...Tyler Gathercoal Written Assignment 2112 November 11, 2011 This seven movement “suite” as many people would describe it, is almost 21 minutes in duration. The song, 2112 (pronounced, twenty-one twelve), was written by the band, Rush. Rush is composed of three members; Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart. The band originated in Canada in the year 1974. They quickly moved to the United States where they became one of the most popular bands in their era. Alex plays the guitar, Geddy plays the keyboards and bass while singing, and Neil Peart plays his massive drum-set and writes the band’s lyrics. In 1976, Rush came out with their fourth album, 2112—this album is often referred to as “Rush’s break-through album”. This album might possibly feature Rush’s greatest song ever composed, 2112. This song is based in the year 2112, and takes place at “The Temples of Syrinx”, which is where many priests live their lives. These priests do not believe in individualism, they believe they are all equal. All the priests that live at this temple are banded together under the Red Star of the Solar Federation. One day, one of these priests finds a guitar. He learns to how to play this guitar and shows the other priests, even though guitars have been banished from the temple for decades. The high priest thinks the guitar is evil and that it had destroyed the older generations of mankind. The high priest destroys the guitar. The 2112 album cover is seen as a red pentagram with...
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...Blues Essay I chose to do my essay on Tracy Chapman’s 1996 release of “Give Me One Reason,” which can be found at the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2kEx5BLoC4. Chapman begins this duple meter song with an electric guitar solo playing the melody of the tune for one measure when her vocals join singing one complete chorus. The dynamic range of the song is minimal throughout but after the introduction of the duo guitar and vocal solo all the other instruments join in intensifying the energy of the tune while keeping the same medium paced tempo. There is a variety of timbres played in this song including the piano, bass guitar, electric guitars, drums, and tambourine. There are also female and male background vocals joining in sporadically adding to the ending of some choruses by singing either “You can see me turning” or “Why I should stay.” Halfway through the song after the melody is played about four times with the chorus sung two complete times there is an electric guitar solo for a 12-bar phrase. The homophonic texture of this tune provides the melody with a simple accompaniment of at least five different tunes. I found it difficult to listen to this song without moving my upper body back and forth, singing the words, and tapping my feet. Even after taking a break from the song I would still sing the main chorus. This leads me to believe this song is most definitely program music. This song provoked me to move my body. It stimulated my response...
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... Creating the ultimate custom pedal I am a guitar player of multiple sounds, I utilized many pedals to create my unique tones, my pedals are a key component when playing electric guitar, however, any guitarist that uses multiple pedals knows the inconvenience of not having a pedal board. With all the space pedals take, and cables needed to power pedals its a must to have a pedal board. I started playing acoustic guitar when I was 16, at the age of 17 I was inspired by Saul Hudson (Slash) from the band Guns N Roses. That influenced me to learn how to play the electric guitar and gave me a new perspective on playing. Electric guitar forced me to create my own sounds and tones through guitar pedals. Like many electric guitarists, one of my first pedals was a Boss Ds-1 Overdrive. Overdrive in one of the oldest types of effects there are, its a type of signal processing to increase the sound/ gain from the electric instrument that's going into the amplifier. According to Wikipedia, The history of the overdrive and distortion dates back all the way to the late 1940s. Musicians such as Junior Barnard, Chuck Berry, Elmore James, among others were one of the first ones to implement the overdrive sound effect, and with this Rock n Roll was born. My second pedal I utilize in my music in a noise gate suppressor, I use this pedal to clean up all unwanted hum from my guitar pickups, all the unwanted noise goes into my amp and produces feedback, the noise suppressor helps...
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...Situation Analysis ESP guitar is popular brand in the market, company now concentrates new market group, high technology of electric guitar. ESP have a few competitors or almost never have it in this market that is why ESP focus on it because ESP want to be the leader in this way, and our product is new. Company believes that it become popular product exactly. Market Summary In fact, there is a lot of guitar brand in market such as Gibson, Fender, PRS, Godin, Dean, Jackson, Framus, etc. Each brand usually focus on own design, sound and good material, all guitar brand try to convince popular guitarist to become its brand ambassadress so that company will be able to manufacture signature guitar of brand ambassadress. It helps company to attract consumer who crazy about brand ambassadress. Anyway, this strategy is used for a long time, we will use technology combine with guitar to be a leader in this way because most company concentrate the other things, this is the opportunity to be the beginner of leader guitar brand in this way. SWOT Analysis Strength of ESP guitar is to has a lot of heavy metal guitarist. In the other hands, this is weakness as well because most guitarist love in regular brand such as Gibson and Fender, both brand is very classic in consumer’s mind. Anyway, ESP guitar will focus on market group that love in technology and convenient in order to attract new market group. Competition There are two big competitive guitar’s brand in the...
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...Devin DeCavalcanti Speech January 14, 2015 I am here today to talk to you about someone with a very unique name, his name is Royal. When I first heard his name a few things popped into my mind, the royal family, the Kansas City Royals, basically he sounds like he could be famous. When you ask royal what he likes to do his story gets even better because he plays the electric guitar. He does not play in a band but he has covered for local bands whose members have been out sick. Royal says he enjoys playing with a band because of all the energy and he tends to pick up on their music pretty fast. Maybe one day he could have his own band named after him. Royal likes to play just about any kind of music but the music he enjoys listening to the music is R&B and soul. I like talking to him about playing the guitar because as a kid I always wanted to learn how to play, but I never accomplished that goal. Now that we have talked about what he likes to do I would like to go back and talk about his name because it really caught my attention. The word royal means having the status of a king, queen or a member of their family. If my name was Royal I would use that to my advantage and make sure everyone knew it. I never found out why his parents named him Royal but in my opinion they seem to have picked out that right name for him. With his name being one of kind I am sure he gets compliments all the time. When I first met him and asked what his name was I had to say it back to him...
