Classical guitar

People often walk up to me and ask “What makes you so freekin awesome?” Haha, no they don't. But people do ask how I make music theory seem so simple? I reply; “Because it is.” Let me start with a little story. I grew up in the golden age of guitar players. Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, and Alex Lifeson were staples in my CD player, and they played continuously. Like anyone my age, I had the dream of being a rock star with tens-of-thousands of fans screaming their adoration while the…

electric guitar is the culmination of thousands of years of history and great effort to enhance the music that we know and love today. It has changed the way we use it in music in our recordings and live performances and still is a dominant instrument in many music genres. To really understand this particular instrument, one must understand its: definition, history, construction, uses, and prevalence/impact in music. To know what an electric guitar is, one must understand just what a guitar…

The article “Literacy behind bars” written by Malcolm X gives a brief history of the self taught education he received in prison. In the article he informs us on how his education before being sentenced to prison did not exceed the past the eighth grade. Malcolm X would spend every waking moment of his day lost in any books that he could get his hands on absorbing each and every word that he learned. He even spent some of his days going through dictionaries copying and memorizing each and every…

Mp1: Senior Writing, Mrs. Donovan Favorite Assignment: College Essay In the first marking period of English 12R I learned important skills in terms of reading and writing. This course focused mainly on reading and writing, the first thing that we worked on was how to properly write a college essay, which I think is very important for students to learn how to be successful in writing them. We learned that you have to be creative when writing your college essays and try to add important details…

Music is an important thing in people’s life. Music has grown with people generation to generation, and it gets change time over time. Must of people listen to music for what it has of bower that makes the person happy and relax. In my country which it Oman people listening to many songs especially Arabic songs, country, and hip-hop. Usually the oldest people listen to country songs. 25 years from now people in my hometown did not know music very much, so I did not know music a lot. Although, I…

Folk music can be defined as any style of music which represents a community. Folk music encompasses many aspects of human life; however, the main aspect of folk music focuses on hard times. As times change, folk music has evolved. Folk music has impacted many genres in the music industry and continues to impact the industry today. One of the most common genres that derived from folk music is bluegrass. Bluegrass music is defined as a type of folk music originating in Kentucky…

bass. For instance, he could tell why an amp was not playing loud enough. He would then reconstruct something and make it ten times better than it was. Word got around, and he ended up working for KISS. The guitarist, Ace, had an idea to have his guitar shoot out fire during his solo. He was hoping that John could make it happen. John was intrigued by this idea. Mostly, he was in disbelief that the lead guitarist of KISS had asked him to do the project. He knew he could…

I can observe with a couple of concerts that I saw on Youtube,  they brought the people together with his music. He also introduced songs from other cultures like from South America, Israel, and Cuba . He played many instruments like the banjo, guitar, recorder, tin whistle, mandolin, piano, ukulele which he sucked…

winter, and why a tight jar lid is much easier to remove when hot water is ran over it. This very same effect can be seen in guitars, particularly with their tuning. A guitarist will often find that when he or she leaves a guitar in places of varying temperatures that the guitar’s tuning is usually affected, sometimes dramatically. This can lead to an out of tune guitar when it comes time to…

Eric Clapton, play their guitars with effortless expression is inspiring. They successfully combined the creativity of Jimi Hendrix with the intensity of Albert King, but managed to execute each bend and vibrato with the sophistication of a world class jazz musician. They were masters of their craft and influenced me to become a musician. An immense amount of time and dedication is required to attain their level of musicianship, and they have taught me that playing guitar is as much visual as it…