Table of 1. Letter from the Editors
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2.The Melody of Life
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3.Genres of Music
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4. Story of Music
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Contents 5. How to Write a Song 6. Behind the Beat
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7. Idiot’s Guide to Music Production Applications 8. The Story Behind the Song 9. Music Through the Decades
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My name is Ava and I go by she/ her pronouns. I’m from Austin, and my favorite hobbies are dancing and relaxing. I like to dance because it helps me de-stress. I also like to listen to music, and hang out with my friends.
My name is Cameron, but it often just gets shortened to cam. I’m genderfluid and use pronouns interchangeably. I am from Austin, Texas and I enjoy skateboarding and rollerblading. I like playing with makeup and styling clothes after thrifting. My hobbies include animating, digital art, sketching, and kickboxing.
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My name is Jiayi. In my free time I like to draw and write as a creative outlet, and also listen to music as a way to relieve stress. I also like dancing because it’s very fun. I have a three year old cat that I love more than anything in the world.
My name is Ella and I go by she/her pronouns. I am from Austin, Texas and I love to write and play music because it makes me happy. I also row competitively 5 days a week and like to workout with my friends, off
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The melody of life
Life Through the Eyes of a Musician By: Jiayi Zhao
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ou’ve been dreaming about this your entire life. Traveling the world with the need to get away or to create something no one has seen before. Melodies however mellow, rich, soft, or loud, fill your head and block out the world outside. You pour your heart and soul, a whole lifetime of stories woven into poetic verses into your melodies. It’s like you’re hearing and understanding yourself for the first time. And in that moment, you get a sudden epiphany – being a musician is your dream, and there’s nothing else you’d rather be doing. The career of being a musician
can be hard to define. There are a range of responsibilities it takes for a person to become one. Musicians perform, record, and sometimes write music. They may be trained under a specific genre or instrument, or they can also play a variety of instruments. To be successful in music, musicians should always strive to improve and have commitment in their creative pursuits.
communicate with his audience through their music. “[I love] the interaction you get by sharing something,” Cadle commented. “because songs, especially, are very emotional, like it doesn’t necessarily have to be a serious emotion, but when someone is feeling whatever it is that you’re putting out, and you get this reciprocation of energy, that’s crazy, when a crowd is really digging a band, and they’re Performance is often a musician’s just going nuts, and the band favorite part of their job; They starts playing even harder, beget to share the songs they write cause they just want to give more and the pieces they learn with an and more and more.” audience. Jace Cadle is the vocalist and guitarist of the American Since the pandemic, however, rock band Madam Radar based many performances have had in Austin. He expressed how to be adapted or canceled to fit much he loves to connect and COVID guidelines. Hailey Wal
Hailey Walterman performing with the Sienna String Quartet at the Far Out Lounge and Stage in south Austin
terman is a professional violist and freelance musician based in Los Angeles, California. She also runs her own private studio where she teaches violin and viola to students. Having played music for seventeen years, she expressed how it’s been difficult to adjust, and it’s definitely a different experience compared to pre-pandemic times. Walterman noted how her solo recitals were very weird because she’s performing to an empty hall, but she has to be performing like she has a big audience.
an all female group with guitarists, vocalists, drums, and a string trio. She really enjoyed how creative and fun the process was, as she explained here, “It’s a very, I’d say, kind of indie songwriter style of music.” Walterman recalled. “And you got to be so creative in how you’re playing a specific line, or a specific melody, and it was always influenced by the sounds
“It really changes the energy of the room, because usually you can feel other people’s energy Madam Radar, an American Rock while you’re on the stage. And band based in Austin, Texas so when you’re playing at a solo recital, it’s not quite that type of audience. I played with Michael Buble way that were dynamic. [We often] run into back in Sepkind of conflict by just disagreements, tember. And coming by the way you do stuff. A lot of when you’re around times we do listen to each other. playing for a you. I So it’s a little bit easier. We really “When you love what think I work at that. It’s sitting down huge audience like probably and going, Hey, How’s everyone you do, you never that, the aulearned feeling? And just kind of having work a day in your dience has the most - not like psychology sessions been crazy. when I’m but just like sitting down with life.” And you feel collabeach other and just going, Hey, Jace Cadle the energy, orating let’s, let’s have a drink and talk. and it’s so with oth- And if there’s any problems, exciting, er artists.” let’s try to come to a common and that also ground on it.” helps you Jace Caplay better.” dle noted Just like any sort of family, there how collaboration is fun, but it are always things to love and Besides performing, collaboracan also be exhaustive working hate about the people that you’re tion is also a big part of being a with his bandmates to settle dis- around. Cadle described how a musician. Last summer, Walter- agreements. lot of good things came out of man did a recording project with “We have a lot of that family his interactions with his band
that he’s grown to love.
