Zelena's learning about things in music class that is quite diverse

 I'm interviewing my mother here.  I have the question I asked and then her response under it.  1.        What was the first genre of music you ever listened to?   The first genre of music I ever heard or remember hearing was Hispanic music and classical music.   My grandmother raised me and that is all she listened too. She would put the music on and do art every Sunday after church. 2.        Did you like it? Back then I liked it Ok. I liked the classical music the best and Vivaldi inspired me to take flute lessons as a teenager.   I like playing music more than listening to music.   My grandmother had an old pump organ that I would play as a child. This part I loved. Now I don’t care for Hispanic music, it sounds off key and is irritating to listen too. It actually gives me tension headaches.   Classical music is ok but not something I would care to listen too often.   I do ...

Arabic Music  When I was watching performers play the Oud the thing, I kept thinking the entire time was: How do I tune this thing? So apparently in order to tune the Oud you have to press the string inside and turn the tuning peg at the same time. You do this so that the string stays inside. So apparently this instrument has 11 strings. With these strings there are 5 pairs and 1 singular string. They then recommend tuning the top of each pair and then tuning the bottom of each pair to the first one. So apparently there’s many different ways to tune the Oud. The Arabic and Turkish Oud are completely different animals so I’ll only be discussing the Arabic Oud. One of the most common tuning for the Arabic Oud is C F A D G C. This tuning can be used with western musical styles. Another tuning is F A D G C F.  My source for tuning the Oud. I wanted to learn more Qanun and how that was tuned and other things about the instrument as well. The instrument has 26 sets of triplets. The ...

                  The first music that I started listening to when I was eight was rock & roll. A lot of the stuff I listened to where British invasion bands such as the Rolling Stones. I did listen to a lot of American and German bands as well. Most of the music I listened to from rock & roll is from 3rd wave musicians. This blog is going to be about some things in American rock & roll and it's roots. I’ve taken American Popular music so I know some of the starting off material off the top of my head. I will be covering the 1st wave of artists and start of rock & roll.                    Rock & roll came from rhythm and blues. R&R actually used to be a euphemism (for something I will not discuss here). Disk jockey Alan Freed was the first one to use the term Rock and Roll for this new music.  ...

 I think the mbira is very interesting and wanted to know more about why it’s named different names. It's been all over Africa, but it is primarily played in Zimbabwe. There’s something very delicate and accessible about this instrument that makes it very appealing. It’s played in such an interesting way and the bottle caps added for buzz just make it fun. I like how it's a plucked idiophone and it sounds so different than your average chordophone. Evidently the instrument has so many names because each tribe would change the name to suit their native language. There are certain common carry overs between some of the related languages, but enough differences to change the name according on the tribe’s language. The stem was usually kept, but the prefix was different. That’s why some of the alternate names for it usually have -Limba or -Kembe as a prefix at the end. I also found a ton of other names for the instrument in the article that  I found on J Store.   I thought th...

  I’ve noticed that my domination uses music very differently than other protestant Christians. Whenever I go to a Lutheran church service, we sing only 2 to 4 hymns that are proximality two minutes each. Then, we continue with the sermon and once it reaches the 45-minute mark we all leave. I noticed other Christians in other dominations will play instruments and sing in the current popular style. Their services are also longer by far. The way I was raised was that music in the church only served as a prayer and not as entertainment. I was raised that modern Christian popular music was not good thing comparatively to the older hymns and songs like Amazing Grace. The services I went to were very barebones to the point a monk from the middle ages or Martian Luther himself would feel right at home. It seems all the Lutheran churches I’ve been to are traditional in the way they approach the sermon. The text in the songs is receptive and verse chorus structure. The songs can sometimes h...

What find interesting is that a lot of Native American music uses vocables. The actual meaning of the songs is up to the music and dancers to convey...which I find fascinating. The way these dancers move reminds me a lot of a round dance and especially the first Native American video we watched. They have a consistent drum beat and use shakers in the music. This entire song is nothing, but vocables, dance, and rhythm. This seems to be an example of what a lot, but not all traditional Native American music sounds like. From what I can gather from this video and other videos that we've watched in class is that Native American music puts emphasis on community and feeling in their work. This shows how similar Native American cultures are to each other and how different they were. This kind of reminds me of how European culture works. Places that are on the same content tend to have some common threads if communication is there. The Native Americans traded amongst themselves as did Euro...

My name is Zelena Hull. I’m a singer-songwriter musician. I started singing when I was 11 and started to do professional gig work when I was 12. I’ve sang at the Nashville place, best singer in the district, multiple restaurants, freedom fest, Greer idol, multiple competitions (a lot taking place in hotels), before the pandemic I did a lot of busking, and much more.  I was a periluminal judge on best singer in the state when I was 16, which I am the youngest judge ever for the  competition . I’ve had multiple interviews and worked with Grammy winning artists in Nashville. Ever since the pandemic hit however, my life has changed. My music career is on halt.  I listen to a lot of types of music. My favorite tends to be rock from the 1990's backward. Bob Dylan is one of my favorites because the cutting commentary on life and hardship. Older Hip-Hop I like because of this very same reason. “Gangster’s Paradise" is one of my favorite songs not only due to the issues conveyed b...