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Beyonce Knowles wants to have children - but not yet.

Beyonce Knowles isn’t ready to be a mom.

The ‘Crazy In Love’ singer eventually wants to start a family with husband Jay-Z and would base her parenting skills on that of her own mother.

She said: “It’s not time for that yet. But definitely there will be a time. I want to be a great mother, the kind of mother that I have. I want the same bond that I had with my mom and that would be enough for me.

“The security and love I feel being in a relationship, a marriage, it’s absolutely incredible. Incredible.”

The pop star’s husband of a year-and-a-half was reportedly overheard recently saying he’s ready to start having babies with Beyonce and that “procreating” is high on their agenda right now, but she has since denied this.

The 28-year-old singer said the time for parenthood would come but for now she was happy just being a couple.

She has also previously said that watching her sister Solange give birth had put her off the experience.

Monday night was the premiere of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s sexy, Hype Williams-directed “Video Phone” video, featuring the two pop stars dancing and posing pin-up style with massive toy guns and matching leotards.

The clip is charged with energy, and the cynics out there might wonder if putting two sizzling divas in a room together created any kind of rivalry. But Gaga says there was no such thing.

“What I was excited about is with B, I had no ego,” Gaga told MTV News about the collaboration. “Neither of us had an ego. It wasn’t about competition. It was about, like, ‘Man let’s give the world what they want. Let’s do a real girl-power collaboration where we support one other.’ “

For the Day-Glo-tinged video, Gaga ditched her typical avant-garde look and styled herself more like Beyoncé. “I said, ‘I want to do you in your video, and I want to tribute you. I want to dress up like you,’ ” she recalled telling her co-star. “And Hype Williams … was so excited. He was like, ‘Gaga I want no makeup on your face.’ It was really stripped down real Beyoncé hair, and we wore the same outfit in the video, and I [paid tribute to] her.”

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In the 1980s, the portable tape recorder with headphones which came to be called the Walkman enabled youths to hear their music as loud as they wanted, anywhere they wanted, without annoying anybody around them. The problem is a mixture of the technology of transportable digital devices that creates a non-buffered crystal clear sound, and the sort of headphones often used with them, which don’t have a buffer either. In December 2005, Dean Garstecki, an audiologist and lecturer at Northwestern School said that more young folks were being diagnosed as having the sorts of hearing impairment often found in older adults. He traced this trend to the earbud type headphones that usually go with iPod and MP3 Players. With the earbud headphones, the sound frequencies aren’t buffered as they’re with the more conventional, ear cup-style headsets. Newsweek Mag recently revealed that analysts at the House Ear Institute found that listeners can sadly increase the volume of today’s cartable digital devices without the signal distortion that happens with conventional analog audio. Alternative approaches are to use external speaker systems or portable PA systems such as the IPA03 or the Tailgater (both manufactured by Ion) - but you still need to control the volume.

The older-model headphones that were preferred just fifteen to twenty years back that have ear cups outside the ears had that distortion when the volume was turned up, which worked as a much-needed buffer to protect our hearing. In addition, folk frequently hear these devices while they’re active, and tend to crank the volume in a scheme to drown outside noise, further posing a risk to our hearing. Using the earbud style headphones during activities like exercise, as an example, puts the user at a larger risk. Headwize reports a study conducted on music listeners using headphones made public that while inside with no background noise, the partakers were happy with their music at 69 decibels. Out of doors, where the background noise was recorded at sixty five decibels, players using their headphones turned the volume up to 82 decibels and as high as 95 decibels to drown out the encircling noise.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration laws limit exposure to noise at this level to only 4 hours every day. However you can help minimize deafness, damage and problems while listening to your fave music so long as you need to the secret is in the headphones.

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It’s ALWAYS been tough to get your hands on a ticket for a music gig or sports event. For Instance, the entire 2007 tour of the UK saw Manic Street Preachers sell out in less than an hour. So just how can a person who’s got a full time job get to purchase a ticket if they’re selling out so fast?

