Drums

Summary of the History of the drums:


At the begining all the percussion instruments were played individually, but after the "English Civil War" all the percussion instruments were played together, in this way the drums were created.

 The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hand, or with a drumstick, to produce sound.There is usually a "resonance head" on the underside on the drum, these are usually tuned to a sligthtly lower pitch than the top drumhead. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

A few types of drums such as timpani are always turned to a certain pitch. Often, several drums, other than timpani drums, can be arranged togheter to create a drum kit.


Uses:

Drums are usually played by the hand, or by one or two sticks. In many traditional cultures drums have a symbolic function and are often used on religious ceremonies.
Drums are often used music therapy, especially hand drums, because of their tactile nature and easy use by a wide variety of people.
Within the realm of popular music and jazz, "drums" usually refers to a drum kit or a set of drums (with some cymbals) and "drummer" to the actual band member or person who plays them.
Drums acquired even divine status in places such as Burundi, where the karyenda was a symbol of a power of the king.

Here is a video that show us how to play the drums, but the the man that is going to teach us hoy to play it, isn't an ordinary one: He is the 23rd player in the world, Traver Backer! So if you are interested you can see it.

Pay attention and good luck!

Maná

Mana's story begins in the mid-seventies in Guadalajara, Mexico, thanks to four friends coming together to perform songs from Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. These friends formed a group called 'The Green Hat Spies', which eventually would become 'Green Hat' and finally, in 'green hat' and its translation into Spanish.
As 'green hat' released two albums: 'Green Hat' and 'To the rhythm of rock', with rather poor results in terms of sales. Due to the failure of the group were several changes in band members, who eventually left with the following components: Fernando Olvera (Fher), Alejandro Gonzalez (Alex), and the brothers Juan and Ulises Calleros. Since then decide to change his stage name from that to 'Mana' and use Latin rhythms in his compositions.


In 1987 they published his first album, titled 'Mana', with modest results, and in 1989 the second, 'Lack of love.'
Would be during the next two years as Mana would be released across the country, with over
seventy concerts and several awards and gold records for his work.


In 1992 he edited 'Where children play?', Recorded in a studio in Los Angeles. Ulyses Callero becomes the manager of the group and enter César López (Vampire) and Ivan Gonzalez. The album became a bestseller, not only in Mexico but in most Spanish speaking countries.


In late 1993, Vampire and Ivan leave the group, and enters Sergio Vallin as the fourth member of the band.


In 1995 released a new album 'When Angels Cry', which again becomes an international success. Two years later a new album sees the light: 'Liquid Dreams'. It is published simultaneously in 26 countries, including Spain, where he won the gold in just two months. With this album Maná perform a major tour throughout Latin America, United States, Canada, Spain and an endless number of countries. In 1999 Manna published a new album, 'MTV Unplugged', for that television, and collaborated with Carlos Santana on his latest album.


In 2002 comes to light their seventh studio album Maná, recorded in Los Angeles, entitled 'Love Revolution', a mix of reggae, funk and a touch of Afro-Cuban music. But above all, Rock at its best. The theme of the lyrics reflect deep feelings about love, heartbreak and longing.


The album features the collaboration of Ruben Blades and Carlos Santana, who thus returns to the collaboration visit the group did on the last disk of the master Santana.


In 2006, after a long wait, Maná publishes a new work entitled 'Love is to fight'. The album is produced by Mana with the special collaboration of recording engineer Thom Russo (who has worked alongside major music stars such as Audioslave, Macy Gray, Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton, among many others). The album includes an excellent duet with Juan Luis Guerra on "Bless Your Light."


Maná published in 2008 live album "Arde el cielo", recorded during the world tour of "Love is fight." Besides the big hits of his career, the album includes two previously unreleased tracks, "If you had not gone" and "Burn the sky."


In 2011, six years after their last studio recording, Maná publishes 'Drama and light'. Posted on April 12, 2011, this album features 12 new songs Manna, whose first single is titled 'Rain Heart', followed by its corresponding video clip. The full version of 'Drama and light' includes a DVD where the band shows us the making of this album, an album that the band dedicated to the mother and the sister of singer Fher, died in 2010.


Produced by Fher, Alex and Sergio, 'Drama and light' was first recorded in May 2010 between Puerto Vallarta and Los Angeles and its completion took place in the Henson Recording studios in Los Angeles.

