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Celebrating Thanksgiving With Your Kids 0

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

Thanksgiving is an American tradition that truly celebrates family – a time in the year when relatives and friends get together and exchange notes on what’s gone by. But what does Thanksgiving mean to your kids?

While they look forward to meeting their favorite uncles and aunts, maybe even receiving gifts from them, Thanksgiving has no special activity that caters exclusively to them. A whole lot of adults meeting to catch up on the family news, over an elaborate dinner, is hardly something to excite kids, so that they are largely left to themselves, and may end up feeling a bit left out.

As a dad you can help your kids by explaining the meaning of Thanksgiving. Knowing about it and what it stands for will help them appreciate the essence of this celebration.

Getting children to help with preparing the Thanksgiving dinner could be another way to make them feel included. Not only does it make them feel responsible, they’ll look forward to the event of the actual dinner much more if they’ve had a role to play in its preparation.

5 tips for the best Thanksgiving ever

1. Keep it simple – Even if both you and your spouse like a Thanksgiving table over-flowing with all the possible Thanksgiving items, consider cutting back on some items or getting store-bought items. The stress you eliminate will make everyone enjoy the meal more.

2. Involve the kids – There are plenty of things they can do, from baking a simple pie or setting the table. Make sure you give them plenty of credit in front of all guests for the job they’ve done.

3. Pitch in – The year is 2008 and women no longer work all day in the kitchen while the guys lie on the floor waiting to be called to the table. Be proactive – volunteer for work you’ll enjoy and get into the spirit cheerfully. You’ll be happier doing a good deed without being nagged about it. And face it, you’ll have to do a bunch of stuff anyway, so

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Musical Motif – Are You Repeating Yourself? 0

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

A musical motif or motive is a recurring set of notes or a series of intervals played in succession. I’m sure you’ve heard repetition in a melody in fact, almost all compositions are made up of repeating motifs.

If you can repeat yourself musically, this will allow one to capture the essence of an improvised solo and rivet a listener to your ideas. Everyone no matter how sophisticated they are at listening to music will be able to follow your ideas if you repeat them.

I once heard the phrase somewhere; “Well I don’t know much about music but I know what I like when I hear it”. Well that’s not entirely true. I think what they are saying is that “They like what they know when they hear it”.

By establishing a musical motif and repeating it, the listener gets to “know” your idea then, when it’s repeated several times the idea becomes familiar to a listener.

Sometimes ideas are repeated exactly however, more often notes occur higher or lower than the original melodic idea. This is not to be mistaken for transposing which I think of as a change of key. It’s rare to find any melody that doesn’t have a healthy amount of repetition.

What I’m talking about here is a process called motif development using repetition, pitch shifting. and extension.

If you want your solos to sound like a melody then I would suggest using use lots of repetition. It’s kind of weird that most musicians don’t use repetition for they may think that it sounds too repetitious or boring. When you first introduce an idea to a listener it’s new. Then a listener waits to hear how the idea spins out. You can really grab someone by the ears if you connect with them by repetition. For the musician playing a solo, this gives them a sense of control.

In order for the musician to have control over soloing you need to remember what was just played. So assuming that the musician is into melodic development then you need to develop

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How to create unique Christmas Music your own way 25

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

If you feel sick and tired of playing the same Christmas music every year, there’s one thing you should know that the artists always try to put out the albums of their new own versions of traditional Christmas songs. The songs may be the same every year, but the artists put their own takes on them to make them fresh.

The artists use a little creativeness to jazz or even rock the songs up and so on; so new albums of Christmas music are born every year. However, the albums are easy to find in any CD store; so it seems to be impossible if you want to have unique Christmas music of your own, except you create new versions by yourself. The artists use their creativeness to create new versions of traditional Christmas songs; you can do it, too. The artists need bulky studios to make new versions; you can equip yourself a studio, too. Thanks to the development of technology, you can equip yourself a virtual studio that cost you much less than a real one.

You can try Music Morpher Gold (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/mp3-music-editor.htm), which equips you with many tools to create remixes or medleys of traditional Christmas songs by myself. You can add some effects (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/tutorials/music-morpher-tutorials10.htm) such as beats, echoes, drums, basses, etc into the songs or change the timbre, pitch, tempo (http://mp3-player.audio4fun.com/tutorials/music-morpher-tutorials16.htm) of them. This is a great way to spice up any Christmas party; and it’s also a great way to add something extra to your Christmas music, at least for yourself to enjoy, or specially if you’re sick of the same old albums.

Renewing Your Favorite Christmas Songs

Your favorite Christmas music likely hasn’t changed for a very long time, but the artists can always add new instruments, sing the Christmas songs with a faster or slower tempo, or they may add or take out words as they see fit. The artists coming out with

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