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One Of The First African Americans
1,524 wordsThe life of Robert Johnson, one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite being one of the top influences to blues music, little is known about the shy, mild mannered bluesman. "Almost nothing, is known about his life he is only a name on a few recordings. " Where did he come from? Who was Johnsons famil...
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1,500 words... ninety, feelings borne from a life of oppression and hardship, to fuel some of the most moving, emotion filled music ever heard. "His guitar seemed to talk- repeat and say words like no one else in the world could, " recalls one of Roberts former friends. "This sound affected most women in a way I could never understand. One time in St. Louis me and Johnson were playing a party. When we had quit, I noticed no one was saying anything. Then I realized they were crying both women and men" (Finn...
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2,018 wordsThe 1960 s are said to be the most prolific decade in all of music. Many bands of this decade have proven to have enormous effects on music, as we know it. Jimi Hendrix is said to be the greatest rock and roll guitarist of all time. The greats, like Eric Clapton and Carlos Santana, have all said that he truly made the guitar speak and transformed it into an art. The Doors were true innovators and turned rock into an art form, by skillfully blending rock and poetry. No one can deny that they were...
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Tells The Story Symphony Orchestra
1,694 wordsMetallica has not always been the talented group of rock musicians that they are today. It took many years and many albums to bring the band to its current standing as the kings of rock. Metallica has undergone changes in its lineup and its musical writing style. Comparing and contrasting the musical and lyrical content of each Metallica album shows exactly how much they have changed from the early 1980 s to 2000. Metallica was founded in the early 1980 s when a young man from Denmark named Lars...
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Electric Guitar Sound Card
362 wordsThe Dasein Guitar Tuner is an innovative Windows program designed By using a microphone or directly connecting an electric guitar to the PC's sound card, the program will "hear" a musical note. The program will then show the note and its deviation from standard tuning by using a needle gauge. A string is in tune when the needle is centered and the correct note is displayed under the gauge. The tuner also offers reference tones using various methods of sound production. You can hear recorded guit...
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Song Of Solomon Pontius Pilate
883 wordsToni Morrisons award-winning novel Song of Solomon is full of very interesting, deep symbolism. Macon Dead III, nicknamed Milkman, is a very symbolic character throughout the novel. His character is not only symbolic, for so is his name. Also, Milkman's paternal aunt, Pilate, has an extremely significant and symbolic role in the novel. To her father, she represents the child who killed her own mother and took away her fathers wife. Seeing that Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death, the name Pi...
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One Of The Greatest Heavy Metal
1,649 wordsA successful twenty years in the music industry is an amazing accomplishment. Bands come and go all the time. They shine brightly for a while, but eventually disappear. So how has the metal band, Metallica, stayed in the running? Metallica has been able to stay in the mainstream because of its members, music, and financial stability. This legendary band has broken new ground and continues to stay one step ahead of everyone else. In the late 70 's and early 80 's, there was a new wave of music th...
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Ozzy Osbourne Super Bowl
1,746 words... joined Ozzy's band in time for the North American tour. They toured across North America from May through September of 1981 playing songs from "Blizzard of Ozzy" as well as "Diary of a Madman", with a few Black Sabbath songs thrown in to close their shows. Choosing to headline their tour instead of going on a bigger tour as a support act paid off as "Blizzard of Ozzy" went gold in 100 days, though in some of the smaller cities in the United States, their shows were threatened to be cancelled...
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The Death Of Rock N Roll
1,426 wordsHere we are on the brink on the new millennium, ready to step into the New World and adapt to the new environment of time. We shall be embracing new lifestyles, all of us; but we shall be leaving a big chunk of our past and present buried in the wastes of time. Rock n roll is dead? What started out as a revolution of the youth in the 50 s is right now an endangered species. Rock n roll had lived through its glory days and now stands at the threshold of its extinction. Throughout the latter years...
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Music And Punk Culture
2,866 wordsMusic and Punk culture In the mid-to-late 1970 s a radical youth culture called punk emerged out of the larger rock 'n' roll scene, and developed its own music, attire, and ideology. The Sex Pistols are the best known of the punk bands; their music, like all punk rock, was aggressive, fast, and loud. Punk attire is characterized by dark clothes, outlandish costumes and ornamentation such as colored hair and earrings and bracelets made from assembled items (the quintessential punk earring was a s...