All the discography of Maná:


• Maná (1987)
• Lack of love (1990)
• Where children play (1992)
• When Angels Cry (1995)
• Liquid Dreams (1997)
• MTV Unplugged (1999)
• Revolution of Love (2002)
• To love is to fight (2006)
• Arde el cielo (2008)
• Drama and Light (2011)




The songs from the album "Burn the Sky" are:


1- Let me in.
2-Send a signal.
3-Lips shared.
4-Blessed your light.
5-Living without air.
6-Where children play.
7-Mariposa treacherous.
8-The King.
9-It has not stopped raining.
10-In the spring of San Blas.
11-Stuck in a pub.
12-Bordering the Sun.
13-If you had not gone.
14-Burn the Sky.




MANÁ IS GOING TO BE HERE AT:


Buenos Aires - Estadium: "Velez Sarsfield" - 03/12/2011 and 04/12/2011

The Bass Guitar

The bass is an instrument also played with the fingers or thumb, or by using a pick. It looks like an elecrtic guitar, but with a longer neck and with four, five or six strings. It's usually tuned like a double bass. The bass guitar is a transposing intrument. To play it, you have to plug it to an amplifier and  speaker like the electric guitar.

Since the 1950's, the bass guitar has replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section.

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, blues, and jazz. It is used as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, latin, funk, and in some rock and metal styles.

Uses

Popular Music

Popular music bands and rock groups use the bass guitar as a member of the rhythm section, which provides the chord sequence or "progression" and sets out the "beat" for the song. The rhythm section typically consists of a rhythm guitarist or electric keyboard player, or both, a bass guitarist and a drummer; larger groups may add additional guitarists, keyboardists, or percussionists.

Jazz

The electric bass is a relative newcomer to the world of jazz. The big bands of the 1930s and 1940s used the double bass. The electric bass was introduced during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when rock influences were blended with jazz to create jazz-rock fusion. The introduction of the electric bass in jazz fusion, as in the rock world, enabled the bass to be used in high-volume stadium concerts with powerful amplifiers, because it is much easier to amplify the electric bass than the double bass.

Contemporany classical music

Contemporary classical music uses both the standard instruments of Western Art music (piano, violin, double bass, etc.) and newer instruments or sound producing devices, ranging from electrically amplified instruments to tape players and radios. The electric bass guitar has occasionally been used in contemporary classical music (art music) since the late 1960s.

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is considered to be the best guitarrist in musical history.
Hendrix was introduced in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" in 1992.
Then, in 2003, the "Rolling Stone Magazine" choosed him as the best guitarrist in the world, and in 2004 they choosed him in the list of the best artists in the world (number 6).
In 2009, "Time", an American magazine, choosed him as the best guitarrist of the electric guitar, getting over artists like B. B. King, Chuck Berry, Keith Richards and Eric Clapton.
He's still having the best "Riff" in the story of the music for his song "Voodoo Child" according to a survey made in 2009, getting over artists like Derek and The Dominos, Guns N' Roses, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

Discography


The Jimi Hendrix Experience:

• Are You Experienced (1967)

• Axis: Bold as Love (1967)

• Electric Ladyland (1968)

Jimi Hendrix/Band of Gypsys:

• Band of Gypsys (1970) [recorded live]

Posthumous studio albums:

• The Cry of Love (1971)

• Rainbow Bridge (1971)

• War Heroes (1972)

• Loose Ends (1974)

• Crash Landing (1975)

• Midnight Lightning (1975)

• Nine to the Universe (1980)

• Radio One (1988)

• First Rays of the New Rising Sun (1997)

• Valleys of Neptune (2010)

Here you can listen a Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoAXW30mMAg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_n_P40sEaM&feature=related

Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley Booker (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rock steady and reggae band Bob Marley & The Wailers (1963–1981). Marley is the most widely know of reggae music. He help the Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement became popular to all the world.
His best know hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds". The compilation album Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best selling album, going ten times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S.A., and selling 25 million copies in all the world.



Discography

 •The Wailing Wailers (1965)

•  The Best of The Wailers (1970)

•  Soul Rebels (1970)

• Soul Revolution (1971)

•  Catch a Fire (1973)

•  Burnin' (1973)

•  Natty Dread (1974)

•  Rastaman Vibration (1976)

•  Exodus (1977)

•  Kaya (1978)

•  Survival (1979)

•  Uprising (1980)

•  Confrontation (1983)

Awards and honors

• 1976: Band of the Year (Rolling Stone).

• June 1978: Awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World from the United Nations.

• February 1981: Awarded Jamaica's third highest honour, the Jamaican Order of Merit.

• March 1994: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

• 1999: Album of the Century for Exodus by Time Magazine.

