Guitar power chords are not the only types of guitar chords used by various metal bands such as Metallica and Iron Maiden who use steady speed metal guitar chord rhythm playing and the kind of metal chords that make this music great.  These chords can be made up of a variety of guitar chord types such as power 5, power b5, power 4, suspended, altered, augmented, etc. A Major 7 chord for instance, is not the kind of chord type that you are going to find leading the list of ultimate metal chords.

Due to the fact that guitar metal chords have the potential to be very multi functional in their application, they are often used as the metal rhythm for advanced metal guitar soloing because many times their actual chord makeup is a guitar power chord, or like that in concept. So aside from for example speed soloing that you may hear over metal chords, there is often a lot more theory being used in regards to the actual soloing and chord changes.

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For many modern music fans, online music is synonymous with the MP3 format. Although other audio formats are available, and new ones emerging all the time, none of these have come close to rivalling MP3 in terms of popularity and versatility when sharing music over the internet.

The history of MP3 can be traced back to 1987, when the German company Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft researched audio compression for high quality music coded at a low bit-rate. The company obtained a patent in Germany for MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) in 1989, and over the next decade developed the audio compression technology into its present form.

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My admiration for Angela Gheorghiu started a few years ago when I woke up one morning and turned on my TV to Mezzo; the French classical music channel. It being then that I saw one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen in or out of opera, performing the aria "Habanera" in a segment from the opera "Carmen" by Bizet. As for myself, it was not an issue of my never having seen or heard anybody else perform this very aria but there was something in the way this sensuous woman with dark black hair interpreted this aria that made it so alluring to watch; as she with not only her voice but body and coquette gestures performed it. It was Angela who added so much with not only her graceful sexuality but the way her eyes and smiles added to her interpretation; all of which making her as if an actress in a scene of seduction.

I at that point must admit was captured by Angela even to the point of being enamored with her, not only as a great soprano but by her femininity which came across in the way no other's ever had in the world of opera. Of course there had been other ladies of beauty in opera such as Te Kanawa or Fleming yet Angela Gheorghiu was one who in a way was to opera what Marilyn Monroe had been to cinema, her being a woman who put so much of her female self in to her parts that never failed to exclude feminine passion. Looks wise hers was a face that combined beauty with personality that perhaps did not always include symmetrical features yet soft ones that to my eye made her a delight to watch; as she expressed herself in arias which seemed almost composed for her womanhood. I even getting the impression hers was pure celestial joy whilst she delighted with her persona and above all talent.

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To many outside of Argentina and Uruguay, tango is a music associated almost solely with the dance that usually accompanies it. This for the most part being a couple (usually dressed in black) moving their bodies very closely with one another in semi sensual posses; as to ignite not only the imagination but even certain feelings of eroticism. These sentiments arising in the way the male appears to almost caress his female partner, as he and she take steps that do not exclude caresses on her legs that even lead to her being dragged across the dance floor; in a fashion similar to gliding to the melody.

This in fact being what the tango is about yet there is more to this music than merely a dance. This being the case as with most kinds of music which also contain singers who through their voices bring not only lyrics of romance but add a touch of distinction as was the case with Carlos Gardel back in the golden age of tango. It being this Argentine singer whose place of birth is often disputed between Uruguay and France, who popularized the tango through out the world back in the early 30s before his tragic death aboard an airplane over Medallin, Colombia.

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