Thursday, August 21, 2008

Money Hai Toh Honey Hai

Album: Money Hai Toh Honey Hai

Music: Adnan Sami, Nitin Arora, Sony Chandy


Title track Money hai toh honey hai is a mix of hip-hop, electronic music and tinges of Chinese sounds. The composer duo joins Harshdeep Kaur for the rendition. Since the song is quite a concoction with Sameer's bizarre lyrics, its popularity is doubtful.

With Awaara dil, we move on to an unconventional, hip-hop number. Rendered by a horde of singers - Adnan Sami, Shruti Pathak, Bob, Ishq Bector, Shantanu Hudlika, Nitz 'N' Sony and Arya - the song moves at a steady pace. Sameer's peppy lyrics gel with the arrangements that are kept thumping and a lot of rap is thrown in as well.

Churiyaan doesn't waver much from the genre except for mixing hip-hop with a bit of Sufi. Sunidhi Chauhan and Labh Janjua croon this romantic piece pretty well that has Sameer's average lyrics. The arrangements are an easy mix between the two genres and thankfully do not result in a major chaos.

Next Ta na na is more of a dance number, with Nitin, Sony, Earl and Arya joining lead singers Kunal Ganjawala and Rekha Bharadwaj.

Rangeeli raat stops the hip-hop chain. The loud track, revolving around a grand celebration, has the quintessential, blaring instruments tossed in and, to top it all, it has the piercing vocals of Daler Mehendi. Sunidhi Chauhan, Saleem and Arya join him, but they don't complement him. The number ends up being a complete mess.

Changing the genre once again, Nitin and Sony move on to rock for No big deal. And this time, they get one of the ideal rock gurus Suraj Jagan for the rendition. The track has chances of doing well.

Dance master is not so appealing and can easily be skipped. Although drummer Sivamani collaborates with singer Shaan, this does not work out in either one's favour as both the music and the arrangements have a very dead feel to them.

Finally, instrumentals take over the reins with Hope. The track is an instrumental piece on the lines of No big deal and includes a couple of soulful and harmonious instruments that make the entire package notable. A must-listen.

Money... is an album without your typical Bollywood music. Even though the experimentation works out well for the new composers, it is too soon to say how it will work out for the makers of the movie.

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Guitar Tuning And How To Tune A Guitar

There are many different ways to approach guitar tuning. We'll touch on a couple of the more effective methods on how to tune a guitar. Not necessarily the most popular as some methods, though extensively used, are considered 'bad habits' rather than genuine, effective guitar tuning alternatives.


The guitar standard tuning is as follows:

STRING - 6th String (bottom, bass, low) NOTE - E
5th String - A
4th String - D
3rd String - G
2nd String - B
1st String (top, treble, high) - E


Tips For Any Guitar Tuning Method

First, lets cover a few things that every player should know when taking the proper approach to guitar tuning and how to learn to tune guitar.

Learn to attach the strings to the machine heads properly. Never try to tune down to a note. Stretch the strings and tune up to the note. Tuning heads have a certain amount of 'play' in them so make a couple of deep bends and then fine tune the string. Before tuning a suspect string, check it against both adjacent strings to determine which string is actually out of tune. The string you suspect may not even be the culprit. When tuning a guitar with a vibrato arm, tune the string, give the arm a good shake, stretch the string, give the arm another shake and fine tune.

Veterans of guitar playing will already know these things so if you're a beginner and just learning to play the guitar, you're already ahead of the game if you implement these practices into your routine. For a great tool visit http://www.guitarmusician.com/guitar-tuner.htm

Here's A Quick Method For Guitar Tuning

Tune the treble (high) E string to an A440 tuning fork by holding your finger on the 5th fret, then tune the open B string to the open treble E string – listening to the interval of a fourth. It's easy to hear the fourth in that register.

Play the A note fretted at the 2nd fret of the G string, and compare it to the open treble E string – you're listening for a perfect fifth interval.

Fret the 2nd fret E note on the D string and compare it to the treble E string open. Double check this by fretting the E note on the 14th fret of the D string.

Now tune the 7th fret harmonic on the A string (an E note) to the open treble E string.

Finally, tune the 5th fret harmonic on the bass E string to the open treble E string.

This is a simple guitar tuning method that works well.

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