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To complete our magazine we got lots of help from many people some teachers and one was even a parent.

Thanks you Mrs. Young for the help you have given us on our magazine, thanks for letting us borrow all the equipment for our interviews and pictures, thanks for giving us good edits for our articles, and thanks for helping us use the programs such as Photoshop and InDesign.

Thank you to the people we got to interview, thank you for answering our questions truthfully. Thank you Mr. Saccia for posing for the camera, thank you Mr. Jessin for letting Axel interview you. Thank you Jo Carol Pierce for letting Christian interview you. And thank you Mr. Potter for letting Matt interview you and letting us

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take a picture of you at such late notice. Thank you Ms. Richey for letting us use your scanner multiple times for our magazine.

Thanks to the people that helped us that weren’t even in our group. Thank you Tempra for all the wonderful ideas you have given us.

Letter From The Editors Picture by:Tim Anderson, Pace Computing Limited

When we were writing Slap in the Face Music Magazine, we made sure to stick with simplicity, delivering our message of great musicians and other musical wonders. Our basic understanding on life is that life wouldnt be nearly the same without music. We’re no high class buisnessmen, were just normal everyday music loving people. We hope you enjoy.

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Axel Jessin a 14 year old he’s from California he likes rock music and soccer.

Eric Resendez he 15 years old and likes all kinds of metal music. He loves soccer.

Christian Diaz 14 years old he likes all kinds of music except country, he likes to play his tenor saxaphone.

Matthew Cantrell a 15 year old he loves to listen to classical and pop music. He love to play his cello.

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Death of the album By: Eric R.

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Harmonious Hobby By: Axel J.

Pg. 10-11

Hey it’s Mr. Potter By: Matt C.

Pg. 12-13

Illegal Music Downloading By: Christian D.

Pg. 14-15

Do You Know Your Classics By: Eric R.

Pg. 16-17

Self Taught or Not By: Axel J.

Pg. 18-19

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CONTENTS

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The Beatles Great Success By: Matt C.

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A Pierce-ing Tale By: Christian D.

Pg. 22-23

Bass Madness By: Eric R.

Pg. 24-27

Dream Band By: Axel J.

Pg. 28-30

Album Review By: Matt C.

Pg. 31-36

The Legendaries By: Christian D.

Pg. 37-42

DEATH OF THE ALBUM.

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lbums everywhere are becoming increasingly unpopular not only in the United States but all over the world. iTunes is changing the way and amount of money that music industry makes. Over the last few s, the music business has been having rd time getting used to the way iTunes pletely changed the way music was umed by the audience. iTunes controls how much each song costs. Album have dropped drastically in the past 10 s. Album sales on iTunes have dropped n to 14% of profits, that’s a major decline.

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record companies declare bankruptcy. For example Tower Records was quickly outbid and bought out by Great American Group, forcing all of Tower Record retail stores to close down. Another company suffering from major losses is Virgin Megastores; they have reported losing 495 million dollars lost in the past 2 years. If record companies continue to have to close down retail stores and declare bankruptcy, a iTunes (apple) will soon completely monopolize the way music is bought and consumed.

Apple has been completely ignorant towards artists, not allowing them to have any say in what price their songs are priced at, but that finally changed after years of complaining.

While they were given some liberties at what their songs should be priced at, they cant just pick any price, the song must be 69 cents, 99 cents or 1.29$. This seemed to be the simple compromise that artist and record companies were looking for all along.

At the least Itunes should sell their music by the album and not by the song, even though it wont bring back the actual album it will bring back the essence of the incredibly successful album.

THE MUSICAL AND

HARMONIA BY: AXEL JESSIN

He went up to his room locked the door, threw his backpack on the floor, plugged in his guitar, and pushed his hair back. He then started jamming out to a song. “I had my guitar at max volume and the music all the way up”, that’s what Stephan Jessin did everyday after school. He would rush through his homework and right when he was done he would spend most of his evening in his room playing. His brother would sometimes play with him, and they had recorded a few songs together.

Their songs would be about stuff they experienced or about love ones or news. They never had a great success but they lit a lot of family reunions.

Stephan Jessin was in his room and then his mom called him down for dinner; he went down the stairs and into the dining room, and as usual his dad was playing the piano. His dad was the director of a perfume company but he always had a passion for music. Stephan’s Dad would play almost every night before dinner, he loved to hear and watch him play. One day Stephan asked him if he could teach he him how to play.

