3 Doors down (the band)
3 Doors Down have come from the backwoods of Mississippi to superstardom. They were and still are one the hottest rock bands out there today. They have boasted super hits such as Kryptonite and Loser along with many others. Their album The Better Life was the fastest selling album of all....

all about puerto rico
p.r Puerto Rico is located 1000, miles southeast of Miami, Florida it is the eastern Caribbean with the Atlantic Ocean to the North and East and the Carribean Sea To the South West. Government Puerto Rico is a United States Commonwealth approved by....

Carlos Santana: Heart, Soul and Spirit
Carlos Santana is a visionary artist who broke boundaries in the music world. In an interview at the Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland in 2006 Santana said, "My mission is to awaken people to a global heart" (Hispanic Culture). Carlos is the primary exponent in the worldwide-recogniz....

Censorship of Music
In today's society, all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feelings in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is on of the great things about this country, the freedom to express yourself. It is not fair, nor is it constitutional that music should be ce....

Charles Manson
Helter Skelter and the Family of Love: An Inside looks at the Charles Manson Group Looking out the window of the 7th floor lobby of Whitney, ....

Country-Western Music: Where Did it Come From?
How did country-western music become as we know it today? Did anyone or anything influence it? Country-western music was influenced by both the sounds and instruments of Irish music and other similar music types like Gospel and Blues. What is Irish music? When people think of Irish music, most ....

Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was the king of Rock and Roll. He was the most famous man in the world and sold more than half a billion records. Elvis was a terrific guy and a loving person. Everyone loved Elvis. Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was going to be one ....

Elvis trailer trash or southern blues artist?
Elvis trailer trash or southern blues artist? Music is all about your roots. Its where you came from that makes your music. The Beatles wouldnt of been the Beatles if they where Canadian. So why would you think Elvis to be anything other then a southern rock legend. You can take Elvis out ....

Guide for Those About to Become Musicians
Guide for Those About to Become Musicians (Francisco X. Loor) Learning how to play and instrument can be a very gratifying experience. If you posses the right passion and dedication, youll become very attached to your instrument. Think of an instrument as an extension of ....

Guitar
GUITARS Throughout history many instruments have evolved. Although they have evolved the instruments name remains the same. Maybe some words are added to the instrument, which indicate the type of instrument it is, for example the Acoustic guitar is somewhat similar to the electric guitar yet not ....

Guitar Knowlegde
In ancient time hunters found that by holding their bows to their mouth and plucking the string they could make all sorts of sounds. Who would have ever thought that five thousand years later, what began as a simple hunting bow, would come up as today to be the guitar! Guitars have existed in hist....

guitars
Figurines playing the ancestor of the Guitar. Excavated in Susa, Iran. Dated 3rd Millennium BC. Instruments almost identical to what we know as the "guitar" have been popular for at least 5,000 years. The "guitar" that is so popular in the Western World has derrived from ancient mother instruments ....

Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal’s popularity is and has been on the rise due to its many bands and increased guitar technology. Since the mid 1960’s, when heavy metal spread to the U.S. from England, it has grown in popularity. Many of the first bands that came from Europe came with two intentions; to sprea....

How Verbal, Physical and Visual Humor makes
Lucille Ball is one of televisions greatest comedic stars. Along with Dezi Arnaz, she starred in the situational comedy I Love Lucy that premiered on October 15, 1951, and the show would go on to be one of the greatest of all time. The elements of physical, visual and verbal comedy help make T....

I Got the Blues
I INTRODUCTION Blues, secular musical genre that originated during the late 19th century by African American performers The genre embraces a variety of styles: downhome or country blues, boogie-woogie, classic blues, Chicago (urban) blues, and modern blues. Elements of the blues have also playe....

Im a bitch
As the guitar starts up, don, don don, you hear the beginning of the song. I hate the world today. With those four words you are entered into a song that so freely and un-apologetically describes what it is like to be a Women. The song Bitch permeated the summer of 1997. The public was c....

