Listening: Style 4

Q1: Describe the harmony in this song. (Try and describe the pattern even if you cannot pick the chords - eg.

The first chord lasts for two beats then it changes to a chord that last for 8 bars). Is the pattern familiar at all? 

what this song has that made the hormany is the bass line holding the note the same note for about 16bars the guitar done the same thing as the bass but the guitarist was doing cords on the guitar and the bass player played a lower optive note to make it hormanize.what this song has 3 guitar playing different parts one of the guitars plays with the rhythm they bend the notes

Q2: well this song has elements of blues but the song it self isn't the reason for this the reason for this is because the drums is at a standard 4/4 song structure. the song also don't have a improvised vocal line the singer in the song sings the hole song in one specific note, another difference is that the song is not slow it goes about 120-130 B.P.M and it has cords playing through out. What this song has that a 12 bar blues has is that the they both has a blue scale bass line, it has a guitar playing around the blue scale and it has a harmonica doing sliding with the guitarist bending notes.

The Functions Of A Piano

function of the pedals

sustain pedal - a sustain pedal lift the dampers making the sound endure more.
sustanuto pedal - the sustanuto pedal holds the notes that the pionist plays and leaves every other dampers down.
the ona corda  - the ona cord shift the the hammers hitting one string making the sound softer which is the reason why some people called it the soft pedal.

Give three differences between a grand piano and an upright piano.
there are lots of things diferent about the grand piano and the up right piano and I will briefly explain.

shape - the shape of the upright piano is more rectangular shape and smaller making it easier to carry around then the grand piano

the grand piano looks bigger with an individual look. the grand piano is more useful for live performances because it has a bigger body it has a better sound due to the amount of space that the sound has to cover within the piano. a beautiful design and a massive size is there for a reason the grand piano has a 

frame: rectangular type of shape
lid, front part:

capo bar (3) Capo bar is where the beginning of the sound starts to vibrate 

damper (4)damper lift to take when the pianist hits the key
lid, back part (5)when open you can hear a clear bright sound, when closed the high frequency gets taken out and all the lower part stands out.

string: it makes the sound of the piano 

the keyboard

the keyboard has many functions especially  in the 21st century, now we have synths Midi controller electric drums that has the some basic function to a keyboard I will give a short description of how keyboard works

The keyboard works by extreme well recorded sound, it is programmed to make sound on each key and each key has a recorded tone of the piano organs and other classical instruments. keyboards are very using in today modern society  whether your learning to play a piano or you want some organs on playing the melody in your band having a keyboard is very useful 

Playing key

when pressing the key on the keyboard you can control the speed by playing fast or slow. unlike a piano pressing really hard on a keyboard does not have a massive effect on the sound because the sound on the piano is an hammer hitting against the string within the piano.

Midi 

midi has to be one of the most useful piece of equipment for producing today and from the first design till now they still work the same, they react to midi data and are really small having a midi does not take space and can be used in live performance the  same way as another instrument.

Playing Midi

when using a midi controller you can effect the sound by playing really fast use modulation to vibrate the sound and change the pitch by dragging the pad down or forward to change the pitch when pressing the key.

Functions of a keyboard

Solo performance is a very tough task for a pianist and one of the things that makes it tough is the fact that you need to hang on to rhythm timing and the melody and using a sustain pedal helps to hold notes to, normally the pianist holds the notes for the bottom notes and use the right hand to make a melody or a solo, when you need the notes hold the note longer you need the sustain pedal which makes the sound longer

Live performance the pianist might start the song by doing a solo or he could do the solo towards the end but through out the songs he needs to continue playing the main cords and blend the sound of the piano along with the other instruments. also the

MIDI data:Midi data keyboard helps you to play piano keys on every instrument that is on the logic or any other software that allows you to create music on the PC.The keyboard has two two extra faction that other keyboard don't have one of the functions is to pitch bend, you use pitch bend to turn a Major note into a sharp or a flat note, a midi controller is very useful for producing but not normally used for a live performances, but me personally I would use  to help make different melodies. It's because of this that one is able to compose using a midi keyboard. It's also useful for people who aren't gifted on the technical side of things, especially logic pro. You can't use it to produce  complex pieces (pieces that would need to go at least 3/4 octaves above middle c) but other than that, you're able to produce drum beats and other forms of sound. Also, a keyboard can be used as a kind of set, for DJ'ing
 and the pitch bend also works with this. There is no difference between a MIDI keyboard or a piano-keyboard other than a MIDI keyboard does not have speakers and does not have the same range as a normal keyboard. Finally a MIDI keyboard is far more efficient for people who don't have a great understanding of using logic to manipulate different effect (for example, something like the 'reverb' application).