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<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #00ff00;">Another great Saturday Night Rocks show has past and with it, another great Mix Radio's Center Stage Presentation with our special guest <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Joseph_Rodriguez/">Joseph Rodriguez</a>! Joseph was not able to be in the chat during the show, because he was doing what he does best: play music - yeah - live gig!!! Can't beat that! But, we enjoyed his CSP very much!!! <br /><br />We thank the listeners from Cygnusradio.com for tuning in and thanks to the iTunes listeners as well! I hope, you enjoyed the show! <br /><br /> Once again, if you missed this last show, <em>please download it to your iPOD or whatever means</em> to listen to a rebroadcast of this great show via the following links (or, you can just listen - no need to download - just right-lick and open!):<br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081206CSPJosephRodriguez.mp3">December 13, 2008 SNR - featuring Joseph Rodriguez</a><br /><br />The complete playlist of this past Saturday's show is <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?c=saturday_night_rocks_dec_13_2008">HERE</a>. <br /><br />Here is Wave Roofer's show from this Sunday: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081214SundayVibeWithWave%20Roofer.mp3">December 14, 2008 A Sunday Vive with Wave Roofer</a><br /><br /><br /><br />Last, but not least, here is Kephas' last show: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.guitaristworks.com/iMSRadio/20081211ThursdayNightOutWithKephas.mp3">December 11, 2008 Thursday Night Out with Kephas</a><br /><br /><em> For all other re-broadcast links, please visit the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page</a></em> I hope to see you again on Saturday, December 27, 2008 for another exciting Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation via Mixposure.com - "Interactive Radio" at its best! And for those of you who want to play the guessing game as to who the next CSP will be, join our <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=104&amp;sid=dbbca20e97ffd01dbc7482fd0579f5dc">Mix Radio DJ's Corner.</a> For our LIVE DJ schedule, please vitit <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_radio_dj">this page</a>.<br /><br />Until next time - your Host,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Mike_Kohlgraf/">Mike K</a></span></p>

This isa re-eq'd version of this song from 2004. I appologize if you heard it before but I'm not sure if it was posted here or at the old mix?<br /><br />I thought I'd try a little Southern Rock with this one. I used three different guitars (LP, Tele, Strat) and amps (Bassman, Laney, Deluxe Reverb) on the harmony solo section. The main electric &nbsp;is a Tele Thinline with the bassman amp. The acoustic is a Takamine and the bass is a Gibson EBO.<br /><br />I wasn't planning on doing&nbsp;double lead solos but I cued up both keeper tracks by mistake and it sounded pretty good to me&nbsp;plus they were fairly sync'ed so it became a double lead.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br />The lyric is about how men are always expected to be strong and&nbsp;never let their feelings show. But men are people or is that Solent Green, lol!<br /><br />I hope you enjoy it!<br /><br />Farrell

<span style="font-size: medium; color: #ff0000;">Hey Everyone! I was hoping if you had a moment you could help out Mixposure Artist Maria Daines and Paul Killington? <br /><br />For the months of December and January, for every comment related to any of the issues in the video they get on their new video "Peace Wins The Election" on <a href=&quotPeace wins the Election;. Keep The Green Alive will donate $1.00 Canadian with a $1,000 maximum for Paul and Maria's upcoming CD called Shelter Me. The sales of this cd will help not-for-profit animal shelters.<br /><br />As you can tell, this is a worthwhile cause worthy of a few minutes of our time. So please stop by and make a comment on the video to help save some animals because, quite frankly, they deserve it. <br /><br />Thanks for your support,<br />Dazed</span>

Happy Holidays to all things have been pretty crazy with performances and promoting Staying the course have not posted in a while&nbsp; or stoped by the chat room in a while hope you guys enjoy this.

Well, here I go, a bit more than three years after I wrote and recorded the first half of my Russian Rhapsody, finally got the second and concluding part to a point where I thought it was ready to share.  Just to make it easier, I've put the two parts first and second on my playlist in the right order, so if you don't remember the first part, you can listen to them both one after the other and get the whole thing in one go...

Thanks for listening!

Chris

<br /><span style="font-size: large; color: #ff00ff; font-family: andale mono,times;"><em>'Lydia'<br /></em></span><br /><span style="color: #00ffff;"><span style="font-size: medium; color: #993366;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Vesa">http://www.mixposure.com/Vesa</a></span><br /><br /><a rel="lightbox" href="http://www.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&amp;band_id=987"><img src="http://www.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&amp;band_id=987&amp;width=290" border="0" alt="" title="View Vesa" width="220" height="148" /></a></span>

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Casino_Gitano" target="_blank" title="La Luna no tiene la culpa"><span><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">La Luna no tiene la culpa</span></span></a></span><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"><span>"</span></span><br /><br />First CD Album in Store!</p>

