Quick Update: The page will be quiet(er) until May but then comes the Boom!

Hey everyone, Sulli here with a quick update!

As you may be aware, the end of the school year is nearly here and in college that means one thing: Exams. Starting tomorrow and going until the beginning of May, I'll be taking exams and will be focused on them instead of the site. I know, there will be someone trolling me but I need to finish this semester off strong. However, I will use this to take a small break and find more people for the Song of the Week Series so if you are interested in having a song shown on here then feel free to send it to us either via Email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or as a comment on here. Also, I've been trying to integrate the feedback about the episodes on YouTube and I'm going to post them whenever I come back. Lester has informed me that he is going through the same thing as well, so the series he started (and started off really well, in my opinion) will continue in the next week or two.

The reason I posted "... quiet(er)..." is I've been working on a few reviews for such an occasion, which I'm hopefully going to post in the near future so there is something on the page. So, keep an eye out for them!

Along with what I've said before, I've been working with some people on redesigning the blog into something a little more "different". There may be some changes with the ascetics, but I'm waiting on a few things before I know for sure what will happen. One thing I do know is if it doesn't happen within the next few weeks, it will happen over the summer.

Finally, I'm announcing the contest will start after I finish my exams. We hit 5,000 views a few weeks back but something came up when I was going to announce the contest so I'm pushing it back. For those who are keeping toll out there, we're at 6,350 views (5,085 from the US). Thanks for the support guys! I'll have all the details for the contest soon enough!

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Sulli's Song of the Week #6: "Rocky Top Tennessee" performed by The Hinson Girls

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Hey guys, sorry for the delay on this one, but I'm back with another episode on the Song of the Week Series! This time I have The Hinson Girls and their edition of "Rocky Top Tennessee". The Hinson Girls are from Van Wyck, SC. Kristin plays the Guitar and Fiddle, Melissa plays Bass and Guitar, Katelyn plays Mandolin and Guitar, and Allison plays Banjo, Guitar and Dobro. They started out playing from their father playing guitar. They then started learning guitar from him to spend quality time with their father and their family. The reason they learned this song is because their grandmother's favorite song. "It was our granny's favorite song, and when we first started playing together as a band, she was always asking for us to learn to play Rocky Top Mountain.".

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Episode 1: What is Music? (based off the original episode "Musical Alphabet and Note Values")

Hey everyone, Sulli here with the "main series" 2.0! The video above is the new version of the old video. It goes into a little bit better detail of what music is, and starts us off where the original episode is. In case you want to see where we started from, this is the original episode from the series:

http://sulliadm.blogspot.com/2012/03/episode-1-musical-alphabet-and-note.html

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YouTube Ad Campaign: Intro and Revisiting the blog series

Hey everyone! Sulli here with a quick announcement! I've created an intro/ad for the blog! We're getting to the point of needing this so let us know what you think of the ad! Also, I'm revisiting the old episodes of the blog and working out a new video series for them. First episode will be posted on here and I'll try to post the announcements on here as I get them uploaded. I felt really bad about the stats nearly at 5K and then stopping the reason you all subscribed so I'm doing that before I start continuing with the series. So, there isn't going to be anything new for a little while but when there is, it will be better than before!

So here's the Intro:




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Sulli's Song of the Week #5: "Fallout" by Joel Rivera

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Hello everyone, Sulli here with this week's Song of the Week. Today we have Joel Rivera and his song "Fallout". Joel is from Mechanicville, NY, and plays guitar and keyboard. He started out playing trombone because he wanted to play in band and his middle school needed a trombone player. The idea for the song came from when he was messing around one day with his keyboard. "I was fooling around with another idea tried it against those chords and it fit perfectly. Then I just expanded on it from there adding the different sound elements."

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The World Music Experiment: Introduction

Hello to all of you out there to all of you who subscribe to this blog. Allow me to more formally introduce myself. My name is Lester St. Louis, I also for other creative purposes go by the pseudonym Distonal. I am a 19 year old multi - instrumentalist, (primarily cellist and bassist), and composer based in New York city. I like to believe that I have accumulated a considerable amount of knowledge on various styles, forms, types of music, and sound art from the world. With said information I hope to help you all become better acquainted with world music and other topics in music ranging from style and form, to history, theory and everything in between. For this to be thoroughly interesting, I will need a lot of user feedback letting me know if they want more or if something is hard to follow and so on. You can do so via the Facebook page, or leave a comment on the articles. Now that we are all better acquainted lets start off lightly. I believe that we shall start with the music of Latin America. Latin American music is music that originates from the regions of Central America to South America (Mexico downward connected land). Latin America has had a very substantial amount of genres and styles to come out; such as the Samba, Forro, and Bossa Novas of Brasil, The tango, and Chacarera's of Argentina, as well as the Salsa, Merengue, Bolero, raggaeton, and many other forms from these regions. In the coming time we will cover all the different forms of Latin American music as well as enjoying a lot of it along the way. Don't worry we will also cover every other region of the world and their native music styling, as well as their contemporary scenes. I hope this doesn't sound too over ambitious, but we have all the time in the world. I will (try my very best) to post a new volume every Wednesday here, so look out for it. In the mean time enjoy one of my favorite tunes from Brasil. This is a Bossa Nova by Joao Gilberto called ''O sapo''. The language is Portuguese for all of you wondering.
 Side note- Joao Gilberto played a seminal part in establishing the form known as Bossa Nova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2ZJDbFGmQ