Posts tagged ‘guitar scales’

February 21st, 2011

Memo Pads for Business Events

Memo pads are not just for business events. You can use these too as Christmas gifts for Mom and Dad, for your teachers and friends, among others. If you have the time, you can create your own memo pads this Christmas. For this project, you will need the following tools and materials:- Publications software, which can range from Microsoft Publisher to Adobe Illustrator, depending on your technical knowhow- Color printer although black and white printer can do the job, too- Scanner, if you wish to import pictures to your computer, or camera if there are new stock photos- Cardboard for the cover ? both for back and front covers- Pair of scissors and cutter- Ruler- Clamp or two heavy books – AdhesiveOnce you are done gathering the needed materials, you can start working on the design template. Using your chosen publications software, open a bl guitar scales ank document which should match the measurements you want for your notepad. Thus, at the start, you have already identified how you want your memo pads to look like. You may want to work on a design theme before hand to make the design process a bit easier. If you are skilled in making sketches or illustrations or in taking photographs, you can incorporate your designs. You can use a scanner or camera to import the elements you want for your memo pads. When using images though, you need to make use of high resolution images. If not, your prints may appear pixilated. You can just resize your images if they appear bigger on screen. Once you are done working on the design templates for the pages and covers of memo pads, you can start with the printing.Print the required number of pages you want. Cut the sheets if a page contains numerous pages.

February 13th, 2011

Beg, Borrow or Steal Moves

Years ago when I was in Egypt I was watching TV and was overjoyed to see belly dancing on many of the channels. As I settled down and started watching the dancing something came to my mind. The dancer who I was watching was Nagua Fuad in all her glory. She did an amazing dance but I could have sworn I had seen it somewhere or something similar. I couldn?t put my finger on it so I kept on watching her dance and than bingo; I remembered where I had seen it. The performance Nagua Fuad had performed was from around the 60?s or early 70?s and a performance that looked similar to hers was done by a dancer in the later part of the 80?s. Since I was in my infancy of learning belly dancing at that point I didn?t know if it was ok to imitate a well known dancer. The moves were d guitar scale patterns ifferent but the essence of the dance was definitely from Nagua Fuad. It made me wonder about choreography and how our dance is actually passed down from dancer to dancer. Taking it a few steps further, I wondered about themes in dance, terminology, and styles. With so many dancers in our community, how can we actually know if moves are original or taken from other dancers? Does it matter? So I started to look at choreography taught in classes and workshops. With so many workshops happening and so many wonderful dancers teaching their choreography should they copyright their moves? Is this even possible, necessary or practical? Actually this would be futile because there is no way to really say a move is yours unless you are a famous dancer and your style is well known.