IN MUSIC!

<p><a href=”http://alegonzalez14.edublogs.org/files/2008/04/piano.gif” title=”piano.gif”><img width=”96″ src=”http://alegonzalez14.edublogs.org/files/2008/04/piano.thumbnail.gif” alt=”piano.gif” height=”105″ /></a><a href=’http://alegonzalez14.edublogs.org/files/2008/0PIANO This picture represent me. How I feel when I play the piano. I feel like if Im alone, in another world. I listen to the music Im playing and I feel happy and colorful.Playing music is wonderful; I know it because I play the piano. I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old. I was in the “Instituto Superior de Arte”. This is an academy of piano of Russian people. When I was 4 I didn’t really decide to play the piano but as the years passed I started really liking it. I used to give concerts all the time, it was really cool. The bad part was that my teacher was very strict and angry with me. She practically never smiled. I perfectly remember a time that I had 7 years, and she gave me a long classic song and told me to learn it and play it. She left me alone in the room and I was struggling trying to play all the song. When she came back she was mad at me because I hadn’t learned everything. I seriously wanted to cry. I felt really bad. And she never told me that I was good doing it, instead she told me mom so I never felt happy with her. After some years they told me mom that they wanted me to start traveling and giving concerts in other countries. I was like 10 years old. They were crazy, in that time I definitely didn’t want to travel alone and even less with them. My mom didn’t agree either so we said no. I continued playing in that academy till I was like 12. I started getting bored and each time hating the piano more. I wanted to quit. I remember wining each time I had classes. I told my mo I wanted to quit piano like every day. After like one year of telling my parents I wanted to quit, they let me quit. I spent like six months not playing the piano because I was tired of it. Then, my parents told me that there was this person that could give me piano lessons in her house. I agreed but hoped she wasn’t like the teachers in the academy. She was extremely different. She let me decide what to play, in the academy they decided and it was only classic… ugh. I loved her and I loved the piano. I think that I got tired of the piano before because it was too much. I spend one year with her but when I turned thirteen Dance works was like the boom, dance classes. I didn’t want to be in it because of all the people but because I liked to dance. I had to decide whether to stay in piano or to get in dance classes. When I told my mom I decided to get in dance classes she was very sad because she didn’t want me to lose my tale. I told her that I wasn’t going to lose, that I was still going to play at my house alone, as a hobby. She said it was fine but that I had to play. I was happy. I still play the piano, I like playing it because I play it when I want to and what I want to. I think that playing the piano also gave me a lot of discipline in life. I was more concentrated and my mom had told that playing music helped in grades. I don’t know if it’s true or that she only told me to get me to continue playing the piano but I have to admit that it helped. Even though it was very hard and the teachers were very strict, I would never change that part of my life. Now, I thank my mother for getting me in piano lessons when I was four. I don’t regret all the years I have played the piano.

Everybody listens to different kinds of music. Some of the basic kinds of music are: pop, rock, techno, electronic, latin, R&B, lyrical, reggae, reggaeton, and rap. Most other genres are derived from this. I don’t like a specific type of music, I like different songs from each. Today, people spend a lot of time listening to music. On your way home, doing exercise, trying to sleep, mostly when you are bored. This doesn’t mean that we hear it when we don’t have another option, but it is a way to entertain yourself. I listen to music constantly too. Sometimes, when I listen to a song, I feel identified with the lyrics. This makes me feel emotions and that’s why I like the songs. I think that this happens to everybody. I think that life would be dull without music. I would feel incomplete.

Have you ever been bored in class and start trying to make music or a rythm with your hands or with your pen? This is similar to what Stomp is, another kind of music. They make music with different kinds of objects. They combine the percussion and at the same time dance. I think that they thought out of the normal and were very creative. Stomp is all about rythm. They think that rythm is the basis of music.

Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell started with this incredible group in 1991. They showed the world their talent in London’s Bloomsbury Theatre. As the years passed, in 1994 they went from Hong Kong to Barcelona and then from Dublin to Sydney. They started growing and growing better and as a result they won two awards. An Oliver for Best Entertainment Award and another one in a West End Show that was for Best Choreography.

