52nd Annual Grammy Awards

I was thinking about my first post and I decided that I would write about the most prestigious music award, Kind of a good way to start 2010's posts

I'll start by listing the winners form the 52nd grammy awards:
info by CNN Entertainment

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Album of the year

"I Am...Sasha Fierce," Beyoncé
"The E.N.D.," The Black Eyed Peas
"The Fame," Lady Gaga
"Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," Dave Matthews Band
[WINNER] "Fearless," Taylor Swift *

Record of the year

"Halo," Beyoncé
"I Gotta Feeling," The Black Eyed Peas
[WINNER] "Use Somebody," Kings of Leon *
"Poker Face," Lady Gaga
"You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift

Song of the year

"Poker Face," Lady Gaga and RedOne, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
"Pretty Wings," Hod David and Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
[WINNER] "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash and Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé) *
"Use Somebody," Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill, Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings of Leon)
"You Belong With Me," Liz Rose and Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

Best new artist
[WINNER] Zac Brown Band *
Keri HilsonMGMT
Silversun
Pickups
The Ting Tings

Best female pop vocal performance
"Hometown Glory," Adele
[WINNER] "Halo," Beyoncé *
"Hot N Cold," Katy Perry
"Sober," Pink
"You Belong With Me," Taylor Swift

Best rock album
"Black Ice," AC/DC
"Live from Madison Square Garden," Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
[WINNER] "21st Century Breakdown," Green Day *
"Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King," Dave Matthews Band
"No Line on the Horizon," U2

Best rap/sung collaboration
"Ego," Beyonce and Kanye West
"Knock You Down," Keri Hilson, Kanye West and Ne-Yo
[WINNER] "Run This Town," Jay-Z, Kanye West and Rihanna *
"I'm On a Boat," The Lonely Island and T-Pain
"Dead and Gone," T.I. and Justin Timberlake

Best country album
"The Foundation," Zac Brown Band
"Twang," George Strait
[WINNER] "Fearless," Taylor Swift *
"Defying Gravity," Keith Urban
"Call Me Crazy," Lee Ann Womack

Best comedy album
"Back From the Dead," Spinal Tap
[WINNER] "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All," Stephen Colbert *
"Internet Leaks," Weird Al Yankovich
"My Weakness is Strong," Patton Oswalt
"Suckin' It for the Holidays," Kathy Griffin

"Tall, Dark and Chicano," Geroge Lopez

For the full list go to 52nd Grammy Award Winners

My Opinion of the awards:

All of the awards were fair enough, but i have to disagree with the Best Rock Album. Green Day is a good band and all but there is no way they can win the award having the classic/legendary AC/DC competing with them with their new album "Black Ice" (FYI, AC/DC are currently on their tour "Black Ice").

Taylor and Beyoncé really deserve all the awards, they "dominated" 2009....

Comedy awards were useless in my opinion... but whatever...

2009 End Of Year School Presentation

Today is the day for the 2009 end of year "show" that my music school is organizing. All the students were invited to play songs as a "show what you learned" kind of way. The school books a bar and for about 4-5 hours the students play songs of their choice with a band.

This is my 2nd "show" and this time i'm going to play 2 of rock and roll's greatest hits. The so called " rock and roll anthem" and an ACDC classic, "Rock and Roll All Night - Kiss" and "Back in Black - ACDC".

We have practiced with the band and it sounds good, i'm doing the rythm guitar on Back in Black and i'm doing the lead on Rock and Roll All Night.

I hope that everything goes out fine...

In case I play the song well, i'll be sure to post the video here on "The Rocker".

ROCK AND ROLL :)

So... this is my last post for this semester :)

have a good chirstmas and new years everyone

see you next year,

i'll try to find interesting topics to write about next time ahah

Electric Bass

ok... i think that i've been talking to much about guitars. So, now i'm going to vary the instruments and talk about the electric bass.

The electric bass guitar (a.k.a electric bass and bass) it's pronounced like "base" not bass as in bass fish. The bass is a stringed instrument and is played primarily with the thumb or the fingers ( by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping or thumping), or by a pick.

The bass guitar is very similar to the normal electric guitar but the bass' neck is longer and its scales too and it also has only 4 to 6 strings ( the normal basses...). The sound of the bass guitar is one octave lower than a regular guitar and its string notes go like this ( E [mi], A [la], D [re] and G [sol])

Note: For the electric bass to be heard a amplifier is needed...

Yes i do play the bass and the acoustic guitar and the electric guitar.

I personally prefer the bass than the acoustic guitar. I like the deep sound that it makes, also i like all the cool techniques you have to learn in order to perfect the playing.

it is proved the the bass is the electric instrument that takes the most time to learn and perfect.

so this is it....

Semi-acoustic Guitars

The Semi-acoustic guitars are electic guitars with a hollow body. They have both a sound box and a eletric pickup.
The semi-acoustic guitars are not the same as electric acoustic guitars so be careful!! Electric acoustic guitars are acoustic guitars that you can plug it into a amplifier but there is no pickup needed in this instrument.
They have a beautiful look and are classy and incredible. I say that they are incredible because their jazz and blues sound is very clean and serene.
I would personally love to have one of these guitars, for its look and its use. This guitar can be played with a amplifier our without.

Some examples of Semi-Acoustic Guitars:

Gibson 59' ES-335Ibanez AF125
Pretty right?? ahahah

Gibson SG

Gibson SG's History:

In the 60's it seemed that the Gibson Les Paul was not so popular to compete against the fender stratocaster and the fender telecaster. So the Gibson Guitar Cooperation company revolutionized the old les paul into a new inovating, cheaper, thinner, lighter and practical guitar. Mr. Les Paul was offended with this new style of guitar (which included 2 horns) so he chose not to put his name on the new guitar. So, the new guitar was called SG (or solid guitar). This guitar was created in 1961 so its first model is the Gibson '61 SG.

Gibson SG Models:

'61 SG
Angus Young Custom SG
Double Neck
Zoot Suit
Robot

Famous Musicians That Use The Gibson SG:

• Angus Young
• Slash
• Eric Clapton
• The Edge
• Don Felder (Eagles)
• Ace Frehley
• George Harrison