“My dad taught me the basic scales, and the basic chords, but I taught myself all the rest”. Therefore every night before dinner he would teach me a few chords, and show me where to place my hands and all the necessary things to learn how to play music.

“I became very good at the piano and I was even better than my music teacher when I was in 7th grade”. In his music class he found himself always getting bored”. “One day during that class the teacher started teaching us about the piano and I was talking to my friends because I knew all of this, then the teacher seeing that I was not paying attention told me to go up to the class piano and play a song, and if no one in the room could tell what song it was I would have a zero in the class for that day”. “I went up and jokingly asked him where the “C” was, he showed me where it was and then he told me to play, I then started to play Beethoven’s For Elise perfectly and without a mistake, he then turned bright red and told me to sit down”. In 9th grade music took such a place in his life that he failed 9th grade and had to repeat it since

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h e d i d not care for his studies.

“I used to tell my mom that I was leaving for school but instead I would go to a friends house and play music”. Stephan said that when his mom found out about what he did during school, he was punished for a year, and forced to play less music.

He was never in a school band or a music school, nor did he learn how to read music. He always played by ear, whether with friends or at home. He was in a few bands but the bands never got noticed “I made an album with this girl once, she had an amazing voice but nothing ever happened with that album”.

Some of the bands that he played in were “The Late Joys”, “Peter Stray” those were the most recent ones. He never liked being in a band because the people he was with were always taking forever to make an album or go to gigs.

In the Late Joys he played piano but with Peter Stray he played the electric bass.

One of the main reasons that people in France don’t play music is because the schools don’t teach the kids about music. In 8th grade the only instrument that they teach is the recorder. French schools do not care for music and Stephan thinks that it is very disappointing. “ When I see my own sons who are going to LASA are playing trumpet and saxophone since 6th grade and they are in bands such as Marching Band, Concert Band, and Jazz Band I think it is horrible that the French are not doing anything for their students”. He taught his four kids how to play music and music is an enormous subject for his family. Stephan says that if his parents and French schools had done more for music he would have been surely a famous musician.

There was a knock on the door, he turned the music down and opened the door. His dad came in and said, “Listen son, we have talked about this a million times; just because some people got lucky and were able to have a huge success, doesn’t mean that you will, you probably won’t ever succeed in music. So why don’t you stop playing music and start focusing on your studies more”. “What he said to me had ruined my dream of ever playing music, that’s why I am now a computer engineer” said Stephan Jessin. Before his dream got shot down by his parents, he was a great musician and now because of what his parents said he has abandoned his life long dream. Nonetheless all through out his life Stephan kept on playing and he soon mastered the guitar, bass, and drums including the piano.

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Hey It’s Mr. Potter

He was a student a Michigan State and started to teach this year at LBJ/ LASA High School this year. He definitely knows what he is teaching because at collage he had to take a class on how to play all the orchestral string instruments. He also auditioned to Julliard one of the best musical conservatories in the world. Mr. Potter a first year teacher help plays instruments, so far he has shown to the parents to be a fine musical teacher because of our last concert, we also get really familiar with the music and the people we play it with because we always get into groups learn about each other’s weaknesses and strengths so know we know what to fix and what can be played later.

Mr. Potter like everyone else started to play his instrument in the 6th grade which makes him the perfect teacher for us because most of us started to play in the 6th grade which lets him know our experience as players and as people.

He is also a good role model to us all because of his musical experiences I mean you can go up to him and ask him “Is this a good thing to do will it help me improve my playing?” or “ Is this audition really that important for me as a player? Which really helps us inexperienced players know if we are wasting time with this or not. One thing that really gets me going is that he used to be in a band and different orchestras which is something that i really wanted to ever since I started to play my instrument. “Well I have played in a lot of orchestras and I was in a band one time in high school, it was just a garage band. It was me, a guitar player and a drum player.

Mr. Potter is the orchestra teacher at Liberal Arts and Sience Academy.

We were really pretty bad. I played electric bass and I wasn’t very good, but the guitar player was great and the drummer was also great, but we didn’t practice enough to be good.” claimed Mr. Potter. But what he said really made him sound as if he sucked at playing and didn’t really contribute to the band at all because in this quote he compliments the guitar player and the drummer’s skill giving him no praise at all, to me he was a little modest.

