What is Weighted Hammer Action in Keyboards?
On keyboards, you often come across the term, “weighted hammer action.” This means that the keyboard feels just like a real piano. Actually, what you’re looking at is technically a digital piano, not just a keyboard. So, why is it called weighted hammer action? On a real piano, the keys are connected to a hammer [...]
The Difference Between a Piano and a Keyboard
Piano is a keyboard instrument, but not all keyboards are pianos. A keyboard: Has a soft touch keyboard. This means that the keys don’t require you to apply a lot of force. Are velocity sensitive. The faster your press the keys, the louder the sound. This is how you control dynamics. Has a lot of [...]
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Eleven2 is offering a year of shared hosting at just $11.11. I just signed up, maybe you should too! I was hosted with a company called SharkSpace, which was taken over by Eleven2. I paid a visit to the new customer center at Eleven2, wherein I found out about this cool offer. I jumped on [...]
Discounted Guitar Lessons Package Includes JamPlay, SongPond, Songsterr and Song Surgeon
BBQ-Guitar is a heavily discounted package (about $89) of popular guitar lesson sites like JamPlay, SongPond, Songsterr and Song Surgeon. JamPlay is a subscription based popular guitar lessons site with over 2,000 lessons in HD and about 43 instructors, for practically all styles and levels of playing. Be it speed playing, reading music, starting guitar [...]
A Great Free & Extensive Resource For Learning Java
There are a lot of good tutorials online for Java. However, a lot of times, you don’t want a tutorial on how to accomplish a specific task. Rather, you want to learn the language and its features in a systematic manner. You don’t want a reference so extensive that you can only use it as [...]
The Best Productivity Tool There Is – Pen & Paper
We have extensive applications for desktops, iPhone, iPad and every other major mobile platform there is. We have apps for to-do lists, meetings and management of various stuff. They are all useful. However, they don’t completely displace the simplest of them all, pen (or pencil) and paper.
Taking Screenshot of an Entire Webpage – Including Parts Out of View
If you want to take a screenshot of an entire webpage, then all you need is Firefox web browser and a nifty plugin for it called Screengrab. Some interesting thing to note about this plugin is that:
Violin vs Guitar vs Keyboard – Which instrument is harder to learn?
Whether you’re deciding on which one to learn, or you already play one or more of them, you’ll find some valuable insights in this post. First, a little bit about me I’ve been playing guitar for about 2.4 years. I’m starting out on violin. I owned a mini keyboard since I was a kid, and [...]
Combining Everything – PowerBlogging
This post is a part of the series: PowerBlogging. Visit the link to see the full table of contents. ——————- You may occasionally write posts which might be purely promotional. If something is working for you, don’t discontinue it. Combine it with PowerBlogging. PowerBlogging will only add to the power of your blog. Whatever I’ve [...]
PowerBlogging – Untapped Difficult Creativity
This post is a part of the series: PowerBlogging. Visit the link to see the full table of contents. ——————- I did not plan on including this section initially. Not because it’s irrelevant or bad. On the contrary, it’s the greatest powerful technique you will possess once you master it. The main problem lies in [...]