Chord progression

Green Day left Lookout! Records and signed with Reprise Records. Reprise Records released the band’s first major-label album, Dookie in 1994, which sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Green Day’s popularity began to fall, but in 2004 they struck a chord all over the world with their release of American Idiot. American Idiot was the band’s first album to ever to top the chart, it debated number one on the Billboard…

during the 1920’s to a loving mother and mentally unstable father. Hank was influenced by country music stars like Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Acuff, but his mentor was Rufus Payne. Rufus was a poor black street performer that taught Hank guitar chords and chord progression for food. Hank credits Rufus as being his only music teacher. Hank Williams started his career playing in honky-tonk bars but it…

memorable for the average user” (Analysis: The many faces of Apple advertising: “ Dan Moren.” Macworld.com). The bandages showed an unstable side of PC that is undesirable to consumers while Mac remained strong and unchanged due to the different power chords the computers used. In ad three, the use of a counseling session acted as an analogy to show how the two computers were trying to find common ground to be civil and become unified. Referring to a counselor exhibited the attempted…

one of the first players to encounter ragtime composition. His Maple Leaf Rag was the best seller in the field, and remains the best-known rag today (Hasse 50). It demonstrated great sophistication and depth of ragtime with his unique harmonic progressions and melody. Joplin tried to control the bouncy spirit of ragtime and direct it into a longer phrase (Hasse 51). This was innovative compared to other ragtime players, since others usually stuck with shorter phrases. Another noteworthy ragtime…

contrasting women’s, making clashing harmonics that would otherwise sound horrific if the pieces had been written by anyone else. But Claude’s amazing use of sweeping crescendos and clashes make the works worth listening to. Debussy 's chord and harmony progressions often exploit dissonances without any formal resolution. Unlike in his earlier work, he no longer hides discords in lush harmonies and the forms are far more irregular and…

Johann Sebastian Bach was born on March 31, 1685 in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany and died on July 28, 1750 in Leipzig, Germany. Although he only lived 65 years, he has left a legacy as one of the most impactful and greatest composers of all time. Biography Bach is from the Baroque era of music.(1600-1760) During the Baroque era, people had a lot of children. Bach had lots of siblings, 8 to be exact. When he became an orphan at the age of 10, his brother, Johann Christoph, took him in for…

Heaven Walters MUS 110 Drew Hays 10 April 15 Album Analysis: Saxophone Colossus According to the Webster Dictionary, Colossus is defined as something that is gigantic or immense, which is also accurate when describing Sonny Rollins’ contributions to the jazz world. Sonny Rollins, himself, was knowns as the “Saxophone Colossus” back in 1956, and has been compared to Coleman Hawkins with his strong, intense notes combined with lyrical freedom and genius. Saxophone Colossus, recorded in June of…

Villa-lobos’ Prelude 1 and 2 comes from a set of five total preludes that were written for Andres Secovia. The performance of was played very emphatically, and there was emphasis on notes throughout the composition with a backdrop of contrast between melodic chords and syncopated notes. The next piece, Bachianas Brasilerias #5 was a tribute to the baroque period, specifically J.S. Bach that was originally written for an arrangement for 9 cellos. The piece is homophonic (with a bass line and…

The song is from the Bebop era, and I believe it is a 12-bar blues, but I am unsure because the chord progression seemed to be longer than just 12 bars. The first thing that I noticed about this piece was how the band played slightly louder and that there was more emphasis on the trumpet compared to the last two songs, which emphasized the trombone a bit…

country is 50 years older than rap so it was popular and common to most people first. Another difference is that rap is sort of a free style string of lyrics put together in a clever way.Meanwhile, country has a pattern a pattern of repeated chord progressions. Country music also consists of using instruments and not machines to make beats and different sounds like rap. Rap used to be a cultural type of music. Country was also somewhat cultural. Obviously rap became well-known from the black…