anyone in the music industry. This includes overcoming stage “If you really do believe in what “I feel like there’s probably less fright while performing. Hailey you’re doing and love it, then it’s times when I’m motivated, than Walterman stressed the imporreally hard to [complain],” Cadle there are times that I’m motitance of being prepared with the explained. “I’m lucky because vated. [It helps to] return back music that you’re performing I dig my band. So four hours to why you play music in the and making sure you are confiin a van together is just kind of first place and viewing it as that dent in what you have to offer. talking a bunch of crap to each creative process. Because then it’s This is a big thing that helps to other and just laughing and almost like you’re approaching quell nervousness. telling jokes, playing games and your instrument within a medilistening to songs. So I would say tative state, and it’s a really good “I feel like there’s a lot of things if you don’t love this, that’s what outlet and exploration for your that you can do to kind of oversucks about this.” brain rather than this thing that come [nervousness]. And nerves you have to do.” she explained. are not always bad. It’s kind of Cadle said there are also a lot of how you deal with them and challenges that musicians have to In addition to having motivahow you frame them. Because face, especially in terms of findtion, musicians have to believe there are times when you get on ing motivation to play. in themselves and their abilities the stage and you’re really excitwhen they write or perform ed, so reframe it as an exciting “Because being a musician, when music. Although confidence can thing, rather than a bad thing.” you do this specific thing, it’s be hard to come by for a lot of hopefully because you love it, people, it’s a vital trait to have for because there’s not really a All musicians are unique in their lot of other perks like money, own way, whether they play or and there’s no guarantee that sing. They may differ in their anybody is gonna like anyyears or education or training, thing that you do ever.” but all musicians share the same qualities of working hard, perseCadle said it’s important to verance, and most importantly, remind yourself of your pastheir passion in music. sion in order to keep going. “Because I dig this,” Cadle said. “And it’s one of those cliches, but it’s if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,” she later added. Sometimes it helps to revisit your creative process when you’re unmotivated as a musician. Hailey Walterman said it’s especially hard to find motivation for herself when things are not in a flow state
and are a little stagnant.
Rock
Rock music originated as Rock n’Roll in the 1950’s. It combines elements of R&B, jazz, and country with the addition of electric instruments. Rock is often characterized by intensive energy, a strong bassline and driving rhythms.
EDM
EDM, or Electronic dance music, is an umbrella genre for various percussive electronic music genres. It is generally created through a combination of digital and analog equipment including synthesizers and drum machines
Genres of Music A music genre is a conventional category that identities a piece of music as belonging to a shared tradition and a set of conventions. Most of the classficiations, however, are subjective and controversial due to the artistic nature of music, and genres may overlap. This ASF will provide the general definition and characteristics of each genre.
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Country music originates in the rural southern US and has its roots from American folk. They are usually simple in form and are typified by romantic and melancholy ballads accompanied by guitar, drums, and keyboard.
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R&B
Rnb, also known as rhythm and blues, is a genre music that originated in African American communities in the 1940’s Present contemporary R&B is more based around keyboard, synths, and drum machines
The Story of Music An intructional guide on the steps of songwriting described by Noelle Hampton and John Branch.