• February 2001: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

• February 2001: Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 2004: Rolling Stone ranked him No.11 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

"One Love" named song of the millennium by BBC.

Voted as one of the greatest lyricists of all time by a BBC poll.

•2006: A blue plaque was unveiled at his first UK residence in Ridgmount Gardens, London, dedicated to him by Nubian Jak community trust and supported by Her Majesty's Foreign Office.

•2010: "Catch a Fire" inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (Reggae Album).

Green Day

Green Day's story begins in Berkeley, California, in 1983, when two young friends called Billie Joe Armstrong (Billie Joe) and Michael Pritchard (Mike Dirnt), formed his first band called Sweet Children. At that time only had 14 years old.
In 1989 Billy Joe and Mike Dirnt joined the drummer Al Sobrante and changed its name "Sweet Children" by Green Day. That same year, Green Day released their first album with an independent company. The tittle's work was "1,000 Hours", that was accepted into the atmosphere punk. Shortly after Sobrante was replaced by another drummer, John Kiftmeyer. With John, Green Day released their first album in 1990, it was called "1039/Smooth". A new change in the drums leaves to Tre Cool in command of the instrument.
The "Basket Case" video Green day became the "Video of the year 94", by MTV.

Discography

Kerplunk (1992)
Dookie (1994)
Insomniac (1995)
Warning (2000)
International Superhits(2002)
Shenanigans (2002)
American Idiot (2004)

Top 5 of Green Day

American Idiot
Restless Heart Syndrome
Holiday
Jesus of Suburbia
Whatsername

Nick Jonas in Argentina

The musician, singer, actor, composer and music producer is going to be in Argentina on October 1^st at the Stadium GEBA with his band “Nick Jonas and The Administration” in the “Nick Jonas 2011 Tour”. The Stadium GEBA is located in the area of Bosques de Palermo in Buenos Aires (Macelino Freyre and Av. Dorrego). That stadium has a capacity for 15,000 people.

Here are the ticket’s prices:

¨      Vip Platinum: $800 (+$100)

¨      Vip Gold: $ 500 (+$60)

¨      Vip Preference: $400 (+$50)

¨      Grandstands (no number): $200 (+$20)

You can buy the tickets calling this number: 4000-2800

More information: http://www.topshow.com.ar/TopShow/Web/Public/EventoInfo.aspx?CODE=EVEN000076

Nick Jonas and the Administration’s members:

¨      Nick Jonas (Vocals/Guitar): He was born on September 16^th in Dallas, Texas. When he was ten years old he was in many plays on Broadway. At twelve years old he is heard by a representative and he record a Cd called “Dear God”, but when he was fourteen he gathered with his brothers and created “The Jonas Brothers”.

¨      Tommy Barbarella (Keyboard): Tommy has been a quiet force in the music industry for nearly two decades. After a year of working with world-renowned Gospel group The Steeles, he landed a long-term gig as the keyboardist for Prince’s finest band, The New Power Generation of the 1990s. He has been credited working with a long list of diverse artists such as Art Garfunkel, Ziggy Marley, Love & Rockets, Switchfoot, David Sylvian, Everette Harp, Backstreet Boys and Jonny Lang. He has composed music for Hollywood features by directors Marc Forster and Spike Lee, and award-winning commercial tracks for Nike and many others.

¨      Sonny Thompson (Rhythm Guitar): Minneapolis native and multi instrumentalist, Sonny Thompson has spent his life performing on stage and in recording studios throughout the world. Not only is he known as the former bassist of Prince’s New Power Generation, he has worked with artists such as Mavis Staples, Gospel groups The Steeles and Pop Staples and most recently, Jonny Lang. A gifted vocalist and boundlessly talented musician, Thompson says, “music is my life, my passion.

¨      Michael Bland (Drums): By the age of nine, drummer Michael Bland had found his passion for the instrument. By 1989, he was recording and performing as Prince's drummer during his New Power Generation. He continued working for Prince for seven years. He has been known as the session drummer for many artists including Rob Thomas, Boys II Men, Backstreet Boys and Josh Kelley. He is currently on tour with Sony recording artist, Soul Asylum

¨      John Fields (Bass): Producer John Fields has made successful records for a wide variety of artists including the Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Backstreet Boys, Pink, Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Lifehouse and now Nick Jonas and the Administration. John is a multi-instrumentalist who frequently plays drums, bass, guitar and keyboards on the albums he produces. He was a member of the Minneapolis funk band, Greazy Meal, and has toured with The Rembrandts and Soul Asylum.