<p><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #ffcc00;">Mix Radio on Mixposure.com presents our next Mix Radio Center Stage Presentation during my "Saturday Night Rocks" show AT THE NEWLY ADVERTISED TIME: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Joseph_Rodriguez/">Joseph Rodriguez!</a><br /><br />Musically, Joseph lists his influences to be non other than: Santana, Johnny Winters and Jimi Hendrix - plain and simple! Well, this promises to be a rockin' show with Joseph telling us about himself in this Center Stage Presentation!<br /> <br /><br />Please tune in to <a href="http://mixposure.com:8010/listen.pls">Mix Radio, the "Interactive Radio" via Mixposure.com</a> at <strong>the NEW time - 6 pm Eastern Time - USA on Saturday, December 13, 2008</strong> and join us in the <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_chat">Chat Room</a> for some fun chat during the show! There's always a great crowd hanging out, so don't be shy and come on in! <br /><br />In addition to <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/Joseph_Rodriguez/">Joseph's</a> fantastic Center Stage Presentation, I will bring you a great mix of Independent Artist's music from all over the world! After all, Mixposure is not only the home, but also the "future of Independent Music"!!! <br /><br />And don't forget, I will be simulcasting this show on <a href="http://www.cygnusradio.com">Cygnus Radio</a>, which we are very excited about. Not only Cygnus Radio listeners will be joining this show, but also listeners via iTunes! So, welcome to all of you! You're in for a ride!!!!<br /><br />As time allows, I will be taking your song requests while you are in the live chat during the show!<br /><br />As a reminder: you still have the opportunity to listen to last weeks shows (mine, Kephas and Wave Roofer's show by going to the: <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/MixRadio/blog.php">Mix Radio Blogs Page here on Mixposure.com</a>, which also includes a link to last week's artists/songs I've played as well as the previous Artists, featured as a CSP during my shows, along with all the comments and rebroadcast links. Not only that, but it those blogs also have the rebroadcast links of Wave Roofer (Sunday Vibe) and Kephas (Thursday Nght Out) included.<br /><br />Also, please be sure to welcome Terry Martin, yet another new DJ on Mix Radio, who will be airing his very first show on Janury 9th, 2009 - yeah - it's a Friday show! "TGIF with Terry Martin" from 8pm - midnight ET/USA! So, live shows on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays!<br /><br />For our entire Live DJ show schedule, check <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_radio_dj">This Page.</a> We hope to see you this Saturday. I know you will NOT be disappointed! <br /><br />Cheers,<em><br /><br />Mike</em></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Just a reminder than <span style="color: #ff0000;">Kephas</span> will be on Mix Radio tonight at 8:00PM EST so please join us in <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/index.php?t=mix_chat">Chat</a> for some great music and a gifted DJ.<br /><br />Don't miss this show people! It promises to be another great one!!<br /><br />Dazed</span>

Ok before anything, I would like to thank the supportive Mixposure community for their kindhearted comments and feedbacks. Going on, a bit of history about myself in case no one knows.<br /><br />I was in School Of Music And Arts(Singapore)(SOMA) for a brief period of time studying A Diploma in Songwriting and Production Techniques. Went through all the songwriting part but never really get to the production part( so you guys know where the bad mixing actually came from... hehehe) because my beloved country call me to serve the nation by being a soldier for a whooping 2 years. <br /><br />So basically I woud like to share with you whatever I have learnt about songwriting in SOMA. First before we start off anything we need an introduction. Every song has an introduction. Whatever I'm going to say here is not techniques but merely interesting facts that sometimes we tend to overlook upon.<br /><br />Ok first we will touch on why intros are so freaking important. <br /><br />1. This is the part that your listener will listen to first(Obviously!) and this is the part that turns their ears on/off<br /><br />2. The average human being now in our age does not tolerate long attention spans.... for example: If you were watching this movie at the start(only applies to the male species) and Jessica Alba is nude inviting you to come to bed with her, you would surely stay on watching(Unless you are not straight or your mom just came back home from work or you are to loyal to your wife or somehow or other you never find Jessica Alba attractive which is wierd) Get the point?<br /><br />3.This is always where you want to attract the kind of listeners that you prefer.<br /><br />So how can we get that intro that we want? Well there are certain formulas that have floating through the music scene since before the year I was born( Which was 1986). One of the most famous myth is the 8 seconds rule.<br /><br />8 Seconds Rule<br />- The 8 seconds rule means that your intro must not exceed 8 seconds but it could be less though. This usually applies to mainstream radio music but I find this a load of bullcrap. Examples of songs with long intros that made it to radio<br />- The popular Guns &amp; Roses song November Rain<br />- The recently debut The Day That Never Comes by Metallica<br />So the trend I could see is this, long intros usually suceed in a Rock or Metal outfit. I know that they are some songs of other genres with long intros that made it to mainstream radio but I couldn't think of it right now and i really do believe that there are very few of them out there.<br /><br />The Introductory Chorus<br />-The chorus of the song(with vocals) becomes the intro. Usually a shorter version of the original chorus or sometimes the whole chorus itself. It has proved very effective since the hook itself is the introduction so if your hook works the whole freaking song works. Examples of such songs<br />-(shorter chorus) Backstreet Boys-Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely<br />-(full chorus)Evanescence-Litium<br /><br />The Instrumental Intro<br />-This is the most famous of all intros. There are freaking millions with this example. And, and freaking millions have succeeded with this formula. There are too many examples to point out from but I will list it in different styles<br />-The chorus melody<br />-The verse melody<br />-A totally unique introdutory melody(which means different from the verse or intro or any other part of the song. This melody usually is used for the interludes after the chorus before the 2nd verse)<br />-Intro/Ending melody(only applies to the intro, interludes and ending)<br />These intros also works freaking well with lead instruments.<br /><br />The Other Intros<br />-Ok these intros fall in the others category<br />-The speech intro( This is where the intro is a speech or sometimes a poem read out with or without music)<br />Songs that succeded in this category Natually 7 feat (some female singer with a great voice) - Music heals the Soul<br />-The Special Effects intro(This is where the intro is an atmosphere of a situation for example like sounds from a warzone or a car racing event)<br />Songs that succeded in this category <br />Synergy-Suicide By My Side<br />Backstreet Boys-The Call<br />-(Place Text Here)<br /><br />In conclusion, before getting your intro, you have to know what kind of listeners you want to attract and you must also know what attracts your listener. It is like seducing a woman( maybe the same as seducing a man). If you know that your woman love lingerie, goddamnit buy for her one already. So if you know what your listener wants/needs, godamnit write/compose/produce for them a song already.<br /><br />Rocking You Out<br /><br />Hazwady<br />