ANGKLUNG

Angklung is a musical favorite of the whole archipelago even before the era of Hindu. According to Yaap Kunst in "Music in Java", next to West Java angklung is also mentioned to exist in South Sumatra and Kalimantan. Lampung, East Java and Central Java are also familiar with the instrument. 

In the Hindu period and the time of the Kingdom of Sunda, the angklung played an important role in ceremonies. The angklung was played to honor Dewi Sri, the goddess of fertility, so she would bless their land and lives. The angklung also signaled the time for prayers, and was said to have been played since the 7th century in Kingdom of Sunda. In the Kingdom of Sunda, it provided martial music during the Bubat War (Perang Bubat), as told in the Kidung Sunda. 

The oldest surviving angklung is 400 years old Angklung Gubrag. It was made in the 17th century in Jasinga, Bogor. Other antique angklung are stored in the Sri Baduga Museum, Bandung. The oldest angklung tradition is called "Angklung Buhun" (Sundanese: "Ancient Angklung") from Lebak Regency, Banten Angklung buhun is an ancient type of angklung played by Baduy people of inland Banten province during Seren Taun harvest ceremony. 

In 1938, Daeng Soetigna, from Bandung, created an angklung that is based on the diatonic scale instead of the traditional pelog or slendro scales. Since then, the angklung has returned to popularity and is used for education and entertainment, and may even accompany western instruments in an orchestra. One of the first performances of angklung in an orchestra was in 1955 during the Bandung Conference. In 1966 Udjo Ngalagena, a student of Daeng Soetigna, opened his "Saung Angklung" (House of Angklung) as a centre for its preservation and development.

UNESCO designated the angklung a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

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History of Electric Synthesizer

The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray, who is best known for his development of a telephone prototype. In 1920s, Arseny Avraamov developed various systems of graphic sonic art. The Hammond Novachord was an early but unsuccessful harbinger of synth technology in the 1930s-40s. In 1949, Japanese composer Minao Shibata discussed the concept of "a musical instrument with very high performance" that can "synthesize any kind of sound waves" and is "operated very easily," predicting that with such an instrument, "the music scene will be changed drastically." In 1958, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center developed the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer, the first programmable synthesizer. Prominent composers such as Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt, Halim El-Dabh, Bülent Arel, Charles Wuorinen and Mario Davidovsky used the RCA Synthesizer extensively in various compositions. 

Robert Moog introduced the first commercially available modern synthesizer in 1964. In the 1970s the development of miniaturized solid-state components allowed synthesizers to become self-contained, portable instruments. By the early 1980s companies were selling compact, modestly priced synthesizers to the public. This, along with the development of Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI), made it easier to integrate and synchronize synthesizers and other electronic instruments for use in musical composition. In the 1990s, synthesizers began to appear as computer software, known as software synthesizers.

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Synthesizer

Synthesizer (often abbreviated "synth") is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones. Synthesizers can usually produce a wide range of sounds, which may either imitate other instruments ("imitative synthesis") or generate new timbres.

Synthesizers use a number of different technologies or programmed algorithms, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Among the most popular waveform synthesis techniques are subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, wavetable synthesis, frequency modulation synthesis, phase distortion synthesis, physical modeling synthesis and sample-based synthesis. Other sound synthesis methods, like subharmonic synthesis or granular synthesis, are not found in music synthesizers.

Synthesizers are often controlled with a piano-style keyboard, leading such instruments to be referred to simply as "keyboards". Several other forms of controller have been devised to resemble violins, guitars (see guitar synthesizer) and wind-instruments. Synthesizers without controllers are often called "modules", and they can be controlled using MIDI or CV/Gate methods.

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Harmonica

The harmonica also called harp. Each chamber has multiple, variable-tuned brass or bronze reeds, which are secured at one end and loose on the other end, with the loose end vibrating and creating sound.

There are many types of harmonicas, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, orchestral, and bass versions. 

The harmonica was developed in Europe in the early part of the 19th century. reed instruments like the sheng were fairly common throughout East Asia for centuries and were relatively well-known in Europe for some time. Around 1820, free reed designs began being created in Europe. While Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann is often cited as the inventor of the harmonica in 1821, other inventors developed similar instruments at the same time. Mouth-blown free reed instruments appeared in the United States, South America, the United Kingdom and in Europe at roughly the same time.

