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Post n°7: A website that save my life

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In every day, we need things to save our life. Today I will talk about a website that saves my life whenever I have test in the university. Teoria.com is a website that has contents about music theory. It is a website where you can find things about music theory, like music intervals, scales, musical armor, etc. It also contains musical tutorials where you can train your musical reading and the ear with rhythmic dictations, musical notes dictations, etc. I use that website every time I don’t have things to do and when I study for a test, because I am training my ear and then the test aren’t so hard. I like it because it´s a complete music website, in English and Spanish. Where you can learn about music and practice about music that is very important, because the music is not all theory and knowledge, also is know how to play a music score, and the final sound. The link of the website is: http://teoria.com/index.php

Post n°6: Latin-American musicians and creators

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Do you know any Latin American musician? I will talking about a Latin American musician, Eduardo “Gato” Alquinta Gato Alquinta was a musician of a Chilean band called “Los Jaivas”, he played the electric guitar mainly and other instruments, and he also was the lead singer. Gato was born at 1945 in Valparaiso, Chile, was a very important musician in Chile, founder member of “The High Bass” on 1963, in that band,  he played the guitar and sang. Years later in 1971 the band changed its name and was called “Los Jaivas” is a band that plays Latin-American fusion music until this days. The band mixes the latin American music with instruments like the drum, the bass guitar, the electric guitar, synthesizers, etc. in the first years of Los Jaivas, the sound of the music that Gato composed, was influenced by the “hippie sound”. Gato, in that band, was the composer of the music of the band, and sometimes he wrote the lyrics of the songs. Regrettably, he died on 2003, he had a public ...