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  Australia has a reputation for its exceptional talent in the world of entertainment. Australia's musical talent is especially highly regarded.
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Australian Music Gigs Calendar
     Who's playing where and when?
 
Directory of Australian Music Websites
A comprehensive list of websites in various music categories:
Musicians/Singers, Groups, Venues, Festivals, Resources, Gig guides,
Agents/Managers, Organizations, Instruments, Recording Studios,
Record Labels and Distributors, CD manufacturers, Teachers, Software.


Point of View - Monthly featured music articles
August 2010
: To play jazz requires a musician to improvise; to make up original music spontaneously. But is every improvised solo truly original or is it made up of preconceived ideas rehashed in a new order? USA-born Australian jazz multi-instrumentalist, Glenn Henrich, gives his take on this question in his answer to...

Glenn Henrich
Is good improvisation truly original or just recycled clichés?    
         

More Music Articles

Who's Getting Paid In The Music Industry?
Do you think you stand a chance of a lucrative music career? Don't believe the hype. A whole lot of people have to get paid before the musician does. The Root (www.theroot.com) presents an interesting analysis in graphical form of who gets paid what percentage of the money made out of music.  (more..)

Should ISPs Pay for Music Piracy?
The Performing Rights Society in the UK (PRS for Music), a royalty collection agency similar to APRA and AMCOS in Australia has suggested a new way for the music industry to recoup money lost to online music piracy: make ISPs pay for it because they provide the means for illegal music downloading to occur.  (more..)

Conductor Charles Mackerras dies, aged 84
London - Sir Charles Mackerras, the Australian conductor who spent most of his working life in Britain and had close associations with Czech music, has died at the age of 84, his agent told the BBC on Thursday 15th July 2010. (more..)

Prince: "The internet's completely over"
"The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."  (more..)

Musical Curiosities
Orchestral music reaches a new audience of video gamers
A Symphony Orchestra in Maryland USA is dedicated to only presenting music from video games. These days, a lot of people in the classical music world are worried that kids aren't connecting with orchestral music. But the music of video games is emerging as one way orchestras may actually be reaching new audiences. (more..)


Hans Reichel's invention, the Daxophone
The Daxophone is a somewhat comical sounding instrument of the friction idiophone category invented by Hans Reichel. It consists of a thin wooden blade fixed in a wooden block, which is played by bowing or by being struck or plucked. The vibrations are amplified by contact mics. A wide range of voice-like timbres can be produced, either as fixed pitches on the fretted side of the "dax", or in a more fluid glissando style on the smooth side.
Listen to the Daxophone-->>
See it demonstrated on youtube
 
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Live performance revolution
How many times have you been at a gig where someone calls a tune and you don't know the chord changes? With iReal Book you'll have the chord changes to all the songs you need with you at all times on your mobile phone.
Working with a singer who calls a tune in a different key? No problem, iReal Book will transpose it for you. ... (more).
The Australian Jazz Real Book
Tim Nikolosky has taken on the arduous task of putting together a Real Book of Australian jazz compositions. He is transcribing all the submissions he receives. This is an enormous job for one person so well done and good luck Tim.
If you'd like to suggest some great jazz compositions that you feel should appear in the book you may contact Tim via his website here.
If you'd like to see what stage he has reached in this project watch his latest update on youtube here.
JazzTube
Jazz videos, Australian and international, from YouTube.
There are heaps more jazz videos being uploaded to YouTube all the time. If you come across one that you think we all should see, please send a link. i.e. Copy and Paste the web address to here and send it to us.
Musician Jokes

  Do you know a good musician's joke?
Click here to put this "muso joke generator" on your website
Do you want to show the world your talent? 
You just need a youtube account and a web camera. Go to http://www.TheStage.tv , a world wide open mic website POWERED BY YouTube, welcoming talented musicians/singers to perform anytime 24/7 for a live world wide audience. Contests and weekly showcases. Bring your friends to cheer you on!
Self managed artists and new bands
Scout TV has a new series of exclusive web videos aimed at self managed artists and new bands to give them heads up on industry know how and tips from industry professionals. The video series is posted monthly at http://www.scouttv.com.au/category/musoinfo/
Music Gigs Calendar
Bands/Musicians/Singers - Let everyone know about your gigs. Put them on our calendar. Grab a password and you can login anytime you like and add your new gigs to the calendar. When you submit your information it will show on the calendar immediately. This is a free service to all Australian musicians and bands whose gigs are already being promoted on a website.

Jazz Ear Training  
Learning how to play jazz music primarily takes place on the bandstand, but since being recognized as an intricate art form, jazz programs have been shooting up in colleges and universities throughout the world. Here are some exercises to help you learn to identify chords and intervals, recognize notes over chords, and much more.
Australian Internet Radio
Australian musicians, would you like guaranteed air time for a track from your CD. Send your CD to Australian Internet Radio's new station "DAIR" and they guarantee until 30/6/09 that everyone who sends them music will get at least one song added to their playlist. They play only Australian and NZ music (recorded from 2000 onwards). Listen live via Windows Media Player or Itunes or WinAmp.
For more info visit their website or contact them now on... info@australianinternetradio.com
AUSTRALIAN MUSIC BUSINESSES
Here are some links to videos which have useful information for those in the Australian music business provided by THE AUSTRALIAN MUSIC OFFICE
Grants for Australian music businesses
Building your team - Managers, Agents and Attorneys
An Overview of the Midem Tradeshow
An Overview of Performance Royalties
Contact Austrade: email: music@austrade.gov.au
tel:  13 28 78         web: www.australianmusicoffice.com
 Music Forum/Blog
A forum/blog for your reactions to our articles or for discussing
any musical subject.
 Chat Room
 A place for discussions
 in real time.
Hear Australian Music
Hear samples of tracks from Australian Music CDs
 Music News
Music news feeds from around the world provided by Digg and feeds categorised by music genre from About.com and Fresh Content.
Music Classified Ads
Are you a musician looking for work? Do you need to sell some musical equipment? Are you looking for musical instrument or equipment for your home studio? Do you need your equipment repaired?
Try our Music Classifieds. It's totally free to advertise!

Musician Tools
Musical Terminology
Learn the meaning of the descriptive terms used
in musical compositions.

 
 Key Signatures

 A graphic demonstration of
 the Circle of Fifths. Learn or
 revise the key signatures.
Buy Musical stuff online
An easy way to find musical items for sale through online sellers like eBay, Amizon, JB Hi-Fi, Sanity, ABC Shop, and others.
 Local Weather
Got an outdoor event coming up shortly and need a weather forecast?
Choose the Australian state then choose the city closest to the location for a forecast for the next 7 days.
Find sheet music, books, CDs, instruments and accessories for...
Banjo Baritone Bass Guitar Bassoon Clarinet
Cor Anglais Double Bass Drums Flute French Horn
Guitar Harp Keyboards Oboe Organ
Piano Recorder Saxophone Trombone Trumpet
Tuba Vibraphone Viola Violin Violoncello
Vocal Bass-Baritone Vocal Contralto Vocal Mezzo-Soprano Vocal Soprano Vocal Tenor
Music History On This Day
Select any day in the year to see things that happened in the world of music on that day. Each day links directly to
On-This-Day.com
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   Australian Gigs Calendar whenever you like.
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   A link to your online gigs page on our gig-guides page.
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   Music Teachers -
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