week 4 " Observing Community"

The “basement” band

                There are lots of communities that I can join for fun or to know something, but I still feel cool if I own a community and interview myself. Now I will in traduce my band to you, hope you are interested about it.

                  This is a really wonderful rock band. I am the leader of this band, and I am a guitar player. I am also a singer because usually a guitar player is responsible for singing. My best friend Junze is our drummer. Also there is a really strong person called Tailong is our base player. There is no keyboard in our band because we want really hard rock. We created this band together in summer 2013. In order to create this band, we all move out from dormitory and rent a house. Because we need to live in the first and second floor, so we always practice in the basement.  That’s where the name “basement” comes from. Now we are still in the process of practicing. We need more practice to have the tacit understanding.

                   We believe that rock make us believe the truth of life and encourage ourselves.  Sometimes we may invite some of our friend to came to our house and listen our rock music. “Believe life, Believe rock”, this is our band declaration. We want more people to understand rock music. That’s why we create it. Now we don’t have that kind of wonderful skills to have a show in public, but we will practice hard and get there in future.  I really proud of our band, it makes my life more colourful and encourage me a lot. 

week 4 free post

The old rock style

Sometimes my friend will ask me:” Ziyi, why you love those old rock music?” It makes me think about it a little. Nowadays, there are more and more rock band come out with the new rock music, but why I still love the old rock that much?

I tried to find the answer myself. I find a word called “classics”. I think the reason for why I love old style rock music is because of this word. When I listen the rock from Metallica and led zeppelin, I can hear the word that singer didn’t speak out loud. I can feel the environment that the singer showed. But nowadays, rock music never concentrates on the lyric. The singers all concentrate on the music itself like how the music sounds. But they never go into the deep of rock music. That’s the reason for why I don’t like modern rock music.

Of course it’s really important to let all the rockers know the mind of rock music. Rock music is just a kind of form. It’s true that it let people relax. But the rock music want people to know more about what’s going on around you. Rock music wants you to know the unfair events happen in your country or the environment that you live. So the lyric is more important than the music. This is also the reason for why the band “Green Day” is so famous right now. “Green Day” say the words that most people want to say, so most people love their music because of what they are saying. This is the theme of rock music. Also it’s important to let all rock players to know that. Let rock music players know what they are saying, what they are playing, and they will play fantastic rock music.

  

week 3 free post

The all-new Ibanez guitar

Ibanez as the most famous Japanese guitar instrument producer have produced a really famous guitar “ 7V” in early years. But these days, Ibanez come with the all-new “7V” premium model totally change the old “7V” model.

I just roughly take a look at the new guitar’s data, there is not a really big change in the new model, but all the changes are really important. The neck wood has been changed to the maple wood, which is really comfortable and more accuracy. There is also a really big change in the switching system. The regular guitar have the switching system with “top”, “middle”, and” bottom”. The all-new “7V” guitar has a 5 step switching system. It can make the sound really soft and also make up more electronic sounds.

These changes are two main big changes in this all-new “7V” Ibanez guitar. It’s really important to know that for our guitar player because we need to play well on this instrument. This is the all-new technology that never been used in electronic guitar before. This change is really important for guitar players, which play blues and jazz. The new switching system can change the sound style really quick for blues and jazz players. As a rock player, I am also glad to see that, it’s a proud of all guitar players.

work citied

Steve Vai, "UV70P premium", Ibanez. Ibanez Guitars., Summer 2013. Web. 21 Sept 2013.

Week 3 interview post

•              The person that I interviewed is my guitar teacher. He is not very famous, but he can sing and write really wonderful music. I made an appointment with him and try to talk about how he wrote the lyric.  He was really friendly and introduces more details about writing lyrics.
•              “The rhyme is the most important part for lyric.”  He introduce to me at beginning like that. He told me when he wrote the lyric for a song, he usually needs to work 2-3 days, and also need revise more and more. “You need to learn how to hit the point in order to write lyrics, the three rules for writing lyrics are clear, clean, and consistent.”  He told me another difficult part is the brainstorm part.  “In order to write good lyrics, you need to familiar with the melody of the music, in another words, you need to have experience with the mood that this melody wants to show up.” He said it’s really hard and really complicated.
•            Compare the lyric writing to the class writing, I found the most important thing is brainstorm. A good topic can bring you several good ideas about style, arrangement, and beautiful words. Although different kinds of writing have different writing styles, but the brainstorm part is really important for all kinds of writing. Also, the three rules that my guitar teacher mentioned-clean, clear, and consistent is also really important for writing an essay.
•              From his introduce, I learn more about how to brainstorm the topic when you want to write something. The most important rule is learning how to stand in the reader’s position, you will write the essay that they like.

