Week 3 Listening Step A

Using the Music Genres lesson on Early Aggressive Rock/Black Sabbath Paranoid, when are the first pumping eighths employed by Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler in Paranoid?

0:17

Scherzen Hören by Einstürzende Neubaten is one of the most experimental pieces of music encountered yet in this course. There are plenty of metal scraps being banged upon, making up most of the instrumental backing. There are also a few more conventional elements including a lead vocal and amplified (probably guitar) distortion.When does the amplified distortion first join the metal scraps instrumental backing in Scherzen Hören?

0:25

Designed in the early 1950's, the tuneable Rototom drum sets mimicking orchestral timpani started to appear on Progressive Rock recordings in the 1970's. When do you first hear drummer Nick Mason play the Rototoms in Time?

0:50 to 2:15

Donna Summer's first U.S. hit was Love To Love You Baby, released on her co-producers- Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte's- own Oasis label in Germany. With U.S. distribution on Casablanca Records, the radio single and the very long 12" single remix for clubs became smashes. The club mix was dramatic with an angelic vocal performance but then quite nasty sounding for 1975.The 16:48 long 12" single remix comes to a complete stop and then restarts with a sequence of Summer's whispered erotic vocals and a very suggestive crescendo of moaning. This controversial sequence is as long as most radio singles. At which times does that sequence of complete stop/erotic vocal of the song title/crescendo of moaning begin and end?

13:02 to the fade out, 16:48

Using this popup beats per minute site what is the near average beats per minute when counting the above embedded versions of The Ramones Rockaway Beach and The Clash Career Opportunities?

180

The instantly recognizable keyboard melody on Planet Rock is introduced at 0:45. Kraftwerk fans would quickly recognize it as the same melody anchoring the German quartet's 1977 Trans Europe Express. At which time is the same keyboard melody first introduced in Trans Europe Express?

1:33

Kraftwerk's Autobahn was able to become a U.S. hit once the track was edited from an entire album side down to a radio-friendly length. What were the song lengths of the original album version and the radio-edit single?

22:47 and 3:28

How many distinctly different guitar riffs/motifs appear in Iron Maiden Quest For Fire through the same 0:50 mark?

3

Giorgio Moroder had a goal of creating the first all-electronic Disco dance record but wasn't happy with the punch of his synthesized kick drum sound. It's easiest to hear the timbral characteristics of the acoustic kick drum at the all-important breakdown- common on Disco records of the era.Where do the vocals and all the melodic synthesizer lines drop out for the first breakdown leaving just the Moog Modular bassline arpeggio and acoustic kick drum in I Feel Love?

3:13

The Mellotron was a British version of a U.S. Chamberlin keyboard that assigned a recorded magnetic tape to each key. Unlike the monophonic, modular synthesizers of the early 1970's, this allowed for a portable and polyphonic chamber orchestra sound created by one player. When does the Mellotron enter with a polyphonic, orchestral string-like swell in The Ancient/Giants Under The Sun?

3:16 to 3:30

Differentiating the two lines of the twin harmony guitar style in heavy metal mostly commonly executed by using octaves, 3rds, 4ths and 5ths. You first hear the famous twin harmony guitar melody in Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town at 1:05. After a new twin harmony guitar melody is developed, when is the original, famous twin harmony guitar melody last introduced in the song's form?

3:46

The Outlaws's Green Grass & High Tides is the band's signature Southern Rock guitar jam workout. Between which times does the track include the uptempo jam with unison phrases and trading solos in a dialogue of three guitar parts?

5:28 to 9:45

Two tape loops of identical recordings going out-of-phase due to slight variations in tape machine motor speed will also return to in-phase at some point. Steve Reich published three Phase pieces for tape machines, then moved on the notating slight differences in speed for two identical or imitative phrases for live musicians with Piano Phase in 1967. The twelve-note melodic phrase is started simultaneously by two pianists (or two marimba players) but is no longer recognizable as such by 1:00. When does the twelve-note melodic phrase played by two pianists return to in-phase and sound like a singular line in Piano Phase?

9:39

This is about listening for production techniques and instrument choices in a recording. At a certain point, music writers noticed that Bruce Springsteen seemed to be updating Phil Spector's famous early 1960's Wall Of Sound. Spector's signature Wall Of Sound featured dense sound, multiples of the some instruments plus liberal usage reverb and echo.

Born To Run

What technologies did the late 1970's Industrial band Throbbing Gristle use as a sampler and a sampler effects chain before the era of commercial outboard and keyboard samplers?

Car cassette tape players run through chorus, tape delay and wah wah pedals

Which musical style- including music theory and instrumentation- was added to late 1960's and early 1970's Rock music, leading to the popularization of Progressive Rock during the 1970's?

Classical

What element of influential early Allman Brothers albums became a Southern Rock signature in concerts and on live albums ?

Climatic, signature guitar dialogues

Which of the Genesis tracks below best represents the Progressive Rock style example that you just heard?

Genesis - Riding The Scree

Which specific U.S. Billboard chart record does the Dark Side Of The Moon album by Pink Floyd currently hold?

Most continuous weeks on the U.S. Billboard Top LPs chart

Iron Maiden's inclusion of composition elements such as more frequent and numerous tempo, odd time signature and key changes were reminiscent of which earlier 1970's musical style?

Progressive Rock

Influential early Electro-Pop albums by Depeche Mode, Human League, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark and Soft Cell were all released within 30 days of which month and year?

September 1981

Which CBGBs-era band used simple, catchy melodies, breakneck tempos, basic chords, plenty of volume, and short song lengths to create what has been identified as the blueprint for Punk Rock music?

The Ramones

Which band, by way of a wave of international media-driven outrage, was the main catalyst for the hundreds of bands created in the U.K. Punk scene?

The Sex Pistiols

What was notable about the role of early Heavy Metal guitarists such asLed Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Deep Purple'sRitchie Blackmore

The voice of guitarist often became as prominent as that of the lead singers

Bob Marley and The Wailers, Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh had made a substantial international impact by the mid-1970's. The rebel spirit and basic musical construction of roots reggae and dub were welcomed and popular with large numbers in the Punk, Post-Punk and New Wave scenes in England, Europe and the U.S. Using the first minute of each selection, which Elvis Costello track from his debut album is best described as having a pronounced Jamaican music influence?

Watching The Detectives

take your time in this assignment. All of the information is on the screen. Take it in sections if that helps you focus. If you didn't spend at least two hours in this assignment last week, try that strategy this week and watch your grade improve. OK?

Yes. At least two hours is the ticket to grade I want.