The best thing that shines about him is that he believes in all of us even if we do suck a certain part of a musical piece, oh and guess what he DID want to become a musical teacher what a shock! As I have said already said he plays all the basic orchestral instruments which allows him to show us how each section’s part sounds like. Which give us a better understanding of the music that we are playing and allows us to play better, which is really important for a conductor.

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Even with all these traits he still has his problems (he’s only human) which is mostly intonation because as a string player even if you think it is in tune it’s most likely not maybe because of your figures, string problems, or you just suck.

With all of this said you can tell the new teacher is definitely doing what needs to be done.

You might have a long time till retirement but till then just keep doing what you are doing because not just to me but to a lot of people you are doing a great job. Keep going Mr. Potter and never quit.

C I S U M G L N I A D G A E L O L IL N W O D Article By Christian Diaz

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ave you ever downloaded music off of a music sharing site like Limewire of uTorrent? If so, than you have caused irreparable damage to the music industry with each song downloaded. With each song you have robbed the artists of profit they should be earning. The artists have a definite right to earn a profit for their music, definied by copyright law.

Once a piece of music, or other mediums of art, is copyrighted, the owner of this work is given a number of exclusive

rights, including the right to copy and distribute the work. If you were to sell, or even give away copies you made of the music, you would be infringing on the artist’s rights given to them by their copyright.

Knowingly downloading copies of the music that someone else copied and put online makes it as much your fault as it is the person who posted it. You are not allowed to sell copies for profit without written consent of the artist because only the artist has the right to distribute their music.

This means that the music

sites like Rhapsody and iTunes have to get official permission to sell their songs.

Many people would argue that file-sharing would actually increase album sale which they call the sampling effect, but this is not always true.

In order for this to work, the person downloading the music would have to not only like the music, but also would have to concede to paying for the rest of the album.

The main problem with this theory is that some people downloading the music will find that they do not like the music they

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downloaded.

Even if this effect does hold true for some people, overall, file-sharing causes a drastic decrease in music sales. The people that actually go and buy the full album of the music they downloaded are a minority compared to the people who download music, discover they like it, and then download the rest of the album, or even download a song, and find they didn’t like it.

The process of filesharing hurts the record companies more than anyone else. Between 1999 and 2003 people owning a computer

showed a significant decrease in album sales, with the people who had purchased the most music showing the most significant decrease. This shows that the people were downloading more of their music online, and it also shows how much this hurts the music industry. In fact, there was a total decrease of about 30% since the beginning of file-sharing.

The little record companies, the ones that represent smaller musicians, are the ones that get hurt the most. File-sharing is making it very difficult for new uprising record

companies and small musicians to get started.

Every time you download a song, the artists lose money. The only real way to fix this is to not download music without paying for it. If the music is free online, than it is probably illegal to download it.

Few artists have put songs online for free intentionally, but some have, like Radiohead, so a little research would help. Just make sure you aren’t downloading the album without the artists knowledge and consent. It will save the artists a lot of trouble.

DO YOU KNOW YOUR CLASSICS? MATCH THE FOLLIWNG SONGS WITH ITS LYRICS! A-PARADISE CITY B-BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY C-IMAGINE D-ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST E-HOTEL CALIFORNIA F-YESTERDAY G-LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER H- BACK IN BLACK I-ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

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1. “Imagine all the people. Living life in peace” ____________ 2. “I’ve been too long I’m glad to be back.Yes I’m, let loose.

From the noose” ____________ 3.“We gotta hold on to what we’ve got.It doesn’t make a difference if we make it or not.

We got each other and that’s a lot.For love we’ll give it a shot!” _____________

4. “I want to go.I want to know.Oh, won’t you please take me home.” _____________ 5. “We don’t need no education.We dont need no thought control” _____________ 6. “All my troubles seemed so far away,Now it looks as though they’re here to stay...” _____________ 7. “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair.

Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air.

Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.” _____________ 8. “Mamaaa just killed a man.

Put a gun against his head.Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead” _____________ 9. “And another one gone, and another one gone” _____________ p.s the first one was a freebie.

