Construction of musical notes- sunil shrestha

Construction of musical notes

You couldn't read or write music without notes. If you think of music as a language, the notes are like letters of the alphabet. If you know how to recognize the notes, you can learn the language.

Notes are made up of up to three specific components: note head, stem, and flag. Every note has a head — it’s the round part of a note. 

A note stem is the vertical line attached to the note head. A note flag is the little line that comes off the top or bottom of the note stem.

Every note has a head. An eighth note (the third one shown here) has all three possible components of a note: the head, the stem, and the flag

each note getting a flag, though, notes with flags can also be connected to each other with a beam, which is really just another, more organized-looking incarnation of the flag. For example, two eighth notes can be written as each having a flag, or as connected by a beam.

Eighth notes can be connected together with beams instead of having individual flags.

Four  sixteenth notes can have flags, can be grouped into two pairs connected by a double beam, or can all be connected by one double beam. It doesn’t matter which way they are written, they would sound the same when played.

These three groups of sixteenth notes, written in three different ways, would all sound alike when played.

Likewise, eight thirty-second notes could be written in a number of ways. Note that thirty-second notes get three flags (or three beams).

Like eighth notes and sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes can be written separately or “beamed” together.

70's Rock - Pink Floyd ~ Robert Farrugia

Introducing Pink Floyd to 70's Rock! Pink Floyd is a rock band formed in 1965 in London active through 1965 to 1987.Pink Floyd consists of four members Syd Barrett on vocals and guitar, Roger Waters on vocals and bass guitar, Nick Mason on drums and Rick Wright key board and vocals.

In 1973 Pink Floyd released the album Dark Side of The Moon. This album was one of the most commercial rock album in the world. It stayed number one on US charts where it remained on the chart for more than 14 years! Selling more than 40 million copies world wide.

"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd is my favorite song, the great vocals and thrilling guitar solos. Below is a video clip from the movie "The wall" where Comfortably Numb is being played. This movie is such an incredible peice depicting the life of Walters and what he went through this film really is a master piece of rock!   

 

What is music theory?- Sunil Shrestha

What is music theory?

The global passport for communication today is music. It is often told that music is land without borders. But what determines that music is good or bad. The reasonable arguments to support good quality of music could be:- 

• What kind of music we would like to hear preferably our taste and preferences
• what we perceive what music we like
• what is the language of music

Music theory

Music theory is the understanding the language of music.The main thing to know about music theory is that it is simply a way to explain the music we hear. It is not necessary that a good musician cant be born without the knowledge of music.In fact, if you are a good musician, you already know a lot of theory.

The concepts and rules that make up music theory are very much like the grammatical rules that govern written language.Being able to transcribe music makes it possible for other musicians to read and play compositions exactly as the composer intended. Learning to read music is almost exactly like learning a new language, to the point where a fluent person can “hear” a musical “conversation” when reading a piece of sheet music. Broadly, music theory may include any statement, belief, or conception of or about music.

There are plenty of intuitive, self-taught musicians out there who have never learned to read or write music and find the whole idea of learning music theory tedious and unnecessary. However, just like the educational leaps that can come with learning to read and write, music theory can help musicians learn new techniques, perform unfamiliar styles of music, and develop the confidence to try new things.

Thus,  learning to play and understand music takes a lot of personal discipline, but in the end, it's worth all the hard work.

70's Rock - Queen ~ Robert Farrugia

Introducing Queen to 70's Rock! Queen are a Rock band originated in London in 1970. Queen consists of 4 band member Freddie Mercury lead on vocals and piano (far left) , Brian May on guitar and vocals (middle right). John Deacon on bass guitar (middle left) and Roger Taylor on drums and vocal (far right).

Queen is famously known for the single Bohemian Phapsody in 1975 during their album release "A Night At The Opera" This song never had a vision to be so successful. This was because the song had a length of 5 minutes and 55 seconds which was seen to be too long for radio. Despite the length of the song it became one of the greatest singles they produced hitting radios becoming number 1 in the UK for a consecutive 9 weeks!

on the 23rd of November 1991 Freddy Mercury died. As a tribute Queen released a double sided single to raise money for charity. It became number one on UK charts and stayed up their for 5 weeks, raising over one million pounds. Queen then became the first band to have the same single become number one on UK charts twice. Freddie Mercury was awarded posthumously the BRIT’s “Outstanding Contribution to British Music”. Making Queen true legends of ROCK!

Above is the film clip to Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"

70's Rock - Led Zeppelin ~ Robert Farrugia

 

Introducing Led Zeppelin to 70s Rock! Led Zeppelin  is an rock band formed in London in 1968. The band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham. The group's heavy, guitar-driven sound, rooted in blues rock on their early albums, has drawn them recognition as one of the progenitors of  rock

As seen in the picture above are the members of Led Zeppelin Consisting of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

Led Zeppelin is widely considered to be one of the most successful, innovative and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group's sales at more than 200 or even 300 million albums worldwide. With 111.5 million RIAA-certified units, they are the second-best-selling band in the United States. Each of their nine studio albums placed on the Billboard Top 10, and six reached the number-one spot. Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the '70s" and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Led Zeppelin have produced many great songs, personal what like about led Zeppelin is that none of their music is electronic it is all hand played instruments, which you rarely see this century. Personally my favourite song is “In my time of dying” because of the strong focus of electric guitars. Also for more of a vocal favorite I prefer “Immigrant Song”. I am pretty sure everyone knows Led Zeppelin for one of their most influential songs of time “Stairway to Heaven”. Take a look at the videos below to see some real ROCK!

