Slide guitar

four children (Slide 2). The bigger families led to more chaos and craziness within the household. The mother could finally catch a break once the school bus came to pick up the children (Slide 18). Rockwell also shows that this era was a time of dating and dreaming about finding the right one (Slides 5 & 6). For the boys and girl, Rockwell depicted their lives as pretty simple. They were responsible for their homework (Slide 11); they got involved in sports like baseball (Slide 11); and they…

you are hungry you know you can get variety of food at the stalls starting from steaks to burgers , there is a pond which has peddle boats and rowing boats and you can use it to your own convenience. The sounds of violins and a man strumming the guitar pelting out your favourite songs while you sit their relaxing and enjoying the song what more can you ask for. The children also has wonderful activities of rope climbing, skiing, water sports which can be enjoyed by both the parents and the…

Mississippi delta of New Orleans creating a style of country blues called delta blues. Some of the more well-known artists include Robert Johnson who recorded “Cross Road Blues” in 1936 (Week 1 Lecture pg. 22), and Son House who was known for his slide guitar playing and the stirring emotions he poured out when playing a song. In terms of commercial success of country blues, it’s important to realize that majority of the artists were either singing for themselves to remedy the blues or singing…

him was playing his guitar in a way that was interestingly new to Handy. Robert Santelli explains in his article A Century of the Blues, “He doesn’t finger the strings normally, instead, he presses a pocketknife against them, sliding it up and down to create a slinky sound. The technique that the man was using was called slide guitar, because instead of picking the guitar with a pick or finger, he was sliding his pocket knife across the strings. It was not the sound of the guitar that struck…

after at 00:56, low piano notes are played to give a more serious and dangerous tone to the scene, following by the legato strings playing a lower register than the beginning (before 00:56). Acoustic guitar slides, such as at 1:00, are here to emphasise the Western and the desert environment. The guitar was then faded down and does not appear again until 1:30, using a delay (H-Delay by Waves) at *time+feedback* The arrangement has been made light and enough room was there to leave for the voice…

This essay will discuss and analyse how far the album Buena Vista Social Club can be considered a great work, paying particular attention to the music on the album, the recording process and the impact and reactions of the Cuban public. In the year of 1997 the album BVSC was released and managed to sell 8 million copies. The album was produced by popular guitarist and film score composer Ry Cooder and featured 20 musicians. Ry Cooder had met Nick Gold, the world music producer who worked for…

UNIT 3 WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2 Introduction: Discussion of cognate strategies, or ways of composing, expression, and presenting a message to the audience. “Cognate refers to knowledge, and strategies meaning techniques to impart knowledge.” Kostelnick, C., & Roberts, D. (2017) in a book Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators. In our textbook, Business Communicators for Success, cognate…

drums. However, Ellington managed to change it in order to include a string base instead of a tuba; as the guitar was later added to replace the banjo. The "march" time of 2/4 was then taken out and replaced with a more preferable laid back, steady 4/4 time. In this style, the trumpet carried the melody, the clarinet played the showy countermelodies, and the trombone played the rhythmic slides and sounded the root notes of chords or simple harmony. Below this basic trio, the tuba or string…

A few of the popular ones were Blues and Ragtime. Blues is very similar to Jazz because of the similar ways musicians modify the instruments for the pieces. Artists like Robert Johnson helped showcase the modification of the guitar beautifully. He used a slide which helped mimic the sound of another singing voice though Johnson was playing solo. A very large part of Blues was a call and response feature. It was when there is a question asked in one section of the song and another band member…

Francis Bongiovi was born on March 2nd, 1962 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey and named after his father. Jon was raised by his parents Carol and John Bongiovi. Jon's passion for music began when his mother bought him an acoustic guitar at the age of 7. He struggled to play the guitar but recognised artists such as Elton John, Rush, Thin Lizzy, and his favourite Bruce Springsteen. By his early teenage years, Jon was going out at local clubs and friends convincing him that one day he will become a…