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chilcutt · #1 09-30-2011, 03:35 AM

In particular, I am interested in how Rock and Roll came into existance.
It is my understanding that R&R evolved from the blues.

The Africans created the Blues because they tried but failed to copy European music.

From what I understand, no matter what the music-jazz, blues, rhythym and blues, rock, whatever-it is basically all the same music, because it all comes from the same source.
All this music comes from the circumstance that when the Africans were shipped to America, they super-imposed the African five-note scale on the European diatonic scale, which buggers up the third and sevenths, and thats what makes were called blue notes.

I believe change in music is always based on failure: As far as I have been able to determine, nobody who set deliberately set out to invent a new kind of music ever succeeded.

The Clk Man · #2 09-30-2011, 11:21 AM

I can play the Trumpet and Baritone.

G-Benz · #3 09-30-2011, 11:43 AM

Lots of musicians on this forum...even pros!

I play several instruments myself, but only did paying gigs in my youthful years. My daughter inherited my skills and plays a number of instruments as well.

Worked at a music store many years ago, and witnessed the disproportion of starving musicians versus mildly successful ones...decided not to opt for that route in life.

aklim · #4 09-30-2011, 12:38 PM

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I can play the Trumpet and Baritone.

We know you can wrap your lips around tubular objects.

How are you with the flute?

tbomachines · #5 09-30-2011, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by chilcutt

In particular, I am interested in how Rock and Roll came into existance.
It is my understanding that R&R evolved from the blues.

The Africans created the Blues because they tried but failed to copy European music.

From what I understand, no matter what the music-jazz, blues, rhythym and blues, rock, whatever-it is basically all the same music, because it all comes from the same source.
All this music comes from the circumstance that when the Africans were shipped to America, they super-imposed the African five-note scale on the European diatonic scale, which buggers up the third and sevenths, and thats what makes were called blue notes.

I believe change in music is always based on failure: As far as I have been able to determine, nobody who set deliberately set out to invent a new kind of music ever succeeded.

That same source is the creative human mind

I play drums, guitar, bass. I used to play punk, hardcore, and metal but haven't had the time nowadays. I mainly make purely electronic music now, mostly house trance and chillout. I enjoy playing with seeming abstractions such as synths and getting incredible music out of them.

Take a listen if you want
Rockchops's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

aklim · #6 09-30-2011, 01:03 PM

I know the wife likes jazz and maybe some blues. I faked liking jazz when we first met for obvious reasons.

Of course I was busted when she saw my music collection of Black Sabbath, GNR, etc, etc and when we talked about it and not know a thing. Back then, we didn't have Google so I couldn't make a quick study.

I guess I am more of an 80s music guy. Tried the violin for a few years and it wasn't too bad. Obviously, it was classical music that I never had a taste for but it was structured so I could do it reasonably well especially with being able to hear a song and reproduce it. I believe I was diagnosed to have absolute pitch. A force that runs strong in my family.

They did it without the metachlorine count thingy.

chilcutt · #7 09-30-2011, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tbomachines

That same source is the creative human mind

I play drums, guitar, bass. I used to play punk, hardcore, and metal but haven't had the time nowadays. I mainly make purely electronic music now, mostly house trance and chillout. I enjoy playing with seeming abstractions such as synths and getting incredible music out of them.

Take a listen if you want
Rockchops's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

This is some fine material-thanx for shareing.

When I think of punk, I think of Jim Osterburg A.K.A -Iggy Pop. James father was my math teacher at Ypsilanti High School in Michigan. I will never forget the first time I saw the Stooges at the Funny Farm in Wayne, Michigan.

Have you ever heard any material by John McGlauflin<(sp)-and the Mahavishnu Orchestra?

chilcutt · #8 09-30-2011, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

I know the wife likes jazz and maybe some blues. I faked liking jazz when we first met for obvious reasons.

Of course I was busted when she saw my music collection of Black Sabbath, GNR, etc, etc and when we talked about it and not know a thing. Back then, we didn't have Google so I couldn't make a quick study.

I guess I am more of an 80s music guy. Tried the violin for a few years and it wasn't too bad. Obviously, it was classical music that I never had a taste for but it was structured so I could do it reasonably well especially with being able to hear a song and reproduce it. I believe I was diagnosed to have absolute pitch. A force that runs strong in my family.

They did it without the metachlorine count thingy.

Even if you had of laid some 'Coltrane' on her, I doubt that she could have appreciated ..'Pure Jazz'..

I think you were too young to have been a member of the 'Kiss Army', but I notice that a lot of Singaporeans are hip to them. Altho the fans mainly seem to be Indians and Malays..dun see too many Chinese into the 'Heavier' stuff

If your wife like Jazz, maybee buy her a Cd ..Miles Davis '*****es Brew'.(serious)

aklim · #9 09-30-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by chilcutt

Even if you had of laid some 'Coltrane' on her, I doubt that she could have appreciated ..'Pure Jazz'..

I think you were too young to have been a member of the 'Kiss Army', but I notice that a lot of Singaporeans are hip to them. Altho the fans mainly seem to be Indians and Malays..dun see too many Chinese into the 'Heavier' stuff

If your wife like Jazz, maybee buy her a Cd ..Miles Davis '*****es Brew'.(serious)

I don't know. I still don't know crap about Jazz. She still listens to it and since I don't like to hear it, I bought her an ipod.

I did like Kiss but I wasn't party of their Army.

I just let her buy whatever she wants but I think she has quite a collection.

panZZer · #10 09-30-2011, 01:46 PM

I can make the farting sounds by sticking my palm in my armpit!

chilcutt · #11 09-30-2011, 01:55 PM

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I can make the farting sounds by sticking my palm in my armpit!

You would have been a shoe-in with Junior Samples, Roy Clark and Grandpa Jones, on 'Hee Haw'.

chilcutt · #12 10-01-2011, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by aklim

I don't know. I still don't know crap about Jazz. She still listens to it and since I don't like to hear it, I bought her an ipod.

I did like Kiss but I wasn't party of their Army.

I just let her buy whatever she wants but I think she has quite a collection.

The origin of Jazz can be traced back to the end of the Civil War when the Confederate Army disbanded.
The countryside was littered with Confederate band instruments that had been abandoned-trumpets, trombones, clarinets-which became the basic jazz instruments.
The blacks of the south accumulated these abandoned instruments, and they tried to play European music on them but they couldnt get it right.
They had no instruction, and how they played was a result of their teaching themselves to play these instruments.

When they began to form little bands of their own, they tried to sound like bands they had heard but they couldnt.
Thats why ,at first, white people refused to listen to jazz-their ears were accustomed to something else.