me and a friend are argueing about the origens of these genras of music. so where, how, and when were these music styles invented?
Many may think Metal is from the pop rock of the 50’s but actually was inspired by Blues, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest both originally started out as blues bands.
Hi folks I was wondering if time warner cable company should take the bluegrass channel off the music choice channel? We have had several bluegrass folks from dayton, ohio. They want to replace it with hip hop. nothing against hip hop but i like bluegrass also. Should I write a letter to Time Warner or just take out my cable box and tell them at the bill office? thanks.
try Yahoo USA
I’ll be in San Francisco from March 17-22 and need to find good music! I like smaller bluegrass bands like Trampled by Turtles, world music- particularly reggae, gypsy, & west African. Psychedelic stuff is good too.
Blues venues:
The Saloon on Grant at Columbus the oldest bar in SF!
The Boom Boom Room on Fillmore at Geary
Lou’s on Union and Stockton or at piers
Jazz venues:
Rassalas, 1300 or Yoshi’s on Fillmore near Geary. This is the newly revamped Jazz district of SF.
The Razz Room at the Hotel Nikko on Mason at O’farrell
Pine Mountain bluegrass music Music festival with New West, kicks off in the rain, w/ Michael Fleming, 2003, Production taping by Wm Wagener – LEAVE a COMMENT if you would like to see the next set of this rare footage .
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And how does it differ? I am doing project trying to come up with similarities.
Wow, thank you for a thoughtful answer!
bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and it is a sub-genre of country music. Its roots are Irish, Scottish and English traditional music, inspired by immigrants from the United Kingdom and Ireland (particularly the Scots-Irish in Appalachia), as well as jazz and blues.
In bluegrass, as in jazz, each instrument takes a turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others revert to backing; this is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Traditional bluegrass is typically based around acoustic stringed instruments, such as guitar, banjo, fiddle, and upright bass, with or without vocals.
Bluegrass as a style developed during the mid 1940s, and did not become popular until the recording industry burgeoned after World War II. As with any musical genre, no one person can claim to have "invented" it. Rather, bluegrass is an amalgam of old-time music, country, ragtime and jazz. Nevertheless, bluegrass’s beginnings can be traced to one band. Today Bill Monroe is referred to as the "founding father" of bluegrass music; the bluegrass style was named for his band, the Blue Grass Boys, formed in 1939. The 1945 addition of banjo player Earl Scruggs, who played with a three-finger roll originally developed by Snuffy Jenkins, but now almost universally known as "Scruggs style," is considered the key moment in the development of this genre. Although Jenkins, in interviews, has renounced his role as being the one who invented the three-finger roll, and has said he learned it from Rex Brooks and Smith Hammett in the 1920s.
Bluegrass was generally used for dancing in the rural areas, but eventually spread to more urban areas. In the early years, traditional bluegrass sometimes included instruments no longer accepted in mainstream bluegrass, such as accordion, harmonica, and autoharp.
Jazz originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style’s West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note.
One of the earliest jazz genres, ragtime, is primarily piano-based. Blues, which had a strong influence on jazz, employed similar instrumentation to bluegrass, especially the banjo and guitar. The New Orleans Dixieland style and subsequent jazz subgenres use reeds (sax, sometimes clarinet) and, in larger bands, brass (trumpet, trombone), neither of which is common in bluegrass, where strings (guitar, banjo, mandolin) predominate. Both genres utilize drums and bass, and occasionally violin (fiddle).
Jazz, which is more than a century old and the richest form of American classical music, has many subgenres, some of which (Bebop, Swing, Fusion, Funk, Latin) involve complex syncopation and harmonics. Bluegrass, which is only about sixty years old, has just two primary subgenres, traditional and progressive.
Really popular here but seems to be a part of (rural living) the landscape and everywhere. Outsiders look at me kinda strange when I tell them how much I like Bluegrass.
Yahoo doesn’t even have a category for Bluegrass.
I got me a banjo.
I have to write a bluegrass piece for my music coursework and need some guidelines. Is there a particular key signature I should use? Or one that works better than others for bluegrass pieces?
G is most common and B is a runner up.
One of SCR’s signature songs. Written by mandolinist Mike Guggino it’s a tour de force for the entire band. A hauntingly beautiful melody which flows through many tempo and mood changes SCR really shines. Mike Guggino’s masterful mandolin solos, stellar fiddle work from Nicky Sanders; a beautiful banjo break from Graham Sharp, and an exquisite bass solo by Charles Humphrey III will leave you in awe. Good job boys!
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Stoney Mountain Bluegrass