They have to purchase one second-hand online.

Not so long ago, the only way to buy a resold sports or concert ticket was through a dodgy ticket tout just outside the premises of the event. This inevitably meant paying double or triple the face value, or even possibly being handed bogus tickets which would inevitably be spotted as you tried to enter the event - meaning you miss the game or concert while wasting your money by being gypped.

Nonetheless, the situation has improved for sports and music devotees. The secondary ticket market has cleaned up its act in the last decade or so, thanks to the internet. These days there is a huge amount of competition to resell tickets online, the market has actually become self-regulating. You’re offering the ticket for HOW much money?! I’ll find a cheaper one on another website Many ticket agents offer very cheap insurance if the music gig / sports event is cancelled. And with stiff competition online, secondary tickets have dropped in price to the point that sometimes you’re not spending a lot more than the face value price. Many ticket buyers compare prices between lots of traders selling secondary tickets for the same event / gig. They evaluate the sale prices, seating, insurance, and even history of the seller before making a decision - so the force has considerably shifted away from the tout of days gone by to the ticket purchaser.

These days you can purchase tickets for all kinds of concerts and sporting events. From cricket to soccer to basketball matches, right through to getting your hands on decent seats for your favourite band; secondary tickets provide a second chance to go to the event you want to go to. So how to buy tickets online? Simply use a search engine and type in your words such as Britney Spears Tickets, and you’ll see a large range of secondary ticket brokers who have the ticket you’re searching for.

Not everyone is content with resale tickets however. Some individuals label resale ticket agents as parasites, and want to see the forbiddance of resale tickets. They are misunderstanding the point of secondary tickets : some people simply are unable to buy tickets when they are sold the first time around.

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Every style of piano playing has its share of tricks and techniques. New Age piano is no different. The New Age piano style has 3 main techniques that are used over and over. These are the ostinato technique, the crossover technique or arpeggio, and the broken chord technique.

The Ostinato technique - A Repeating Pattern

You’ve probably heard this technique numerous times and may or may not have knows what it was. Ostinato simply means repeating pattern or obstinate pattern and that’s exactly what it is. For example, in New Age pianist George Winston’s piece “Rain,” we have a left-hand pattern that uses over an octave of the keyboard to create a beautiful aural background over which a melody is improvised.

This technique is a very quick and easy way to create New Age piano pieces. The ostinato is played over and over while the right hand is able to “mix it up” and create change with the melody line. Of course, you can change the ostinato pattern as well as Winston does. With just a few small note changes, freshness is maintained and the piece moves listener attention forward. The author’s one lesson piece “Rainforest” does the same thing. Two chords are used in the left hand while the right improvises a melody.

The Crossover Technique - Arpeggios Up and Down

This technique is used everywhere in New Age piano and elsewhere. Usually spanning an octave or more, the pianist uses the left hand (mostly) to create a cascading pattern of notes that can ascend or descend or both depending on how it’s played. Another good example of this technique is used in George Winston’s piece “Thanksgiving.” Here he uses a few chords in the left hand broken up into arpeggios and creates a nice harmonic “loop” with them. Then the right hand improvises a melody and the piece is created. Very easy and quite nice as well.

The author’s lesson piece “Morning Mist” uses a few chords along with the crossover technique as well. First you learn how to play the left-hand crossover, then you slowly add in a melody of your own. Creative? Yes! And easy as well!

The Broken Chord Technique - Both Hands In Play

Here we have a technique that sounds a lot more complicated than it really is. Both hands are used to create music with. The hands are placed on a chord and that chord is broken up.

For instance, the lesson “Reflections in Water” uses broken chord technique along with open position chords to create a very nice “New Age” sound! Beginners who listen to this piece won’t have a clue as to how it’s accomplished but once you learn how to play the open position chord, insight will follow and you’ll begin to see just how easy creating in the New Age style can be!

Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the internet. Stop by now at http://www.quiescencemusic.com/piano_lessons.html for a FREE piano lesson!

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