The harmonica first appeared in Vienna, where harmonicas with chambers were sold before 1824. Richter tuning, invented by Joseph Richter, was created in 1826 and was adopted nearly universally in the subsequent years. In Germany, violin manufacturer Mr. Meisel from Klingenthal bought a harmonica with chambers (Kanzellen) at the Exhibition in Braunschweig in 1824. He and the ironworker Langhammer in the 3-mile-away Graslitz copied the instruments; by 1827 they had produced hundreds of harmonicas. Many others followed in Germany and also nearby in what would later become Czechoslovakia. In 1829, Johann Wilhelm Rudolph Glier also began making harmonicas

In 1830, Christan Messner, a cloth maker and weaver from Trossingen, copied a harmonica his neighbour had brought from Vienna. He had such success that eventually his brother and some relatives also started to make harmonicas. From 1840 onwards, his nephew Christian Weiss was also involved in the business. By 1855, there were at least three harmonica-making businesses: C. A. Seydel Söhne, Christian Messner & Co., and Württ. Harmonikafabrik Ch. WEISS. Currently, only C.A. Seydel is still in business.

Owing to competition between the harmonica factories in Trossingen and Klingenthal, machines were invented to punch the covers for the reeds. In 1857, Matthias Hohner, a clockmaker from Trossingen, started producing harmonicas, eventually to become the first person to mass-produce them. He used a mass-produced wooden comb that he had made by machine-cutting firms. By 1868, he began supplying the United States. By the 1920s, the diatonic harmonica had largely reached its modern form. Other types followed soon thereafter, including the various tremolo and octave harmonicas.

By the late 19th century, harmonica production was a big business, having evolved into mass-production. New designs were still developed in the 20th century, including the chromatic harmonica, first made by Hohner in 1924, the bass harmonica, and the chord harmonica. In the 21st century, radical new designs are still being introduced into the market, such as the Suzuki Overdrive, Hohner XB-40, and Harrison B-Radical.

Diatonic harmonicas were designed primarily for the playing of German and other European folk music and have succeeded well in those styles. Over time the basic design and tuning proved adaptable to other types of music such as the blues, country, old-time and more. The harmonica was a success almost from the very start of production, and while the centre of the harmonica business has shifted from Germany, the output of the various harmonica manufacturers is still very high. Major companies are now found in Germany (Seydel, Hohner - the dominant manufacturer in the world), Japan (Suzuki, Tombo, Yamaha), China (Huang, Leo Shi, Suzuki, Hohner), Brasil (Hering, Bends) and the United States Harrison Harmonicas. Recently, responding to increasingly demanding performance techniques, the market for high quality instruments has grown.

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Bass

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally. The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his "Model 736 Bass Fiddle," a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length. The change to a "guitar" form made the instrument easier to hold and transport, and the addition of frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period.

Around 1947, Tutmarc's son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L.D. Heater Co. wholesale jobber catalogue of '48. However, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success.  

In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass. His Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. The Precision Bass (or "P-bass") evolved from a simple, uncontoured "slab" body design similar to that of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup, to a contoured body design with beveled edges for comfort and a single four-pole "single coil pickup." This "split pickup", introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups (Fender was marketing a four string solid body electric mandolin at the time). Because the pole pieces of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, and the leads were also reversed with respect to each other, the two coils, wired in series, produced a humbucking effect (the same effect is achieved if the coils are wired in parallel).

In the 1980s, bass designers continued to explore new approaches. Ned Steinberger introduced a headless bass in 1979 and continued his innovations in the 1980s, using graphite and other new materials and (in 1984) introducing the Trans Trem Tremolo Bar.In 1987, the Guild Guitar Corporation launched the fretless Ashbory bass, which used silicone rubber strings and a piezoelectric pickup to achieve a "double bass" sound with a short 18" scale length. In the late 1980s, MTV's "unplugged" show, which featured bands performing with acoustic instruments, helped to popularize hollow-bodied acoustic bass guitars amplified with pickups.

