Snare drum

I listened to two pieces of Irish music the first was a piece pertaining to Irish marching bagpipes. Since this is marching music there is a constant snare drum going on as well as some sort of horn players playing in the background. First of all, its hearing how well the players are playing in tune with each other is amazing and how unified their sound is. There are times when you distinctly know there is a multitude of players playing as it adds to the overall effect of the march as this style…

The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

Scottish family. I have thirty aunts and uncles, and many cousins. A great majority of these people are involved in preserving Scottish culture in the United States, including myself. I played in a Scottish Pipe and Drum Band, where many of my family members played the bagpipes or snare drum. The differences between American and Scottish culture are immense and I enjoy learning about and experiencing their many beauties. I thank my mother for this as she always tried to give me a diverse and…

Imagine standing on the football field all dressed up in uniform playing the snare drum, Jake Bombach did that every Friday during the halftime show. Jake Bombach is only 16 years old and already has a lot of activities. While interviewing Jake, I learned many interesting qualities about his family life, school activities, and personality traits and hobbies. Jake has a fairly normal life being an only child. Jake is a 16 year old boy who is an only child. He enjoys being an only child because he…

all have one thing in common, music. The Fanfare for the Common Man and Adagio for Strings is something I have heard a few times here or there, whether it was in movies or even in music class whenever I was younger. The Drum Corps International 2014 was a collaboration of multiple drum corps from all over that displayed the show at a competition. Analyzing each element of these videos really made me realize how much I have learned in the past 8 weeks. Beginning with The Fanfare for the Common…

fast, I was amazed how quickly he was creating new improvisation melodies. It seemed he made sure to play the full musical spectrum- broad range of low to high notes. It was obvious that the rhythm section, which incorporated the guitar, bass, and drums, accompanied the sax during his solo. The soloist changed modes when the rhythm section did; therefore, I would say the rhythm section was leading from the back. With prior knowledge and a once reliable music ear, I could tell the alto sax…

Debussy, born Claude Achille Debussy at Saint Germain-en-Laye, France on August 22, 1862, was a profound composer of the twentieth century. Because of the similarities his compositions share with impressionist art, many refer to Debussy as an impressionists. Impressionist, according to the online Webster dictionary, is defined as “one who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism in art; especially, a painter who paints in the impressionistic style; as, the skyrocketing prices of…

heard sampled within earlier hip-hop and rap songs. Sampling plays a significant role in defining the hip-hop sound, by taking kicks, snares, and snippets of any song and making it your own. A notable artist that popularized the method of producing music was Marley Marl. He had done this by using a sampler, specifically the E-mu SP1200, to take drum patterns, snares, and other bits of a song to produce popular beats. Using and introducing the sampler to the hip hop world, gives a distinct sound…

orchestra was made up of flutes, the piccolo, oboes, the English horn, clarinets, bass clarinets and the bassoon. The brass section was made up of the French horn, trumpets, and trombones. The percussion section included the timpani, snare drum, triangle, cymbals, bass drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, and the chimes. Lastly, the strings were composed of the harp, first and second violins, viola, cello, and double bass. My drawing of the orchestra’s seating arrangement is included in the email with…

song. Another instrument that you can hear throughout the song is the piano.The piano enters at about 50 seconds in to the song and throughout the song different piano riffs are used. The next instrument that is introduced is the drums, it sounds mostly to be a snare drum. Also, throughout the song the pitch varies from lower to higher. The pitch is usually higher when the two singers are harmonizing and the pitch becomes lower when the two are singing separately. At about one minute and 30…