1. IMAGINE 2.BACK IN BLACK 3.LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER 4. PARADISE CITY 5.ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL 6. YESTERDAY 7. HOTEL CALIFORNIA 8. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY 9. ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

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Do you remember the day you got your first instrument? Do you remember how you felt, and if you wanted to learn how to play it? I remember it perfectly, I remember my dad coming in with a weirdly shaped box and laying it on the table and said “go ahead open it”. I remember being so happy and wanting to play on it right away. I bet that when you got it you told yourself I am going to learn how to play this instrument, and I will play it well. I

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m s u r e that you started playing on it and for the first two weeks you never let it out of your sight. You probably constantly played it and annoyed your parents with the same wrong notes. I know because I

did the same and I am sure that is what everybody did.

The day you got it you probably asked your parents if you could get lessons or if you could pay someone to teach you that instrument. Your parents probably said yes because they knew it would make you happy. But, they also knew that you would quit the lessons over a year. Or you were the other type of child (that would be me). You were maybe the one were your parents came up to you and announced “Congratulations you are starting piano lessons tomorrow”. Then you probably told them “Nooooooooooo I don’t want to do that, I hate piano, and most of all I hate classical music”. I know that I not only screamed but I threatened to throw my instrument out the window. Then your parents would say “don’t worry honey you’ll like it don’t worry. Then from that moment on your parents would force you to take piano lessons. After a while you got in a big fight with your parents and you told them you really did not want to take piano lessons.

And then that would be the end of your piano playing life. Your parents probably ruined the piano for you. My parents never actually made me take piano lessons, but my brother wanted to so they told me that my brother would look cool and I would not because I was not taking piano lessons.

Now what if instead of your parents buying you lessons they would buy the piano only.

What if they said “Here we bought you a piano whenever you want to play you can play, you can download and learn the music that you want. If your parents had not made you take lessons you might still be playing piano. My parents never

ght or Not forced me to play the other instruments I learned, my brother and I made a band and we both learned drums, and I learned bass.

Being forced to play something that you do not want to play is bad for someone who is learning to play an instrument. You can’t teach someone something that they absolutely don’t want to do. I think that if you can play whatever genre of music you like, you will succeed a lot more than if you have to play classical. I also think that there are some people that are not meant for music. Not everybody has a musical talent, not everybody is going to be a rock star, or a Grammy winner. My brother and I were never going to be musicians but we “released” our first album (with 4 songs) when we were 8 years old. We both played 3 instruments each and we recorded them using a multi track recorder. The songs weren’t all that great but we loved doing it. We never would have created a band if we had to play classical music, with only one instruments.

The best guitarists in the world have been self taught. Stevie Ray Vaughn got his first guitar at a very young age and then, he spent hours in his room practicing. Jimmi Hendrix was a left handed guitarist and he did not have enough money for lessons or a real left handed guitar so he taught himself and just flipped a right handed guitar over. Carlos Santana, Eddie Van Halen, Willie Nelson, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and Jimmy Page, were all self taught.

Both ways are good to learn music, but the

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self taught way is mainly for people who have a talent for music. The lessons are better if you don’t have an amazing talent, but if you still want to learn music, lessons are better. If you want to have fun and play the music style you want its better to teach yourself music. Another bad thing about taking lessons is that you only learn to read notes and not play by ear. If you are self taught you only learn by ear.

If you are with friends and you want to play with them you have to make something up on the spot, or join in on their song. You can’t play with them if you don’t know the music, you have to be able to improvise and hear the others notes.

The Beatles Great Success By: Matthew Cantrell

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The Beatles have always been one of the best bands of their time, maybe even the best, which is what I am trying to prove in this article.

In the many websites I have been to the Beatles have been at the #1 spot on the most selling records of all time and still going I know that this is not something that can be backed up by solid hardcore info but you must emit that being the top selling album of all time must mean that they are still good, but doesn’t mean that they will be forever.

Just recently I found of that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr had started there own bands. Yeah I know thats pretty

sad of someone that is writing about the Beatles but yeah. So I was reading about this then looked up the rating for their new bands and none of theirbands were on the rating list. This made me believe that their first band, the Beatles must have been a must bigger success it also made me realize that maybe there is something more to the Beatles great success because even though the remaining members of the Beatles made their own bands they could not come even close to their first bands rank.

The Beatles, since the 60’s have always been the best, the point of saying this is that what is the likely hood of the Beatles getting outclassed by some other band that just started to play unless the band I made by musical prodigies.

This researching gave me more insight on the Beatles and their history.

