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BBC Promotes Elvis Presley 2005
By releasing Elvis Presley's 1959 classic song "One Night" January 2005 Sony/BMG helped to secure the historic 1,000th Number One on the official British music chart for the world's most loved singer, Elvis Presley.
It was broadcast on the chart...
Bruce Springsteen: The Notion Deep Inside
The magical moments of a Bruce Springsteen concert begin seconds after the lights in the arena, club or theatre go out, you're staring at the stage knowing that in the next few seconds Bruce will arrive ready to pour out his heart, sharing his...
Concert Ticket Sales
This article is to explain the affilate sales career and more important the ticket sales area of the field. Typically what an affilaite does is build websites them promote and market them through the internet.
To do this you have to get your...
Hip Hop Fashion, A Very Fast Growing Field Of Fashion
In the hip hop fashion world, few things are the same as in other clothing lines. Because everything in the hip hop world is out of this world, it just makes sense that it has its own clothing line. And, it is one that is fast becoming a hot...
House Of Blues Las Vegas Concert Schedule
Here are The House Of Blues Las Vegas Concert Schedules
Thrice House Of Blues-NV
Las Vegas, NV Tuesday
10/4/2005
6:00 PM
Him House Of Blues - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV Wednesday
10/12/2005
6:00 PM
Dropkick Murphys House Of...
Humor Under The Keyboard
For me, the piano is the symbol of what is stiff, proper and elegant. It doesn't have faults, it is perfect. Pianists are the most perfectionist people in the world. They should not and can not make mistakes especially when performing. That is how I...
Interview with Danny M and Joey of Dead Skin Mask
Javier Hey guys. Saw you Friday at Bonds 007. Nice job! (4/29/2005) DannyM Cool! I'm glad you liked the show. Javier Do you play 10 times faster than Slayer all the time, or just Friday? Wow!! DannyM No, not all the time. When I practice at home...
Roll Over, Roy Orbison
In the late nineteen sixties Roy Orbison, on a concert tour of Australia, arrived in Adelaide on the same flight as the Walker Brothers. I recall watching on television the airport interview in which Roy, always the nice guy, explained how much...
Spirits In The Sky
From Elvis to Nick Drake, the music lives on. Elvis Presley secured the number one, last week, in the historic 1000th compilation of the British charts, with A Fool Such As I ? 44 years since its original release. This is some achievement, but...
The Shakuhachi: What is it? The place to find out is that fountain of knowledge called the Internet.
When most people used to hear a new word the most obvious reaction was to go straight to a dictionary and find out what it meant or what the object was. These days you could go to on-line dictionaries, but even that is often unnecessary. Just type...
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She Wrote the Book on Fakin' It
She brought the guitar into vogue. She created the first "fake" books designed for regular folks who didn't want to or were unable to invest the time and effort to master the guitar. Who was she?
Catherina Josepha Pelzer was born in 1821 in Mulheim, on the Rhine. She was the daughter of Ferdinand Pelzer, a leading German guitarist during the early part of the 19th Century. Ferdinand began tutoring his daughter when she was quite young - a task made easier by the fact that young Catherina was quite the musical prodigy. She made her London concert debut at the age of seven. Soon after, her family moved from Germany to England where she received much critical acclaim and gained fame as a performer. Her concerts and recitals inspired people all over to pick up the guitar. Catherina later became much sought after as a guitar teacher, instructing the likes of the Princesses Louise and Beatrice, among others. In 1854 Catherina Pelzer married a renowned flautist and composer, and took the name by which she is more commonly remembered - Madame Sidney Pratten.
After some time as an instructor, she realized that many people were not inclined to invest the necessary effort to master the guitar. Many others simply did not possess the skills to do so. She had the solution,
which came in the form of several publications. Her most popular and successful manual, Learning the Guitar Simplified, included easy exercises, each of which was followed by a simple song, along with diagrams of the fingerboard to show where the notes were found. She created another publication that color-coded each note in the diatonic scale. This was known, logically enough, as Colored Diagrams of the Notes of the Fingerboard of the Guitar. And for those who had very little time to practice, she put together Instructions for the Guitar Tuned in E Major. One tuning. No muss, no fuss.
Mme. Pratten died in 1895, leaving behind a wonderful legacy. She had brought the guitar into popularity by showing the world how beautifully it could be played and by making it easier for the average person to play it well - or at least close enough for rock and roll.
About the Author
Alyce Chiles is the manager and official "appraisal typer-upper" of http://www.VintageGuitarPro.com - a site for the vintage guitar enthusiast specializing in online guitar appraisals and vintage guitars in general. On the side she also writes freelance articles on everything from Prozac to Parenting. Learn more about Alyce and Vintage Guitars by visiting http://www.VintageGuitarPro.com
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