During the 1990s, as five-string basses became more widely available and more affordable, an increasing number of bassists in genres ranging from metal to gospel began using five-string instruments for added lower range—a low "B" below the standard "E" string. Some bass players who performed a lot in a solo setting used five-string basses to get a higher range by adding a high "C" string as the fifth string (this is known as "tenor tuning"). As well, the onboard battery-powered electronics such as preamplifiers and equalizer circuits, which were previously only available on expensive "boutique" instruments, became increasingly available on modestly priced basses.

In the first decade of the 21st century, some bass manufacturers included digital modelling circuits inside the instrument to recreate tones and sounds from many models of basses (e.g., Line 6's Variax bass). Traditional bass designs such as the Fender Precision Bass and Fender Jazz Bass remained popular in the first decade of the 21st century; in 2006, a 60th Anniversary P-bass was introduced by Fender, along with the introduction of the Fender Jaguar Bass.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drumstick, to produce sound. There is usually a "resonance head" on the underside of the drum, these are usually tuned to a slightly lower pitch than the top drumhead. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.

A few types of drums such as timpani are always tuned to a certain pitch. Often, several drums, other than timpani drums, can be arranged together to create a drum kit.

In the past drums have been used not only for their musical qualities, but also as a means of communication, especially through signals. The talking drums of Africa can imitate the inflections and pitch variations of a spoken language and are used for communicating over great distances. Throughout Sri Lankan history drums have been used for communication between the state and the community, and Sri Lankan drums have a history stretching back over 2500 years.

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Reggae Music

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. Reggae developed from ska, mento and R&B music in the 1960s. The shift from rocksteady to reggae was illustrated by the organ shuffle, which was pioneered by Bunny Lee and was featured in the transitional singles "Say What You're Saying" (1967) by Clancy Eccles, and "People Funny Boy" (1968) by Lee "Scratch" Perry. The Pioneers' 1967 track "Long Shot Bus' Me Bet" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that became known as reggae.

Early 1968 was when the first genuine reggae records were released: "Nanny Goat" by Larry Marshall and "No More Heartaches" by The Beltones. American artist Johnny Nash's 1968 hit "Hold Me Tight" has been credited with first putting reggae in the American listener charts.  Around that time, reggae influences were starting to surface in rock music. An example of a rock song featuring reggae rhythm is 1968's "Ob-La-Di , Ob-La-Da." by The Beatles.

The Wailers, a band started by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963, are perhaps the most recognised band that made the transition through all three stages of early Jamaican popular music: ska, rocksteady and reggae. Other significant reggae pioneers include Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker and Jackie Mittoo.

Notable Jamaican producers who were influential in the development of ska into rocksteady and reggae include: Coxsone Dodd, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Leslie Kong, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs and King Tubby. Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records in Jamaica in 1960, relocated to England in 1962, where he continued to promote Jamaican music. He formed a partnership with Trojan Records, founded by Lee Gopthal in 1968. Trojan released recordings by reggae artists in the UK until 1974, when Saga bought the label.

The 1972 film The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff, generated considerable interest and popularity for reggae in the United States, and Eric Clapton's 1974 cover of the Bob Marley song "I Shot the Sheriff" helped bring reggae into the mainstream. By the mid 1970s, reggae was getting radio play in the UK on John Peel's radio show, and Peel continued to play reggae on his show throughout his career. What is called the "Golden Age of Reggae" corresponds roughly to the heyday of roots reggae.

In the second half of the 1970s, the UK punk rock scene was starting to form, and reggae was a notable influence. Some punk DJs played reggae songs during their sets and some punk bands incorporated reggae influences into their music. At the same time, reggae began to enjoy a revival in the UK that continued into the 1980s, exemplified by groups like Steel Pulse, Aswad, UB40, and Musical Youth. Other reggae artists who enjoyed international appeal in the early 1980s include Third World, Black Uhuru and Sugar Minott. The Grammy Awards introduced the Best Reggae Album category in 1985.

