Bobby's Blog for College

  Logic was tough to understand initially, but with time I soon got the hang of it. I begun creating a track which was literally called "farting about" because i was doing just that. Logic seems like a very complex tool and I have learnt essential skills in order to excel. I wanted the track to have a fast, heavy metal kind of sound to it and I guess I kind of did. The track has elements of progressive metal to it and it changes from one section to another and they all sound so different. I learned how to find sounds and use them in songs, I learned how to copy and paste certain things into certain places, and i learned the drumming system on logic and how to make it follow particular riffs. If i were to do this again i would make the track longer and more extensive with more riffs.

The Telharmonium was an early electrical organ, Developed by Thaddeus Cahill in 1896 and patented in 1897. The electrical signal from the Telharmonium was transmitted through wires and it was heard on the receiving end by means of "horn" speakers. Like the later Hammond organ, the Telharmonium used Tone wheels to generate musical sounds as electrical signals by additive synthesis. It is considered to be the first electromechanical musical instruments. the Telharmonium was unsuccessful for a number of reasons; One being its size and complexity, the machine weighed several tons and could not be moved or transported with ease. The instrument required a lot of Electrical power to operate and the sounds it produced were very limited as it lacked a lot of the features the later Synthesizers would have. The theremin is an usual instrument mainly because it is played without actually touching it. It was invented by Leon Theremin in the Soviet Union 1920s. The Theremin involve the man...

  My 250 word evaluation for this performance: For this performance, a selection of students who had not completed the performance assignment came together and played Anna (go to him) by Arthur Alexander and Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. I thought i performed the songs very well since we had a lot of time to rehearse the given songs. My band mates all contributed very well as the bass player Connor was impeccable, Sol the drummer played very well, and Deian surprised us all when he jumped on the vocals and gave a decently good performance. I thought the vocals could've been louder as in the recording he wasn't as audible as we would have liked him to be. Dreams is a very simple and repetitive song so there was nothing flashy or complex about this song at all. we followed Dreams by then performing Anna which we did not have a vocalist for so instead, we did an instrumental which seemed to work fine for us. I thought i had the structure down pretty well and had a good understanding on...

The 1951 track "how high the moon" by Les Paul and Mary Ford was a number 1 record which was way ahead of its time. They used techniques like multitracking, overdubbing, revolutionary guitar playing, use of solid body guitar, and innovative sound techniques. Who made electric guitars? Yes Les Paul was a massive part of it but theres also other proponents like Eddie Durham, George Barnes, Lonnie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, and Charlie Christian. Les Paul's involvement in the creation of electric guitar stems from the making of "the log". This influenced the creation of the Les Paul guitar as we know today.  The Log. The creation of Multitrack recordings (MTR) or also known as Multitracking is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the seperate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole. The process was conceived by Ross Snyder at Ampex in 1955 resulting ...

What is sampling? Sampling is taking a recording and using it in a new track. this could range from a melody, vocal line, or drum beat. The sampled material is often altered such as being looped, sped up, slowed down or modified with effects. Can we identify when artists started using sampling as a technique? The use of of sampling in music can be traced back to the 1940s to 1950s. in the 1950s and 1960s, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in France were pioneers of Musique Concrete, which involved using tape recorders to manipulate recorders and create compositions. The Beetles also experimented with tape loops, this was more about using prerecorded sounds as textures and effects rather than direct sampling of artists' songs. Two important early devices and their basic features Fairlight CMI Basic Features: Digital Samples, Polyphonic playback, Sound editing, Sampling resolution Akai MPC Basic Features: 16 Pads, simplicity and workflow, sampling and sequencing, sampling capabilitie...