Musicmakers' secrets

Listen to a piece called "Lets Have Fun", composed and played by myself.

As an artist, one of the issues that concern me is illegal downloading of music from the internet using applications like Emule.

* Lesson 1 : Guitar Anatomy * Lesson 2 : Stringing / Tuning * Lesson 3 : Playing the Guitar * Lesson 4 : Learning the Fretboard * Lesson 5 : Reading Standard Notation * Lesson 6 : Reading Tablature * Lesson 7 : Reading Scale and Chord Charts * Lesson 8 : Flatpicking Technique * Lesson 9 : Fingerpicking Part 1 * Lesson 10 : Fingerpicking Part 2 * Lesson 11 : Intervals Part 1 * Lesson 12 : Intervals Part 2 * Lesson 13 : The Major Scale * Lesson 14 : Modes * Lesson 15 : Chord Construction * Lesson 16 : Chord Progressions * Lesson 17 : Playing Over a Chord Progression * Lesson 18 : Circle of Fifths * Lesson 19 : Suspended Chords * Lesson 20 : Bar Chords * Lesson 21 : Power Chords * Lesson 22 : Seventh Chords * Lesson 23 : Slash Chords * Lesson 24 : Diminished Chords * Lesson 25 : 12 Bar Blues Part 1 * Lesson 26 : 12 Bar Blues Part 2 * Lesson 27 : The Pentatonic Scale * Lesson 28 : The Blues Scale * Lesson 29 : Blues Soloing Part 1 * Lesson 30 : Blues Soloing Part 2 * Lesson 31 : Flat-Five Substitution * Lesson 32 : Jazz Progressions * Lesson 33 : Resolving * Lesson 34 : Finding Chords Easily * Lesson 35 : Chord Scale Relationships * Lesson 36 : The Minor System * Lesson 37 : Transposing Chords * Lesson 38 : Song Construction * Lesson 39 : Transcribing Songs * Lesson 40 : Ear Training Part 1 * Lesson 41 : Ear Training Part 2 * Lesson 42 : Determining the Key * Lesson 43 : Drop 2 Voicings * Lesson 44 : DADGAD Tuning * Lesson 45 : Other Tunings * Lesson 46 : Harmonics * Lesson 47 : Arpeggios

Listen to a piece called "Second", composed and played by myself.

Great idea, but it seems their forum is dead (or maybe it needs some kind of registration?)

By modding a geeky toy and connecting it to a vintage synthesizer, an indie rocker/hacker has created a trippy instrument that lets him make music with his mind.

FCC Regulations on radio broadcasts that feature obscene recordings.

Erica Muhl, a Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, shares her experiences as a composer who is called upon to be an expert witness in copyright infringement suits involving suspected unlicensed use of a piece of music, and discusses why there are a handful of composers in the USA who are well suited to the task.

Entertainment attorney Chrissie Scelsi was kind enough to answer a few of questions for my readers.

Evita G. Kaigler is a music attorney helping both independent artist and independent labels and developing future music attorneys