What we've done so far

So, another post. I know, I know, it's been a long time, but I've been bogged down by many other activities that don't need mentioning. But the point is, now I'm back, and with more updates about what I studied in my Music class. I have to admit, a lot has occurred in the past few weeks (maybe even in the past MONTH, in fact) and I didn't manage to find time to update the blog. But after a bit of "encouragement" from my teacher about the importance of the class's blogs in our final grade in the Music class, I finally managed to muster up enough energy to make another post, and as a bonus, not get screwed by my final grade in my report card! (Yay!) So without further ado, let's get straight to it!


So the final decision for the topic of our final performance, we decided that the best option would be "Legends in Music". So shortly after the topic was decided, we came up with a ton of legends in music that have created a big impact on the history of music. Among these were the Beatles, Queen, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and many more famous artists. In the end, we narrowed it down to three artists, and these three artists were:

• The Beatles
• Stevie Wonder
• Michael Jackson

And for these three artists, we needed at least one song from each person. The following songs were:

• Hey Jude (The Beatles)
• Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
• Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)

And IN TURN, we needed people to do some "extensive research" regarding the "cords, keys, and musical notation\" of each of these songs. Some did research, and some had to acutally PLAY the songs on instruments themselves. (these instruments include the bass, guitar, piano, kolintang and other instruments that are in the class) The people responsible for researching about the songs/are responsible for playing them are as follows:

• Bass: Michael
• Guitar: Phoebe
• Piano: George
• Drums: Johan
• Everyone else: Singing/kolintang

So there you have it. That was pretty much the only significant event that happened in Music class in the past few weeks that I didn't that update my blog. So goodbye for now, and as usual, see you until the next post.

Legends in Music

So just yesterday, (and a few days before yesterday) my music class discussed about the notable legends in music history. Now, I know what you're probably thinking; "But Jason, why would 'legends of music' be relevant to what the lesson was about? This isn't a freakin' history class, dude." Well, I tell you, it was. Why? Because we had an end-of-semester performance. After choosing from a myriad of choices on what topic we should choose for the performance, we ended up choosing legends in the history of music.

From the 1960's to the 2000's, we decided to play the music of one such artist for each decade. We haven't decided yet which artist's song for each decade we were going to use, but here's the list of people whom we can choose:

The 1960's

• The Beatles
• Rolling Stones (this includes Mick Jagger, who was the Stones' lead singer)
• Bob Dylan
• Beach Boys
• Elvis Presley
• Jackson Five (this was the band Michael Jackson belonged to before being the famous artist he was)
• The Bee Gees
• Frank Sinatra

The 1970's

• Led Zeppelin
• Pink Floyd
• David Bowie
• Elton John (for those of you who didn't know, he was the guy who made one of The Lion King's songs)
• Queen
• Stevie Wonder (that blind but famous singer, just in case you didn't know)
• Journey
• Prince
• Blondie
• Earth, Wind and Fire
• Rod Stewart
• Duran Duran
• Lionel Richie

The 1980's

• Bob Marley
• Michael Jackson
• AC/DC (and yes, I do realize that the band's name basically means Alternating Current/Direct Current; their album and song names occasionally also state this, such as "Powerage", "High Voltage", "Flick of the Switch", and more)
• Guns N' Roses
• Jimi Hendrix
• Genesis
• Madonna
• Diana Ross
• Aretha Franklin
• Billy Joel (for a moment in the discussion, I thought that the "Billy Joel" the class was referring to was Green Day's lead singer, Billy Joel Armstrong. I soon saw that it was another Billy Joel that they were talking about. Make sure you don't make the same mistake as I did)
• Radiohead
• Celine Dion (until now she's still well known in the art of music. I guess she really IS that famous, huh)
• Bon Jovi

The 1990's

• Nirvana
• Snoop Dogg
• Spice Girls
• Daft Punk
• New Kids on the Block
• Coldplay
• Christina Aguilera
• Mariah Carey (Now, I've noticed that a vast majority of these people are still famous artists until now. These must be how legendary these guys are, huh?)

The 2000's

• Beyoncé
• Britney Spears
• Black Eyed Peas
• Green Day
• That's all I've got. (sorry, but it was pretty hard to find any legends in the 2000's considering that most of them are from the 1900's. In fact, some of you readers reading this right now is supposedly protesting, "Dude, you do realize that (artist/band mentioned in the list) didn't actually ascend the 'ladder of fame', right?" But I tried. Thank you for your understanding (even if you DID protest on one of the artists I wrongly mentioned in the list)

That's all I've got, and hopefully it'll suffice for my teacher, who might be reading this as you do. So once again, thanks for reading and see y'all in the next post.