Whatever music means to you, Zingerbay is for everyone. It is a music site created by two musicians who eat and breathe music. It was designed for all kinds of musicians, dancers and listeners. If you are a singer, sing your heart out. If you dance, upload your videos, if you play an instrument, put up your work for the whole world to listen to, if you are a music educator, share your knowledge with us. All of us can work together to create something new. Come and express yourself on Zingerbay.

Many Zinger artists have requested me to help them with their singing techniques. Some have requested me to help them make better listeners. I am really honored to have this opportunity. I will try my best to share what I know. I will start with an article next week on Singing. We will go over topics like voice quality, vocal range and precautions of your vocal chords. I will talk about some breathing and singing techniques as well.

Please send your comments and suggestions to me at Shekhar@zingerbay.com

To begin with, we know that music is an art, and there are facts to support that statement. To start, we must agree that an art is something specifically created to initiate an emotional response from the person(s) experiencing it. Now because hearing is a sense, and music is something we hear, music is, therefore, an art. Of course, music is much more than organized tones. Music is also the life work of many people. Music is hundreds of sound-producing devices. And music is and has been the initiative of tears and smiles since the birth of mankind. But what characteristics must something hold to be considered “musical”? Must it be melodic? or could nails on a chalkboard be titled musical? Perhaps the term musical refers to something that merely grasps the attention of it’s listener through hearing?

Finally, is music always intending to “elicit an aesthetic response in a listener.”? Perhaps sometimes it is desired that music scare or anger the listener? Can’t music be a form of teasing or torturing its listener?

In conclusion, it is safe to say that the broad term music can be described in as many ways as a musician could perform a sonata. Maybe music isn’t meant to be explained. Maybe it’s just meant to be heard.

Music is science:
It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A Conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

Music is mathematical:
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done, not worked out on paper.

Music is a foreign language:
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.

Music is history:
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creations, often even the country and/ or racial feeling.

Music is physical education:
It requires fantastic coordination of finger, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.

Music is all of these things, but most of all Music is art:
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you will.