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Music is an art form in which the medium is sound.

i copied that, from wikipedia.

that has nothing to do with this blog excluding that it is about music.

Jazz is a pretty standard music usually, it has an interesting variety of instruments, vibraphone, guitar, bass, horns, pianos. It can be good stuff. Very soothing and rhymic. But Free Jazz, is some wild stuff, no rhythms, or tempos, really i doubt if there are even chord progressions that are contiuous throughout the "songs" or what ever they go by. I don't know if the songs are set up or fully improved, but if they are set up chaos, than i find it to be some what respectable.

yee haw!
-nick

T-Pain

Robert: Faheem Najm, better known by his stage name, T-Pain, is an American hip hop, R&B Singer/song writer and producer who has been noted for using the auto-tune effect (often mis-cited as a vocoder effect) in his singing. T-Pain won his first Grammy Award for being featured in the Kanye West song "Good Life". T Pain almost set the new trend of using alot of synth effects with hip hop beats with an almost mechanized sounding voice, this being done with auto tune set to relaxed in a way that it sounds like his notes almost flip when he sings. He is very impressive. T pain is from Tallehassie Florida and has a unique style in dress and art.

I tried... and yeah (aka el chronical de Nick)

"today nothing is real, boxing matches, music is replaced by technology, some bands don't even write those."
-mcguffin/rogers

Well first off I have to admit I like to record in the most minimalistic ways possible. I have a tascam tape recorder, which may have been my father's from the 80's. And also there is a free computer program called audacity, and it is a multi-track recording program. I think the rawness of music, shows the truth and talent. Lo-Fi is really an amazing and under-rated form of art. (see roberts blog about technology) this is where music is going to be like the book 1984. Few people will be making music, though many models will be playing the "rock-stars". MTV= Big Brother. If you can write a song make the music and do that. Respect for you.
Its all a matter of personal preference, artisitic integrity and what ever motivates thyself.
Things change, popculture repeats itself. Well if the time's are a'changing who knows what the future holds though, pessimism fills me, but whatever.

Technology and music {Robert(a)'s post}

Roberta- In the world of music today, there are three types of musicians. The first type of musician is the naturally talented, well rehearsed musician. This type of musician may be called old fashioned or simple. They are very good at composing/performing music live and are usually equiped with lessons, as well as somewhat of a natural ability to learn the music easier than most. The second type of musician is the digital musician. These people are incredibly talented with computers and technology. They are able to make themselves sound extremely talented, even though they may not be, by editing the recorded music and possibly using an autotuner to perfect the pitch of every sound. The third type of musician is well abled in both categories. A great way to desipher between this type of musician and the digital musician is to listen to vocal effects. Typically, the digital musician will have some type of vocal effect that will occasionally sound somewhat robotic. This, however is a tough call due to the fact that many multi-talented composers are experimenting with vocoders in order to achieve a new, unheard of sound.

"Long live the tape player."
-Nicholas Danger Rogers

Favorite guitar technices

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So, me.. Being the metal head I am. There are a few technices that i like to use when i play. The main ones are pinch harmonices and sweep picking.

Pinch Harmonics is playing a note and giving it a "squeel" sound. It's used mainly at the end of riffs and before the next riff in a song. How you do this is with your picking hand. Most people play with the pick slightly slanted while picking or strumming. In order to do this technice you must keep the pick parrallel with your thumb lowered on the pick. Then when you pick your thumb will gently brush the string RIGHT after the pick has hit the string. This is a very hard technique to master but once you do it sounds very good.

The sweep picking technique is a way to "shred". Bands such as the human abstract and solo artists like Yngwie Malmsteen use this sound. basicly what you do is create a chord (typically a bar chord). You finger each note and pick each individual one and beggin to pick up spead until you are able to do this quickly. Once you are able to move your finguring hand quickly you should be able to move to different bar chords. The motion you begin to have with your picking hand is similar to a sweep motion going up and down the strings. It's not a strum but more like a sweep. Now. After you get this down. YOu have to be able to mute each individual string right after you play it by releasing pressure off your fingure to deaden the note. If you don't then each note will bleed together.