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Electric Guitar

Electric guitars were originally designed by guitar makers and instrument manufacturers. Guitar innovator Les Paul experimented with microphones attached to guitars. Some of the earliest electric guitars adapted hollow bodied acoustic instruments and used tungsten pickups. The first electrically amplified guitar was invented by George Beauchamp in 1931. Commercial production began in late summer of 1932 by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (Electro-Patent-Instrument Company Los Angeles), a partnership of Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker, and Paul Barth. The wooden body of the prototype was built by Harry Watson, a craftsman who had worked for the National Resophonic Guitar Company. By 1934 the company was renamed Rickenbacker Electro Stringed Instrument Company.

The need for the amplified guitar became apparent during the big band era as orchestras increased in size, particularly when guitars had to compete with large brass sections. The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers. By 1932 an electrically amplified guitar was commercially available. Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker (first called Ro-Pat-In) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934,Vega, Epiphone (Electrophone and Electar), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

The solid body electric guitar is made of solid wood, without functionally resonating air spaces. Rickenbacher offered a cast aluminum electric steel guitar, nicknamed "The Frying Pan" or "The Pancake Guitar", developed in 1931 with production beginning in the summer of 1932. This guitar sounds quite modern and aggressive.

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The Cure

The cure is a English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979),  this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.

After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music. The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world.

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Rock Music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated in general in the mid 50s. Its roots came from rhythm and blues, country music from the year of '40s and '50s and various other influences. Also adopted the style of rock music from a variety of other music, including folk music (folk music), jazz and classical.

The sound is typical of rock music often revolves around an electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and the use of a very subtle back beat to the rhythm section of guitar, bass, drums and keyboards such as organ, piano or synthesizer. Apart from the guitar or keyboard, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as a solo instrument. Rock music in its pure form has three chords, bakcbeat consistent, distinctive and interesting melody.

In the late '60s and early '70s, the rock music developed into different types. mixed with folk music (popular music in America) to folk rock with blues, blues-rock and jazz, jazz-rock fusion. In the 70s, combining rock influences from soul, funk and Latin music. Even in the 70s, in various rock subgenres such as developing "soft rock, glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock and punk-rock." Subcategory 80s rock protrude Ditahun including New Wave, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 90s it was grunge, Britpop, indie rock and nu metal.
A  musician who play rock music group specializes called Rock Band

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Keroncong Music History

Keroncong roots derived from a type of music known as fado Portuguese introduced by sailors and merchant slave ship nation since the 16th century to the archipelago.
From mainland India (Goa) has been entered for the first time music played in Malacca and later by the slaves of the Moluccas.

The weakening influence of the Portuguese in the 17th Century in the archipelago does not necessarily mean the loss of this music anyway. This early form of music called Moresco is accompanied by a stringed instrument. Keroncong music from the Tugu monument called keroncong.

In the development, signed a number of traditional elements of the archipelago, such as the use of flute and some components of the gamelan. Around the 19th Century form of popular music has been mixed in many places throughout the archipelago to the Malay Peninsula towards.

The golden age lasted until about the 1960s, and then by entering a wave of popular music (rock music that developed since 1950, victories and Beatles music and the like since 1961 to present) faded. Nevertheless keroncong music still played and enjoyed by all walks of life in Indonesia and Malaysia until now.

Music tools used keroncong

In its earliest, Moresco music accompanied by strings, such as violin, ukulele and cello. Percussion is also sometimes used. Set the orchestra of this kind are still used by keroncong monument, which still form keroncong played by the community of Portuguese descendants of slaves from Ambon who lived in kampung tugu, Jakarta Utara.

Keroncong a mixture of art, with musical instruments such as :
- Indian sitar
- Fiddle
- Bamboo flute
- Drums, and Saron kenong as a set of gamelan
- Gong.

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Traditional Music of Indonesia

Homeland is a country that stretches over thousands of islands Sabang to Merauke born from, where are so many of the islands and their people grow and develop a variety of regional cultures. Traditional art, identity, identity and expression of community media supporters.

Almost all regions of Homeland traditional musical art that a special and unique. Has to be seen by the uniqueness of his playing technique, presentation and form / organological musical instruments to see. Traditional art itself has a high spirit of the collective, so recognizable characters and characteristic of Indonesian society, namely the famous friendly and courteous.

To learn more about closer to our traditional music can be divided into several groups:

Percussion Instruments.
some musical instruments from the gamelan percussion instruments, Kendang, harp, Arumba, Talempong, and Sampek Kolintang, frame drums, napkin, Jimbe and others.

