http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao&feature=youtube_gdata

http://alvarolupinacci.com/song-samples/

The distributors have also finished posting the digital and physical media versions of the CD around the internet. Check the link above for those as well.

            Before the digital revolution and on-line music distribution, recording artists were stuck with getting a record contract with large “profit-sharing” record corporations to advance money used for advertising dollars. It’s really the same thing with services such as Jango. Money must be set aside in order to get your music heard.  If the music finds an audience with an ear for your type of music, they find your CD or individual songs on one of the many Internet music distribution outlets such as Amazon.com, iTunes (there are a few:  iTunes Australia/N.Z., iTunes Canada, iTunes UK/European Union, iTunes Japan), Rhapsody, Napster, eMusic, IMVU, Amazon MP3, Lala, Shockhound, Amie Street, LimeWire Store. 

            Digital forms of the Alvaro Lupinacci: Urban Connections  CD can already be downloaded from Amazon.com, and it will show up on these other outlets shortly…and since I’ve signed up with Jango, I already have a growing number of fans from around the world! What’s really cool is that I can actually see where my fans and people who like my music live on the planet–Way too cool! I can even chat with them…language is the only barrier.  One of my newest fans is from the country of Thailand… Has anyone created the universal translator yet?  

Thanks everyone!

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Stores–iTunes:
iTunes U.S. (www.apple.com/itunes)

iTunes Australia (www.itunes.com/au)

iTunes N.Z. (http://www.apple.com/nz/itunes)

iTunes Canada (www.apple.com/ca/itunes)

iTunes UK/European Union (www.apple.com/uk/itunes)

iTunes Japan (www.apple.com/jp/itunes)

Other Stores:
Rhapsody http://www.rhapsody.com/alvaro-lupinacci

Napster http://home.napster.com/ns/music/artist_search.html?artist_id=12848865

EMusic (www.emusic.com)

IMVU (www.imvu.com)

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=alvaro+lupinacci

Lala http://www.lala.com/#album/2306124484409130462

Shockhound (http://www.shockhound.com/search?artist%5Bname%5D=alvaro+lupinacci)

Amie Street (http://www.amiestreet.com)

LimeWire Store http://www.store.limewire.com/store/app/pages/album/Album/productId/218841/

Icons for music distributions

The designers…

The problem is that lighter gauge strings pull the bridge toward the nut with lower force than heavy gauge strings.  Depending on the pulling force in the opposite direction provided by the springs behind the bridge, the bridge may be tilted way forward (strings provide more pull toward the neck).  This means that the player can’t hit a note and then make it go lower by pushing forward on the tremolo arm, more commonly known as “dive bombing,” because the distance is limited since the bridge is already in the front position. Similarly, if the strings pull more toward the back of the guitar, the player will be unable to hit a note and then raise the pitch because there’s not enough travel left.

My PRS guitars don’t have as much range pitch-wise compared to my Steinbergers.  And the bridges are very different…In the last song on my Urban Connections CD titled “Holdshalen,” I did a lot of pitch bending that my PRS guitar just could not physically be capable of doing.  I’m not sure if the clip at amazon.com has the ending part of the song with all that wacky guitar playing, but that part was actually a first take recording that would be difficult to reproduce if a person were not using a trem system that allowed more range of motion.