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By Jeff Jarred

 In any English town or city, on any Friday or Saturday night, you will always be able to walk in to a pub and be entertained. And usually for free, as one of the thousands of that musical phenomena called the covers band can be found performing to revelling audiences.

Covers bands are not a new thing; although their origins are difficult to trace, they have been around for decades. In that time they have become favourites at wedding receptions, in pubs and clubs everywhere and even as support acts for original bands.

One of the reasons for this is the enormous variety that these bands offer. Cover bands tend to specialise in a genre such as heavy metal or country and western, for example, or they might focus on an era, such as the 70s. But almost without exception their playlists include the best and most popular songs of their chosen field.

And this is where they differ from their close relation, the tribute band. Whilst there are tributes to current bands, many formed to pay homage to an original band who may have split or who may no longer tour, focusing solely those bands songs on, replicating the style, look, sound closely, sometimes even gaining the approval of original band members.

Indeed, many tribute bands have become successful in their own right; most are content playing to relatively small audiences in clubs and music venues, but some of the more polished examples can be seen at larger events and multi-day tribute festivals that have sprung up to cater for budget conscious music fans by mimicking Glastonbury type festivals with multiple stages simultaneously hosting a range of genres.

There is a growing demand for cover and tribute bands alike and agents market them in just the same way that they handle original bands.

Tribute bands have been around longer than their cover cousins, but the debate will continue as to whether the Beatles or Elvis Presley were the first artists to be honoured by tribute equivalents.

Jeff J. endorses Chris Tyrrell who writes for Indio Black, one of the most entertaining bands on the cover band UK music scene. Visit their website for more details.

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Four Advantages For Product Sourcing For Ebay
By Timothy Tanis

 Successful Ebay sellers use a variety of different approaches to make their living. Some generate their own products for sale in online stores or as auction items. Others buy up excess inventories of brick and mortar stores that are downsizing or going out of business. Still others partner providing wholesalers to supply a steady stream of goods to deal on Ebay. It is this latter circumstances of product sourcing for Ebay that you really want to consider. Here are some of the reasons why.

Unlike many other product sourcing solutions, going with wholesalers for Ebay sellers causes you to not have to sink a lot of money into an inventory and hope that the items sell. Chances are your wholesale partner will provide you with access to a wide range of items to post for sell or auction. When something sells, it is simply a matter of paying for the item and telling your partner where to ship it. That tells me you never have to worry roughly how you are going to make money back out of your investment. Your market prices remain very low at all times.

Next, you do not experience all the details of shipping sold goods to the buyer. Your wholesale dropship supply partner takescare of that service. You will be able to know in advance what the postage and handling fees will be and can structure your Ebay ad accordingly. Once an item sells, simply pay the wholesale price and the shipping costs and let your partner take care of the rest. Nothing could be easier.

A third advantage is that a savvy wholesaler serves to already have some idea of the best items to sell on Ebay. They can make intelligent suggestions on what’s hot on Ebay right now, and what will be hot in the upcoming season. This can save you a lot of legwork, which means you have more time to feature products in your store or create auctions for some of the hottest ticket items.

Fourth, you can decide on to work with as many product sourcing for Ebay wholesalers as you like. Just make sure everyone you choose all take care of the shipping and will do the job quickly and efficiently. You can have a music CDs dropshipper, a pet accessories dropshipper and any other type of product dropshipper you like. This means your presence on Ebay can be as broad or as focused as you want it to be. How many business opportunities find this type of diversity?

There is a lot to be said for finding the affirmative product sourcing for Ebay partners. When you find one or more that serves to provide a nice quality of products, solve the shipping and also provide you with a decent compensation package, life can be really good. Best of all, you get to focus on what you do best - selling products. Why not explore such selection in more detail? You may find that it is just how you need to be asuccessful seller with Ebay sales.

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Music for Stark Beginners: How To Read Notes
By Duane Shinn

 New pianists learn notes first. An understanding of musical notes and their values is the foundation for learning any instrument. That includes the piano. The values of the notes are easy to remember because their names denote their values.

* Whole note: A whole note looks a bit like an egg on its side. It is round or oval-shaped and not shaded/solid. A whole note is held for four beats in 4/4 time.

* Half note: A half note is so called because it is held for half as long as a whole note. In other words, it is held for two beats. It resembles a smaller version of whole note, but with a line attached to its side.

* Quarter note: A quarter note is held for a quarter of the time a whole note is held: one beat. A quarter note looks like a half note, with one minor difference. While the half note is not shaded, the quarter note is.

* Eighth note: The eighth note is, of course, an eighth of the value of a whole note. In other words, it is held for half a beat. It looks like a quarter note with a curly “tail” at the end of its line. Eighth notes can also be joined together in groups of two, three, or four. If they are joined, they are connected by a bar across the top, rather than having a “tail.”

* Sixteenth note: The sixteenth note is one-sixteenth the length of a whole note when held. It is held for a mere quarter of a beat. A sixteenth note looks similar to an eighth note, but has a double “tail.” When two, three or four are joined, they are connected by a double bar.

There are seven different names for the keys on a piano. If you look at the keyboard on a piano, you’ll see that the keys repeat their order every eighth white key. The names of the keys are denoted by letters of the alphabet. The middle white key on the piano is called “middle C.” Going up the scale from C, the rest are D, E, F, G, A, B, and they start again with C. The notes from any C on the keyboard to the next C make up an “octave.” It is so called because it contains eight keys, or eight notes.

The notes in a song or scale are written on a “staff.” These are the series of lines and spaces that you’ve probably seen on a piece of music. The staff consists of a treble clef and a bass clef. Each line and each space on the clef denote a particular key/note. The notes on the treble clef begin on the bottom line of the staff with E above middle C. The notes on the bass clef begin on the bottom line of the staff with the G below middle C.

Which type of note appears on which line or space on the clef determines which key is played and for how long that key is held. In other words, if a whole note appears written on the bottom line of the treble clef, then the instrumentalist would play an E above middle C. It would be held for four beats. Once the note types and names are learned, the beginner is ready to start playing!

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