 

^^Video of Led Zeppelin "In my time of Dying" LIVE!!^^

Tomorrowland music festival in australia - nick

Tomorrow land is one of the biggest and most popular music festivals for club style music I mean it’s just completely amazing if you haven’t seen the after movie then threes something wrong with you, it’s like 20 minutes and you see all that went on over the three days I have dead set watched it like 20 times because it makes the hairs on my back stand on end it’s just that good. I had a friend from high school go and he actually showed me all his pictures from when he was there and it blew my mind how ridiculous it is and I was eternally jealous of him. Now tomorrow land has been going on for a few years now and has finally hit the popularity mark where it is being brought to Australia. It’s only ever been in Belgium and I heard about this on the web that the makers want to have a tomorrow land on every continent which means it coming to Australia. Now don’t get me wrong this amazing news and the line up will be one to remember so ill definitely be one of the thousands that attend but I am a little bit sad because one of the things that makes tomorrow land such a desire to go to is that its exotic, it’s in another country with people you've never met from all over the world and the crowd is just amazing. I have a feeling that if it come to Austraila it will get filled up with the usual losers that attend music festivals here, you will get your roid munchers who never ever put a shirt on, you your drug takers who pass out on the d-floor, and there is always a couple groups of blokes who just want to fight. Okay I should probably say some good things about music festivals here I feel like imp saying they are all bad and they aren't they are pretty amazing  at stereo sonic I saw Zedd play at like 4 in the afternoon and the weather could not have been better, blue as blue is blue skies and I was right up the front behind the barrier fist pumping and jumping away at all of his songs, I went with all my mates but they couldn't be bothered pushing to the front but I really wanted to be there, I barreled like 3 people over and pushed my way through but it was soooo worth it cause they started letting off the confetti guns like right in my face and it was just a blast of cold air and there is nothing better than anything cold when you in the middle of the pit cause it does get pretty hot in there and you sweat like a pig. And then I was at future not that long ago and the dubstep tent was the place to be, I was there for like 5 hours straight and they had these awesome setups for the stages that just made you go WOOOSH!  Anyway back to tomorrow land, so we can expect a tomorrow land 2015 because the event makers say they don’t want to make just a cheap knockoff they want to make it just as good as the original tomorrow land so they will be taking their time. I’m super keen for this now because I’ve seen the line for the past tomorrow lands and we can expect all of the best that includes David Guetta, Fatboy Slim, Jamie JonesJohn, Digweed, Alesso, Rebecca & Fiona, Solomun, Carl Cox, John Digweed, N-Type Friction, Terence Fixmer, Calvin Harris, Michael Calfan, Dave Clarke, Cari Lekebusch, Avicii,  Mat Zo, Jaytech, Super8 & Tab Norin & rad Boom Jinx, Nitrous Oxide, Nicky Romero, Skrillex, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Chris Liebing!, Green Velvet, Cazzette, Bingo Players, DJ Rush, Deetron, Chuckie, Jeff Mills, The Advent (Live), Luke Slater presents, Planetary Assault Systems (live), Martin Solvieg, Porter Robinson, Ben Klock, Kriz Spacid, Laidback Luke, Goldie Icicle, b2b Rockwel,l The Prototypes, Alix Perez, b2b Spectrasoul, One87 & Hookerz ft. MC Mush just to name a few.

Revolutionising and Changing Australian Hip Hop ~ Anthony Ryburn

                                                                                                Seth Sentry



Believe it or not, over the past decade since Australian hip hop was brought into the scene, it has still been adapted and rapidly changing as each year goes by. Subordinately this is due to the rise of more underground artists trying to break through to the national audience. Issues of promoting and producing and marketing etc. in Australian hip hop is almost non evident, which has led to artists to create songs that interest the target audience. Initiatives used include more of a focus on lyrical content rather than the music itself with a 'catchy' tune. The intense focus on lyrical meaning and purpose has led to an increased interest in the underground audience, and in some cases the nation wide audience.

Lyrics used are focused on social justice issues, or problems where listeners can relate to, with an active approach, rather than the disillusioned lyrics of the pop world. To describe it, would be to almost attain a standard of rhythmic poetry. techniques such as metaphors, similes etc. are compiled together in an artistic medium of music and tied to a background tune. This strong emphasis is the reason the music genre is growing and is continuing to expand from the internet to the real world. "Every day feels the same with a different date, and every face looks as plain as an empty frame." (Strange Lot - Seth Sentry) this particular reference to the song looks in depth at a cynical view on modern culture opposing the naive day to day man's view.