By Ella Brotman
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ou sit down at your desk feeling creative, the pen gripped firmly in your hand. You’ve written many songs before, but tonight it’s different. For a long time you’ve worked on this song, but all you could do was stare at the blank page, waiting for inspiration to hit. But suddenly, almost out of nowhere, the words seem to start writing themselves. Writing a song is a lengthy, difficult process. There are many steps along the way that you have to go through to create a good song. Ideas can happen anywhere at any time, but writing them down to create something can be easier said than done. Songwriting can be a healing process for some people or just a way to get emotions out of their heads. Anyone can write, but if
you want to, you need to put in was playing a chord progression. the work to learn how to write and Then, she would make up a melproduce your own music. ody and start singing “nonsensical words over the melody.” She Noelle Hampton is a singer-song- would keep going until something writer in Austin, Texas. She has started to happen, when those been writing songs for over 20 nonsense words would begin to years, and has a band called make sense to her, and then she the “Belle Sounds” which has would finally write them down. been around since 2013. The Belle Sounds are one of the most She says that “It felt more kind recognized Austin bands. Hamp- of pains” with her old process. ton writes and produces all of the She said it was more painstaking songs her band puts out. She because she felt the pressure said that the program “Logic Pro” of coming up with a whole song changed her life. right then and there. Now that she uses Logic she doesn’t feel Logic Pro is a music production that pressure anymore and can software that makes it easy to just play with the music more. create and record songs. Before using Logic Pro she would sit “It starts to become something with an instrument and, “just start very tangible, it’s like you can feel playing music, [until] something a song actually happening alwould come.” ready,” Hampton says. Hamptom adds her lyrics last, so she can Her first step in her old process figure out “what the story
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of the music is telling me,” she explained. At the beginning of 2020 Hampton made it her goal to write and release a song a month. She said that “it was sort of a real teaching moment that if you sit too long without writing, it’s harder to come back.” She put pressure on herself to think that every song was going to be great, but she explained that if you come into the songwriting process with no expectations that you will keep the song then it makes it easier to create more songs. She finds that the best songs that she writes draw from her influences (70s harmony bands, 80s synth pop, hip hop and more) and her own modern sounds. She also said to, “do what your heart tells you to do without blatantly ripping something off.” John Branch is a songwriting guitar player in Austin, Texas.
He has been playing guitar since he was a kid and has been songwriting for almost as long. He says that the most important thing to do when trying to write songs is that you do it regularly. “Just to get up every day and
“Look for the simplest stuff, simpler is always better” do some work,” Branch said. He talked about how it doesn’t matter how long you write for as long as you can set aside some time each day to sit down and try to create something. He advised people to just, “do a little bit of something every week” Branch explained that he focuses on the rhythm of it more when he writes songs. “I like to
walk into something more set,” he said. After he makes a beat he then starts to play chords along to it. Then he adds harmony and then bass. He feels that he likes to, “look for the simplest stuff.” He later added that “Simpler is always better,” Branch noted that the hardest part when writing a song in his experience was completely finishing. Hampton also said that it was hard to know which songs she thought were good. She said that “sometimes I think I’ve been so brilliant in one moment. And then I come back and look at it again and reevaluate.” Hampton said that “when I was young, I felt, if I couldn’t make a song work, that I was never going to write another song. It was that kind of feeling, like I’ll never write a song again. Or if I wrote a good one, I’d never write one better than it.” Making music can be extremely disheartening when what you create doesn’t come out as expected, but when it does, writing music can be the best feeling in the world.
Step 1: Make a chord progression
What’s a chord progression? A chord progression is chords, typically from the same key in an order.
Step 2: Find a melody
What’s a melody? A melody is just the tune of the song.
Step 3: Write lyrics
What are lyrics? Lyrics are the physical words of the song.
How to write a song: Step 4: Add instruments
What are the intruments? Intruments are all of the sounds other than your voice in the song.
Step 5: Produce it
What is production? This is the final step of the song writing process, basically making the final touches
Photo Credits to Luis Morera
BEHIND THE BEat By: Cameron Reyes
usic has been an important part of society’s development in culture and style since the beginning of civilization. As technology advances and becomes more and more integrated with our everyday lives It transforms all of our surroundings, including music. After the invention of being able to record sound on tape, music has followed in the footsteps of technological advancement. Whole professions became along with the new aspects of making a song. Produc-
tion arists, sound engineers, and beat makers. Even so, popular production artists are still left in the shadows, casted by the voice and persona of the music star they work with. It’s time to bring the work behind the scenes to the spotlight. Joe sheriff, an artist who uses an alias on Sound Better, makes his career by remixing songs into dance tracks. This supports his living exspenses so he can also work on his “Artist project”, being part of a band named,
‘The Pressure’, a duo band with his partner and close friend.
