Audio Production Techniques Report: Billie Jean

Both Cowperthwaite and Psihoyos use music and sound effects in their documentaries to reinforce and compliment the visuals. For example, at the beginning of Blackfish, a recorded 9/11 emergency call complements a visual transcript, giving the

Humble and kind by Tim Mcgraw was released at the end of 2015. This song reached the top of the, Billboard Top Country Songs chart. We decide to choose this song because we felt it had a great message (to be kind and humble while being grateful). along with being very good in general. Another thing we really liked, which made the choice to pick this song easy was that flow of the song (word to word) was very smooth and made the song a lot easier to listen to.

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On December 7, the Monticello High School mixed and concert choirs presented a choral program called “An Olde Tyme Radio Choral Concert” in the high school auditorium. It was directed by Mr. Brett Kniess, and Janice Vetter was the pianist. The songs were chosen to put the audience in the holiday spirit, and in my opinion, it accomplished this goal.

An analysis of the documentary “Appalachian Journey” by Alan Lomax proves that the musical performances featured are examples of traditional music. The songs performed used traditional music instruments and styles. Many songs were passed down through oral tradition, and many were stories of real events. The people of the appalachian mountains used banjo’s, guitars, and fiddles while singing throughout the documentary, including hand carved instruments and sound making toys. They played fast repetitive songs like the ballad John Henry and even homemade ballads.

This research paper will not be a traditional paper, due to Lester William Polsfuss being such a profound musician and innovator. The format of this paper will represent a timeline, due to Polsfuss having so many achievements throughout his entire life. We will begin with the birth of Lester William Polsfuss and then up to him being awarded with two grammies in 2006. Although I have a personal attachment to Polsfuss, I will cover the history he changed and made. So, lets break a leg and get this show on the road.

BB King is the last of the great bluesmen – the sole survivor of a tradition that goes back to the Mississippi Delta and the early 1920s. BB king started playing the blues at the time when some of the most important people in blues history were playing, such as Muddy Waters and Jared Lee Hooker. BB King, like many blues artists had direct links to slavery in his family, "My father was born on the plantation, I was born on the plantation. I wanted more for my children. This, the guitar,was my way out." The plantation he was talking about was located between Itta Bena and Indianola, Mississippi, where Riley B. King was born on September 16, 1925. His parents split up when he was a small child, and though he lived for a few years with his mother in the Mississippi hills, he found himself alone at age nine after she died. His father retrieved him from a tenant farm a few years after that. Working as a farmhand on a cotton plantation in Indianola, he earned $22.50 a week. "I guess the earliest sound of blues that I can remember was in the fields while people would be picking cotton or chopping or something”

sounds that they made at different times. He talks about these motors for the entirety of

Michael Jackson was a great singer in his time and one of Americas’ prolific singers to ever grace the music scene. From the time he graced the music scene, he would go on to become a great singer that inspired other great singers during his period and in the future generation. Music has got a unique element that is so unifying and touching depending on the type of music one could be listening. In the history of the United States, black musicians from way back in the early days of singers such as James Brown, Prince, and Smokey Robinson have had an influence on the music culture. There are many genres today that can be traced from black musicians who popularized

Raphael-Hernandez (2006) defines the multicultural influence of Hawaiian music on the slide guitar techniques that Johnson utilized in the Delta region. Johnson, much like many other African-American musicians, had a deep respect for the use of a bottleneck or metal slide that Hawaiians used on their stringed instruments. This was another crucial cultural influence on African-American musical culture that Johnson adapted from the Hawaiian slide guitar in the development of the Delta

African Americans have made huge contributions to make music what it is today. Pop music would not be what is today if it wasn’t for African Americans. It all started with R&B, Soul, and Funk music. Each of these genres have their own unique sound. Artist use different instruments, singing styles, and different forms of expression create these genres.

In the song, “Whiskey Lullaby,” written by Jon Randall and Bill Anderson and sung by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, the message being sent is that love so strong can be ruined with just one mistake that could lead to worst outcomes. Told in second point-of-view, the author supports this theme by describing the setting of a gloomy country home establishing the major conflict of love and death and incorporating the use of irony, tone shifts, imagery, and word choices. Paisley’s purpose is to imply that love can become something putrid and could end up hurting loved ones very deeply. This song creates a mood of sadness and mournfulness for an audience that have experience this type of situation being described in the song.

Recording for Strawberry Fields began on November 24, 1966 it was initially laid out to be played as a gentle acoustic guitar ballad. However John wasn't fully happy with its arrangement. Therefore he asked George Martin to come up with a new arrangement that featured brass and strings that would be followed by heavy percussion along with the orchestra being added later throughout the song, but still unhappy with both versions. John then asked George Martin to edit the beginning of one song (Take 7) and combine it with the end of another (Take 26). This was thought to be impossible at first, but after experimenting with a variable-speed tape machine, he found a way to slow down (take 26) to the key of A major so that he could fuse it with (Take

Add the exceptionally warm tone of a semi-hollowbody guitar to your repertoire with the Ibanez Artcore AS73 electric guitar. Available in a range of attractive finishes, including transparent cherry, brown sunburst, and deep black, this visually pleasing semi-acoustic guitar sounds as good as it looks. The AS73 deals with feedback concerns by mounting the humbucking pickups into a sustain block. This design feature also results in increased sustain. Besides sounding and looking good, a guitar has to be comfortable to play. The AS73 features a mahogany neck with a bound rosewood fingerboard that joins up with the body on the 17th fret, giving musicians ' fingers a silky smooth surface and easy access to high notes. Lastly, this slim guitar puts

The sound output and the response of a violin were measured for three positions of the soundpost: no soundpost, inside and outside the treble foot of the bridge. The sound quality was assessed with Long Time Average Spectra that showed small differences. There were significant differences in the response plots, whether measured by a microphone in front of the top or a magnet/coil pickup on the bridge.