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Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music

Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music

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6 Ways Drumming Heals Body, Mind and Soul From slowing the decline in fatal brain disease, to generating a sense of oneness with one another and the universe, drumming's physical and spiritual health benefits may be as old as time itself. Drumming is as fundamental a form of human expression as speaking, and likely emerged long before humans even developed the capability of using the lips, tongue and vocal organs as instruments of communication. To understand the transformative power of drumming you really must experience it, which is something I have had the great pleasure of doing now for twenty years. Below is one of the circles I helped organize in Naples Florida back in 2008, which may give you a taste of how spontaneous and immensely creative a thing it is (I'm the long haired 'hippie' with the gray tank top drumming like a primate in the background). But drumming is not a distinctively human technology. Interestingly, percussive sound-making (drumming) can be observed in certain species of birds, rodents and insects.

How-To: Easily Remove the Vocals from Most Songs 2015 Shortcut: When I wrote this article Audacity didn’t have an automatic center-panned vocal canceling effect… but now it does, so rather than do the stereo-separate / invert-one-track / play-both-as-mono trick (and that’s pretty much all there is to it), you should be able to find the Vocal Remover option in the Effects menu – but it’s more fun / interesting and can give better results if you do it yourself! =D I found this trick the other day whilst stumbling the Interwebs and thought I’d do a quick-write up w/ pictures to make it as easy as possible… For this exercise we’re going to be using a piece of free audio software called Audacity, which you can get for Linux, Windows and Mac. Update: If you’re trying this out on a Mac, please make sure you get Audacity 1.3 Beta or newer – the stable 1.2 version appears to have a missing equaliser decibal-range slider which you need towards the end of the process! 1.)

Female Armor Sucks The “incredibly sturdy Dragon Mail of Protection” looks exactly like all comics armor for women. The next time I’m caught in a sword fight, I hope I’m wearing something more protective. Like, I don’t know, a sundress or something. [CollegeHumor via Laughing Squid] Tasting Wine - StumbleUpon Tasting Wine All About Wine Tasting There’s more to tasting a glass of wine than throwing it down your gullet. We’ll start slow.

Soundtrack to the Struggle Soundtrack to the Struggle is the second studio album by rapper Lowkey, which was released digitally on 16 October 2011 inpendently on the Lowkey-founded label Mesopotamia Music. It is the follow-up to his 2008 album Dear Listener. Four singles have been released in preparation of the album from 2009 to 2010. Production for the album took place during 2009 to 2011 and was handled by Red Skull, Big G, Nutty P, K-Salaam, Last Resort – among others. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number 57 on October 23, 2011 – becoming Lowkey's first national chart entry.

Key Chords Key Chords app generates guitar chord progressions automatically. Use it free online, or get the app for Mac, Windows or iOS (iPad) - Click on a chord to preview how it sounds. - Drag and drop to arrange the chord progression - Tweak the settings to control the playback speed Music Images Web Sets Music Graphics Web Graphics Music Website Graphics Sets Web Graphics Sets Web Page Templates Music Notation Symbols - Free Music Images Graphics Web Graphics Images Clipart Music Linkware Graphics LinkwareGraphics.com Linkware Graphics Music Images specializes in high quality music graphics, Web graphics, and images for websites. We hope you enjoy these music Web graphics created for Linkware Graphics by SKDesigns Web Site Design, Development, and Graphics. Need specific Web graphics, music graphic images for your website, a music theme website template set, custom graphics for music software, other software, or any other project? We're happy to discuss your needs with you and give you a price estimate, whether or not with a music theme.

Science of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse We love interesting research, especially since our language learning products are based on research by Paul Pimsleur. So we were excited when we saw that research in necroneurology identified several key features of zombie behavior. Below is the science of surviving the zombie apocalypse. Share it: All tongue-in-cheek. And a huge thanks to Bradley Voytek, Timothy Verstynen and the Zombie Research Society for the research and help with this infographic.

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