Guitar And Bass Essays and Term Papers

Neil Young In Halifax

I was getting ready for school one morning when my father said that my cousin Jennifer was on the phone and she wanted to know if I wanted a ticket to the Neil Young concert coming up in Halifax. I said I did and I kind of forgot about it. It was Halloween night and I was listening to an old ...

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Best Of Van Halen: Volume I

I have listened to a lot of music over my few years on this planet. I love listening to the radio, CD’s, going to dances, and hearing music. Needless to say, I’ve heard many bands. Some have been long running, like Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones, and others are the typical one hit wonders ...

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Jimi Hendrix

, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In these three years the sound ...

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Stan Kenton & His Orchestra

Born December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher. It wasn't long, however, ...

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A Brief History Of The Blues

Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although ...

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Robert Johnson and the Blues

Robert Johnson, born in Mississippi in 1911, was not only a bluesman but was also one of the most influential musicians in history. His music contained emotion, mystery, and passion which produced original blues music that many musicians looked up to. Despite being one of the most influential ...

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The Tapestry

Have you ever been to a concert or a special event somewhere and seen a band performing? Or even better, have you ever had the opportunity to be in one of these groups? I think that is one of the most amazing things you can participate in. The youth worship team of the First Baptist Church of ...

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Chopin And Ravel

Chopin¡¦s Ballade is described as a story ¡§carried forward by its own momentum, leaping ahead or lingering over some details but never backtracking.¡¨ While Ravel¡¦s Alborada del gracioso is a wild Spanish dance filled with leaps, twirls and excitement. Frederic Chopin (1810 ¡V 1849) and Maurice ...

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Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on February 20,1967 in the town of Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen is on the west coast and is about 108 miles southwest of Seattle. Aberdeen is a dreary place with about seven feet of rain a year. Kurt was born to Mrs. Wendy Cobain and to Mr. Donald Cobain. Wendy ...

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Chopin And Ravel

Chopin¡¦s Ballade is described as a story ¡§carried forward by its own momentum, leaping ahead or lingering over some details but never backtracking.¡¨ While Ravel¡¦s Alborada del gracioso is a wild Spanish dance filled with leaps, twirls and excitement. Frederic Chopin (1810 ¡V 1849) and Maurice ...

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Rock Music

Rock is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other ...

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A Story About Seeing MxPx

On November 13th I went to Tramps in New York to see one of my favorite bands, MxPx. MxPx is a Christian pop-punk band. Pop punk basically means happy punk. The band members, are Mike Herrera who plays bass and sings, Tom Wisniewski who plays guitar and Yuri Ruley plays drums. They played about 10 ...

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Jerry Garcia And The Grateful Dead

Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District. His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of ...

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A Story About Seeing NOFX

On November 26th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El Hefe (guitar, trumpet, ...

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Charles Manson

has been named "the most dangerous man alive." Society referred to him as the devil. They believed he was the reason society was so bad in the 1960's. The 1950's to the 1960's was uncontrollably filled with violence. Our culture was shattered by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, ...

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Led Zeppelin

was one of the giants of the 1970’s in hard rock. They were also one of the greatest success stories that ever played hard rock music. The group was one the more popular hard rock groups that performed in the seventies, and even had some hits in the 1960’s. The members of the group are Jimmy ...

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Dave Matthews' "Dancing Nancies"

Many critics hailed Dave Mathews Band as, “the impressive alternative to alternative rock.” I was definitely impressed and hooked with one song. I was mesmerized by the sounds that poured from my radio speakers. This band was different. Dave Mathews Band combined instruments rarely ever heard ...

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SKA!

Imagine this: spring break 1962, Jamaica. You are strolling down the streets of Kingston, enjoying the cool sea breeze and the delightful Caribbean climate. The streets are filled with many sounds. Cars' horns honking, children playing, and people shuffling by. There is one sound, however, that ...

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The Grateful Dead

I have chosen to do my report on . They were a rock and roll band from the sixties that stayed popular and still influenced rock and roll until 1995 when the lead singer, Jerry Garcia, died and the band dissolved. The Dead remained popular for so long because of the style of their live concerts ...

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Come As You Are The Nirvana St

CoMe AS YoU ARe: The Story OF Nirvana February 20, 1967 Kurt Donald Cobain was born in Aberdeen Wa., a small town outside of Seattle. Kurt was a very artistic child who loved to draw. Kurt's parents bought him a Mickey mouse drum set when he was about five. "I kind of pushed drums on ...

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