Jason Aldean, my hero
Jason Aldean's debut album is a country-music triumph, and maybe that's because he's been working toward it, quite literally, all his life. The Georgia native was listening to country music before he could talk. He was going to country concerts by the time he was in grade school. He was playing ....

Jimi Hendrix
A legend was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle with the conception of James Allen Hendrix. He was a true American of Black, White and Cherokee blood. As a child, James who later changed his name to Jimi, was very shy and was introverted to friends and family. He grew up in different homes that ra....

jimi hendrix
where he was born: James Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; an American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, i....

Jimi Hendrix: Rock 'n' Roll Legend
The extraordinary performances, recording, and lyrics ofJames Marshall Hendrix have made him impossible to forget. ThisAmerican rock music guitarist made a legendary mark not only inthe history of rock 'n' roll but also on the pop culture as awhole (Ross 32). With unique techniques never seen befo....

Mixing Music
Most good mixers these days can start there mix process at any desired point because of their years of experience and their relationship to their monitors. When starting out as a mixer you do not have this experience and need to start at a reference point that will produce desired results for y....

Music and Poetry
Poetry has always been an oral art form, going back in history to the time of Homer reading "The Odyssey." Poets, storytellers, and other troubadours would travel from town to town, reading their work and getting their poetry heard. This oral tradition sprang from necessity because it was not possib....

My First Electric Guitar
My memory of it is as clear as if it were only yesterday, when in actuality, it was just three days before my fifteenth birthday. It was a day I will never forget, though it was not because of the beautiful spring weather, even though it was a particularly sunny afternoon in late April. The sky was ....

Paul McCartney, Six Feet Under?
I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade...he blew his mind out in a car. Hedidn't notice that the lights had changed.(the Beatles, 1967) These lyrics proved to fans that PaulMcCartney had indeed died in a tragic auto accident in late 1966. Some people were skeptical abo....

Producer Bob Rock
Robert Jens Rock is a sound engineer, musician and a producer. He is famous for the work that he has done for bands such as Metallica, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith as well as many other countless numbers of famous albums have also been produced by his hands. Bob Rock started off playing musi....

RAISIN IN THE SUN
In the novel, A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, although Beneatha Younger may be young, she presents herself as a strong- willed and mature Black woman who is ambitious and determined to achieve her goals and succeed in life. She is the type of woman who believes in herself enough to acco....

Santa Cruz Guitar Company
The tour of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company was revealing and provided insights into this company's culture. This small, nimble company (which creates only 800 instruments a year...hardly a breakneck pace) has created an environment in which workers are allowed to excel as many of Deming's 14 points ....

Simplifying Stage Setup Using an Onboard Effects Processor
Running Head: SIMPLIFYING STAGE SETUP USING ONBOARD EFFECTS Simplifying stage setup using an onboard effects processor Bill Smith Monroe Tricentral High School Abstract This project proposes the idea of inserting an effects-processor into an electric guitar. This would be done to simplify s....

television effects on children
The United States has the highest number of deaths of children and teens; the deaths are not just caused because of murder, but by the effects of television on children. Studies shows that America has 300,000 deaths a year from obesity and other health problems. Problems could be cause by Biological....

the guitar
The Ancestors: The earliest stringed instrument is bowl harps and the tanburs. Since prehistory people have made bowl harps using a bent stick for a neck and one or more gult or silk string. Tanbur is defined as a long neck stringed instrument with a small egg-or pear shaped body, wi....

The Power Within
In Our Time is a collection of stories that involve ..., relationships between men and women, bonding between members of the same sex, love, development and adaptation, maturity, and responsibility that captures the spirit of the First World War (Spark Notes). Hemingway has a unique way of bein....

Todays Frankenstien
Television: Today's Frankenstein There it sits. Nearly every living room, and the majority of bedrooms, in America is beholden to one. At the center and source of our communication and interaction with the world. This tool of universal euphoric capacity, inducing dementia in large does, is the ....

uncorked
Uncorked Everybody knows that pursuing dreams and finding happiness have more importance than money; everybody, except Ross. Ross is a hard headed character that is more focused on making "fast money" than himself and his family. His intentions shone pure, but his heart was in the wrong place. In ....

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