I saw this site posted on boingboing.net: lawgeek.typepad.com It is a collection of youtube videos by kids teaching kids how to cheat on exams. The videos on that site didn’t talk about the way of cheating I invented when I was a kid that involves writing on a stretched out rubber band. Check out my method and use it to get away with as much hijinks as possible. And, since this is Super Bowl Sunday, I just wanted to dedicate this to Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots who are the biggest cheaters I know. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Available on iTunes. Search “Golf Boys” . . . Ben Crane, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, & Hunter Mahan have formed the PGA’s exclusive boy band . . . “Golf Boys”. Presented by Farmers Insurance. Directed by SAMM. Music by Con Bro Chill www.bencranegolf.com Farmers Insurance will donate 00 for every 100000 views of the “GOLF BOYS” video. The charitable proceeds will support both Farmers and Ben Crane charitable initiatives. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Myspace plays indicate how popular a band or a musician is on the web. The more myspace plays, the more followers the band or musician has. Lets look at how you can increase myspace plays for bands and musicians and spread the word of your music.
First of all, I reckon that Myspace is no longer the best way to promote your band. WordPress is the new Myspace. With a WordPress band or musician website you can get much more music plays that myspace plays.
Although I believe that WordPress is the future for online band promotion, you should still make use of Myspace.
The chances are that you already have a Myspace page anyway so we won’t go into it in that much detail.
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Just make sure you have photos, music, tour dates, contact info, band information, links etc. on your Myspace page and make sure that it is kept up to date. Monitor the comments people leave and delete the spam to help keep your Myspace page clean to look at and quick to load up.
As with Facebook, spend a bit of time manually adding friends yourself and with each friend request add a short note to say hi and to introduce yourself.
To save time with adding Myspace friends it is definitely worth checking a piece of software that lets you bulk add Myspace friends and send out mass messages to them. I have created a free ebook called How To Promote Your Band On The Internet. There is a link in that ebook to the piece of software that you can use to add friends in bulk.
It is definitely worth checking out the Band WordPress Theme. It is a pre-made website for bands and musicians and no programming skills are needed. It looks really professional and easily integrates with all your social networking accounts. The Band WordPress theme also has an inbuilt audio player (which will get you more more plays than myspace!), a calender, blog news updates,photo gallery, and fully customizable colors and graphics.
So check out the Band WordPress themes website and the free ebook and get even more Myspace plays for your band!
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Music video by OK Go performing Here It Goes Again (The Treadmill Video).
Zombies have invaded PopCap Games, and they’ve even made a music video! Visit www.plantsvszombies.com for more details on the game! Song Lyrics: (chorus) There’s a zombie on your lawn There’s a zombie on your lawn There’s a zombie on your lawn We don’t want zombies on the lawn I know your type: tall, dark, and dead You want to bite all the petals off of my head And then eat the brains of the one who planted me here I’m just a sunflower but see me power an entire infantry You like the taste of brains we don’t like zombies I used to play football Road cones protect my head I have a screen-door shield We are the undead (repeat chorus) Maybe it’s time to reevaluate I know you have a lot of food on your plate Brains are quite rich in cholesterol You’re dead so it doesn’t matter, Instead we’ll use this solar power to make a lawn defense at any hour I like the tricycle There’s butter on my head I’m gonna eat your brains (repeat chorus) written & performed by: Laura Shigihara www.mybluedream.com
Band WordPress Themes (Band WP Themes) is a professional website template for musicians and bands. WordPress offers a popular substitute to just using Myspace to market your band. The Band WordPress Theme has been specifically designed for bands and musicians to use for their website.
The WordPress Band Theme is a ready-made, specialized template for bands and musicans to use as their website. The band WordPress theme is fully customizable and you have total control over how your website will appearance to visitors. No programming or technical skills are needed whatsoever and you can literally get the initial site setup in a matter of minutes.
You can change the image that is displayed as the header, you can change the website height and width, the colors, widgets, and basically anything else that you want to.
WordPress provides a major option to Myspace. WordPress offers a big improvement of what Myspace can allow. First of all, Myspace is not very fashionable anymore. People use Facebook to interact with their friends and MySpace band pages are usually filled with adverts and spam posts. And in general, MySpace band pages are usually quite offensive on the eyes!
With the Band WordPress theme anyone can create a professional looking website for their band. Due to the customization options, you also have totoal control over the unique image that your band portrays via the website.
