually unknown in America. In just 2 years, Cream was a huge success in Europe and the U.S. In 1968 Cream broke up. He then played with Blind Faith and did several gigs with Dr. John, Jeff Beck, Leon Russel, and Stephen Stills.He released his first solo album in 1969. In 1970 he joined Derek and the Domino’s. He wrote the song Layla after falling in love with George Harrison’s wife Patty Boyd. 1970 and 1971 were hard years for Clapton. He lost 2 good friends, Hendrix, and Duane Allman. That combined with the attraction to Patty Boyd and not being able to be with her, drove him to drugs and alcohol.Pete Townsend helped him get back on his feet. He finally did get together with Patty in 1979 and married her.

Stevie Ray VaughanBorn Oct. 3 1954 in Dallas Texas. He got his first guitar at age 7 and started his first band in 1970 named Blackbird. In 1973 joined a band called Night crawlers. In 74 joined Paul ray and the

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2012 GuitaristsJeff LoomisLoomis has been a badass shredder since he won Wis-consin’s “Guitar Wars” contest at age 16. He later went on to help form Nevermore, bring-ing his brand of over-the-top neo-classical shred to the masses. With the recent re-lease of his début solo album ‘Zero Phase Order’ -- which to me sounds like the second coming of Jason Becker -- Jeff will be a shred guitar force to be reckoned with in 2010.

Chris BroderickChris first hit the shred scene in the early ‘90s, join-ing established power metal band Jag Panzer. With a gig in Nevermore along his path, Chris is the current guitar player for Megadeth. Close your eyes and you’ll think its 1990 all over again, and Marty Freidman is shredding.

Cobra’s. In 1977 formed the Triple threat review. He did a couple of tours with David Bowie and a couple of projects with Jackson Brown.

In 1982 he signed with Epic records and released Texas Flood in 83. In 84 released Couldn’t stand the weather. In 84 he won the Enter-tainer of the year award. In 85 re-leased Soul to Soul. He released live alive in 86. The live version of Texas flood is one of the best blues rock performances I have ever seen. He appeared in a couple of movies and worked with B.B. King, Phil Col-

lins, Gladys Knight, Chaka Chan, Billy Ocean, and Stevie Wonder.In 1989 he played at the inaugural party of George H. W. Bush. He re-lease another album called In Step

in 1990 and toured with Joe Cocker also in 1990.He was performing with Clapton in Alpine Valley Wisconsin. on Aug. 25 and 26th. To avoid traffic they had 4 helicopters to get them from the show. There was a thick fog in the area and the helicopter he was in didn’t get high enough to clear a hill and crashed, killing Vaughan, the pilot and 3 mem-bers of Claptons traveling group. Vaughn like Hendricks could do some unbelievable playing tricks with a guitar. He also has to be considered as one of the best gui-tars player ever.

Nils LofgrenNils was born in Chicago in 1951. He started playing the accordion when he was 5. He studied it for 10 years. At 15 he started playing the guitar. In 1969 he formed a band called Grin. He joined Neil Young on After the gold rush. He played several time with Neil Young over the years.

“Music is for people. The word ‘pop’ is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I’m just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I’m cool.”

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My Passion With Music

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My Passion With Music

Few musicians anywhere consummate sym-bolic occasions and mass events better than Bruce Springsteen. He’s used to working on

a stadium scale, and for decades his concerts have been nonstop singalongs that perfectly embody the yearning for community in his lyrics. In an era when pop hits can be as ephemeral as a de-leted .mp3 file, Mr. Springsteen has spent much of his career laboring to write durable songs about American dreams, from “Born to Run” to “Prom-ised Land.”While his latest seven-album contract with Co-lumbia Records is worth a reported $110 million, he still comes across as a working-class guy from New Jersey, putting across a compassionate popu-lism as he sings about jobs, families and everyday life and savors the company of his longtime bud-dies in the E Street Band. He has the gravitas to lead off a presidential inaugural concert and the gusto to rock the Super Bowl.In another nationwide telecast, Mr. Springsteen took up his longtime role as a voice of America at “We Are One,” the all-star opening ceremony and concert for President Obama’s inauguration,

Everythig thats surrounds Bruce deals with music. All of his memories, both happy and not, are associated with music from the times when events happened.