Sean Wards, Brad Holland, Jason Mills, Raymond Poitier, Marivaldo Dos Santos, Elec Simon, Jeremy Tracy, Dan Weiner, Fiona Wilkes, Camille Armstrong, Yako Miyamot, and Fritzlyn Hectoo are the people who were born with rythm. Each one of these people are unique and make a difference in the group. Everyone’s personality applies to the show. They experience with any object that is in front of them until they find the right mood of the sound.

“I started by hanging a single drum on a strap around my neck, but I also started to improvise on the objects around us: bicycles, lampposts, policemen’s helmets…” said Luke Cresswell which is the director. In some of the last show that Stomp has performed they have used brooms, lids, tall bins, short bins, poles, pounds of sand, blocks of Athletes chalk, drumsticks, litters of water, bananas, and boxes of matches.

I really admire Stomp for their creativity and for their talent. Not everyone can make all that sound at the same time. They are great musicians. As I said before, that they think that rythm is the basis of music, I agree with that thought. There can’t be music without rythm.

I posted this videos because I think they are amazing.

Since November 2001, when the first ipod was released, the technology in music has increased a lot. Everyone was really exited. The first one sold was the “ipod”, the classic one. This was sold in $399 and had 5GB which means it could have over 1,000 songs. This ipod was only in white. Only six months earlier from when Apple got the ipod out, itunes was released. The reporters thought that they made itunes thinking of the ipod. Imagine how many people wanted the new ipod in that time if in December 125,000 ipods had already been sold. In 2002, the ipod had 10GB instead of 5GB. One year later they introduce the third generation ipod. The difference was that it was thinner and smaller than the one before. Every time the capacity of each ipod was bigger. In 2004 a new version of the ipod called ipod mini of 4GB was released. In that time it was called “tiny” compared to others. By July 24 this ipod was being sold through out the whole world. Then, in 2005 the ipod nano was introduced by Apple. It was thinner than a pencil and could hold 2GB or 4GB in colors white or black. In 2005 when I turned 12, my parents gave me the ipod nano in white. I was very happy. A while after, the ipod video was released. It was about 30% thinner than the other ipods and it was capable of videos. It also had more gigabits. Since the ipods were such a success, in 2006 the new generation of ipod nano was sold. It was a more aluminium model in six different colors. Recently the new ipod nano is available for everyone. This one is wider and smaller, it has high resolution and it can have videos and pictures. At last, the itouch. This is the mot recent version of Apple. The itouch has internet, pictures, videos, music, games, and more detailed things. I am very happy that it is very useful for me since I am lucky to have it. This kind of ipod is sold in 8GB or 16GB. Livewire is also a very used source to download music. I used it. I know a lot of people use it. The technology the mostly Apple has provided us is very good and very entertaining.

When I started playing the piano I didn´t get anything. I was very confused with the different notes. I guess it was because of the age I had. In the academy that I was in, if you played the piano they forced you to get in separate classes where they teached you all the notes, I don´t remember what the classes were called. I remember I hated those classes because it was too boring. First, they teached me the scale. It is: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si. The Do is the lowest note and the Si is the hieghest one. I started playing only with my right hand because it is easier.When I got good at playing with my right hand I started playing with both hands. Since I write with my right hand, playing with my left hand was way more dificult. When you play with your right hand, you play in the Sol, and when you play with your left hand you play with the Fa. The Fa is from like the middle of the piano to the left and the Sol to the right. Using the compas is also very hard. The compas is a thing that keeps your beat in music. You always have to be cordinated with it. You can put the compas slow or fast. If you are very good or you are playing a fast song, you put it fast. The lower the center is the faster it goes. Learning how to play music was very difficult but now I can see the results of the effort I made.