“So a lot of the time, I’m working with artists that are sort of, just up for a bit of a refreshment on what they already have, and a lot of the time, it’s to make their music more danceable. Maybe, like a club remix or something like that. Usually it’s in a house style or kinda EDM. But yeah, most of the time it has house influence, techo influence. Straight four to the floor, four for kick drum, that sort of thing,” Sheriff explained
Many musical artists with music production ability have begun to take advantage of this skill in order to support themselves. The music industry is a highly competitive environment, and it has more to do with strategy than talent. 90.7% of musical artists remain undiscovered and out of the remaining percentage only 1.1% achieve mainstream status. Blake Bergman, a talented instrumentalist who currently struggles with getting his work out to listeners, shared some of his thoughts on the matter. “It’s hard, you know? Cause ever since I was little I was told that if I became an artist I would go hungry. That’s just the opinion people have of dreamers,” Bergman says he’s wanted to be a musician ever since he was little. His parents put him in piano lessons and he “just fell in love” The introduction of the internet and technology to music making has skyrocketed the
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productivity of the industry. It has made music production much more accessible to a greater demographic of people. You no longer need a studio consisting of several persons to play each individual instrument for your music. Newly developed pieces of software like Ableton Live, FL studios, and Garage band allow you to create musical compositions without the problem of finding the capable people needed to play specific instruments.
Another revolutionary addition to the music making process, that came with digital outlets, is the creation of sample packs. Sample packs, or plugins, are sounds created by other music creators by recording their instrument and then Just as a generation changes and creates new popular sounds and genres, the same effect goes for popular plug-ins. As you look through the eras of the music industry, you will notice common sounds recurring within the instrumentals of that time’s greatest hits. “There are so many plugins right now that you can hear in a lot of contemporary pop music. I’m always looking for those, the latest ones, the ones that are going to end up shaping music in the future,” Sheriff says after being asked about his favorite instrument to start with when
James S, a producer, profiled on Sound Better, offers the ability to produce ghost tracks. A ghost track similar to ghost-writing for lyrics, is an instrumental in which the producer doesn’t credit themselves remaining anonymous. The contracts these songs are under are often airtight, not allowing the producer to even mention it to his close friends and family. No sound signature is left in the track, leaving the masses without any knowledge of who produced the track behind the song.
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“I kinda just sat back and watched it play out, kinda smug ya know. That I did something like that and no one knows.” QUOTE : JAMES .S
“I don’t mind actually, it’s kinda fun to, ya know, have a secret like that. Once, my friends actually ended up listening to a song I helped produce. I kinda just sat back and watched it play out, kinda smug ya know. That I did something like that and no one knows. I’m also a lil shy about praise, so it works for me, ya know?” James recalled. This thriving, intricate, and complex industry is constantly growing and evolving.
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Being founded on all the little pieces being used within the instrumentals and mixing of a song that is often overlooked by the mainstream community. Technology has allowed us to perform amazing acts that will be marked by humanity within our species’ history. One of these acts, of course, being music. I urge you to listen for the different layers in a song. The pianos’ long calm synth in the background, or the energizing fast pacing of the drum kit. Pick the work apart, see how it works together, I promise it will enhance your enjoyment of your favorite songs.
“It’s a balance really, thats what people don’t realize. Music is so much more than what you hear in the car on the way to work or on your spotify picks. It means something, it always means something to someone.”
Know that it’s not just the artist’s persona that made this piece come together. Although not to take away from their sacrifice and devotion to being a performer. Just appreciating art for the people that are expressing themselves makes it more relatable. That’s all we humans really ever look for, isn’t it? We want to be a part of something, and music gives us that. Music brings us together and comforts us when we’re torn apart, even as we rocket into the advancements of the future. //(^-w-^)\
QUOTE : JAMES .S
WRITTEN AND EDITED BY CAMERON REYES /(^-w-^)\\
IDIOT’S GUIDE TO MUSIC PRODUCTION APPLICATIONS BY: CAMERON REYES
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INSTRUMENT DASHBOARD
This section is your track bar, you will create the different parts of your final musical peice here. You can think of this space like an instrumental dashboard, sounds from the sound libary will be dragged and dropped here to be used. Each collum has several rows, for different variations of beats of chord progressions with the selected sound. There are two types of tracks, Audio and MIDI. Audio is used for vocals and other sample sounds while MIDI is used to input items from the sound and downloads libraries.