A PIERCEING TALE She has worked on the theatre stage, both on the writing of her performance piece, titled ‘Bad Girls Upset by the Truth’, and the music for other shows performed on large stages nationwide like the Lincoln Theatre in New York. She has written various successful Americana songs on an album she calls ‘Dog of Love’, and toured with a small band for about a year. Though she is taking a break for writing songs and other work, she hopes to get back to her music after she retires.

She is Jo Carol Pierce.

Jo Carol Pierce, a Texas musician from Lubbock, has written a very successful show, called Bad Girls Upset by the Truth, which was famous for it’s unique format and story-telling. She also had another original

By: Christian Diaz record produced. Her music became so popular, that musicians she looked up to made a tribute record to her, called Across the Great Divide; Songs of Jo Carol Pierce.

Jo Carol Pierce grew up in Lubbock, a city known for its musicians.

While growing up she was always surrounded by people writing songs, which made Ms. Pierce want to write songs as well. Ms. Pierce wrote her first song in the 5th grade. After that she continued to write songs throughout high school and for the rest of her life.

However, for a while she was very secretive about them. She kept her songs mostly to herself, until she was around 40, when she began to be more open about them. “When I first started to play in public was, I think, 1991,” she says. “But I

already had a stage play that had been a hit, and we toured nationally with is, so I had a taste of showbusiness. I had always been involved in acting and writing for stage, so that emboldened me on the performance part.”

About a year after she went public with her music, Ms. Pierce released her famous spoken-word music show called ‘Bad Girls Upset by the Truth.’ Another year after that, some of her favorite musicians got together and made a tribute record to her and her songs. This record, called Across the Great Divide, Songs of Jo Carol Pierce, was a big hit, and got many great reviews form national publications such as the New York Times.

“Most of my acclaim came from my tribute,

or maybe I got more acclaim for my record, my original record. I think that those were the sources of my acclaim more than anything else,” Ms. Pierce said about her tribute’s recognition.

Now however, Ms. Pierce doesn’t have enough time to write another show, or do live performances. She has a job at Child Protective Services, which keeps her pretty busy. “Working at Children’s Protective Services, which is like about a 60, or 80 hour a week job, [has kept me much] too busy for a long time,” she says. Without the available idle time she used to have, she has been unable to write another show, so the first show she produced is still the only one of its kind.

Her original show was a legend, the only one of its kind. “The format

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was original, in that I was doing a story [with music behind it], it was like a musical, but like a one person musical with a band, and with an overall story, it was original, and funny.” Ms. Pierce always felt like the format of her original how was what had drawn her audience to

really takes some unbroken time to do something like her music. She didn‘t feel that, so I haven’t had a like her musical talents chance to do [it],” says were too extraordinary, Ms. Pierce. She regrets but instead that the way not having the time to everything was written write another story like her had always been the draw. famous show, but definitely “[I] haven’t done anything sees herself getting back else in that format, but I to it in the future. Whether would really like to, and I plan to when I get time.

Writing a long story, it

that happens or not, she has still left a big impact on the music industry.

With her unique song formats, driving Americana music, and famous theatre productions, Jo Carol Pierce will always be remembered as a big name in the history of music.

B@$$ /\/\@ “You don’t get a whole lot of sleep. You just kinda got to make do with what you got.” This was how Mr. Scaccia describes his current life. It is difficult to balance out the life of a musician and an English teacher; however he continues to be successful. He used to be a single minded teacher in training. After he became an educator he realized that teaching wasn’t the only career he wished to pursue. The ingenious instructor soon picked up the bass, “it’s what I always heard, everything around me was like a bass,” soon after that he became not only an English teacher but also a bass player. “It seems as if the music was always with me, I just never realized it was there”.

This is the double life of a bass playing music loving English teacher! Though wading through many hardships, and have had to constantly motivate himself, he eventually managed.

Before he even began to play, bands like Bela Fleck and the Flecktones along with Sting. Being the only person in his family to play a musical instrument, it was often hard to find motivation. Despite the fact that he didn’t teach himself, there were many people that helped on the journey of being an extraordinary bass player. “There was nothing there that encouraged me to play…. there was no type of motivation.” That obviously didn’t affect him at all. He chased after his dream and eventually achieved what he wanted to.

