• Are we running out of new music?
We answer this and 9 other life mysteries • Hey there, my name is Shima, I'll be reading
out the questions and answers • I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow
your mind with truth 10 - Spatial Rend asks, How does tuning a
guitar work?
, • Cheese – use the strings to grate cheese
which will fall into the centre hole thereby subtly altering the feng shui which leads
to acoustic perfection – trust me, I’ve been in tons of bands
• When a string on a guitar is plucked, it wiggles back and forth, compressing the
air around it into sound waves.
When you turn the pegs on the guitar's neck, the waves get closer together if you tighten
the string or further apart if you loosen it, making higher or lower tones.
9 – lizard 1023 asks, What was the first rap song?
, • It was obviously the Pokemon rap that
first took the world by storm, it was quickly followed up with songs about big booties,
something about being on a boat, and now everyone just calls each other racial slurs to sick
beats • The first single to feature rapping was
“King Tim III (Personality Jock),” a disco song by the Fatback Band in 1979.
However, it was “Rapper's Delight” by Travis “Sick Tricks” Issac later that
same year, that is generally considered to be the song that popularised the genre.
8 - Josh Gurney asks, If all the buttons on a trumpet look exactly the same, how does
each one make a different note?
, • It’s a technology known as Haptic Feedback
in which the buttons become raging hot if you’re not playing properly, which means
bad players have hands that are eventually worn down to stumps because of how terrible
they perform • The buttons on a trumpet aren't actually
what play the notes themselves.
In fact, you don't have to touch the buttons at all!
All the different note changes depend on how fast or slow you buzz your lips when you play.
7 - SoraRoxas528 asks, What was the first recorded song?
, • It’s actually a song we’ve all heard
a million times, in fact one we carried in our pockets for years and years without even
realising – the Nokia 3310 ringtone is what all contemporary music is based on, art itself
sprang the day we heard these luscious tunes *song*
• The first ever song to be discovered was found in Syria in the early 1950s.
The tablets the score is written on have been dated to around 3400 years ago and has been
dubbed “Hurrian Hymn no.
6.”
• *song* 6 - Eliet Exel asks, Where did rave music
originate from?
, • The whole genre was sparked by one song,
but for the life of me I can never remember what it was called, what was that song?
I can never remember the name… it’s on the tip of my tongue, wait, I think I know,
of course, the name of the song is— • The term “rave” was originally used
in London in the late 1950s to describe the wild bohemian parties on the Soho beatnik
set.
Later, it was used to describe any wild party in general.
This idea soon brought about garage rock and psychedelia bands in the '60s, and the techno
and acid house genres in the '80s.
5 - Wizard GEFF asks, Fortissimo, what is it?
, • These are the secret lyrics of that song
which always plays when walking down the aisle at a wedding, listen carefully next time you’re
at one, and you’ll begin to hear it - FORTISSIMO • Fortissimo literally means “very loud,”
so seeing it written on a music score means to play that section or piece very loudly!
As simple as that.
• FORTISSIMO 4 - Connor Darrow asks, What is the difference
between high and low tones?
, • It really depends on the musician, if
they’re deep in bank loan debts, their wife is filing for divorce, their dog left home
and took the dvd player, chances are he’ll play songs a bit low and mellow – on the
other hand, if he finds that sock he thought he lost, get ready for a high and vibrant
performance, although the sock won’t bring his dog back – oooh touchy subject
• The difference between high and low sounds is how close together the sound waves—waves
of compressed air—are to each other.
The closer together, the higher the pitch and vice versa.
Human hearing is only sensitive enough to hear a tiny fraction of the noise around us,
but many animals can hear sounds much higher or lower than we can.
3 - Epicissocool 101 asks, Where did the instrument sections get their names?
, • They were named to be as accessible to
the audience as possible – you have the “guitars that shrunk in the washing machine”
section, the “coffin with strings” section, the “fancy tube blowing” crew, everyone’s
favourite “coconut basher” and our most important member: the stick waving magician
guy who makes music while everyone else pretends • The traditional orchestra has four sections:
woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
“Woodwinds” get their name from the reed used to make sound in the instrument.
“Brass” is for the material the horns are made of.
“Percussion” is how the drum beat is made, by hitting it.
Finally “strings” is named after the vibrating strings that make their sound.
2 – Are we running out of new music?
, • We thought we were for a while, but we
recently discovered a huge stack of CDs with new music and we’ve been burning through
them pretty hard for the last few years – it’s estimated we have about 6 months’ worth
of CDs left before we’re totally boned • I can't speak for the creativity of musicians,
but I can make a guess mathematically.
The average song is 180 seconds and plays at about 120 beats per minute.
Just doing the math for one bar results in 1.17 QUADRILLION different combinations!
The one bar!
I think we may be safe from running out of music for a while.
1 - Cabrin_23 asks, How does music affect emotions?
• Music spreads a message, you feel what the artist feels and that is what influences
your emotions – here’s a song I wrote earlier, it demonstrates something that happened
to me today, I will understand if you need to cry as I bear to you my soul *
• Researchers have found
that music affects our emotions in many different ways, but the base of it seems to be the rhythm
and tone.
Our heartbeat naturally slows down or speeds up to synch with the rhythm, causing us to
feel sad, excited, or even joyful.
A major tone sounds and makes us feel happy, while a minor tone can make us feel sad.
• And some music drives us insane • FORTISSIMO