Perillo Tours is a travel company, which organizes quality tours and adventurous vacations to Italy, Hawaii, and Israel. This successful family business that began in 1945 has been running for three generations. Steve Perillo, the current head of the reputable Perillo Tours is a popular musician as well.

As a child, Perillo was deeply impressed by American music of the 40s and 50s, as that was what his parents listened to. It ignited his passion for music. Today, even though he listens to diverse genres of music, he still nurtures a soft spot for early American music.

Steve Perillo has vivid memories of his childhood; watching the famous Beatles on Ed Sullivan’s TV show, strumming away on guitars with girls screaming around them! The very next week after watching his first Beatle video, he bought a folk guitar and began guitar lessons! He later became interested in classical music and this kindled his interest in playing the piano.

In school, Steve did not get many opportunities to play his compositions and anyway, he was too shy to do so! This was the time when he first listened to music of the legendary Bach. His sister had brought home the album ‘Switched on Bach’. From then on, Perillo became an ardent fan of Bach’s music!

Perillo was fortunate to be a student of ace American composer, David Del Tredici, in Boston University. Under the constructive guidance of Del Tredici, Perillo’s musical talent was honed and polished. After graduating, he worked on music soundtracks for a few years. At one point, he finally decided to turn his attention to his family business – Perillo Tours. He was always very enthusiastic about travel and tourism, plus the family business needed him. Steve believes that music suited him as a passion and not a full-time profession.

From orchestral pieces and concert music to chamber music and pop, Steve Perillo’s music is a mélange of different styles and genres. He has released several of his compositions, which have become commercial successes. Requiem for a Goldfish, Perillo’s Magnificat and other Choral Masterpieces, and Napoli are some of his popular soundtracks. Steve, the musician, is definitely here to stay!

Mobile phones have become one of the most prominent status symbols. It has gone beyond a mere tool to make and receive calls. It�s an expression of identity; a fashion statement; and with Mp3 ringtones, a way of injecting your own groove into your daily grind.

An Mp3 is a compressed audio file. For years, music lovers have exchanged these files on the Internet, playing them on their PCs or from dedicated Mp3 players. But then the mobile phone companies latched on to a brilliant idea: why not use those music files as ringtones, replacing the dull and sometimes annoying clanging sound that has been the trademark alert for incoming calls.

There is a wide variety of Mp3 ringtones, as wide as the range of music itself. From Mozart to Madonna, the Beatles to Britney Spears, or even commercial jingles, national anthems, cartoon themes, gospel music, nursery rhymes, even beat poetry. If you�ve ever hummed it, sang it, or tapped your feet to it, there�s an Mp3 version waiting to be played on your phone.

Mp3 ringtones can also be a good measure of how a movie or a sitcom has infiltrated into pop culture. There are ringtones that are actually snippets from famous scenes of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings; while themes from The Brady Bunch bring smiles to anyone who has ever watched the show.

But thereââ?¬â?¢s more. Mp3 ringtones arenââ?¬â?¢t even limited to just music. You can pick from a wide variety of sounds. A baby crying. A cow mooing. A woman moaning in ecstasy (howââ?¬â?¢s that to break the monotony of your board meeting?).In the Philippines, when wiretapped phone calls between the president and an election commissioner revealed possibility of election fraud, fragments of that phone call were even used as Mp3 ringtonesââ?¬”either as a sign of protest or to make fun of the situation.

All these ringtones are easily downloadable, but for those who truly want a unique sound they can even make their own ringtones. Some record the voices of their children. Others save romantic missives from a loved one. People also record the laughter of friends, or a fragment from a child�s Christmas performance, or even a beloved pet�s barking. While other people may not appreciate the Mp3, the fact that it has a personal meaning makes those ringtones music to the owners� ears.

So why do people use Mp3 ringtones? The same reason they pick the shirt they are wearing: it reflects the owners� personality. When they say my phone, they mean it in more ways than one. Sociologists say that people are driven to express identities in external symbols. It is part of our communal nature: this is me, this is the group I belong to. Primitive societies wore jewelry beads and animal teeth; some developed tattoos; and later on, developed clothes and other accessories. The phone is no different. Like feathers on a tribesman cap, it signals to everyone else who we are.