Stringed instruments.
namely the traditional musical instrument that uses a technique stolen violin playing.

Musical Instruments Blow.
It is distilled, is a musical instrument wind instrument made ​​of bamboo almost all areas in Indonesia will find this instrument to be.

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Sense of Music - Art Music

Music comes from the "Muse" (Latin), means the art of beautiful.
Beauty is in the intention of this muse of some beauty of God in bidangi nine Muses.
Gods of the Muses, among others:

1.Euterpe: Muses poetry experts.
2.Thalia: Muses experts theatrical humor
(Comedy)
3.Melpomene: Muses experts tragedy (tragedy).
4.Terpschore: Muses dance expert.
5.Clio: Muses historian.
6.Erato: Muses experts (crotis literature) poem longing for revenge and expression.
7.Poly Hymnia: muse of music experts.
8.Calliope: Muses poetic hero expert
9.Urania: astronomer muses.


from a variety of beauty, which was one of the nine Muses gods, then a branch of art which is now called "art music"
as in the Torah where the Prophet Moses (Genesis / Genesis) the person who is first discovered and developed the music, "Jubal" (SM).


Music began to grow rapidly after found a musical instrument "Organ" by Aaron Alrasyid (800).
and continues to grow worldwide.


There are everywhere in this world music, music leaders say, music is a universal activity in the sense that music is a necessity for human life.
Just a small example, when we were kids, when you cry to the parents we, sing melantungkan / one tone, so that we can not cry any more.
went from him, without exception, we have music. and if we have the resources necessary to study in depth and also because the music itself contains the elements of music that is very complex, both in instrumental music, vocal music and instrumental music and vocal combination.

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Jazz Music

Jazz is a type of lively music with strong, complex rhythms. It was first played at the beginning of the 20th century by black musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz musicians often accent or add notes or beats in unusual or unexpected places. They make up tunes as they play. Jazz music has changed, and today there are many different forms of Jazz.

after the turn of the 20th century, the earliest documented jazz music style emerged in New Orleans. Jazz began with a basic trio of musicians: a cornet, trumpet, or violin to carry the melody while a clarinet played ornate countermelodies, and the trombone provided rhythmic slides and the root notes of chords or simple harmonies. Below this group, there was a guitar or banjo sounding out the chords, sometimes a piano or a string bass, and drums supplying a rhythmic accompaniment.

In theory these musicians and their instrument roles are the same as in other kinds of music, but jazz depends more on interpretation by individuals than on reproducing a fully annotated score. Jazz blends in improvisation and other elements of black music such as blues and ragtime to make a unique American music form. In jazz, musicians often play solos that they make up on the spot, or they reinterpret a given melody or chord sequence. When more than one musician is playing, the rhythms often become very complex. There is tremendous variety in jazz; the music is rhythmic, has a forward momentum called "swing," and employs "bent" or "blue" notes. One can often hear "call and response" patterns where one instrument, voice, or band section answers another. With a few exceptions found in some styles, most jazz is based on the principle that an endless number of melodies can fit the chord progressions of a song. Musicians improvise new melodies that fit the progressions.

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History Of Metal Music

In the 80s, the sub genre of thrash metal evolved into death metal. Some of the prominent death metal bands of that time were Possessed and Death. Traditional metal also began in the 80s and bands like Fates Warning and Queensrysce were accepted into the mainstream of music.

Metal bands began to look further from the blues scale that Black Sabbath used and went on to use diatonic modes. This sparked a new phenomenon that spread through nearly all of the sub genres of metal.

Black Sabbath were the first real metal band, and become the inspiration for the sub genre Doom Metal. Metal went on through Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, while other bands such as Motorhead, Iron Maiden Metallica belonged to the sub genre, infused punk.

More sub genres of metal surfaced quickly in the 90s, including Stoner Metal and Sludge Metal.

Sub Genres Of Metal Music:
Metal, much like rock, is made up of many sub-genres. Metal genres can at times be difficult to differentiate as they seem similar but have small changes in overall structural, temperamental, instrumental and vocal changes. This is made even more difficult to differentiate, as often sub genres are similar to each other in other genres.