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before hundreds of thousands of people at Lincoln Memorial, 4.1 million view-ers on HBO and many more online and on other channels. Mr. Springsteen and a gospel choir sang “The Rising,” a song about sacrifice and redemption on Sept. 11. Mr. Springsteen played the song at campaign events in battleground states like Pennsylvania and Ohio, including a rally in Cleveland two days before the election.The Super Bowl exposure immediately follows the release of the album “Work-ing on a Dream” (Columbia) on Jan. 27, 2008, less than 14 months after “Magic” in 2007. Mr. Springsteen hasn’t made studio albums so quickly since he re-leased his first two albums —“Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle” — in 1973.Even more than “Magic,” the new

album represents a sea-change in Mr. Springsteen’s music. After the elaborate, tortured production of “Born To Run,” back in 1975, Mr. Springsteen went through what he called a “reactive” phase that lasted two decades, building his songs on the basics of blues and folk music, with utilitarian melodies and straightforward, near-live production. He and the producer Brendan O’Brien brought some pop embellishments to “Magic.” And “Working on a Dream” follows through on two songs from that album — “Girls in Their Summer Clothes” and “Your Own Worst Enemy” — that offer wide-open pop melodies while they pile on production touches like strings and chimes.At 59, Mr. Springsteen is indefatigable. His next American tour starts in April 2009, followed by a summer of Euro-pean arena and stadium dates. He still

regularly plays vigorous three-hour sets.Even in a tottering recording business, “Magic” sold a million copies, and his 2008 world tour grossed $204 million, according to the concert trade magazine Pollstar.‘My own abilities, I felt like I had reached my limits with them,’ Spring-steen says. ‘The basic sound of things that you hear on the radio changes at least every five to 10 years. Brendan had all my references so I could refer back to something from 1966 or 1980. And then he had the following 10 and 20 years.’While many of the songs use Spring-steen’s favourite opening chords - the major-to-relative minor change that pervades doo-wop - O’Brien has subtly reconfigured the E Street Band. He has brought guitars forward instead of

A man whose politi-cal beliefs had gener-ally been implied rather than stated, Springsteen finally broke cover with his public support for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004. This time he came

out for Obama early, declaring him “head and shoulders above the rest” in April 2008. In October he headlined a fundraiser alongside Billy Joel and John Leg-end, then hit the road to play four rallies; the last

of these, in Cleveland, Ohio on 2 November, saw him debuting the title track of Working on a Dream before bringing his entire family out on stage to stand along-side Obama’s wife and daughters.

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A few days after 11 September, Bruce Springsteen was pulling out of a beach parking lot in the Jersey Shore town of Sea Bright when a fan rode by. The man rolled down his window, shouted ‘We need you!’ and drove on. It was the kind of moment, Springsteen says, that made his career worthwhile. ‘That’s part of my job. It’s an honour to find that place in the audience’s life.’The Rising, Springsteen’s first album of new songs with the E Street Band since 1987, is due for release on 29 July. It continues the reunion with the E Street Band that began with a few songs in 1995. Yet it barely looks back. By chang-ing producers for essentially the first time since 1975, Springsteen has recast the sound of his music. For him, at 52, the album represents a rediscovery of the rock voice that he feared he had lost.Most pop stars seemed irrelevant im-mediately after 11 September. Springs-teen, who has spent most of his career singing about American dreams and disappointments, did not. With the red, white and blue iconography of Born in the USA (which was anything but a nativist anthem) and in the accumulated narratives and sounds of his songs, he

had made himself rock’s all-American good guy, loyal but never complacent about his country. He had become a symbol of blue-collar pride, sympathy for the underdog and rock with a clear conscience.His job, he decided a quarter of a cen-tury ago, was not to embody some rock star fantasy but to recognise the dignity of ordinary work. ‘I felt that I saw nobil-ity in people,’ he says in a rare interview at his farmhouse home. ‘Not the kind you read in the story books, but the kind where people go in to work every day, they come home every day and dinner’s on the table every day. There’s people doing this in little ways every day all the time. These are the people that I want to write about. This is what I think is important. That’s what moves me. That’s what makes me want to sing my song.’‘After the 11th,’ he continues, ‘I think one of the things people were shocked at was that that was alive in some fashion. I think that we live in a particular pop culture moment, that there’s a theatre of humiliation on TV and on the radio, a reflection of self-loathing. I don’t think anyone could imagine these sacrifices.’The office workers, air travellers,