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While growing up, country music didn’t cross Mr. Scaccia’s mind, surprisingly he ended up playing for a red dirt country band. He has played for multiple bands and has had countless experiences. His hard work had begun to pay off, “oh dude I’ve had so many gigs… one of the best gigs, we opened for Jason Aldean, played for big state festivals. Major open air festivals, playing in front of 10,000 people” Each show is a new experience, “I feel like I’m going to throw up, it’s great” this just goes to show you the type of emotions he goes through backstage. “The nerves are there because you want to have a great experience and want to help the crowd have a good time, and then just to put on your best show… but then it takes 2 or 3 songs and then I finally get the nerves settled down and were playing, its great” .However once gets the nerves down there is no words capable of describing what it’s like to be on stage.

This is not the ordinary life of an English teacher. It’s like he was born with a red pen in one hand and a bass in the other. He doesn’t only impose a good time to his crowds but he takes it with him to the classroom. Even though you don’t always get a whole lot of sleep, the overall compensation is better.

DREAM Slap In The Face

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M BAND Slap in the face has decided to choose 6 amzing musicians and “create� a band with those people playing. We have decied that these 6 people are our favorite musicians and that they would be amazing if they played togther.

SINGERS: Freddie Mercury (Queen) Lou Gramm (Foreigner) BASSIST: Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd) LEAD GUITARIST: Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen) RHYTHM GUITARIST: Malcolm Young (ACDC) DRUMMER: Neil Peart (RUSH)

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Album Review By: Matthew Cantrell

“4 stars out of 5 what I belieive is the overall rateing of this album.�

Recently Maroon 5 just released there new album called Hands All Over each the songs on the album are listed here and rated out of 5.( Each of these songs were rated with my options and my classmate’s opinions even though they are opinions I still think these reviews are pretty good.)

• Misery: 5 out of 5

I believe that this song dissevers this rating I gave it because of the lyrics in the song and the music video is pretty good and follows the lyrics really well. And most important it actually sounds good.

• Give a little more: 1.5 out of 5

This is to me pretty bad but that’s because I don’t really like techno music but I still gave it a 1.5 because it tone to it is somewhat catchy. This is probably my least favorite song by Maroon 5.

• Shutter: 4 out of 5

The lyrics and music in this song blended really well together and sounds great though I still think that there could be some changes to the sound of the drum. It could probably be a little quieter.

Maroon 5 posing for the camera

• Don’t Know Nothin: 3 out of 5

This song has a combination of jazz and techno which sounds really weird in the beginning but sounds better as the song progresses. I don’t love this song but I don’t hate it either.

• Never Gonna Leave This Bed: 5 out of 5 This was a great song that really had great lyrics and musical combination. The soft rock goes really well with the lyrics. The song does get a little cheesy but hey it’s a good song.

• I Can’t Lie: 3 out of 5 This song kind of gives me a headache I mean most of it is a bunch of crappy lyrics though that music is pretty good. Again the music completely washes out Adam Levine’s voice.

The cover for Maroon 5’s new album Hands All Over

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The overall album rating: 4 out of 5

This was probably one of their better albums but some of the songs were country so to me that would me a point taken off. Other than that the album was pretty good the lyrics were well though and most of the music was well composed.

If you buy the album you’ll find there are a few bonus tracks I have listened to them and I really don’t like them.

• Hands All Over: 2 out of 5

This song is really not that good at all especially the beginning but slowly gets better but I think that a good song has a good beginning.

• How: 5 out of 5

The song How is pretty well made I think that the music sounds a little country with rock which really it’s my thing but I liked how Maroon 5 did it.

• Get back in my life: 3 out of 5

This is a descent song, it just doesn’t sound all that great compared to the other song they have sung. But it got a 3 because of the cool sounding solo that’s sung during the last part of the song.

• Just a feeling: 2.5 out of 5

The music in this song is country which really is my least favorite type of music so this is a real opinion. The song just doesn’t go well with the lyrics at all and sounds really weird.

• Runaway: 3.5 out of 5

This song’s lyrics go well with the music of this piece but it needs work especially in dynamics because Adam’s voice seems to not come out during this song.

• Out of goodbyes: 2 out of 5

The beginning of this song is good but after the classical guitar and Adam start to play the song is ruined because the song is turned completely into a country song which is hate the most.

