Scoring Your Own Drum Chart

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Lessons on Scoring Drum Music Made Easy

As I see it, there are three ways of scoring drum music. You can write a transcription, just the groove, or groove and form. What you need may differ from song or gig. Here, I will give you tips on how to write what you need to sound like a pro every gig.

Treasure Hunting For Morel Mushrooms

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Most hunters will agree that the weather has the most effect on the availability and quality of these elusive mushrooms.  Typically the day time temperature around 60 to 70 degrees, night time temperatures not less than 40 degrees and the soil temperatures of about 50 to 60 degrees with good ground moisture levels are ideal for moral growing.

Morel Mushrooms 

Hunting for morel mushrooms typically runs from early April and runs through June depending on your geographical location.  The Great Lakes region in the United States is the most popular hunting grounds for morel mushrooms but they have also been found in almost all of the lower 48 states. 

Treasure Hunting for Opals

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Although you can buy opals from jewelers, geological shows and “nature” stores and their website equivalents, it’s far more fun and magical to find the opal yourself.  This is one of the many reasons why opal treasure hunting is becoming a popular activity, especially in Nevada and Oregon, where Bonanza Opal Mines and the Juniper Ridge Fire Opal Mines are.

Opal 

Treasure Hunting For Aquamarine

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Aquamarine is a transparent gemstone variety of beryl.  It is closely related to the emerald and the most common color is a delicate blue or turquoise that will remind you of the sea.  Other colors can vary from yellow to rosey pink.  The more intense the color the more valuable it is and can fetch from $120 to $500 a carat.

Aquamarine Cut 

Not every buried treasure has been discovered.  There still is a remarkable quantity of quality treasures still in Mother Earth, including the semi-precious stones to be found at Gem Mountain in North Carolina.  One of the biggest draws to Gem Mountain is aquamarine treasure hunting.  You find it ? you keep it.  It’s as fun and as simple as that.

Treasure Hunting For Sapphires

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Sapphires have captivated people for thousands of years.  They seem so encapsulate wisdom somehow, or perhaps our own potential.  Somewhere in a pile of dirty gravel, there is a shining gem just waiting to be uncovered.  Sapphires come in a wide variety of colors, including blue, pink, orange, brown, clear, yellow and purple.  Why no red sapphires?  Well, they are called rubies.  There are many reasons to go sapphire treasure hunting.

Rough Sapphires 

Historical Roots of Music Recording

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It was only 130 years ago when the music recording industry got its start. In 1878 Thomas Edison invented a machine called the phonograph that could record sound. Today, almost anyone can record music thatnks to the personal computer and software editing programs have become accessible and less expensive.

The music recording industry was founded about 130 years ago when in 1878 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which recorded sound. The phonograph was originally planned to relay telegraph messages and for automated speech via the telephone.

Treasure Hunting For Herkimer Diamonds

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These quarts crystals range in size from microscopic to over eight inches long and three to four inches wide and in rare cases even larger.  The best gem quality crystals are usually found in the one half inch to one inch range and will have excellent clarity, which is the reason they are nicknamed diamonds.  As the crystals become larger in size they tend to become less clear.

Herkimer Diamond  

Treasure Hunting At Crater of Diamonds State Park For Diamonds

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Located in the southern area of Murfreesboro, Arkansas, this land was originally a farm owned by a man named John Huddleston.  He found the first diamond on the property way back in 1906.  Over the years there were many attempts to turn the farm into a private mining facility, but finally in 1972 the state of Arkansas purchased the property and turned it into the Crater of Diamonds State Park.  It is open to the public for tours or for the real reason many come to see it - mining for diamonds.

Treasure Hunting For Sunstones

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What are sunstones and where can I find them?

Sunstones are formed in molten lava and found in volcanic vents that have erupted from volcanoes.  When the lava rock is weathered away or broken up the sunstone crystals are exposed.  Sunstone is a transparent, yellowish labradorite found as crystals in these volcanic rocks.  Crystals can come in clear, pale yellow, soft pink, blood red, deep blue and green coloration.  Some sunstone crystals will have bands of different colors throughout.  This color variation is caused by varying amounts of tiny crystals of copper.  The more colorful or darker stones contain larger amounts of copper.

Treasure Hunting For Gold

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In order to help you get started in treasure hunting, you should check out the Federation of Metal Detector and Archeological Clubs, Inc.  You can find out about any events, meeting or treasure hunting clubs in your area.  You can find out where to legally go look for gold in treasure hunting.  Usually, you have to go to state parks and public property unless you are invited onto someone’s private property.

Gold Nugget