                                                       work cited

          Su,Hang. Telephone Interview. 20 September 2013.

what's "ROCK" really mean?

          I have opened this blog for several weeks. There are some of my friends come here and ask me about what rock music is. This makes me thinking about really deep. what is rock music? why people and bands choose rock music and play it so crazy? As a guitar player, I think the rock music not only gives you crazy feelings, but also bring the same believes for different group of people. Sometimes they may feel bad with there government, sometimes they may feel bad with the society. But the most important believe is trey can and they will shout it loudly to show themselves. it's really important for rock music. This is also important for rock music. If the rock music didn't include the mind, it's not rock music. Rock music is just a way for the group of people which have the same believe to communicate with each other. It's a way to understand each other , it's a way to show each other, also it's a way to get crazy!

How to make a band work?9/11

How to make a band work?

This is the blog topic that I choose for this question, and I also choose a blog resource which is called “The all new cheap music blog”. There is also a famous Chinese musician Cuijian’s book “The band Industry”. When I compare these two resources, I find the style is really different. For the blog, the writer used some clear sentence and easy vocabulary to describe this and also add some of bias. The professional musician Cuijian’s book is more difficult to understand because of the academic vocabulary and huge amount of information. In my opinion, the blog’s audience is for the music funs, so the writer wrote it as his own bias in order to make it understandable. But Cuijian’s may write the book for the music college, so the audience is professional musicians and students. He needs to write without bias and give enough information.  For the delivery part, the blog use the website to deliver all the information, it’s more convenient and clear. “ The music industry” use the textbook form to deliver the information in order to make it more easy to read and more easy to discuss.

work cited

1. "how to make a band work." the all new cheap music blog. The twenty eleven theme. spring 2012. web. 11 Sept 2013.

2. Cui Jian. "what is a band?" The music industry (1998): 12-30. Print.

The different between base and guitar!

The simplest difference between guitar and bass guitar is the pitch range of the instruments. The base has the lower sound range compare to guitar. The next difference is the role the instruments play in a group. Normally, bass plays a supportive role along with the drummer to create the pulse of the music and set the music's foundation. But a guitar's job is to play the theme and solo. Drummer and base is a kind of server of guitar. Also, base is really important in the band. It's usual if you saw a band without guitar player, but you may never saw a band without base player. That’s how important a base player is. I learn this from a website called HubPage. I was very surprised when I saw this, because our band always played without a base player. I think this is really useful for me and I will learn more about the role of different instrument in order to let my band play well.

resource:http://ericdockett.hubpages.com/hub/Bass-vs-Guitar 

10 questions assignment

10 questions：
1. what is music?
2. how can I know more about it?
3. why do we need create a band?
4. what is rock music?
5. why people loves rock music?
6. how rock music influence people?
7. how are the instruments plays different roles in a band?
8. which kind of music is most popular?
9. what kind of people have the talent in music?
10. what is music industry?




First of all, I found a magazine called "Rock Of China" and also a guitar book called " The talent in Guitar". Of course I answered most of the questions that I have listed on this question list. But I have already found differences between using books or magazines as a resource and using others as resources. In addition, if you want to find somethings in a book, you need to take a look at it for a long time and you need to filter some important information. some questions like No.1,8,and 10, I can't find it on the books or magazines, so  I think the internet is also a very good resource for you to look for information. Also, my friends are also a good resource that I can use. For example, I can ask the No.4 questions to my band members. Different people have different understand of rock music. they may also give me some good ideas about this questions.

About me

Hi everyone:
                  My name is Ziyi Yu. A very normal Chinese student in MSU. As my blog's title, this blog is a music house. I have been a band leader in my high school. I love rock music so much. Some times music can give you some power to do something when you feel tired or irritable. I play guitar in my band which I believe It's  very cool. So that's all about me. Here in my blog, I will introduce more about the music industry and some different kinds of band management. I'll use my experience in high school to try to tell everybody some fun about being a member in a band.