[MUSC107] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (17 pages long!)
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The start of rock and roll: electric guitar. Took parts out of a telephone and put into the radio to make a speaker. Types of guitars: les paul, gibson guitars. Pieced together on an assembly line: chapter one figures to focus on. Known as the king of rock and roll . Interruptions of other music and makes it into rock: gospel, country. First hit maybelline : reached top 5 in pop in 1955, came up with duck walk, came up with guitar solos, came up, with jump leap. Aint it a shame (1955: first rock and roll song. First rock artist to be influenced by rock. Invents surf rock: les paul film notes (chasing sound) Les paul did not graduate from high school. During the time, everyone"s lives changes, but the only thing that stayed was music. He became a legend of his time. Switched from playing country music to jazz music. Put echo in music in albums: natural echo.
