Kit Kat

You see how things work or how things live. Mountain Men like Kit were the best at it. They were so good at it that they would get to guide other explorers like John Freedmont. Kit guided John through the great basin, Oregon, and California. If it wasn’t for Kit the United States wouldn’t be the size it is today. John even described Kit as having supernatural powers. Most would think of a mountain man as being nasty and illiterate, but kit was intelligent. He could speak many different…

Whenever someone has free time they usually find something fun to do. As for myself, I found that audio engineering; lighting and special effects design, playing and learning about percussion instruments, and anything electronic or technical related are great things to play around with. When I was a little kid, I always played with different toys of mine that either ran on batteries, or that plugged into an electrical socket and/or took my toys apart so see how they worked. So, from that moment…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…