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No other type of music stirs the soul and is more widely loved among all groups of people than instrumental music. Solo guitar music is passionate, alive, and full of artistic expression. It crosses social boundaries including ethnicity, religion, and geographical region. Solo piano music is relaxing and soothing. Whether you listen as you relax or listen as you work, great instrumental music can help eliminate distractions, introduce a gentle rhythm to your system and leave you feeling refreshed and restored.

Finding free instrumental music online used to be extremely difficult, but the internet has changed all of that. New and established artists are now able to upload their favorite pieces online for people to download and enjoy. This has enabled artists to utilize the low-cost advertising methods of the internet to get their music out there where it can be heard and enjoyed. But…not all freely-available music is worth listening to. Different level of creativity, performance talent and recording quality can lead to wild variations in the quality of free music. So, quality is the first problem.

What’s been good for the internet has largely been bad for the mainstream music business. You’re likely to find it difficult to locate and purchase quality instrumental music in brick-and-mortar stores due to the limited selection that most music stores carry these days. Those stores which have survived so far generally focus more on stocking big-name best-sellers…and most quality instrumentalists these days fall into the category of “indie musicians”…so they are ignored. So, you may ask…why not simply go for peer-to-peer music sharing (stealing) services? Well, in addition to the moral issues…you have to be careful not to download viruses, spyware, and adware along with your music selections. So, availability is the second problem.

Virus-free music that is uploaded by up-and-coming indie artists is generally easier to find, but it often requires visiting several sites to download a large enough selection to fill up one CD. You’ll likely have to visit many artist websites individually find what you’re looking for. This can be an incredibly time-consuming process. So the third problem is accessibility.

But I’ve recently discovered two sites which offer all three…without fear of viruses and without the need to steal to discover new music:

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The distribution format is MP3…so there are no hassles with Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues, either.

For a delightful variety of fingerstyle and tapstyle instrumental music performed on acoustic guitar: FreeSoloGuitar.com

And for a great selection of beautiful new-age solo piano pieces: FreeSoloPiano.com

Now I can find music to suit my mood no matter what it is. These sites have quickly become some of my favorites for downloading free music.

Do you love listening to great music? Well then the LG KM 900 Arena is the phone for you.  It can provide up to thirty hours of music play back time, and the built in music player has Dolby Mobile sound enhancement speakers, that would provide amazing music to its users.

Here are the other features of the handset:

It comes with a 3.5mm audio jack that users could use to plug in compatible headphones.

The phone book has photo call feature and the call records can store up to forty entries for each of dialled, missed and received calls.

The LG KM 900 Arena has eight gigabytes of internal memory and also comes with an expandable memory card slot, which can support up to sixteen gigabytes of additional memory storage with a microSD memory card.

It has a five megapixel camera that comes with autofocus and LED flash to allow users to capture pictures, even if the subject is in dark area. It also has a slow motion video recording and QVGA time lapse therefore users would definitely enjoy using the camera of this handset.

This handset also comes with a secondary VGA camera that can be use for 3G video calls.

It also has TV out feature that enables the user to view websites, pictures and videos onto the widescreen TV.

The LG KM 900 Arena has an organizer and calendar to help users arrange their busy schedule using this mobile phone.

It also comes with an FM radio for users to listen to radio stations and be updated with the latest music news.

The LG KM 900 Arena has EDGE technology for high speed data transfers.

It also has WLAN Wi-Fi technology for users to enjoy surfing the internet wirelessly.

This handset comes with a standard battery Li-Ion battery 1000mAh and if it is fully charged it can provide up to three hundred hours of standby time and about four hours of talk time.

Downloading online music in recent years has increased than ever before. You can download online music through various websites. People, especially youngsters, download online music to satisfy their appetite of listening various types of music. Since 2000, the concept of online music gained enormous popularity, and the membership and subscriptions have also been increased manifold. In fact, today, more and more people are banking upon the online stores for the latest and quality music. In order to accomplish the demand of growing number of online music listeners, the number of websites is also increasing which has huge collection of songs and albums of all genres.

Online portals offering latest and quality music

www.in.com is one of the popular web portals offering the latest and quality music online. In fact, the portal is popular for arranging numerous types of songs and music videos of users favorite pop star and artistes. One of the important features of such a portal is that individual can listen music before placing order for it. In this competitive world, all leading portals offer the facility of listening music online. People can also create their play-lists by choosing songs and listening them via online. All recognized web portals have a wide range of categories with different music classifications.

Subscribing online to music portals

Nowadays, users can easily download songs online for free of cost or by subscribing online to music portals, like www.in.com. This way of listening music saves you from the hurdles of buying CD. In fact, most of the leading online music stores offer you the facility of buying a CD you wish for. Their products and services are come up at the best prices.

Online music stores

The internet is flooded with a number of web portals offering the facility of downloading unlimited number of songs. You can download all types of songs from old to the latest, pop to romantic and sad to hip hop ones. Today, downloading music online has become common as an overwhelming selection of web portals available that offer all the latest music tracks with ease. So, why are you thinking? Just register and see results.

*New Video Post* Finally! here’s another video I assembled with lyrics. It’s been awhile since my last video post (July 4, 2007) Artist: Rebecca St. James Title: I Thank You Posted: April 26, 2009 “Please rate or comment, I appreciate it!” Enjoy, Matt

So you are thinking of getting yourself a broadband connection or already have one and now want to find some cool free music videos and internet radio stations which are available at broadband quality for you to get the most out of your fat broadband pipe.

Well a great place to start looking for quality music videos is Lycos Free Music Videos which is at http://entertainment.lycos.com/music/videos.php where you can choose and watch a big selection of the latest music videos all for free as well as the not so easy to find, lesser known music videos. Lycos also have interesting band biographies and lots of picture galleries of your favorite artists for you to look at or download. They also have a music news section, a music download section and the latest music charts for you to catch up on.

Another great website for watching free music videos is Yahoo Free Music Videos which you can find at http://music.yahoo.com/musicvideos/default.asp where you can watch videos at 300k broadband download speed or 100k if you prefer. If you watch them at 300k download speed, you can watch the video in full screen mode which is a nice touch. The Yahoo music video catalog covers thousand of music videos and many music styles including pop, rock, top 100, dance, rap, R&B and country. They also have album reviews, singles reviews, album charts, singles charts, live reviews, downloads and latest music news for you to enjoy for free. Yahoo also give you access to hundreds of free internet radio channels through their Launchcast radio service covering all possible music tastes.

Talking of free internet radio stations, a really cool site where you can listen to thousands of different radio stations is Shoutcast Broadband Internet Radio which is at http://www.shoutcast.com.They have a huge choice of music styles for you to enjoy including: Alternative College, Industrial, Punk, Ska, Blues, Folk, Cajun, Contemporary Classical, Opera, Symphonic, New Country, Electronic Ambient, Drum And Bass, Trance, Techno, Downtempo. House, Breakbeat, Acid Jazz, Hip Hop, Rap, Latin Jazz, Swing Jazz, Big Band Jazz, Classic Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Classic Pop & Rock, Pop & Rock Oldies, 80’s, Metal, Pop, Rock, R & B, Soul and World Music

If you are looking for international radio stations which broadcast in different languages, then you can find them at Broadband-Television.com’s Broadband Internet Radio Webpage at http://broadband-television.com/music/index.html From this site you can find and listen to international radio stations from Mexico,France, Finland, Japan, Canada, United States and Switzerland. They also have a good selection of English speaking radio stations covering Rock, Classical, Golden Oldies, Top 40, Country Music or Contemporary music styles.