MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Electric Guitar, Brass Instrument, Record Producer
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Materials of music, early north american popular music. Woodwinds: sound produced by blowing into metal or wooden tube through a mouthpiece with a vibrating wooden reed. Brass instruments: sound produced by buzzing lips on a mouthpiece and. Common in soul, r&b, funk, and jazz blowing into a metal tube of various sizes. Violin/fiddle, viola, cello - strings stretched over a hollow wooden. Electric guitar - can play much louder than acoustic with a wider range. Electric bass - louder, more portable than double bass of sounds. Drums - play the rhythm, but give sound to it with a combination of cymbals (high sound), snare drum (medium sound), and bass drum. Modern elements of music computer; sounds can be manipulated easily. Digital recording: recording acoustic and electronics sounds on a. Multi-track recording/overdubbing: the layering of recorded sounds on. Sampling: recording a sound and adding it to computer for manipulation top of each other. Invented by les paul in the early 1950s.