Oh I just love Garageband! It is a program on the Mac where you can record music. Its so easy to use, you dont have to be a pro to understand it, like in Logic. Its just plug and play, and thats what makes it so easy to just pick up the guitar and forget about time and everything.
This is how the window looks like and an example of how easily you can produce something. Its a random play just recorded:
Jumat, 16 April 2010
Kamis, 15 April 2010
Grammy Awards
The topic of this blog is as we all know music, so therefore it is some sort of sense in writing about the price all musicians want to achieve, or should want to achieve cause its super awesome, or I dunno, but anyways..I'm talking about The Grammy Awards, which originally was called The Gramophone Awards, but I guess that sounded too "not-cool" so they had to change it to something more soundable and maybe abit more modernized.
The nomination begins with induviduals or record companies who has to send in a copy to the Nation Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, where 150 experts will review.
There are four main prices to be awarded:
Album of the year
Song of the year
Record of the year
Best new artist
Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given out for more long-lasting contributions to the music industry.
The awards has gotten some criticism. The lead-singer of the band Tool did not meet up for one of their awards and he said this: "I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about."
The top leaders of most Grammys won:
#1 Georg Solti with 31 awards!
#2 Quincy Jones with 27
and
#3 Alsion Krauss with 26
And the leaders of bands is U2 with 22 awards.
The trophy shows a gramophone which is from where the first name originates (doh!).
The nomination begins with induviduals or record companies who has to send in a copy to the Nation Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, where 150 experts will review.
There are four main prices to be awarded:
Album of the year
Song of the year
Record of the year
Best new artist
Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other contributions such as artwork and video. Special awards are also given out for more long-lasting contributions to the music industry.
The awards has gotten some criticism. The lead-singer of the band Tool did not meet up for one of their awards and he said this: "I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about."
The top leaders of most Grammys won:
#1 Georg Solti with 31 awards!
#2 Quincy Jones with 27
and
#3 Alsion Krauss with 26
And the leaders of bands is U2 with 22 awards.
The trophy shows a gramophone which is from where the first name originates (doh!).
Roskilde Festival
Now the final list of bands is complete, and theres alot of bands I'd love to see. Examples: Gorillaz, The Prodigy, Muse, Mötorhead, Them Crooked Vultures and more! Some basic facts about Roskilde I forgot to mention; It is considered as a rock festival though its a festival of all genres, and its the 5th biggest is all of Europe. It has gone on since 1971, and it was mostly hippies to see around then. Though there are mostly mainstream youth visiting nowadays Ive also experienced meeting alot of hippies down there. Theres alot more visiters now than in the beginning, it has obviously become very famous, which comes from all of Europe, but mainly from Scandinavia.
This is the years poster:
This is the years poster:
Selasa, 06 April 2010
The Greatest Of All TIme
When it comes to the guitar, especially the el-guitar, it is only one we can refer to as the greatest, Jimi Hendrix. And now with the opportunity as of having a "rock blog" I will tell you some about him.
He is known for his amazing guitar style and for his originality on stage, and is the best electric guitar player the world has ever seen.
He was born into poverty,and did not have a very easy life growing up. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother died when he was in his teens. At about the age of fourteen, Hendrix was able to pick up a one-string acoustic guitar, which inspired him to play like Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins. And at some point his father finally bought him an electric guitar and he learned to play by ear from listening and practicing to Chuck Berry.
After a short period in the military, he was discharged for being an incompetent soldier because all he wanted to do was play his guitar.After leaving the Army, he moved to Nashville where he tried to get a band that could keep up with his playing style. He was able to make just enough money for a living by playing in black clubs. So, he moved to New York City. In Greenwich Village he was discovered by a producer that saw him on a flight to London. Once he got there he made a recording of a song named Hey Joe, just a single, which soon went to the top of the lists. He then released two other songs he had written and they too went number one.
In London at the age of 27, Hendrix was found dead in his apartment after an apparent sleeping pill and alcohol overdose.
R.I.P.
He is known for his amazing guitar style and for his originality on stage, and is the best electric guitar player the world has ever seen.
He was born into poverty,and did not have a very easy life growing up. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother died when he was in his teens. At about the age of fourteen, Hendrix was able to pick up a one-string acoustic guitar, which inspired him to play like Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins. And at some point his father finally bought him an electric guitar and he learned to play by ear from listening and practicing to Chuck Berry.
After a short period in the military, he was discharged for being an incompetent soldier because all he wanted to do was play his guitar.After leaving the Army, he moved to Nashville where he tried to get a band that could keep up with his playing style. He was able to make just enough money for a living by playing in black clubs. So, he moved to New York City. In Greenwich Village he was discovered by a producer that saw him on a flight to London. Once he got there he made a recording of a song named Hey Joe, just a single, which soon went to the top of the lists. He then released two other songs he had written and they too went number one.
In London at the age of 27, Hendrix was found dead in his apartment after an apparent sleeping pill and alcohol overdose.
R.I.P.
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