Black Metal: Black metal evolved from thrash metal. Black metal is not as cold and brutal as thrash, although it is still considered to be an extreme genre. The sound is a combination of tremolo bass and vocals are usually screamed or yelled by performers. Themes of Black metal are usually supernatural or occult in nature.

Death Metal: Death metal is closely related to thrash metal. It tends to be more brutal in nature, with odd chord progressions and mixed up time changes. Like many genres of metal, the words of the songs include themes that relate to the occult and the darker side of human nature.

Doom Metal: Doom metal emphasizes emotion, melancholy and depression. Tempos are usually slower with somber harmonies. Doom metal has the same type of vocals as death and black metal. Classical instruments are also used a lot in Doom metal to enhance the mood of the music.

Folk Metal: Folk metal started out as a fusion of folk rock, power metal and black metal. Now it is a term given to folk-themed bands that use folk based lyrics and themes, including instruments.

Glam Metal: Glam metal was popular in the 80s and was also known as hair metal. Many of the band members used makeup, similar to the 70s glam rock bands and Idols such as Alice Cooper.

Gothic Metal: Goth Metal had the same style as doom, black and death metal, but used heavy keyboard sounds with romantic story like words. Goth metal often used two vocalists.

Grindcore: Grindcore is like thrash metal with tones of hardcore and punk. Vocals are a lot like death metal and the songs tended to be very short. Grindcore today is mostly influenced by death metal.

Heavy Metal: Heavy metal is the origin of the genres and where metal music got its name. Loud rasping vocals and long solos with the guitar characterize heavy metal. The words of the songs are often unfocused on any particular theme.

Industrial Metal: Industrial metal uses Distortion of guitar sounds, synthesizers and drum machines. Industrial is heavily influenced by techno and industrial music.

Metalcore: Metal core bands use the vocals and beat of American Hardcore metal with the instruments, such as guitars that are used in European thrash metal.

Neoclassical Metal: Neo-Classical uses parts of classical music in normal metal music.

Nu Metal: Nu Metal has very little to do with heavy metal and is largely influenced by Hip Hop.

Power Metal: Power metal is more upbeat and uses clear vocals. Power metal uses science fiction or fantasy themes and is inspiring to the listener.

Progressive Metal: Progressive metal is sophisticated and complex. Vocals are clean and often lean towards philosophy or politics. Progressive metal is very much like progressive rock.

Thrash Metal: Thrash Metal is heavy metal combined with hardcore punk. Thrash is usually complex with many tempo add time changes. The words are usually yelled, although they remain in tune and melodic. Thrash was also the first metal.

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Heavy Metal

Heavy metal adalah genre asal dan di mana musik metal mendapat namanya.

Vokal serak keras dan solo gitar panjang dengan ciri heavy metal. dan kata-kata dari lagu sering tidak fokus pada setiap tema tertentu.

Saya selalu berusaha untuk mengidentifikasi setiap band heavy metal yang pernah ada, mengidentifikasi subgenre yang berbeda dan hubungan satu sama lain dalam musik metal, dan membuat koleksi karya seni yang mewakili musik metal dalam sejarah, dunia, dan dalam budaya populer.

Saya sudah menjadi penggemar musik heavy metal sejak dulu, tapi sampai sekarang saya belum meluangkan waktu untuk menyelidiki sejarah dan silsilah genre musik yang unik ini. 

Saya mengambil proyek ini sebagian besar untuk mendidik diri sendiri dan orang lain tentang musik metal, serta membawa perhatian pada apa yang saya anggap menjadi salah satu aspek yang paling kompleks dan abadi dalam budaya musik.

Asal mula musik metal adalah lambang tengkorak. 

Dan juga banyak yang berkata, musik metal adalah musik kematian dan hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan setanisme.

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Album Kedua Efek Rumah Kaca - Kamar Gelap

Kamar Gelap adalah dua belas track terhebat yang pernah saya dengarkan. You know, kadang ada band yang punya dua atau tiga lagu bagus saja dalam satu album, tapi sudah jelas tidak berlaku untuk album Kamar Gelap. So let's dig it !!!