2 TRACK CONTROL PANNLES
These rows underneath your selected instruments are the control pannles for your musical peices. Here you can monnitor the voulme of the individual track, play, pause, mute, or single out one track. This is also the place you will begin recording if you import live audio into your track. It is important to pay attention to your audio gain, which is shown in the first collum of the audio bar. It should never go past the triangle marked line, unless you want your track to sound distorted
3 INSTRUMENT SETTINGS AND EFFECT EDITING
This is the window that will display individual parts of a sound (drum kit parts or instrument presets) It will also be where you drag and customize audio effects such as reverb, echo, noise, and many others. Customizing instruments makes a big difference if you don’t use downloaded packs. Although the sound libray can be exstensive in most modern softwares, they still might lack the spesific sound you need for a song. You can change and customize a sounds with presets and effects to become closer to how you would like. Then you can even save your changed sound to use again in the future.
4 MELODY AND BEAT DRAWING BOARD
This drop down workspace is where you will create your drum patterns and chord progressions. You can also lay out the different parts of your track on attachments like electric pianos and MIDI pads. Either way the melody will be displayed in a block format below your instrument bar. You can ‘draw’ in chord progessions with your mouse and pre-set the length of the keystrokes in the settings bar. {3} The octive settings are also acessable from this window by scrolling to a higher or lower pitch.
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INDIVIDUAL NOTE AUDIO GAIN These rows underneath and corresponding to your chord progressions are used to monitor the volume and gain of individual notes. This tool used to create build ups in a section of a song. It also helps if you wish to create a song that is quieter. You want your notes to be soft but not inaudible. By customizing the gain settings you can make sure a note has as much presence as you want it to have within an individual track.
HAVE FUN mAKING musIC >:D
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Story of the Song By: Ava Wang
How music videos are made, and personal opinions about filming.
Lights and cameras all around you. This can help you grow as an artist, or it could all be for nothing. People watching online or right in front of you with sweat dripping down your face. The littlest mistake can embarrass you. The pressure is on to show everyone what music you have created. Making music videos really helps artists nowadays to promote their music. This creates advertisement to their songs, so they can grow. The music industry is a really competitive place with many
at around ages 9-12, and have always continued with that interest. Lamping also mentions why he likes to film. After, they start getting into the process of how they do music videos. “Typically what we have done is, a client will come to us with a song, and they might have a bit of an idea of what they want to do. But, it might not be fully fleshed out. So then we would take time to listen to the song, kinda get our brain wrapped around what the story of the song might be,” Stolhand said. Photo by Andrew Lamping
other artists competing to be on top. Jeff Stolhand and Andrew Lamping both work in the music industry creating music videos for artists, and are producers in the company, Expressions in Film and Video. This company makes music videos, commercials, animations, and they do photography that is based in Austin, Texas. They all give their insights on how music videos are done and how they interpret a piece of music to a video. Stolhand and Lamping talk about their personal experience and how they got into filming. These two producers got into music videos and photography
“Usually it’s an artist coming to me asking for help with their video because usually it’s the artist looking to put visuals to their music and their body of work. So, they would usually come to me and ask me what I think and what I see in a music video,” Lamping says.” Something that had surprised them was how people or the artist don’t have any idea on how to do a video, or they don’t have a vision for it. They explained that’s what their job is mostly, and helped them establish what they visually want. Stolhand and Lamping help think of ideas for the artist to help portray what the artist wants in the video.“There are 2 types of music videos, there is a performance video and then there is a narrative video. Sometimes it’s a combination of the two,” Stolhand explains. “So, what we try to do is just come up with a way to shoot the video to hopefully make a personal connection to the people watching it. That’s why I prefer narrative
music videos, something that tells a story, because I think when you can connect emotionally to the audience that’s half the battle.” Stolhand mentions. “I think the more you can make the music video look flashy, expensive, and with a nice production value. I think the color palette is important. Sometimes, we will think in terms of one or two types of colors that we would use to design the music video.”
Lamping adds on how “flashy materialistic lifestyle” helps with promoting music videos nowadays. “It seems like nowadays most of the things you’re gonna see on the trending YouTube page are the music videos that are going to be set in a fancy house.” Lamping also mentions how there isn’t a lot of big narrative with orchestrated music now, and it is mostly all rapping.
