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The end of the school year brings many feelings among young children during second and third grade. Many schools that still can afford to have a music program such as band and orchestra will hold performances such as talent shows and spring concerts. Inspiration will come bursting through at these events for some young girls and boys, who watch their elder classmates holding this wonderfully gleaming, silver rod up to their mouths. Enchanted by the memory of the melodious pitch, piping forth with the help of fingers as they move about it in a fascinating manner, children will go home and ask Mother or Dad, if they can learn to play the flute.

Captivation is the effect pure flute playing has on the senses, particularly if one begins to hear Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major K. 299. This piece is especially inspirational if given audience during a spring time performance. The blissful sounds of the flute in this composition would take quite some time to reproduce for any aspiring young flautist, yet if a young person is struck by the compulsion to pursue the art of playing the flute it is a goal that is surely attainable.

The first step to realize such a goal would be to shop for a flute as a flute is a very personal item. It is a woodwind instrument where the mouth must blow into the mouthpiece, generating a great deal of moisture in the process of playing and practicing. Paying attention to the condition of the keys is most important when buying a good flute, preferably a Gemeinhardt. Then recommendations by friends or relatives with children taking music lessons will help to find a good flute teacher. Members of professional symphony, collegiate and community orchestras give private lessons for a fee. Learn more about Sonare flutes or Yamaha flutes.

The hippies love music, as well. They use music to express themselves politically, emotionally and spiritually. For them, music is their guide on what they do and must do. Music can be their religious experience. Hippie music is classic rock, rock and roll and anything under the sun as long as the lyrics consist of happiness, freedom and love. Hippie music is also defined as an era and it has never been died. It still exists today. Popular hippie clothing includes the tie dye shirt and the pullover baja hoodie.

The Beatles inspire them so much because their songs are all about love and peace. When they came to America, it was a huge invasion of new music, attitude and style. With them around, music became fun like it had not been before. They look and dress like hippies and their music are all about hippies. Their first single was a sure hit (She loves you). You couldn’t help but be happy listening to it. The best song that Paul McCartney ever wrote was the “Yesterday”, a melancholy ballad lamenting a lost love, it affected just about everybody. The Beatles fever was so hippie.

The early 60’s thinks of music only for entertainment but for the hippies, music is like a message. This music had an impact on the consciousness of not just the hippies but all society, as well. One way or another, they hit them deeply, made them dream and believe and also made them feel as one people.

Here are some of the hit bands in the early 60’s:
-The Beatles
-Bob Dylan
-Eric Clapton
-The Doors
-Jimi Hendrix
-The Who
-Grateful Dead

The early music became really inspiring for the hippies because the music is all about love, peace and freedom and that is so hippie. It also helps them to think and act freely.

The blues has a long history in the United States, and the blues guitar plays a major part in it. In the late 19th and early 20th century in the American South, the blues was born. African American slave workers in the cotton fields and on sharecropper lands would sing their woes. It was a very free and heart felt style, and every time a song was sung, or later played, it sounded different, mimicking the artists’ feelings. In the 1920’s, the guitar became a popular accompaniment for these artists and their music. Often this became a call and response style where the singer would sing something and his guitar would respond.

Some of the first well known artists of this genre were Robert Johnson and Son House. They would use a slide on their guitars to create notes that sounded like someone wailing and lamenting. For the slide, they would use things like a bottleneck or a knife, hence the term bottleneck or slide guitar. In the 1950’s, Muddy Waters was big in this blues world and his guitar music was often accompanied by a drum or harmonica. Chicago and Memphis were huge towns for the popular blues, and some know Beale Street in Memphis as the heart of the woeful blues.

As the electric guitar became more widely used, the slide was often tossed aside as the electric guitar was capable of sustaining longer notes to create fluidity of the same woeful tones. As blues music traveled across the Atlantic in the 1960’s and 70’s, it took off with rockers like Eric Clapton and Keith Richards and became a huge part of rock and roll. Some other famous blues musicians are Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, B.B. King and T-Bone Walker. Listening to any of these artists is probably the best blues guitar lesson you could hope for.

From the start of this form of soul felt music on the cotton farms, it made its way across the world to influence all types of music, including jazz, country and rock, with the accompaniment of a blues guitar always prominent. When a genre of music has this much lasting influence, it is clear that it was born from the heart and the soul.