I think that freedom is principal in life. If life didn’t have freedom we wouldn’t live how we truly want and people would hide what they really are. Like when there were slaves. Only white people lived happily, the slaves couldn’t do anything about it and that wasn’t fair. If life would be like those times, there would be a lot of problems. I think that everyone should receive the freedom that they deserve. Freedom of speech is also very important. For me it means doing and saying what you want but most important feeling that you have the freedom of giving your opinion.For example in a class, someone is shy and doesn’t want to talk since other classmates don’t give that person the freedom to talk because they laugh at that person. That person would not feel the freedom to speak of his or her opinion. I think that that shouldn’t happen because everyone has the right to give his or her opinion no matter what. I consider that freedom too. I definitely don’t agree with taking a person’s freedom away. I hate when people make somebody lower than the rest. I like everyone being able to say what they want or think.
I personally love the ideas of Ms. Rumford. Doing Edublogs and having the freedom to write about what you like is awesome. We let people know more about ourselves and we interact with our classmates. The freedom that Ms.Rumford is giving us is very good because by writing about ourselves, we learn the habit of sharing and feeling the freedom of speech.We learn to not be shy about what we like or do. It’s also good because we do the work, write about what we like, and we have fun at the same time. I also like that Ms. Rumford also gives us freedom of speech in every class discussion. In her class I feel more like doing what I want and I feel that I share a lot more with my classmates about my opinion. Edublogs are excellent, I love having freedom of speech
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PIANO This picture represent me. How I feel when I play the piano. I feel like if Im alone, in another world. I listen to the music Im playing and I feel happy and colorful.

Playing music is wonderful; I know it because I play the piano. I started playing the piano when I was 4 years old. I was in the “Instituto Superior de Arte”. This is an academy of piano of Russian people. When I was 4 I didn’t really decide to play the piano but as the years passed I started really liking it. I used to give concerts all the time, it was really cool. The bad part was that my teacher was very strict and angry with me. She practically never smiled. I perfectly remember a time that I had 7 years, and she gave me a long classic song and told me to learn it and play it. She left me alone in the room and I was struggling trying to play all the song. When she came back she was mad at me because I hadn’t learned everything. I seriously wanted to cry. I felt really bad. And she never told me that I was good doing it, instead she told me mom so I never felt happy with her. After some years they told me mom that they wanted me to start traveling and giving concerts in other countries. I was like 10 years old. They were crazy, in that time I definitely didn’t want to travel alone and even less with them. My mom didn’t agree either so we said no. I continued playing in that academy till I was like 12. I started getting bored and each time hating the piano more. I wanted to quit. I remember wining each time I had classes. I told my mo I wanted to quit piano like every day. After like one year of telling my parents I wanted to quit, they let me quit. I spent like six months not playing the piano because I was tired of it. Then, my parents told me that there was this person that could give me piano lessons in her house. I agreed but hoped she wasn’t like the teachers in the academy. She was extremely different. She let me decide what to play, in the academy they decided and it was only classic… ugh. I loved her and I loved the piano. I think that I got tired of the piano before because it was too much. I spend one year with her but when I turned thirteen Dance works was like the boom, dance classes. I didn’t want to be in it because of all the people but because I liked to dance. I had to decide whether to stay in piano or to get in dance classes. When I told my mom I decided to get in dance classes she was very sad because she didn’t want me to lose my tale. I told her that I wasn’t going to lose, that I was still going to play at my house alone, as a hobby. She said it was fine but that I had to play. I was happy. I still play the piano, I like playing it because I play it when I want to and what I want to. I think that playing the piano also gave me a lot of discipline in life. I was more concentrated and my mom had told that playing music helped in grades. I don’t know if it’s true or that she only told me to get me to continue playing the piano but I have to admit that it helped. Even though it was very hard and the teachers were very strict, I would never change that part of my life. Now, I thank my mother for getting me in piano lessons when I was four. I don’t regret all the years I have played the piano.

Everybody listens to different kinds of music. Some of the basic kinds of music are: pop, rock, techno, electronic, latin, R&B, lyrical, reggae, reggaeton, and rap. Most other genres are derived from this. I don’t like a specific type of music, I like different songs from each. Today, people spend a lot of time listening to music. On your way home, doing exercise, trying to sleep, mostly when you are bored. This doesn’t mean that we hear it when we don’t have another option, but it is a way to entertain yourself. I listen to music constantly too. Sometimes, when I listen to a song, I feel identified with the lyrics. This makes me feel emotions and that’s why I like the songs. I think that this happens to everybody. I think that life would be dull without music. I would feel incomplete.

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