You don’t know who Young Jeezy is? Check out our Young Jeezy Mixtapes after reading this bio. Young Jeezy has been through it all, the worse and the worst, before taking the limelight of life with his niche in rapping. He was born Jay Jenkins on October 12, 1977 and was a native to Columbia, South Carolina. Together with his family, he relocated to Duncan Block of Georgia and soon lived in juggled custody. His parents decided to end their marriage and shared the custody of him with their relatives. Frequently being in his aunts’ house, Jeezy developed a close bond to his cousins who later introduced him to the dark world of drug dealing. By 12, he was already making money through selling the illegal substance and got arrested several times for it. At one point he even had to serve 9 months in a boot camp as a result of being busted by the police.

Under the layer of the sad childhood, Jeezy became a strong person who had a thing with words. He was apt in shooting verses and had a talent in melody that led him wanting to jump in the music business. He was a CEO for Corporate Thugz Entertainment and was determined to sit behind the desk before the urge to step up to the spotlight as a performer took over. ‘Before music I was just trying to survive out this motherfucker. I had other artists, some local cats off the street, but it didn’t work out,’ he recalled. ‘So I just decided to do it myself. Ain’t nobody gonna go as hard as you gonna go. I saw the bigger picture at the time. I have a way with words and I know how to hustle.’ At the age of 24, he released an indie album called ‘Thuggin’ Under Influence’ with Lil J as his moniker. The following years, he spawned more mixtapes that impressively sold averagely around 100,000 copies within a year.

Young Jeezy also won an award for ‘Hustla Of the Year” Young Jeezy released his first independent album, Thuggin’ Under the Influence (T.U.I.), in 2001 under the name Lil J. It featured artists such as Kinky B, Fidank, and Lil Jon, who also produced some of the tracks. In 2003, Jeezy released (also independently) Come Shop Wit’ Me, a two CD set featuring completely new tracks along with some songs from T.U.I. Come Shop Wit’ Me sold 50000 copies world wide. In 2004, he signed with Bad Boy Records and joined the Boyz N Da Hood group. Boyz N Da Hood’s self-titled album was released on June 21, 2005 and peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Young Jeezy also released a solo album around this time, which was his major label debut, with Def Jam Records. Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 was released on July 26, 2005 and debuted at #2, selling 172,000 copies in its first week. In interviews and on several records, Young Jeezy has affirmed his resistance to commercialism in his music.Maintaining his street credibility, according to Jeezy, is of the utmost concern to him as an artist. Young Jeezy, in 2005, was featured in several popular hip hop songs’Icy’ and Boyz N Da Hood’s ‘Dem Niggaz’. In 2006, he was featured in Christina Milian’s single ‘Say I’. Jeezy’s second major label album is The Inspiration, which features Project Pat, T.I., Keyshia Cole, Three 6 Mafia, R. Kelly, Bloodraw and Slick Pulla. More information on Young Jeezy Mixtape here.

The most enjoyable thing to do when learning piano is to pull up the piano bench, stretch out the limbs and rip out a song you’ve previously learned, or a solo piece you’re experienced with. What’s not so much fun is sitting on piano benches attempting to learn what all the lines and dots of music notation mean, and trying to read them as fast as possible. Often the tunes you’re trying to study will be thrown into a sheet music cabinet, not to be considered until motivation happens to strike again. Is practicing reading notation all that important? Wouldn’t it just be superior to focus on the aspects of playing that is fun and simple?

The answer to that is an emphatic “No”. In order to become a well-rounded player, the difficult aspects of music are going to have to be studied along with the fun parts. But in stating that, I’m misrepresenting the reality of studying music. The fact is that all aspects of musical study can be fun, and as you grow more and more skilled in reading sheet music, you’ll find yourself enjoying the experience.

The basics of reading music are pretty simple. The challenge, of course, is learning to understand these symbols well enough so that it becomes second nature.

If you’ve figured to begin practicing to read notation, make sure that you do it consistently. Don’t just shove in as much study as you can while your motivated and then forget about it until the desire to learn again comes back. It’s better to practice reading notation for ten minutes every day than to practice for a full hour every six days. You want the definitions of markings to stick in your head the same way writing does.

Notice for a minute how easy it is for you to understand everything I’m writing here. If you’ve ever tried learning a language with a unique set of characters, you’ll know just how difficult it can be to get into your brain what those squiggly lines mean. But when it comes to reading English, we don’t think of squiggly lines or even individual letters, the words just come out at us with seemingly little effort from our brain.

The same is possible| to have with reading music symbols, and it’s called sight-reading. Sight-reading can only be achieved with the classic method of practice, practice, practice.

Remember, when you find something in music that’s difficult to learn, that’s a good thing. The more difficult something is for you to do, the more your brain will benefit from tackling the problem straight on. Some musicians focus on repeating individual pieces they have lots of experience in, while some are always searching for what they don’t know, for what they can do better. This is what differentiates a good musician from all the others.