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    Neo Soul Music Essay

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    Black music is always revolving and changing, creative musicians are always trying to add new elements to existing contents. In this research paper, we are going to look into the development of modern days neo-soul music in America, what makes this style of music fascinating to a lot of music lovers, artists that excels in this style of music and how it influenced musicians around the world. It is extremely difficult to separate R&B, hip-hop, jazz and neo-soul as these genres of music are…

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    Cadburys Advert Analysis

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    solo “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins. The commercial is shot in a recording studio with a purple background which reinforces the brand Cadbury throughout the advert. The selling tactic that is used is humorous because a gorilla playing a drum kit does not happen in reality. It is effective to the chocolate bar because it 's makes the commercial more memorable and people pay more attention to humorous adverts rather than serious ones. The target audience for Cadburys advert does not appeal…

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    Whip Clash Movie Analysis

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    The movie Whiplash directed by Damien Chazelle is a heart-rending story about a young drummer and his endeavour to become one of the great Jazz drummers. The grind and determination of the story's nature instills itself well to the exploration of the forces behind motivation and how it influences human actions. Throughout the movie, Andrew has to sacrifice smaller, more basic needs in order to reach the level of drumming demanded by his conductor, Fletcher. Starting off slow with physical needs,…

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    She goes out around 10 PM. She brings the book, flashlight, blanket, and first aid kit. Florence sneaks outside her house and down the block where she is safe. She then pulls out her book and reads the directions. The directions say to start outside the city walls. Then head North to a cave. Next knock on the cave. The cave should…

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    Snare Drum Review Essay

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    The sound of the snare drum made me scared in my mind I thought Please Mr. Zielenski don’t pick me to play the snare… I had known that I could not play the snare drum last year in sixth grade and I wouldn’t even touch one the sound of it was cool, but I could never just get the rhythm right. When I started band I started with a camp over the summer and I was pretty great at playing the quarter notes only. The weeks I tried hard at trying to play the snare, but I constantly did flams (using…

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    Eight marching drums menacingly stand surrounded by the dim light of flickering fluorescent bulbs dangling above. The new recruits enter the room and slowly walk to their respective drum—their new homes for the next hours. All members stand with wide eyes and unstable posture. They nervously wait for the tech’s commands. The room encompassed in a seemingly endless silence. The tech sounded off and the new drumline members stepped off in perfect time and began the never ending, never moving…

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    I first knew that drum corps was for me at the DCI East super-regional in 2012. DCI, or Drum Corps International, is marching music's major league and is essentially professional marching band. I hadn't known anything about it until that fateful day the summer before freshman year when my high school band made the hour and a half journey by school bus to J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, PA to watch this classic drum corps event. I only barely remember the corps that performed or what their…

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    The Movie Slash

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    The movie Whiplash from 2014 follows the story of Andrew Neiman as he is a jazz major student at Shaffer Conservatory in New York City. The movie starts out with Andrew playing the drums in the music room, when Terence Fletcher, a well-known conductor, walks in to see him playing. Fletcher invites Andrew to be a part of his studio band as the alternative drummer. When Andrew arrives to band practice the next day, he realizes Fletcher’s true personality. He is insulting, abusive, and a bully to…

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    The Drum Research Paper

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    The drum set is unique among musical other instruments. It has many individual parts originated from all over the world for over thousands of years. Percussion and drums can be defined as an instrument that must be hit with a mallet or shaken to make a sound. The surface can be made of animal hide, wood, metal, or really anything that produces sound. The mallet is used to produce the sound that includes a human hand. Drums include a variety of instruments that make similar sounds to a piano such…

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    tumultuous time of scientific advances that greatly affected how society lives currently. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring on the topic of the changing environment. Through emphasizing damage already done to the environment, providing alternatives to using objects that harm the environment, and placing accusation on an anonymous powerful figure instead of the common American, Rachel Carson argues for her readers to protect the environment themselves instead of letting only few…

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