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...‘Third Movement From Electric Counterpoint’ by Steve Reich Background to Minimalism La Monte Young and Terry Riley were experimental composers who made the most of minimal musical resources to create a piece, using drones and repetition. Young wrote ‘The well Tuned Piano’ which includes improvisation and lasts for 6 hours. Riley experimented with tape loops combined with delay and instrumental sounds. Reich was part of the ensemble for the first performance of Riley’s composition ‘In C’, which repeats short musical fragments along with a constantly repeating quaver C keeping the pulse. Features of Minimalism Drones - a long continuous note or constantly repeated note Ostinato / loops - repeated musical ideas. Cells - the shortest musical ideas Phasing - two almost identical parts which go out of sync with each other and gradually, after a number of repetitions, come back into sync again Metamorphosis - gradually changing from one musical idea to another, often by changing one note at a time Layering - adding new musical parts, usually one at a time Note Addition - beginning with a simple, sparse ostinato, after a number of repetitions notes are gradually added Note Subtraction - beginning with a more complex ostinato, notes are gradually taken away Rhythmic Displacement - varying the notes to be accented in a musical phrase, or starting the same phrase in a different part of the bar [as Reich does with ‘ostinato 1’] Augmentation - Increasing the lengths of notes in...
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...RKS Guitars Case Study RKS Design seeks to create or re-create products for which users will engage in more than mere consumption, but rather find senses of empowerment prompted by the use of their designs. They believe that the only way to change and deepen the consumer-product interaction is by entering the consumers’ psyche and understanding their minds. According to their Electric Guitar PA Map, the market’s most popular guitars are shown to be merely fairly interactive, with functions entailing moderate, albeit relative, engagement on the consumer’s part. It is here that we can determine RKS’ desired positioning. Indeed, in order to stand out from the current homogenized market, their aim was to design a deeply engaging, alluring and enticing guitar, technically superior and more emotionally engaging, epitomizing senses of freedom and empowerment. The RKS Guitar’s design is not only ingenious and eye-catching, but is also sonically captivating, thus creating unique meaning and value for its user. As consumers were divided into distinct segments (children and their parents, professional and aspiring players, collectors, institutions), we believe RKS’ target segments should range between collectors and professional players. Indeed, novices and hobbyists do not need nor expect the most performing guitar, but rather a more basic one. On the other hand, 30-50 years old (or more) professionals and aficionados are much more inclined to find an innovative design appealing...
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...come from all around the world with zero experience of working together on any projects. Although each member tries to inform other members how they are doing by sending emails, it is a sad truth that not everyone will read the emails and be interested in how their colleagues are doing. Everyone just work on their own, making the team a collection of individuals rather than a real group. Without a channel to communicate with each other, it is hard to develop a sense of unity. The frequently organized business trips and the multiple projects at once also show that there is a miscommunication between the secretary and other members. Moreover, there is no standard of excellence to regulate and guide the performance of the employees. Team accomplishment is not being recognized as well. Members thus cannot find the value of performing to the utmost and are frustrated with the heavy workload. Given the above situation, the leader seems doing nothing to handle the stressful circumstances. Base on the analysis of team effectiveness, Jim should intervene at this time at internal level, focusing on relational actions. Building team relationship for a virtual team is even more important than collocated team. As they are working across time and space together with a need of dependence, the most critical aspect to enhance team efficiency is to focus on the collaboration between members. With a sense of unity as well as the belief that individual’s performance can affect the progress of the...
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...The song “Me Too” is the tune that I chose to be my theme song. I feel that this shows that no matter what other people think, you are a great person and should be thankful for that. Firstly, this tune represents me because no one can do anything like I do. In the melody it declares “Even if they tried to they can't do it like I do” which means I have my own ways of doings things and I am proud of that. Next, it also encourages others and myself to be more confident in doings things that make us uncomfortable. Confidence is like wearing a crown that makes you feel powerful and accepting of yourself. I like how Meghan Trainor almost talks about how she doesn't care what other people think. She and I both won't let other people bring us down....
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...How To Stop Worrying And Start Living By Dale Carnegie Courtesy: Shahid Riaz Islamabad – Pakistan shahid.riaz@gmail.com http://esnips.com/UserProfileAction.ns?id=ebdaae62-b650-4f30-99a4-376c0a084226 “How To Stop Worrying And Start Living” By Dale Carnegie 2 Contents Sixteen Ways in Which This Book Will Help You Preface - How This Book Was Written-and Why Part One - Fundamental Facts You Should Know About Worry 1 - Live in "Day-tight Compartments" 2 - A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations 3 - What Worry May Do to You Part Two - Basic Techniques In Analysing Worry 4 - How to Analyse and Solve Worry Problems 5 - How to Eliminate Fifty Per Cent of Your Business Worries Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book Part Three - How To Break The Worry Habit Before It Breaks You 6 - How to Crowd Worry out of Your Mind 7 - Don't Let the Beetles Get You Down 8 - A Law That Will Outlaw Many of Your Worries 9 - Co-operate with the Inevitable 10 - Put a "Stop-Loss" Order on Your Worries 11 - Don't Try to Saw Sawdust Part Four - Seven Ways To Cultivate A Mental Attitude That Will Bring You Peace And Happiness 12 - Eight Words that Can Transform Your Life 13 - The High, Cost of Getting Even 14 - If You Do This, You Will Never Worry About Ingratitude 15 - Would You Take a Million Dollars for What You Have? 16 - Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember There Is No One Else on Earth Like You 17 - If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade 18 - How to Cure Melancholy in...
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