1. Tubuhmu Membiru Tragis

Pilihan lagu ini sebagai track pertama adalah keputusan yang pintar.Mereka tidak bernafsu untuk ngasih liat keragaman musik di album kedua, justru track ini semacam bridging dengan album pertama. Vokal Cholil benar -benar mengajak kita merasakan kehampaan, kekosongan. Apapun yang dilakukan orang yang sedang tinggi adalah artifisial, penuh delusi dan halusinasi, berakhir kaku dan mati. Perjalanan enam menit empat puluh sembilan detik  yang melelahkan tapi sangat indah.


2. Kau dan Aku Menuju Ruang Hampa

It's a love song in a different point of view. Mereka sudah mengingatkan bahwa Jatuh Cinta Itu Biasa Saja, dan track kedua ini segera menghentak seakan ingin mengingatkan lagi jangan terlalu terobsesi dan terbuai sampai - sampai merasa pacarmu adalah malaikat. Yeah right ...more like Adolf Hitler atau at least sedang kerasukan rohnya. Kadang cinta dan bodoh sangat tipis bedanya, sekali kehidupan kita di take over sama orang, siap - siap dibawa menuju ruang hampa, di doktrin dan di brainwashed sampai tak mengenali diri sendiri lagi. Permulaan dari serunya musik ERK dimulai dari track ini.


3. Mosi Tidak Percaya

Saya merasa track ini akan akan berada diatas angin dibanding semua lagu mars partai yang akan banyak dinyanyikan pada kampanye sebentar lagi. Kegeraman akan kegemaran sekelompok orang dengan omong kosong dan argumen super tolol dengan sentuhan punk didalam aransemennya.Anthem warga sebuah negara yang dipaksa memilih atas nama haram. Well you know what, dumbass? Kami tidak sudi diperdaya kalau hanya untuk melegalkan kuasa kalian, and no... we don't believe that we're gonna go to fukkin hell just because we don't fukkin vote you. we're there because we're facist and racist or just plain stupid, now that makes more sense!!!

4. Lagu Kesepian

Aroma gelap album pertama kembali terasa di lagu Kesepian ini. Pesan yang disampaikan sederhana dengan lirik yang dalam, dan gue suka banget aransemennya yang sangat mewakili perasaan sepi. Ketika di keramaian ada rasa kesepian dan berharap ketika sendirian akan ada tenang, ternyata tak juga rasa itu ditemukan. Intinya, when you're lonely, you're fucked up.


5. Hujan Jangan Marah

Amazing track! Mereka tetap concern dengan isu lingkungan dengan cara yang luar biasa. Track berisi komunikasi dua arah antara ERK dan sang hujan yang nampaknya sudah murka dengan kelakuan kita. This is absolutely an everlasting flood song for us! Gue merinding sekali mendengar Cholil berteriak 'Hujan, hujan ... jangan marah' dengan latar suara Adrian. Gue rasa ini jenis do'a yang akan membuat Tuhan iba dan akhirnya mengabulkan doa kita. Coba kalo gue yang teriak - teriak ....Banjir bandang langsung kali ya bo!! Hehe!!


6. Kenakalan Remaja Di Era Informatika

Lagu dengan tunes yang menangkap kuping alias ear catching. Pas dipilih sebagai single pertama karena penyuka musik ERK akan segera menyadari adanya progress di materi album Kamar Gelap. Menyoroti tingkah laku anak - anak tolol yang hype akan tehnologi dengan kamera VGA kualitas rendah sejadi - jadinya. (oh seriously, I fukkkkiiin hate this VGA things! Jelek sekali!!!) tapi jatohnya malah norak. Tapi gue hanya ingin bilang ke ERK bukan cuma remaja saja yang gagap di era informatika. How about some of those dumbfucks? The so-called wakil rakyat yang juga sangat idiot mempertunjukkan kemaluan kecil mereka di depan kamera? Nafsu tak akan peduli apakah kau seorang remaja atau pejabat yang kelihatan taat pada agama.


