Double bass

The African Djembe was said to be created in the 12th century; it’s considered one of the most versatile and boundless drumming instruments on the earth (Drum Africa). A Guinean drum that is played throughout Africa that is known to resemble the figure of a woman with it’s round upper half, small waist, and large lower half is called the Djembe drum. This unique drum was created by Blacksmiths from the caste Manlike in Guinea; with its exclusive sound spectrum the djembe produces a strong…

read on, and master each of these essential vocal recording concepts. How to fine-tune a singer Great vocal recordings start with a great vocalist. I would love to tell you that you will be blessed with scores of amazing vocalists beating down your double studio door to record their next hit, but that would not be true. Some days, you get the pleasure of recording a highly skilled master, and on other days, the vocalist will make you want to crawl under your studio desk and find a happy place…

music which reflects the meaning of the text as can be seen in the following example. Example 4: Claudio Monteverdi, Lamento della Ninfa. Measures 1 - 4. The bass line which is basically A-G-F-E is built based on long pitch values and is repeated throughout the piece. Similarly, Monteverdi uses high pitches in the melody in contrasts to the bass line which adds to the softness of the piece. In both pieces, the melody is mostly syllabic in homophonic style. The piece “Il combattimento di…

Learning to hear multiple melodic lines and harmonies in your mind is complicated, but once you have the melody created most of the work has been completed for you. With enough time and practice you can learn to master the skill of composing completely in your own mind. By learning to compose in your head, you can create more interesting compositions that don't rely upon the use of an external source to validate the sound you envision. Songwriters must become competent at setting words to music…

consider that the piano was invented around the Romantic period and was built to play long lyrical line which makes it inappropriate to play basso continuo. Therefore, the piano was made to be dynamic because it was never really intended to perform this bass role. Rather, it is more advantageous to use the instrument to perform a melody or harmony that occurs in music that was created during the classical period or later. While a baseline is possible to create using the piano, it is challenging…

I walk out to the trailer thinking to myself, “This practice is so awkward.” We take our drums out and Zach, the previous bass drum tech, walks up just in time to start rehearsal. He will be leading them from now on. Everything goes normally, until we get to what would normally be the end of fours. The battery relaxes and waits to move to the next exercise, but then the metronome…

passion in young people. I have auditioned with the band directors at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, and secured a spot in their concert, marching, and jazz band. The band directors have expressed an interest in my learning to play the bass trombone, a new instrument for me, having played…

Johann Joseph Fux Johann Joseph Fux was an Austrian composer and theorist. He studied language, logic, law and music both at Graz University and the University of Ingolstadt from 1680 to 1687. Around 1695, Fux was appointed to the imperial court of Hungarian bishop Leopold I. While in the court of the emperor, Fux dedicated the Missa SS Trinitatis to Leopold I. Johann Fux kept his position in the court after the death of Leopold I, the reign of Joseph I, and Charles VI. He was appointed…

“I wake up, put a dip in, crack a cold one, and put my boots and my overalls on. This is the country boy song.” This is a line in the lyrics of a song by country singer, Earl Dibbles Jr. According to this line, this is the life of many who live in Tennessee who could be called country. Those who have not lived the country life associate country with the lyrics above, which is ignorance, because the language and culture of those who are not country have encouraged many to believe that being…

44 (1927). Most of the movement is constructed in the form of a double canon between violin I and II, and viola and cello (the cello is doubled by the upright bass). The first theme is played by violin II and imitated by violin I, at a rhythmic distance of an eighth note; the viola plays the second theme that is imitated by the cello also an eighth note apart. Each…