Guitar Idol Live, the premier global guitar talent contest, has announced the twelve finalists for 2011 Guitar Idol Final. They have been chosen from over a thousand original entries, from all over the world – Singapore, Guatemala, Chile, Canada, Israel, Romania, Russia, Germany, France, Italy and the UK and represent all types of guitar playing and music. There will be amazing acoustic players, serious shredders, brilliant blues guitarists, melodic metal maestros, as well as fabulous funk groove masters and much, much more. There is something for every guitarist.

The Guitar Idol Live Final is part of Lick Library Live, and will be held on December 4th in London. To further popularize the event, tickets are priced only £15 and also include a free Lick Library DVD worth over £20 from a selection including Learn to Play Gary Moore, Van Halen, Rolling Stones, Steve Vai, Lick Library Quick Licks and other guitar techniques DVDs!!

The Lick Library live performances and master classes have also been finalised. They Include Lick Library’s co-founder and guitarist extraordinaire, Stuart Bull, the planet’s top shredder, Andy James, former Joe Satriani pupil, Danny Gill, the accomplished Mike Casswell, and one of the UK’s top rock guitarist Jamie Humphries. Plus Tom Quayle, former Guitar Idol contestant, Lick Library and Guitar Interactive contributor will also be performing and holding a free clinic. Also joining in the fun will be popular online guitar tutor Rick Graham.

All the participating artists, songwriters, music labels, music publishers and iTunes waived their royalties and proceeds to maximise the amount of money donated for survivors.  In addition, manufacturers, distributors and marketing partners donated materials, services and advertising time or space. 

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You will find a wide and varied specialized sites Portals, Blog, Myspace, Twitter, Facebook as nowadays communication in music is very flexible thanks to internet. In short, a musician has many arrows in his bow to convey his musical proposal. However, the diversity of tools available is likely to create confusion and loss of effectiveness.

Monia Pocekaj came up clear and clever idea of tending to their operational merger with the aim of providing integrated services to those who want to promote their music. This Article is all about an interview Monia and National Metal Nation.

Monia Pocekaj will present a preview in the National Metal Nation. How does Metal Nation? Metal Nation was founded by a period of collaboration with many stakeholders, both Italian and foreign music, and my brother's idea to give a chance 'groups emerging to be known. Together we decided to give life to this project and we have long thought that was the primary need of a band. The answer was the same: to get high visibility 'in the metal music scene. But how to get there? Of course with the help of internet. In the era of social networks, and so there 'seemed appropriate to create a specialized metal music while knowing that they must deal with existing social networks and a large number of famous music portals.

But to differentiate ourselves from the other was still missing something: we have thus made a leap in thinking about the past times when there was only one MTV and the groups were devoted almost eternal glory after only a few appearances on TV and here 'inspiration: TV pure metal. Heavy Metal Nation, therefore, and 'the first TV / social networks and forums dedicated exclusively to heavy metal music, the band who want to promote on Metal Nation TV and all other players in the industry as magazine metal, radio, A & R, promotion agencies and management etc.

The mission of Metal Nation 'is to bring together all the metalheads and the industry in a single social network, is to give the opportunity' to promote the bands on Metal Nation TV . And 'when asked about why they chose the name "Metal Nation" Monia Pocekaj said they wanted to give a sense of unity' and belonging to all those who register for the first social network metal. For an emerging group and 'very difficult to succeed in the music business: it must first be able to get a record deal that also includes an excellent distribution and promotion, and only then will', and often with some success, to grow their fan base.

Metal Nation still works in the opposite way: thanks to the video of the band METAL NATION TV can now increase their fan base and if the band and 'good we are sure that the proposals by the A & R will not fail. And thanks to Internet video is seen in all parts of the world. What are your relations with the popular social networking sites? We do not see the famous social networking competitors, rather, we use to promote our website to contact the bands and promote bands that have their videos on Metal Nation TV. The main difference between Heavy Metal Nation and other social networks and 'we are a social network that specializes in metal music: I think that almost any band has ever achieved great results with the existing social networks, which provide the maximum opportunity' to have a profile to the internet without having to bear the costs of a real website. In addition, the popular