Guitar

Pigs”. “War Pigs” is heavily influenced by Blues and Heavy Metal. The song’s most prevalent instruments are the bass guitar and drums. Blues and Heavy metal music usually contains those instruments. This song is distinctly heavy metal though because it doesn’t contain a piano, like blues or rock. Blues music usually contained solos for certain instruments. “War Pigs” had bass guitar solos. Similar to how Paul Mccartney sung in Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles, Ozzy Osbourne sings for a few…

Imagine being the creator of the original appealing beats of rock n’ roll! Bo Diddley is believed to be the originator, and father of rock n’ roll. He was born on December 30, 1928 in Macomb, Mississippi, and his birth name was Ellas Otha Bates. His name was changed to Bo Diddley that means “absolutely nothing”, but as you will see, he highly proved that erroneous phrase truly wrong. His mother was 16 year old when she had him, and she already had three other children. His father shortly died…

lifetime for sparking a lifelong passion inside me. As we drove by, I peered out the window and felt immediately attracted to the structure. My eyes moved upwards to find the sign which read Bluefish Music, then down to the guitars lined up along the walls. “I didn’t know there was a guitar shop here”, I pondered. My mother projected her voice so that it would reach the back seat. “Me either. Do you want to check it out?”. Of course I did. I crossed the threshold of the store and toured it,…

That’s when the raging guitar kicked in, and Violent New Breed seized the stage. The band automatically set the demeanor for the concert, showing everyone there that they were there to play some rock n roll, by utilizing dialogue from the movie Big Trouble In Little China as a creative lead in to their opening song. Violent new Breed is a fairly new band from Los Angeles California. More importantly it is the dream and the vision of Ex-Escape The Fate bassist and Co-founder Max Green. Green as…

Oblivion, off their album they just came out with. I really started paying attention to guitars when the guitar player, Brent Hinds, brought out his see through Flying V guitar. It was one of the most amazing guitars I had ever seen. I left that night feeling pretty good. For it being my first ever concert, I was amazed that you could do so much more with just 5 instruments. It got me on a mindset of playing guitar. A year later I went to another concert in St. Louis. I saw Cavalera Conspiracy.…

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…

There’s just something about the guitar. It’s hard to define. There aren’t many art forms that are capable of connecting radically different ideas and lifestyles. For some reason, the guitar happens to be one of them. For example: Jimi Hendrix is unanimously considered one of the greats. He was known for his outrageous stage habits (like setting his axe on fire), his ability to draw influences from Black music into Rock N Roll, and his divine talents on the guitar. Jimi played as though there…

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…

To listen to a piece of music does not necessarily mean that you have understood the ideas and/or emotions musicians and composers are trying to convey. Through this class, you have not only taught me how to describe music, and Its effects but how our own individual experiences influence how we interpret, and react to music. When first I began taking music classes in high school, I was not taught how to listen to music correctly and how to describe how it affected me. I would often find myself…

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…