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Welcome to Musiconnections (by
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on : 15 Oct, 2008
It's been a tediously long journey but here we are at last, going live and looking forward to bringing musicians together.
I'm Paul Chapman, the owner of this website and for over a year this site has been in 'design and development' as they say. Hopefully it's now more or less in a usuable condition but please feel free to let me know if any parts of it aren't working or could be improved in any way.
Musiconnections exists to bring musicians together of all kinds and will act as a tool to help them find the things they need to make their kind of music. Whether it be an alto sax player for Saturday night or someone to repair that aged Hammond organ your rock band relys on.
Music in Britain is highly segmented, probably more so than in almost any other country andmost musicians tend to stick to their own preferred musical styles and genres although there's no real reason why a dance band trumpeter can't play in an RnB band or a jazz pianist can't play rock and roll. It's long been my belief that many musicians would welcome a chance to play outside their usual genres. However, in my experience most musicians fall into 2 camps - those who are good music readers and rely on the dots and those who prefer to play by ear and are excellent buskers. It would be very difficult indeed for a jazz clarinetist to play in an orchestra and vice versa. Having said all that one of the aims of this site is to bring together musicians from all backgrounds and styles in one place to swap ideas, find each other, learn more about their instruments and how best to play the kind of music that keeps them interested. Added to that we have forums and gig guides etc. and if there are any features you would like to see them please feel free to tell me. Without your input this site would be nothing more than a waste of server space.
I'm Paul Chapman, the owner of this website and for over a year this site has been in 'design and development' as they say. Hopefully it's now more or less in a usuable condition but please feel free to let me know if any parts of it aren't working or could be improved in any way.
Musiconnections exists to bring musicians together of all kinds and will act as a tool to help them find the things they need to make their kind of music. Whether it be an alto sax player for Saturday night or someone to repair that aged Hammond organ your rock band relys on.
Music in Britain is highly segmented, probably more so than in almost any other country andmost musicians tend to stick to their own preferred musical styles and genres although there's no real reason why a dance band trumpeter can't play in an RnB band or a jazz pianist can't play rock and roll. It's long been my belief that many musicians would welcome a chance to play outside their usual genres. However, in my experience most musicians fall into 2 camps - those who are good music readers and rely on the dots and those who prefer to play by ear and are excellent buskers. It would be very difficult indeed for a jazz clarinetist to play in an orchestra and vice versa. Having said all that one of the aims of this site is to bring together musicians from all backgrounds and styles in one place to swap ideas, find each other, learn more about their instruments and how best to play the kind of music that keeps them interested. Added to that we have forums and gig guides etc. and if there are any features you would like to see them please feel free to tell me. Without your input this site would be nothing more than a waste of server space.
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