Guitar tabs are an easy solution for you if you have no idea of how to read sheet music but are constantly bugged by the notion that you want to be a guitarist. Guitar tabs are easy to learn and allow you to begin playing songs right away, even if you are not familiar with them. Once you have bought your first guitar, it is time to begin looking for easy guitar tab versions of some songs to find out what it feels like to be a guitar player. Which songs you need tabs for depends on how you see yourself as a musician. Do you want to play your favorite songs chiefly for your own amusement or do you want to aim your repertoire at a potential audience? Let us look at your audience for a minute. The most popular songs in the world are all from years gone by. If you sit a bunch of people aged between ten and fifty down and play songs at them you will find some universal favorites, and they will all be old songs. If you want to please a random audience, your ultimate goal should be to have about one hundred popular songs ranging from the 1940′s to the present, but you could probably narrow the range to just include songs going back to the sixties.

So what are the easiest songs to learn from tabs? What can a beginner guitarist learn quickly without too much trouble? Well, I did a little searching on the internet concerning that question, and I found that “Horse With No Name” contains only two chords, and dead simple ones at that! You could be playing that song in a convincing fashion today! “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” makes use of the chords G D C and Am – all easy chords. Building on chords you have acquired learning these songs, you can go onto “House Of The Rising Sun” which uses Am C D F E and E7. Once you have learnt that, it’s only natural to go onto another beautiful song, “California Dreamin’” which has the same chords. If you do not like the idea of beginning your guitar playing with these songs, do an internet search in the country music and blues genres. Actually a working knowledge of twelve bar blues is very useful for a guitar player just starting out.

Now for a short list of songs that are both easy to play and have proven to be popular with audiences of all ages. You can find tab arrangements for these songs by typing the titles into a search engine.

“Angie” by The Rolling Stones

“Blowin’ In The Wind” by Bob Dylan

“Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison

“A Day In The Life”, “Here, There And Everywhere” and “Hey Jude” by The Beatles

“I Walk The Line” by Johnny Cash

“Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton

“Gloria” by Van Morrison

“Hotel California” by The Eagles

“Behind Blue Eyes” by The Who

“Scarborough Fair” by any number of performers, and

“White Room” by Cream

Once you have some guitar songs under your belt, you could learn more popular favorites that do not fit into the “Easy Guitar Tabs” category. Wilson Pickett’s “Dock Of The Bay” and “American Pie” by Don Mclean come to mind. But do not let the tastes of the masses be your only guide. If, for example, you decide you would like to do a folk guitar arrangement of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” then you could use tabs for the original electric guitar version as a basis for your new work. With a bunch of easy guitar tabs at your disposal, the only limits to your musical achievements are your imagination and your audience’s supply of tomatoes.

If you enjoy the idea of learning the guitar and you visualize yourself sitting down and playing your favorite songs for your own enjoyment, acoustic guitar tabs give you the possibility of realizing your dream. You can pick up an acoustic guitar any time of the day or night and play without disturbing your family or neighbors. Some people even play the acoustic guitar while the family is watching TV in the same room!

Tablature, or tab, is the ideal way for any beginner guitar player to learn or for a more seasoned guitarist to learn new material quickly. A basic definition of guitar tab is a diagram showing the guitar strings with the frets where the guitarist is to play the notes indicated by numbers. Quite often a guitarist approaching a new piece of music will struggle with conventional music notation whereas tab is a quick and easy way of getting the feel of a new piece. Also a pianist or other musician can look at a piece of guitar sheet music and play it right away but would have no hope of playing from guitar tab because it is only written for one instrument. Another limitation of guitar tab is that you won’t be able to learn the rhythm from it. You will need a strumming pattern diagram or, having heard the song before, have some idea of how to approach the playing of the rhythm. If you are prepared to live with these limitations tablature will be a great tool for you to learn your favorite songs quickly.