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Tom Morello is an amazing guitar player, working with noticeable bands such as Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. His playing style is best known for his solos, which are wild and inventive. He is known for his unique tapping of the strings, getting creative sounds out of his guitar that are considered his and only his. He also is equipped with his famous guitars with their iconic phrases on them like “Arm the Homeless” and “Whatever it Takes.” He has also played folk rock, but is less known for this when compared to his renowned performances with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. He plays his folk under the alias ‘The Nightwatchman.’ He is undoubtedly deserving to be at number 10 on this list.

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Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry is one of the main pioneers of Rock and Roll. He popularized a unique sense of showmanship and soloing which would go on to influence all of the musicians for the next generation or two. His hit songs include “Maybellene”, Roll Over Beethoven”, Rock and Roll Music”, and “Johnny B. Goode.” Everyone has heard at least one of these songs, there’s no denying it. He was, and still is, such a popular artist that to not put him on this list would be a major injustice.

8.

Robert Johnson

As number five on Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 guitarists, Robert Johnson was called “the most important blues singer that ever lived,” by none other than Eric Clapton, one of the many popular musicians he has influenced over his lifetime. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 for this very reason, given the title of one of the Early Influences. Though he had a short life, it was certainly an important one, shaping our modern music in ways that are hard to realize, let alone understand.

7.

Keith Richards

Keith Richards is just great. Throughout his years with the Rolling Stones he wrote (with Mick Jagger) 14 songs featured on Rolling Stone among the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone also named him number 10 on its list of the top 100 guitarists of all time. He helped found the band that would become the second most successful group on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He has definitely earned his place as number 7 on this list.

6.

B.B. King

This Legend from the 1925 practically invented the electric blues. With his fluid bending of the strings to produce a unique vibrato, he is one of the most influential man to ever pick up a guitar. He is number three on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the top 100 guitarists of all time, surpassed only by two. He was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and continued an active recording career after that. Throughout his 52 years of active years, he has played over 15,000 performances. Someone as influential as him definitely deserves a spot in our top ten.

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Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen is an amazing guitar player. Despite his questionable ranking of 70th on the Rolling Stone’s list of the top 100 guitarists, he is definitely one of the best. His famous guitars are known as ‘frankenstrats’, because they are made up of parts from different brands and types of guitars, like the original Monster of Frankenstein. With his lightningfast riffs all down the neck of his guitar, insanely popular and complicated songs with his band, Van Halen, he is considered one of the most talented and influential guitarists in the world.

4.

Eric Clapton

Clapton is a great guitarist, crossing through many genres of music throughout his career. He was ranked #4 on both the Rolling Stone’s top 100 guitar players and on the Gibson top 50 guitarists. Over the years he has played with too many bands to count, but the most noticeable were the bands such as Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, and the Yarbirds.

And of course this is not mentioning his solo career, which kicked off in 1971. Over the years Clapton has played many different styles, ranging from psychedelic rock with Cream, to blues rock with the Yarbirds, to reggae when he worked with a small band to produce a cover of Bob Marley’s “I shot the Sheriff.” With his playing range and years of experience, Its no wonder he is number 4 on this list.

3.

Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page has had two main successful music careers in his lifetime. His first was as a studio session guitarist, where he played for other bands, helping them record their songs.

He played with artists such as The Who, the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton. When he formed Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, he was forming one of the influential bands of the ‘60’s and 70’s. His work with Led Zeppelin influenced so many guitarists that came later, like Eddie Van Halen and Johnny Ramone. On the lists of greatest guitarists done by Gibson, Classic Rock Magazine, and Rolling Stone Magazine, he was ranked 2nd, 4th, and 9th, respectively. On ours he got 3rd.

2. Stevie Ray Vaughan Stevie Ray Vaughan is definitely one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Few people manage to match his emotion, as he plays it is impossible not to feel what he wants you to. You are putty in his hands. He rules the Blues, being one of the only 79 blues musicians to be inducted into the blues hall of fame, in 2000. He has also won several W. C. Handy awards for his music, both while he was alive and after his death in 1990. He has been ranked by Rolling Stone and Classic Rock Magazines, getting 7th and 3rd. Now he is second.

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1.

Jimi Hendrix

There is no doubt that this man deserves number one. Among the many honors he has received, he was named the greatest guitarist of all time on the famous list of the world’s top 100 guitarists done by Rolling Stone. He popularized the use of high feedback from his amplifier, the use of the wah-wah pedal for his solos, and the use of stereophonic phasing in the studio, which had all been very unpopular before. He has written many famous songs with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Overall he is just the best rock guitarist of all time.

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