Stolhand starts talking about “I think it was mostly just the the advisterising aspect of the fact that you can make a pretty reason why music videos can much like a short film, and the help an artist. “Well, I think a script is already there more or music video as long as there is less. You don’t have to worry a fan base for that style of muabout writing a script, it’s there sic, and today I think more so for you, and it’s just your job to because everybody is on their tell that story that you already phones and everybody is on see inside your head, and their laptops and a lot of people again presented to an audience watch things on their computthat might not know that artist ers,” Stolhand says. yet,” Lamping mentions. Stolhand mentions how artists can reach out to their fanbase to help promote their music video too. He also says that those who have a small fan base or are just starting out can also do music videos. “So, just because you don’t have the barrier of entry, I guess. You don’t have to be on MTV, you can make a music video and put it on your own YouTube
channel, so it’s really a matter of how you reach out to build the fan base,” Stolhand says. Sally O’Grady is a producer/ director for short films, documentaries, and commercials in the company Headlands Studios that is based in Austin, Texas. She started at a later age when she moved to New York CIty, and hasn’t stopped. “I was always interested in movies and then when I moved to NYC from my hometown of Sydney. I interned at a documentary production company. From there I made connections and was able to get a job as a researcher on and independent documentary
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and after that I was able to secure freelance work as a producer on programs for PBS, Discovery and History. After moving around and working in a few different companies, in 2019, I launched Headlands with my wonderful friend Jennell Lewis.” O’Grady mentions. O’Grady adds her advice for people that just started filming or are thinking about starting, “I would say don’t be intimidated, but do be curious and question yourself and others
(in a healthy way). It takes an portray something that they incredible amount of dedication want on the internet, and and you won’t necessarily promote their career. make a lot of money so be sure you love working in production. When working on bigger projects try not to let other people’s anxiety influence your process. Always be 10 minutes early and always be dedicated to the task at hand.” She says. The music industry is always changing with new artists, along with technology evolving everyday. Music videos help make it possible for people to
Music Through the
Decades By: Ava Wang
1970 1970 was a key era for vinyl records and record players, which were all affordable for everyone. CD’s were invented around the late 1970’s. Cassette tapes were widely used in the 1970s, and were around the same time as the CD players became widely available. You could record and listen to music using cassette tapes. The style of music that was really popular in the 1970s were rock, funk and disco. Hip-hop started to become popular in the late 70s.
1980 A lot of digital recording were introduced in this decade. The MIDI was used mostly to record music, which help change the pitch, rhythm, volume, velocity, changing wave form etc. They also used analog recorders for multitracking and/or mixdown. This decade was when electronic dance muisc and modern rock emerged. Hip hop still continues, but a lot of rock, and metal greatly impacted this decade.
1990 The 1990s were similar to the 1980s. Rock music was still popular and a lot of variety of pop, rap and alternative music emerged. A lot of bands and artists start to emerge, like Mariah Carey and Michael Jackson. Music was recorded were disk-based recordings and a lot were slowly going digital. MP3 players were invented so as tape recordings, sound softwares, and digital mixers.
Music has evolved a lot through time. 1970-2020 has been the most change in music. The transition between physical recordings to using digital equipment. The change of popular music styles to modern day is very different from each other as well as the ways music are distributed out to the public, and music like funk and disco changing to more hiphop, rap, and pop. Through the decades music has changed style and the way its presented.
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Music like indie, funk, and pop were popular in the 2000s. A lot of different styles of music started to converge together, and was one of the most defining features of this decade. Songs in the 2000 were now mostly filled with eletrical intruments. Hip hop really influenced this decade, but other than that genres like post-grunge, post-Britpop, indie rock resurged in pop rock. The internet started to grow and led to the start of iTunes, Auto-Tunes, and YouTube.
2010 was the key era of pop music. A lot of new artists started to become more popular. The era of MTV was over and most artists would record albums and perform live shows around the world or country. A new music streaming app, Spotify, slowly was introduced following by Apple Music. Some of the famous artists that grew in this decade was Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna, Prince, and more.
Pop songs have mostly been trends throughout the beginning of 2020. Even though this decade hasn’t ended, through 2020-2022 most music has been pop, hip hop, and rap. Covid has also greatly impacted the music industry. For example, there wasn’t any allowed live performances which made up a total of 50% of the revenue. A lot during this time, artist would use a lot of social media and streaming apps.
