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Bela Fleck And The Flecktones Concert
Number of Words: 391 / Number of Pages: 2
... mixture of many different genres; jazz, rock, R&B and funk, to name a few. Much of the music had no singing and the songs were very long and complicated, involving different parts and many complicated solos.
In between songs each musician performed solos on their instruments, which proved the talent, they held on their instruments even more. The bassist was the most impressive, though. He soloed for probably a half an hour doing things that seemed impossible. He slapped with amazing speed and precision, played the most difficult runs and slides and kept the entire audience in awe for the entire ...
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Silverchair: Neon Ballroom (epic)
Number of Words: 478 / Number of Pages: 2
... in a little flatulent. Yes-ish prog-rock to boot, all of which staggers around a bit and then proceeds to fall flat on its sunburnt face.
Silverchair's leader Daniel Johns has been thinking long and hard about what's happening today, and through he's made a killing off the record biz and never has to work another day in his life, he's decided to lead a youth revolt against "overweight people in suits": hence, "Anthem For the Year 2000," complete with a Siverchair countdown calendar. "We are the youth/We'll take your fascism…. In the year 2000," he howls, Hetfield-like. How he proposes that "th ...
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Pythagorean Philosophy And Its Influence On Musical Instrumentation And Composition
Number of Words: 1345 / Number of Pages: 5
... was correct. Pythagorean philosophy maintained
that all things are numbers. Based on the belief that numbers were the
building blocks of everything, Pythagoras began linking numbers and music.
Revolutionizing music, Pythagoras' findings generated theorems and
standards for musical scales, relationships, instruments, and creative
formation. Musical scales became defined, and taught. Instrument makers
began a precision approach to device construction. Composers developed new
attitudes of composition that encompassed a foundation of numeric value in
addition to melody. All three approaches we ...
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Hip Hop Music
Number of Words: 943 / Number of Pages: 4
... This means forcing the record back and forth against the needle. A hip hop
artists that made it big in the eighties was Afrika Bambaataa who was the
leader of the ‘Hip-Hop’ culture. This man organized Zulu Nation which was
an organization of break dancers. Run DMC were the first Black rap artists
that gained the interest of all races of people. The hip-hop culture is
still thriving in the nineties and is better than ever.
Now, I would like to break away from the history of hip-hop and talk
about one famous hip-hop group that I personally like. This group existed
during the beginning ...
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The Roots Of Blues Music
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... Ragtime was an influence that came later and is a faster blues played with
the piano and someone singing which was usually played in bars called barrel
houses.
The first country blues that was written and published was "Memphis Blues"
by W.C. Handy in the early 1900's.
The first recorded blues was " Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith in 1915.
Most country blues were played with an acoustic guitar and with someone
singing. It also has a definite call and response between the voice and guitar.
Guitars were used because they had a broad range of notes, they were
portable, affordable, and they were ...
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The Way It Really Was!
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... Rock and Roll. Alan
show in Cleveland was very popular with teenagers. In 1954, Alan's show moved
to WINS. His nick name “moondog” had to be dropped. He adopted the new title “
the king of rock and roll”. Newspapers ran articles saying Alan was the main
wrongdoer in creating Rock and Roll. A riot broke out at one of Alan Freed's
concert. The police turned up the house lights to see what the teenagers were
doing and Alan said something and the teens went on a rampage. Alan was to
blame. He was charged but when the manager at WINS didn't stand behind him,
Alan left and went to WABC. The charge ...
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Song Analysis: "Betterman”
Number of Words: 596 / Number of Pages: 3
... love
more I think and shows you how strong love is. It really lets you hear the
pain love can cause and how much you go through when love is destroyed.
The song symbolizes anger and how angry you can get when things break apart.
The lyrics tell you how easily you can lie to yourself to try to make
something better and how it never works out if you take that approach. It
really shows the emotions involved with love and the things love makes you
do. I think the theme of this song is really easy to grasp if you listen
to the lyrics. The moral of the song is very easy to determine just by
listening t ...
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History Of Percussion Instruments
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... are those that produce a sound from the vibrations of a
stretched membrane. These include any type of drum hit with a stick. Both
of these instruments are tunable in many different ways and forms;
therefore, these instruments can be used as melodic instruments (“
Percussion” 653).
Basic idiophones (also refereed to as concussion instruments) are
struck together. This includes clappers, cymbals, stones, and castanets.
Percussive idiophones are hit by nonsonorous strikers. These types of
instruments include gongs, triangles, and xylophones. Shaken idiophones
were usually cups or shells that contain ...
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Woodstock
Number of Words: 1382 / Number of Pages: 6
... dairy farmer, Max Yasgur, who owned land about 48 miles from .
Early in the week before the festival, it became clear that the event was going to draw a much larger audience than expected. People from as far away as Michigan and California came to listen to the 24 rock groups ("Age, 1"). Thousands more people would have come if police had not blocked off access roads. By the day before the official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads leading to the area. The intense traffic on Route 17B towards Bethel, New York that afternoon didn't seem to bother anyone as people all exc ...
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The Grateful Dead
Number of Words: 1304 / Number of Pages: 5
... of the
Purple Sage. Work was scarce for the Jug Champions until Dana Morgan, owner at
the store where Jerry taught banjo and Pig Pen worked,provided the money and
equipment for them to become electric. After they had become electric they
renamed the group the Warlocks. Dawson and Matthews were soon to leave and they
were replaced by drummer Bill Sommers (Krentemann) and Phil Lesh, who was a
trumpet player who learned to play bass guitar in a very amazing two weeks just
to get the spot. This completes the now familiar Dead line up. The Warlocks
played their first concert in July 1965 and they playe ...
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