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1,874 wordsCENSORSHIP OF HEAVY METAL Heavy Metal? s popularity is and has been on the rise due to its many bands and increased guitar technology. Since the mid 1960? s, when heavy metal spread to the U. S. from England, it has grown in popularity. Many of the first bands that came from Europe came with two intentions; to spread heavy metal to other parts of the world, and to make it grow in popularity. Heavy metal is a form of rock? n? roll music played on electric guitars and amplified to unnatural volume...
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964 wordsComparison Between Two Guitars: Ibanez 453 RVCCoparison Between Two Guitars: Ibanez 453 RVC And The Gibson Les Paul Comparison Between Two Guitars: Ibanez 453 RVC and the Gibson Les Paul The paper I have written and know alot about is a contrast on two really well known and popular guitars. One which is the Gibson Les Paul, and the other which is the Ibanez 453 RVC. Both guitars may look alike to some, and to some they may sound alike as well, but are they really alike? Starting with the bodys, ...
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Dave Matthews Band Boston Globe
2,498 wordsSenior Project Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Le Roi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter Beauford, provide a blend of influences that create this originality. It s an interracial music group compromising of three blacks, and two white, and an age difference of over 20 years b...
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Los Angeles Fellow Man
813 wordsJames Hetfield the American Dream James is probably the driving creative force. Kirk Hammett Hetfield brings the pride. He stands a very tall and strong guy over all of, not just the music, but all of what is Metallica, hes been through a lot of shi but still pushed to get where he is today. Jason Newstead Although the Americans dream, weather new or old to this country is to succeed financially, to some it is to become well known to your fellow man. The idea of crawling out of the gutter with n...
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Makes Me Feel Bad Mood
1,252 wordsOne activity that I enjoy doing in my spare time is playing music. I play the guitar and have been playing for nine years. I started off wanting to play when I went to a store and found a very inexpensive little thirty dollar guitar. I picked it up and started playing around with it in the store. At this time I was eight years old. During this time of my life I wasnt really involved in any activities and really wasnt that social among friends and other people. So I decided that it was time to ch...
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Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar
1,467 wordsJames Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which shaped t...
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Electric Guitar Young Age
784 wordsWho could imagine that an 81 -year-old man could have changed rock music when he was younger? Well its true, and Les Paul did it. This musician and inventor has sold hundreds of thousands, if not millions of albums. He has also created something that has changed rock and pop history, the solid-body electric guitar. Music and inventing all started before he became famous, when Les Paul was very young. Les Paul was born on June 9, 1915 in Wankesha, Wisconsin. At a very young age, Paul developed a ...
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Eric Clapton Rolling Stones
1,070 wordsElectric Muddy Waters Muddy Waters Electric Blues Muddy Waters was the patriarch of the post-World War II Chicago blues. He was a master artist who played slashing slide guitar with an earthy raspy voice who had seen his share of sorrow in life. Muddy was also a compelling songwriter; a storyteller in song. He was a master performer, recording artist and bandleader. His had a way of juicing up the music with a rocking backbeat and an unfiltered down-home intensity; he possessed an honesty and em...
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Im Gonna Lead Singer
1,994 wordsI believe that it is the music of our time that will be remembered long after we are gone, and it is bands like Oasis that led the revolution which took place recently. Oasis, headed by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher was the first band after The Beatles to lash out against what had become the normal way a band should be, and that is why they will be known for years to come as the band who changed rock music. Noel Gallagher was born on May 29, 1967 in Manchester, he was the second son of Thomas...
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Six Double Courses Ull 01 Guitar Strings
461 words(Ull 01) Guitar A Guitar Guitar Music Survey (Ull 01) Guitar A Guitar is a musical instrument of the lute family, having a flat, waisted body with a round sound hole and a fretted neck along which run six strings. The strings are fastened at the top of the neck to tuning screws, and at the other end to a bridge glued to the instruments soundboard, or belly. The top three strings are usually made of gut or nylon; the others are metal. The strings are tuned E A d g b e 1. The players left-hand fin...
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