The Australian Bebop Ragas performed at the Music Recital Hall in Sacramento State at around 3pm on Sunday April 19. The band was hosted by the World Music Club and Department of Music. The band consisted of Stephen Kent who played the didjeridu, Teed Rockwell who played the touchstyle fretboard and Jim Santi Owen who played the table and also the morse. One feature of the group was that it did not belong one particular culture but combined different instruments from other parts of the world like the didjeridu from Australia and the tabla from India. The touchstyle fretboard stood out from the rest of the musical instruments.
In the bridge, high bowed strings, sometimes using harmonics and tremolo, add a countermelody. Orchestration There are five woodwind players who double up: Clarinet and saxophone Two horns Three trumpets Two trombones Seven violins Four cellos Two double basses Drum kit Percussionists Piano Electric and accoustic guitar Structure The song does not follow a conventional verse-chorus structure, but has several musical ideas and sections that recur. The structure is: Introduction Section A Section B Section B1 Section A 1 Outro [fades
With their light brown wooden paperclip shapes, they looked more like bassoons. In 1838, Adolphe Sax un-raveled the clarinet body, and it became the straight instrument we know it as today. Despite the fact that the bass clarinet has been around for a while, the first solo recital was not performed on it until 1955, when Josef Horák marked history by being the first professional player to dedicate an entire recital to the instrument. Bass clarinets are commonly made of plastic or African hardwood with the keys, bell and rods constructed of nickel, silver or other composite metal. The mouthpiece, which holds the reed, is made of plastic, resin, hard rubber or other composite material.
This section is based upon the repeated quaver motif taken from bar 45 with the motif played only in the string section (bars 138-140). A descending Eb major scale is played in bar 143 to end the 2nd section and take us into the 3rd section of the development. The 3rd section (bar 144-160) features another
The name “guitar” originates from the ancient Sanskrit word for “string”-“tar”. The first guitar made looked nothing like the ones we use now, in fact they were called “lutes,” not guitars. Lutes later developed into vihuelas, then later established into guitars in the fifteenth century. The first guitar was called a four course guitar and was called that because it had only four strings. The four-course guitar also had a different tuning than D-G-B-E tuning; rather it was tuned to C-F-A-D which is a tone lower.
The guitar has become one of the most prominent components of contemporary music. People have been playing instruments very similar to the guitar for hundreds of years. Michael Kasha’s book A New Look at the History of the Classic Guitar shows that there has even been a discovery of a certain Hittite carving from over 3,000 years ago that shows an instrument that seems to share many features of a modern guitar (Kasha 12). The guitar is a member of the chordophone family, meaning that it is an instrument that creates sound through vibrating strings that are stretched between two points. About sixty years ago, the guitar underwent a modification that would forever change the rest of the musical world- it was electrified.
The tempo is quite slow (which is typical of Pink Floyd) in “Breathe” in common time (4/4) with the first four lines of music being based on the progression Em9 – A, and the last four lines of the song being based on the more vivid chord progression CMaj7 – Bm – F – G – Dm7 . The bass moves chromatically up through D # to begin the next verse on Em9. The complexity of the song is far more Jazz influenced than the simple triadic harmony of The Beatles’ “Love Me Do”, and this element is incorporated by the use of sevenths, ninths and suspensions throughout the song. In “Love Me Do” The Beatles have used a far more basic chord progression, sticking to two simple chords throughout the song – alternating between G (tonic) and C. This is repeated throughout each verse; however the band also chose to use the chord sequence through the chorus. There is a
Materials * (1) Fender Stratocaster Maple Neck Electric Guitar * (1) Plastic guitar pick * (1) KORG GA-1 Electric guitar tuner * A warm, room temperature environment to house the guitar during the experiment (In my experiment, I used my 73 degree Fahrenheit home) * A colder environment to house the guitar during the experiment (In my experiment I used my 50-40 degree Fahrenheit porch, I could not get the exact temperature each trial) * Knowledge of how to use an electronic tuner, as well as a couple of different songs on guitar in standard tuning (for my experiment I used “Enter Sandman” by Metallica and “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses) Experimental Setup 1. Gather materials needed for the experiment (as listed above). 2. Tune the Fender Stratocaster listed above with the electric guitar tuner listed above to standard tuning (EADGBe). Repeat this process until the guitar is in tune when all six strings are played simultaneously.
Other musicians included: Jimmy Rodgers (Father of Country music), and Johnny Cash who, like Elvis Presley, recorded in Sun Studio in Memphis TN. Rockabilly was country music merged with Rhythm and Blues. It had a "hillbilly" rock sound with a fast tempo. Also known for the "twangy" sounding electric guitars, often soloing with few to no
Each Greek mode can be played in different keys, so therefore, there are twelve versions of each mode and each are used in the many common forms of Jazz music and Jazz improvisation Each mode however uses different tonic notes. The Ionian mode(also known as the Major scale) consists of the all 7 notes with no sharps or flats. The Dorian mode, (which is the most used mode in jazz) consist of a minor 3rd and a minor 7th which makes for a minor sounding scale. The Phrygian mode is strictly minor. This scale is used most often in Spanish Flamenco music.