7. Menjadi Indonesia

Judul lagu ini diambil dari buku karya Parakitri T Simbolon yang juga berjudul sama. Beneran ya, dua kali denger lagu ini dan lo nggak merasa terharu dengerin lagunya, coba segera cek ke psikiater siapa tau lo menderita AMWBBHS alias A Moron With a Black Black Heart Syndrome. Lagu ini terasa weird ketika sampai di bagian tengah, vokal Cholil dan ketukan drum Akbar terasa tidak seragam, tapi gue ingat betapa cerdasnya band ini dengan metafora dalam lirik lagunya, maka gue berasumsi sendiri ini adalah metafora dalam musik.Apa yang lo rasakan sebagai orang Indonesia tidak akan sama dengan yang ada di kepala ratusan juta orang lainnya. Malu, kagum, merangkul, meninggalkan .... track jenius tapi tidak pretensius.


8. Kamar Gelap

Sekaligus dijadikan sebagai judul album kedua Efek Rumah Kaca. Track ini semacam proses perjalanan sebuah meditasi dalam keheningan (taelaah bahasa gueee!!!). Kamar gelap tidak membicarakan sepi yang sejenis dengan yang ada dalam track Lagu Kesepian, tapi lebih pada mencari pencerahan. Menyendiri dalam kamar gelap, membenarkan posisi jiwa yang mulai nggak sehat.Direkomendasikan untuk spa, kelas yoga, dan orang - orang kantor yang dikirim atasannya untuk mengikuti program Quantum Training.


9. Jangan Bakar Buku

Peristiwa pembakaran buku kurikulum sekolah yang katanya melenceng dari sejarah (memangnya ada yang tidak melenceng di negara ini?) menginspirasi ERK untuk membuat lagu Jangan Bakar Buku. Apa hak orang - orang ini menyumpal jalannya ilmu ke otak anak - anak sekolah? Kenapa ada buku yang di bredel? Kenapa ada majalah yang dilarang beredar karena sekelompok orang barbar bilang jangan? Bukankah makin banyak tulisan dibaca akan membuat kita pintar? Dan kalau kita pintar kita akan tahu sendiri mana yang lurus, mana yang melenceng? Atau, mereka memang ingin kita tidak terlalu pintar dan tidak terlalu banyak tanya?


10. Banyak Asap Disana

Sekali lagi isu sosial diangkat ERK, ternyata bukan hanya hutan yang dibabat dan dibakar yang bikin sesak nafas. Kelakuan memperkaya tujuh turunan, urbanisasi yang menggila, kemiskinan kaum marginal, diceritakan dengan beat menghentak. Jutaan kali lebih berharga daripada jargon - jargon norak yang banyak bertebaran dipinggir jalan akhir - akhir ini.


11. Laki - Laki Pemalu

Saya langsung merasakan sound yang sangat familiar di lagu ini. Ketika gue cek bagian covernya, ternyata betul... lagu ini melibatkan Ade Paloh sebagai backing vocal dan Ramondo Gascaro pada keyboard. Mereka berdua adalah personel dari band Sore dan membawa atmosfer klasik pada lagu ini. Keren sekali!!


12. Balerina

Lagu penutup yang sangat segar. Secara komersil cukup punya kans untuk dijadikan single kedua. Memberi energi positif pendengarnya dalam menjalani kehidupan sehari - hari dengan mengambil metafora seorang balerina yang menciptakan tarian yang ekspresif, elegan dan santun.Lagu terakhir yang membuat gue sangat puas dengan seluruh materinya,lagu, lirik, progress secara musikal, dihadirkan Efek Rumah Kaca dengan kualitas audio yang keren.


Thanks to Efek Rumah Kaca dan managemennya. Saya berharap bisa menulis pengalaman mendengarkan album ini dengan kata - kata yang indah.

"sheva ilhamsyah - iamsterdam"

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Baroque Music History

Since ancient times, music has been used as a tool to accompany the ceremonies of the trust. 
The biggest music history occurred in medieval times, due to changes in state of the world increases.
Development of music in today because of changes in the world increased, leading to new discoveries in all fields, including culture. 
Changes in the history of music is that music is no longer focused on religious interests but is also used for worldly affairs, as a means of entertainment.



Progress on medieval music is marked by the emergence of new streams of music, including the flow of Baroque and Rokoko.
The history of classical music began in 1750, after the end of Baroque music and Rokoko.

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