In general with WordPress, you are able to download free themes to use for a website. This is a great way to try out various different style and website layouts. The free themes have a pre-set layout and all you need to do is enter your data into the appropriate areas. However, with the free themes you do not have complete power over the appearance of your website. For total control, it is worth investing into a theme specfically designed to your needs. If you are a band or musician, then the Band WP Theme can certainly do this for you.
WordPress uses boxes called widgets that let users perform actions on your website. A widget is usually a little box included on the sidebar of your websie. A widget might include a banner or an email submit mode. The following are the main widgets used in the Band WP Themes:
* Email Newsletter Opt In
* Photos
* Audio Player
* Facebook Integration and Twitter Integration
* Calender
* Much more…
The email newsletter is one of the most vital parts of a musician website. If want your website to achieve just one thing then it will be to grab the email address of your visitors. Once you have their email address you can email them news updates and tour schedules and advertise your new album etc.
The email list is a major factor for online promotion in any business. Obtaining the email address of visitors to your website should be a priority. With an email list you can send out regular news updates and advertise new CD releases and gigs.
The social networking intergration widget is very powerful as it lets users share your information with their friends. Instead of using just Facebook or just Myspace to advertise your band, it is recommended to use a WordPress website as you central manner of promotion and then just link this to all your social networking profiles.
You get the best strategies of all online band promotion thrown into one with a WordPress band website. You get a main website that will rank highly on Google, and you get to integrate this website with all forms of social networking for maximum interaction of your fans. It is definitely worth checking out the Band WordPress Theme to take the online promotion of your band to the next level.
Most music teachers consider teaching music to their dear students both their profession and passion. Most of them have the heart for arts and music – making each student love learning music and music as a whole. With this kind of outlook and disposition in teaching music, the inspired and motivated music teacher tends to begin his search for consistent improvement in his teaching strategies as well as his effort for personal and professional growth.
Indeed, there is a wide variety of creative music teachers resources that students can certainly enjoy and get excited working on with. According to studies, the integration of audio and video recording in music education has been an effective technique to catch the attention and grab the interest of the learners. This is believed to be an effective tool in raising the level of interest and motivation among music learners.
Current practice in music teaching favors a practical and a hands-on approach in emphasizing performance and composition. The use of recorded music as a teaching resource has tended to take a back seat. However, recordings are the predominant vehicle of musical experience today. As the students are expert listeners to recorded sound, major developments in the access to and presentation of recorded music are opening up new educational possibilities to most of them.
Targeted to be implemented in most music classrooms, the production and engineering aspects of recorded sound to online music libraries and teachers’ experiences of using recordings in the classroom have been randomly practiced and taken into consideration.
When a classroom setting has a relaxed atmosphere, informal learning may take place yet anxiety, tension and pressure would neither rule the learning situation. Hence, when there is relaxed supervision with no teachers behind the desk, the students would be more eager and interested to learn music. Students may also work in groups – giving them more chances of friendship and peer support. In this case, cooperative learning is found effective. The music teacher may encourage the students choose various musical instruments of their choice and eventually master such.
After they finish recording, they may organize or set-up a short play or a mini-concert to show their rendition of songs and other performances. These activities can heighten the learning process as they get too excited in meeting their objectives and getting high grades. These can also help them boost enough self-confidence and self-esteem. Through these music teachers’ resources, the music teacher tends to meet most of his objectives all at the same time.
These creative techniques in music education intend to motivate the learners from different ages and with different lifestyles. So start your quest to amazingly creative music teachers resources now. Be inspired to share your knowledge as well as the joys of music to your students. Make them realize that learning music is fun so they have to do it all by heart. Happy teaching!
Earl Marsden started developing a passion for music at the early age of twelve. He first learned to play the guitar at thirteen, and from there he pursued the study other instruments including the violin, piano and flute. Currently, he devotes some of his spare time to writing articles about music teaching while managing his own music studio.
Official video for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” off of the New Album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed live and features the Notre Dame marching band. Directed by Brian L. Perkins and OK Go. Get it at iTunes bit.ly
From the new album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” available at www.okgo.net OK Go on Tour www.okgo.net Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs ( syynlabs.com ) over the course of several months. There is an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the warehouse here: www.okgo.net OK Go thanks State Farm for making this video possible. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Music video by Willow performing Whip My Hair. (C) 2010 Roc Nation, LLC.
