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3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Singing Range

Vocal coach Ken Taylor discusses three simple and effective ways to improve your singing range while at the same time addressing some common vocal issues. By Ken Taylor

Songwriters - Learn How the Position of Your Lyrics Can Change What You're Saying

Position lyrical phrases within your music so that the message you are trying to get through to your audience is the message they get. By Anthony Ceseri

Visualization

When writing lyrics why is visualization important? The use of effective imagery can be the difference between listeners connecting to your lyrics or not. This article is for lyricists who are looking to improve the use of imagery within their lyrics. By Jon Hanover

Why Do The Lyrics of John Mayer’s Daughters Work So Well?

A lyrics analysis of the song Daughters by John Mayer, looking at how he evolves the meaning of the chorus by adding extra information to successive verses. By Anthony Ceseri

How To Survive In Today's Music Business Recession

Jazz and blues singer, and HMMA nominee Cheryl Hodge shares 3 secrets of her ongoing success within the music industry. By Cheryl Hodge

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Quadraphony
Four channel system used in audio to try and give the listener the effect of a 360 degree sound field.

Quantization (Quantisation)
In Midi, quantization is the process where midi notes are moved in the time domain. A Midi part will be divided into subsections (e.g. quarter notes, or sixteenth notes). The Midi notes are then moved to the time of the closest subsection.

Often quantization is used to correct timing errors as played by a performer or to change the feel of a Midi part.

Quarter Power Points (Q)
These are the points on an audio response curve of a bandpass filter that define the Bandwidth of the filter. Commonly reffered to as the 'Q' of the filter. Each point defines the frequency at which the amplitude of the bandpass response results in a signal power that is 1/4 of the power of that at the peak or central frequency.