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Get Started with the eMedia My Piano Kit Introducing the eMedia My Piano Kit. This kit has everything your child needs tostart playing the piano: an electronic keyboard sized for small fingers, a power supply, and the USB MIDI interface for connecting the keyboard to your computer. What’s more, it comes with a great teacher, the new interactive eMedia My Piano CD-ROM (for Windows & Mac computers) for kids ages 5 and up. Kids Learn with Award-Winning eMedia My Piano Software The award-winning eMedia My Piano educational software is what sets this keyboard kit apart from all others. In eMedia My Piano an animated character named Pam the Piano leads kids through over 100 lessons, authored and demonstrated by Irma Irene Justicia, M.A., who has taught at the renowned Juilliard School of Music. eMedia My Piano covers basics such as proper hand and finger position, learning notes, counting rhythm, playing harmonies, and reading music. All this and more is t (more…)

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When it comes to music and rhythm games, Wii Music stands in a class of its own. Unlike other music games, which penalize players if they do not play perfectly, Wii Music is a musical playground where there are no mistakes. Here anyone can pick up and master theMassivearray of instruments available, through simple motions like strumming and drumming. Musicians in your band jam by simply playing their instruments to the beat of a song or by improvising to their heart’s content. Play faster. Play slower. Skip a beat, or throw in 10 more. No matter what you do, Wii Music automatically transforms your improv stylings into great music. Your music, your way Simple pickup and playability.View larger. Easy controls and learning curve.View larger. Huge array of diverse instruments.View larger. Make music by yourself.View larger. Or with up to 3 friends.View larger. Gameplay: Getting Your Band (more…)

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The making and continued influence of Metallica’s commercial breakthrough (known simply as “the Black Album”) is entertainingly recounted in this must for Metallica fanatics, especially those who are interested in the recording of one of hard rock’s most sonically amazing albums. Drummer Lars Ulrich, singer James Hetfield, and producer Bob Rock take up the lion’s share of the interviews, and their reminiscences a decade after the fact include many juicy tidbits (like Ulrich and Rock loathing each other by the time the recording was finished, or that the final mix was almost ruined by a digital clicking sound on the master tape–luckily, a successful remastering was done). The Dolby 2.0 Stereo sound is appropriately pummeling, even if we are treated to mere excerpts from the songs, videos, and even some of the original demos. Classic Albums: Metallica adroitly summarizes a pivotal moment in hard rock history. –Kevin Filipski

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Essentially a live greatest-hits package, ‘Live’ Trucker, recorded before several different Detroit-area crowds, reminds us not only that Kid has long been an entertainer first and songwriter second but that he can surprise even the most jaded listener at the most unexpected moment. He works the urban hillbilly angle to the hilt, gives shouts out to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Cobo Hall and offers hope to disenfranchised children in crummy apartment complexes and trailer parks from sea to shining sea via “Rock ‘n’ Roll Pain Train” and “American Bad Ass.” Although the last name is Rock, Kid’s never been afraid of letting aTiny bit of honky tonk piano into the mix or blending classic southern soul and the heaviest of rap ‘n’ roll as he does in “Early Mornin’ Stoned Pimp.” He’s also not opposed to revealing his deep and apparently authentic affinity for country, something he does during the touching “Picture” with his Nashville counterpart Gretchen Wilson. Ultimately, ‘Live (more…)

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In today’s technology world, you don’t have to be a musician to make music. Popular packages like M-Audio’s GrooveLab and Apple’s GarageBand put the power and satisfaction of making music into the hands of anyone with the desire. M-Audio makes a complete line of accessories that grant you to take your music as far as you want to go. From professional loops that you can mix-and-match to inexpensive microphones, speakers and interfaces, M-Audio has you covered.

The Personal Recording Studio includes everything you need to build a home recording music studio. Connect microphone, guitar, or bass to the Fast Track USB and record into the Session software. Use the Keystation 49e to play the software instruments built into Session and listen to the detail and nuances of each track with the Studio Pro 3 monitors. Experience the fun of making music and the power of recording on the computer.

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Bob Seger has racked up a lot of worthy tracks over the years, but it took until 1994 for a greatest hits package to appear. Voilà. The bad news: We’re missing an awful lot of songs here. Night Moves is Seger’s crit-pick album, and a great place tobegin if you do not have any Seger at all. Next in the rankings is Stranger in Town. Otherwise, his highs are pretty scattered, which would make any best-of package a worthy investment. But if you want to get comprehensive, “Rock & Roll Never Forgets,” “Fire Down Below,” “Horizontal Bop,” “Her Strut,” “Betty Lou’s Getting Out Tonight,” and “Katmandu” aren’t on this CD–and you’ll have to go to the original albums to secure them. –Gavin McNett

Bob Seger Photos     More from Bob Seger Stranger in Town Nine Tonight Face The Promise Against The Wind Greatest Hits 2 Night Moves (more…)

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Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with “A Little Help” from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon’s evocative word/sound photos (the trippy “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the carnival-like “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”) and McCartney’s music hall-styled “When I’m 64,” to Harrison’s Eastern-leaning “Within You Without You,” and the avant-garde mini-suite, “A Day in the Life,” Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both ’60s music and popular culture. –Billy Altman

Digitally remastered digipak edition of this classic 1967 album from The Beatles featuring ‘Lucy In The Sky WIth Diamonds’, ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’, ‘A Day In The Life’, ‘Getting Better, ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ and many more. (more…)

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Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with “A Little Help” from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon’s evocative word/sound photos (the trippy “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the carnival-like “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”) and McCartney’s music hall-styled “When I’m 64,” to Harrison’s Eastern-leaning “Within You Without You,” and the avant-garde mini-suite, “A Day in the Life,” Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both ’60s music and popular culture. –Billy Altman

The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilisingSay of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, (more…)