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Keep Your Voice Healthy

Keeping voice health is an important thing for you who want to sing well, especially when you will perform the choir in a concert. There are many ways to keep your voice, but I would like to give you the three ways below.

First, don’t force to sing in several conditions. Everyone has different voice compass (ambitus). For this condition, sing a song which is suitable with your voice compass. Singing a song which is not suitable with your voice will make a reduction of vocal chord. Another conditions, don’t sing when you were ill. It will make your voice bad.

Second, keep your foods and drinks. Spicy food and some foods which contain coconut make the vocal chord reduction. Avoid these foods 3 - 4 hours before singing. For drinks, avoid the ice before and after singing practice. Coffee, alcohol and cigarette should be decreased too.

The last, saliva is a good medicine to lighten the hoarse voice. So, it should be better if you do jaw movement before practice. Moving jaw upper and lower will produce lots of saliva. More than it, the practice of jaw movement will make your articulation good.

In the conclusion, It will be easy to keep your voice by several ways above. I hope it will be useful to you who want to sing well. 

Music is A Mirror of Human Expression

Most of people like music. Music exists in our life. There are many contributions of the music. Here, three points of its contributions will be explained.

First, music gives a pleasure and satisfaction. With music, we achieve the pleasure because music gives many entertainments from their products, such as a song, theatre, orchestra, concerto and band. The show and concert provide music as the complement of their events. It will be done to achieve the satisfaction of the audience.

Second, people explore the potencies with music (the potency of vocal and instrument playing). There are vocal group and choir to explore the singing potency. Joining orchestra or concerto is the way to explore the potency of music instrument playing. More than it, make a band and create the own song can be done too. There are some music instrument which is familiar in the music, such as guitar, bass, keyboard, drum, and more.

The last, music is expression of emotion. It means, the emotion of people can be seen from the expression when they play the music. For example, musicians usually express their feeling in creating the song. Other example, people who are falling in love will use the music to express their feeling.

 In the conclusion, Music has many contributions in our life. Music gives a pleasure and a satisfaction, explore the potencies and the expression of emotion. So, enjoy your music.

Ladies Noise....

 

Ladies Noise..

2 singles were released on February 2013 : "Menjadi Aku" and "Bersama Selamanya"

Drum Drum Drum :)

Are you familiar with the Drum? The Drum is a music instrument that is used as a complement and has the function to set the tempo of the music. It seems difficult to play the Drum, but if you can play it well, It is very fantastic. In the Drum playing, we can see the emotion of person, more than it, there are many kinds of styles to play the Drum, and all of the styles are suitable with music. There are many famous Drummers in the music world, for example Travis. He plays with perfect speed, skill, and has good tempo. Another famous Drummer is Mike Portnoy, He plays with beat or the knock of the song. You can play the Drum like them.

You will get a basic knowledge of the Drum. I want to explain to you about several parts of the Drum. There are many types of Drums. They are the Snare Drum, the Bass Drum, the Hi-Hat, the Small Medium Tom, the Floor Tom, the Crash Cymbal and the Ride Cymbal.

            Actually, there are other kinds of Drums, such as Snare, Tom-Tom, Bass, Conga, Tymbal, Mondo, Bedug, Tabla, ect. They are Drum too, because we must beat them. I will explain about the Drumset or what people usually call Modern Drum. The Drumset has three main parts:

·         The Snare Drum. It is a main part of the Drumset. It has different sound among all the kinds of Drums. The Snare Drum has several sizes, 10”- 15”. Normally, we use the 14”size. The Snare Drum has Snare Wire / Strainer on the bottom.

·         The Bass Drum. It is the biggest part of the Drumset. It has some diameters, 16”, 18”, 20”, 22”, 24”, 26”. The Bass Drum is beat with a Pedal. We put the pedal on the bottom of Bass Drum.

·         The Tom-Tom. It has many sizes too, from 6” until 20”. If the Tom is more than 14”, It can be classified as a Floor Tom. The Tom uses two Drumheads, Top and Bottom.

·         The Cymbal. There are several kinds of cymbals. They are :

1.      The Hi-Hat Cymbal

2.      The Ride Cymbal

3.      The Crash Cymbal

4.      The Effect Cymbal

They are kinds of Drums. About the knocking theory, you must learn from 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, and I think you can directly practice to learn it..marselinamurti@facebook.com