Beat Boxing

Beat Boxing has become quickly its own type of expressing music.  I mean if you can sing along to the lyrics of the song, why cant you also make the sounds of the music which more popularly done is the drums. The whole idea bloomed in the 1980's when people were introduced on stage as the human beatboxer. The word beatboxing comes from the original meaning Beat Machine and/or drums.

One of the earlier introductions where beat boxing wasn't very popular but was put into a song alot of people know.  Africa by perpetuum jazzile was preformed on stage where everyone used there hands and feet to mimic a thunderstorm and then the main beat was started by a beat boxer while continued doing so throughout the whole song to make it acapella.

A popular beat boxer after stormed the internet on youtube with his many different sounds he could make and ended up getting millions of views on his video and a career to go professional. Felix Zenger is a well known beat boxer who now is in a class of champions.

Needless to say it takes allot of time and practice and skill to be able to preform these songs and stay on beat.

Beat Making

Its not new news to find out that more and more young people are creating and mixing music. The most common type of music made most people would think to be dub step or techno but actually the most created music is RNB and Rap.

A very cool piece of technology that anyone can try without a limit is called FL Studio.  Although on the free versions you can not save any of the tracks, all of the features are completely unlocked.  The software gives the freedom to use many different instruments. Fruity Loops is the mots common name for the software and has actually give many artists the ability to get there name out.  The software combined with youtube and youtube's advertising and money making makes it also very profitable to get lots of views on videos.

"FL Studio is one of the world's most popular and exciting music production systems. Everything you need in one package to compose, arrange, record, edit, mix and master professional quality music." - http://www.image-line.com

Although it making beats isn't you thing but you still like making the music a little more personal, Virtual DJ is another very cool program I recommend.  Ive personally used this program, and it lets you use all of the music on your computer, shortcut favor commands and remix your music or slide between sings like a real dj.  The software is fairly easy to learn, and if you even obtain a vinyl turn table you can actually hook it upto this software. Don't have money? it doesn't really matter because when you're learning you get to use the home version which gives you all the features of the real deal without paying a cent.  this program is DEFINITELY a must for anyone need starting off.

- http://www.virtualdj.com/

Gaming Music

I had someone mention video game music to me in my previous post and I loved it for a lot of reasons.  Many people know have played video games growing up and they know there familiar songs that are coming on when they’ve reached a certain point in the game! Or sometimes in the main menu, where the music plays and you know what game it is.  There are a lot of games that are older that started with this such as Zelda, Mario, Or Poke’ Mon. I wanted to bring up some of the new games people are know but probably don’t think about very much.  One of my favorite examples is Halo, pacifically Halo 2.  Both the first Halo, second Halo and games after that had a song that would play in the main menu.  It would sound like people singing and would build into music and such until the game was actually picked.  One of my favorite memories for Halo 2, would be when you go into the level outskirts and the music starts to kick up.  The familiar music that came right as the hunters were starting to gather at the door they are breaking down or when you get to the alley ways.

A lot of the same music comes on, and on the other hand you have video games like the assassins creeds where the music flows with whatever task your trying to do.  As you get closer to a target, it just so happens that the music starts to get more intense and depending on what location you are in the game. Whether it be the Middle East or Italy, the music corresponds to the situation which you’d expect. Another game some people might also remember the music from would be Runescape. Entering into the game, you would heard the not so lovely Lumbridge sound that honestly reminds me of when I joined the game 5 years ago. If you ever play a game you’ve not played for a very long time its amazing what memories you can get just from hearing the game startup!  But these are only a couple examples, expand if u have more.

Movies and Music

Whether you really think about it, music is one of the most important things that have ever been introduced into movies.  The first moves ever produced where black and white, and a music orchestra played and was recorded over the film itself. No talking or singing was traditionally put into the films. Instead of having voice slides would come up between different parts of the movie and say what needed to be said for difference characters. The music fused everything together to make something that was actually meaningful to people. Each person would have a different sort of tune or theme to them when something import came up for them. The process was adopted later on to newer movies that everyone still knows today. Star Wars whether it was the original trilogy of four, five, and six, themes were MAJORLY used. The actual movie itself had a starting theme that anybody who has seen the movies can recognize. Anakin skywalker had a theme from the start of the first movie until he brought balance to the force in the last movie. The theme changed more and more to the empires theme to make what side he was on. For the rather hated character jar jar binks, he had a very peppy theme and it always gave hit that he was around the corner.  Deferent planets had themes, different characters, different movies has similarly developed themes for music.

Another popular movie that came out packed with different themes would be Lord of the rings, going difference places and characters. I mean even the titanic had themes that were played throughout the movie that help give hints as to what’s happening next.

Jaws is another movie, when the theme starts to get fast and faster jaws is just around the corner of course!

What movies can you think of that are majorly music themed?  Where u hear a song and you know its from the movie instead of this movie has this song in it. For example star wars had there music scored and recorded for the movie while a movie like step up 2 has music from different artist!

Share in the comments below, I’d love to know: D

High school Dances

So dating a senior at western high school this past weekend I got to experience the true culture that is a high school dance. In a normative situation in high school, most kids would never grind on each other or scream the F word with all there friends to music or make out with someone for long periods of time. The music for high school dances are filled with Pop Culture, Rap, RnB and so on. This music I guess Id have to call the music of intimacy. It creates an environment of hormones that rages across the dance and make people do completely ridiculous things. Finding a way to dance to rap music is very difficult, most people either jump up and down or they grind. For other songs that people know from the radio, they just sing to the music.  The only music I found that had potential would be the cha cha slide, which is a pretty common songs among dances.

I think it would be very interesting if a set of people learned different dances to different songs and all requested those songs. Then they could do that and get the group doing the same thing. Or change up the music style, because personally I only knew about three-four songs total throughout the entire night. After all there are thousands of genres, and tons more in artists I’m sure they can do more than radio songs in my opionion. 

But the main idea of this post was to get some feedback from what you guys think. Did you enjoy the music at the dances? Was the music different at yours then it was for me? Do you think Im over dramatic about the music itself, or is my problem that I dont grind?