TINTA

Drum Kit

Drum Kit are percussion instruments that are used widely around the world and in popular music. Sound are created by the touch of drum sticks into the stretched membrane. The raw materials have changed since back 1950’s when it was played by popular band “Beatles” In today’s modern world, drum kits are mostly made out of wood, metal and birch, maple.

To start playing you put your left foot on hi-hat foot pedal which controls the hi-hat cymbal and try to use the pedal for kick drum with your right hand. Hold the drum stick on your left hand more loosely like free style rather than on right hand.

Drum Kit

Electric Guitar

Electric Guitar

The guitar has been played for a hundred of years and it was at its peak point during 90’s. The wood is still used for Electrical Guitar’s neck and body piece like other types of guitars. Maple, Walnut, Adler are mostly used wood types in guitar manufactory. In tuners of electrical guitar, the metal and plastics is also used.

There are some basics of guitar playing for beginners. First you rest the body of the guitar on right leg and take the neck of the guitar (the skinny part with strings) on your left side. You play guitar with left hand while you stabilize guitar on right hand.

Queen has used electric guitar in his songs .

Bass guitar

Bass guitar is one of the instruments that were popular during Popular music. Its body is made out wood when some parts like strings, frets and neck is made out of metal and plastics. The “Rolling Stones" used bass guitar in their performances during 1960’s In England.

We do the similar basics to play and hold the bass guitar as electric guitar.

Bass Guitar

Synthesizer

Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic keyboard used to edit, reproduce new sound using old pieces and modify musical notes by changing the tones. Songs that are popular today such as "Symphony" by clean bandit or "Gods Plan" by Drake has used synthesizers to create and compose notes. Synthesizers are made out of simple structure. Amplifiers controls the signal volume and oscillator changes the pitch throught a waveform. By playing the keys that represent each note you can control and modify the pieces.

Piano

Piano

Piano is a large keyboard that has a big structure consists of strings and each time you press a key hammer struck into them. As the strings vibrate it spreads through the air and creates the sound from piano. Strings of the piano is protected with a wooden lid. Piano is founded in early 1700’ and each key represented a note. You first need to learn reading the notes and each key in the piano. Then you can use your knowledge to play the piano. There are different types of piano that changes by its structure such as grand piano, Upright piano and specialized piano.

Soul

- James Brown

- Aretha Franklin

- Stevie Wonder

Raggea

-Bob Marley, The Skatelies

Hip-Hop:

The sugarhill gang, The Beastie boys,

Rock "n" Roll

- Elvis Presley

- Chuck Berry

- Buddy Holly

- Beatles

British Ska

- The Beat

Jamaican Ska

- Bob Marley

-Prince Buster

1960's

1980's

1955

1990

1970's

1979

1959

2000

Pop

-Michael Jakson,

- Jonet Jackson,

- Madonna

R and B

-Al Green,

- R.Kelly ,

- Mary J.Blige

R and B

-James Brown

-Four tops

-Aretha Franklin

TIMELINE

Mama

Mama by Jonas Blue

Mama is a pop genre music by Jonas Blue and featured with William Singe.It was published on 5th of May.

Time signature: 4/4- 4 beats in a bar

Texture, Rhythm and dynamics: The “Mama” Song has a thin texture. The volume of the song gets louder as the structure is on the chorus part, rhythm gets more complex.

Lyrics and mood; The lyrics are talking about a man telling his mom that he is not going to home tonight and comforts her as he tells not to worry about him, he is coming back in the morning. The story creates an energetic mood in the listener.

The structure starts off Introduction (No lyrics) Then goes Verse, Pre-chorus, chorus and solo, verse 2 , pre-chorus and chorus, outro. The instruments such as piano, solo male voice and synthesizer, drum kit is used to create the music

Hip-Hop

Hip Hop is also known as rap music genre of music that is developed in late 1970’s by African-Americans in United States. It is rhythmic combination of music. The first artists that got popular with The Beatsie boys and the sugarhill gang. But today eminem, drake and Jay- Z, Kanye West are known as most popular artist of hip-hop.

Songs in hip-hop are starts with intrdocution and continues as verse, pre-chorus, chorus.

Hip-Hop

God's plan

Gods Plan by Drake

Gods Plan is a hip hop song by Drake. It is 4 beats in a bar and it is a melodrama. It has a quite complex, thin texture. As the rhythm gets more complex the songs get louder and faster.

Instrumentation: Synthesizer, solo male voice, drum kit and electric guitar.

Structure: Intro, verse chorus, bridge and verse 2 chorus 2 and bridge again.

Lyrics: The song describes a man who helps northside and gives all of his money to help poor. Despite of his goods he says that still bad things happen around the world. The lyircs creates an energetic melodramatic emotions in f the audience.