firefighters and police who died on 11 September were the stuff of Springsteen songs: people who became heroes by just doing their jobs. He sings about them, and their survivors, on The Ris-ing, a song cycle about duty, love, death, mourning and resurrection.The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury. In a way, it brings together the topics that have occupied Springsteen for two decades: work and love. The 15 songs are filled with characters who have lost their closest companions. ‘I want a kiss from your lips/ I want an eye for an eye,’ Springsteen sings in ‘Empty Sky’. Grief wrestles with perseverance; come-ons arrive with intimations of mortality. In the album’s title song, one man’s afterlife is an endless longing for the physical touch of those left behind, and the music climbs toward jubila-tion as an act of will. The repercus-sions of 11 September permeate the songs, but there is no jingoism or self-righteousness, just individual stories from all sides; the narrator who opens one song, ‘Paradise’, is a suicide bomber of unspecified nationality.

“Talk about a dream; try to make it real.”

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Music History

Classical Music

George Frideric HandelB orn in the German town of Halle

in 1685, Handel studied briefly at the University of Halle before moving to Hamburg in 1703, where he served as a violinist in the opera orchestra and subsequently as harpsichordist and composer. From 1706 until 1710 he was in Italy, where he further developed his mastery of Italian musical style. Ap-pointed Kapellmeister to the Elector of Hanover, the future George I of England, he visited London, where he composed the first London Italian opera, Rinaldo, in 1710 and settled two years later. He enjoyed aristocratic and later royal patronage, and was occupied largely with the composition of Italian opera with varying financial success until the 1740s. He was successful in developing a new

t my lot’) from Giulio Cesare and ‘Care selve’ (‘Dear woods’) from Atalanta.

OratoriosMessiah is by far the best known of all English oratorios. Its three parts deal with the birth, passion and resurrection of Christ, using a text in part derived from the Bible and from the version of the Psalms familiar from the Church of England Book of Common Prayer. The work was completed and first per-formed in Dublin in 1742. It was later repeated annually in London in aid of the Foundling Hospital. Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabaeus, Samson (based on Milton), Saul, Deborah and Solomon are only some of the English oratorios of Handel that are familiar in whole or in part to choirs and audiences, along with Athalia and Esther, based on Racine. To these may be added the secular oratorio Semele, with a text by the dramatist Wil-

liam Congreve, dealing with an episode from classical mythology and including, for a disguised Jupiter, the well-known aria ‘Where’er you walk’. Less familiar are Gideon, Nabal and Tobit, compiled from Handel’s works after his death by his assistant John Christopher Smith, who continued the tradition of oratorio performances that had by then been established.

Church MusicHandel wrote music for the Catholic liturgy in 1707, when he was in Rome. In England, under the patronage of the Duke of Chandos, he wrote a set of an-thems, the so-called ‘Chandos’ Anthems. The four Coronation Anthems, written for the coronation of George II in 1727, represent music for a royal ceremonial occasion at its most impressive. Other settings for the Anglican liturgy include the Utrecht Te Deum of 1713, celebrating the Peace of Utrecht, and the Dettingen Te Deum, a celebration of the victory of Dettingen over the French army in 1743.

Secular Vocal and Choral Music

The story of the shepherd and shepherd-ess Acis and Galatea and the monster Polyphemus forms the basis of the pas-toral Acis and Galatea, first performed in 1718. The aria of Polyphemus ‘O ruddier than the cherry’ is in popular baritone repertoire. L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, based on Milton with an additional section of compromise, and completed in 1740, provides at least one popular soprano aria, ‘Sweet bird’. In the earlier part of his career Handel wrote a large number.

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the Benefits

Teaching the“Uneducated Idiots”

of MusicThe new music education methods pioneered as an urgent need for a logical, regularized and formulated method of music education, that would contribute to spread of music in higher social stratum

Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reason-ing. It is thought that brain development

continues for many years after birth. Recent studies have clearly indicated that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can actually wire the brain’s circuits in specific ways. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help imprint information on young minds.

1. There is also a causal link between mu-sic and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things). This kind of intelligence, by which one can visualize various elements that should go together, is critical to the sort of thinking necessary for everything from solving advanced math-ematics problems to being able to pack

a book-bag with everything that will be needed for the day.

2. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and as-sumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer.

3. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on stan-dardized tests such as the SAT. They also achieve higher grades in high school.

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“Uneducated Idiots”