Glam metal

By: Jorden and Claudia In the next couple paragraphs you will learn about copper sulfates names, its agricultural uses, its industrial uses, the many hazards, safety precautions, activity series, and displacement reaction. Also copper sulfate can be very useful but it is also very dangerous. Copper sulfate (CuSO4 and 5H2O) is also known as Blue Vitriol, Bluestone, Salzburg vitriol, Roman vitriol, Turkish stone, and Blue copperas. The mineral form of CuSO4 is chalcanthite. The white-gray…

The Origins of Electric Guitar By: Pierce Bradley The electric guitar, an invention that’s not even a century old yet that has an intrinsic role in the history of music, especially the last 40 to 50 years having turned the guitar into an iconic figurehead and institution for musicians old and new. An though the electric guitar is less than a hundred years old it has ancestry in older, classical acoustic instruments built as early as 1779. The first electric guitar was dated in 1931. It’s a…

Psychological Effects of Metal For a very long time now music has been used in many different means, whether it be entertainment or therapeutic. From dancing to escaping reality, music has many effects on the mind. I believe that within these effects, music holds more positive growth than negative. But what are some of the effects and who do they effect the most? More specifically, what are the effects of the heavy metal genre? Dr. Katrina McFerran has stated “Most young people listen to a…

Throughout the years music of many different kinds have been born. Their is pop, country, rap, and rock. Rock music was born and very popular in the 80’s. And through the years it has grown. One thing about rock music is that they are usually written by the band and not with help, and they tell a story about the bands life. Todays pop and rap are more so up beat and good songs, but they don’t always have a meaning behind them. Rock music is away to let go and tell people about yourself. And as…

I is for instruments. Recently, I have done some great things with the instruments I currently play. Violin, piano, bass, and guitar are the instruments that I play. The one that I will be talking about most is bass because I spend the most time on it, and it is currently my favorite to play. This spring, I bought a bass guitar from a guy who lived in Wichita. When I did this, it opened up a lot of things in my bass playing. I went from only having a standup bass at school to having a guitar at…

Heavy metal is a rather broad and ambiguous term that describes many different takes on the same genre, with each band having its own individual approach. As metal bands go out of their way to sound different from one another, it is often difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is in metal that ties all of the bands together under a one genre with a universal sound. The aforementioned tritone is perhaps the greatest example of what metal bands have in common, as far as music…

Sh-boom by the chords is a doo- wop of rhythm and blues. This song is sing by 4 people who are one lead singer and tree vocal accompaniment. This song is about a love story, whole music is in a brisk mood. The lead singer was sing the whole story and accompany were flow the lead singer, deeper voice and with the rhythm of doo and sh- boom. However the main musical instrument is guitar. Shake rattle and roll by Jor Tumer is type of rock and roll. Whole music is solo by a male singer who is Jor…

the US, while in the UK it was released on May 29, 1989. The band who made the song was the Guns N’ Roses, they are an American rock band that debuted in 1985 and they are still a group until the current time. Their genre was hard rock and-and heavy metal. Basically, their songs were mostly loud and aggressive with strong vocals and mostly emphasizes the guitars. The group helped each other…

Have you ever seen a person with clothing that was just covered in band patches? I brought a vest that's just like what you might have seen. It's covered in patches, buttons, and patterns of sorts on it. These patches are from many bands that I enjoy listening to and there are also political types of buttons on it. Vests and clothing like this helps people in the Punk Rock culture express themselves as they see fit and helps them show others their way of thinking that they believe strongly in.…

Rock music had come a long way throughout history, but some things didn’t change. One is still being looked down on by parents and officials for its terrible influence. From the pelvic thrust of Elvis Presley, sexual lyrics from Little Richard, political statements from, use of drugs, and many more which degrades moral values, people tried to restrict the music being reached to the young audience. There are other reasons that people want to censor music. The difference in ideologies, especially…