1st Piano

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By Tom Hudson You may not be a professional at producing high quality musical discs, but that doesn't mean everyone else has to know that! As audio mastering software becomes more widely available to non-professionals, hobbyists, and struggling musicians and bands, more people are finding ways to produce their own top notch musical discs right from their own homes. There is some expense in the initial purchase of your audio mastering software, but the price is far less substantial than paying professional from a studio to make your music sound crisp, clear, and professional. If you are already paying someone else a nice price to put those finishing touches on your music and equip them to playback on stereo systems, then why not make a one-time investment and start learning to do it yourself? If you have been suffering with low quality, unfinished sounding discs because you couldn't afford to pay professional rates or don't have a professional studio in your

By Sheila R. Graves Many of us who have taught from the violin scale book by Carl Flesch have wished for a "Cliff Notes" version -- one that includes the familiar fingerings but without all the extra material, such as octaves, tenths, and parallel thirds. Of course, these have their place. But most students could benefit from a more simple (and portable) version. Most violin scale books other than Flesch are lacking in several areas. First, they do not use the Flesch fingerings, which are widely considered to be standard in America as well as abroad. Most also lack arpeggios. Finally, they are often hard to read and/or densely spaced on the page. For these reasons, many (if not most) advanced students continue to study from the Flesch book, even though they may never use the majority of its pages. I have also wished that a "progressive" book would come available -- one that included scales in one and two octaves rather than just three octaves. Even be