nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 17, 2009, 9:44 pm
I was going through some things online today and found this picture. This People International rehearsal had to be six or seven years ago. I'm the girl sitting on the ground in front with a black ...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 10, 2009, 9:31 pm

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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 8, 2009, 3:14 pm
I've been looking through my music theory notes from back at OU* and found a lot of stuff I think would be useful to some of the folks stumbling through here. I'll be posting a lot of that thi...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 7, 2009, 9:26 pm

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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 5, 2009, 6:23 pm
I was looking around for some other great blogs and websites to talk about here, and found Measure for Measure. It's a N.Y. Times blog which is apparently on vacation momentarily; but holds a lot ...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Nov 4, 2009, 7:27 pm
If you happen to have a web page of your own, you might want to take part in the experiment I'm trying. AdBright is a service that is similar to googles adsense, but looks a little better. It allo...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 8, 2009, 5:27 pm
Occasionally the right people get Honnored...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 8, 2009, 5:08 pm

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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 8, 2009, 4:39 pm

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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 4, 2009, 3:15 pm
Having watched that spoken word bit of Rumi that Madonna did about 100 times now, I had to get on to something else. As was inevitable, I did a search on Tori Amos. What I was hoping to find was "li...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 3, 2009, 4:42 am
Here's a Deep Dark Secret. Madonna was one of my first musical hero's. When I was not even a teenager yet, she was my example of how a young woman from a small town in Michigan could take char...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 3, 2009, 3:00 am
Sometimes you just need a laugh. I give you the mean kitty rap song, which is awfully cute. :-)
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Oct 1, 2009, 1:12 pm
If you happen to be up in the seattle area and want a fun evening, the Blue Moon hosts an open mic on Wednesday nights. It starts around 8pm and is run by Angry Joey and co-hosted by his talented daug...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 30, 2009, 7:38 pm
Wooooooh! I -real- music lesson- and this music teacher has a sense of humor! Useful information!!!! ( Ummm..yeah, if you're in the "beginner class" and haven't heard of the circle of fifths y...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 30, 2009, 7:29 pm
For the beginners, here's a very quick little video that talks a little bit about finding pitches in written music and how the length of a note is expressed.
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 30, 2009, 3:15 am
If you want to compose your own music, it can be very helpful to create a few "personal songwriting rituals" for yourself. Anything that gets you into the mood and the right frame of mind can be use...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 28, 2009, 4:30 pm
I woke up this morning, Knew I had homework to do.... Yes I woke up this morning, and I knew I had homework to do, But the sun it wasn't shinin' and I could only think in Blue. Here's...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 28, 2009, 3:54 pm
The 12 bar blues is one of the most common and well loved chord progressions. Knowing how it works lets you really work on playing the blues and making up your own songs very quickley. The phrase 12...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 28, 2009, 6:01 am
Here's a neat little tutorial I found that shows how to make 4 simple chords that will work for composing a blues song. Definately some great ideas you can experiment with.:-)
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 28, 2009, 5:14 am
My blog has already made Three Dollars and Fourty Three Cents from google adsense. Neato, spiffy, keen! Although I'm not writing this blog primarily to make money, I could -really- use some. I&#...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 28, 2009, 4:55 am
Before we can play the blues, we have to understand how the blues are built. The scale is a little different, including “bent” or “blue” notes. On a piano you can hear the C minor pentatonic...
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nicolette stevens posted an article on Nicolette's Music Notes - Sep 23, 2009, 11:39 pm
Undoubtedly, The Animals version is the most well loved, although many other musicians have also covered this song. Here’s several you tube videos that teach a version of this song being played on...
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