When you search the internet for acoustic guitar tab what kind of music can you expect to find? Well, the variety is astonishing. Basically acoustic guitar tab is written with the idea of the guitar supplying the basic accompaniment for the song. So if you are a singer wanting to interpret the lyrics, your interest in the guitar arrangement may be slight. The second thing acoustic guitar tab usually gives you is the notes for any distinctive melody or riff in the song – music that people recognize before they hear the words being sung. A simple example of this is the few notes repeated throughout the record of “Something” by The Beatles. Of course you are quite free to leave out or change any music to make the arrangement your own.

Acoustic guitar tabs are often fingerstyle arrangements of songs. These arrangements will not be readily available in music stores or the usual sources of sheet music on the internet. Fingerstyle arrangements can give you some added depth to your guitar playing even if you don’t utilize all the techniques shown in the tab. Finally there is one advantage to using acoustic tab for electric guitar players. You can learn the muisc for the song without having to set up your guitar and amp. You can work on arranging your song for electric guitar once you know the chords and the basic structure.

I hope I have given you something to think about if you have not given tabs for acoustic guitar much of a look so far. If you look around you will be quite amazed at the range of popular – and obscure – music available.

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It was written in 1940 by a sixteen-year-old Mexican girl called Consuelo Velasquez. The song was a steamy expression of a young girl’s longing to be kissed. The title of the song means “kiss me alot” and it stirred the imaginations of men and women all over the world. In 1944 a young American singer named Kitty Kallen sang the song with Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra and it stayed for six weeks on the charts of Billboard Magazine.

Another key figure in the story of Besame Mucho is Sunny Skylar, composer and arranger who sang with big bands in the nieteen forties. He wrote music and lyrics for many popular songs including: Amor, And So To Sleep Again and Love Me With All Your Heart. There are other translations of the song but Skylar’s seems to be a favorite. Here are the lyrics as interpreted by Sunny Skylar:

Bésame, bésame mucho

Each time I cling to your kiss, I hear music divine

Bésame mucho

Hold me my darling and say that you’ll always be mine

This joy is something new

My arms enfolding you

Never knew this thrill before

Whoever thought I’d be

Holding you close to me

Whispering “It’s you I adore”

Dearest one

If you should leave me

Each little dream would take wing, and my life would be through

Bésame mucho

Love me forever and make all my dreams come true

At the time of writing the song Consuelo insisted she had never been kissed but she certainly sounds like she knew what she wanted. I think Skylar was wise in not translating the words “besane mucho” into literal English like “kiss me much” or “kiss me alot”.

Just to get the feel of the song, here are Consuelo’s original words:

And here are the original lyrics by Consuelo Velazquez:

Bésame, bésame mucho

Como si fuera esta noche la última vez

Bésame mucho

Que tengo miedo perderte, perderte otra vez

Quiero tenerte muy

Cerca, mirarme en tus

Ojos, verte junto a mí

Piensa que tal vez

Mañana yo ya estaré

Lejos, muy lejos de ti

Bésame, bésame mucho

Como si fuera esta noche la última vez

Bésame mucho

Que tengo miedo perderte, perderte después

If you are a guitar player and you know how to play the A minor, D minor, A major and E major chords you will easily be able to play Besame Mucho.

As for the composer of the song, she was supposed to have been a classical concert pianist having learnt the piano when she was four years old. Consuelo wrote many other popular Mexican songs including: Amar y vivir, Verdad amarga, Franqueza, Que seas feliz, Cachito and Enamorada.

The list of vocal and instrumental artists who have recorded Besame Mucho goes on and on. Some notable ones are: Andrea Bocelli, Artie Shaw, The Beatles, Charles Aznavour, Chris Isaak, Edith Piaf, The Dead Brothers, Leslie Nielsen(!!), Sammy Davis Jr and Stan Getz.

For lovers of acoustic guitar, Besame Mucho is included on an album of latin standards by flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Other tracks on the CD include: Malaguena, Mantilla De Feria, Granada, Manha De Carnaval, Perfidia, La Virgen De La Macarena and Moliendo Cafe. Paco is one of the world’s greatest guitarists and it would be well worth your while to have a listen to this excellent CD. Meanwhile, good luck with your own efforts at playing this luscious song.