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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Monday, April 22, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sulli's Song of the Week #6: "Rocky Top Tennessee" performed by The Hinson Girls
http://www.youtube.com/user/huskydigital
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.".
If you would like to be featured on this segment then let us know! Message us a clip of you playing something original or a cover at YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or in the comments below! Thanks for reading!
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Episode 1: What is Music? (based off the original episode "Musical Alphabet and Note Values")
http://sulliadm.blogspot.com/2012/03/episode-1-musical-alphabet-and-note.html
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Monday, April 8, 2013
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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So here's the Intro:
As always, don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments below, share us (please?!?) and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. And don't forget to stay tuned for more thrilling adventures of... The Adam Sullivan Music Theory Blog! (*applause!*)
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
Sulli's Song of the Week #5: "Fallout" by Joel Rivera
https://soundcloud.com/solidsound98
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."
If you would like to be featured on this segment then let us know! Message us a clip of you playing something original or a cover at YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or in the comments below! Thanks for reading!
Thursday, April 4, 2013
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
Side note- Joao Gilberto played a seminal part in establishing the form known as Bossa Nova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C2ZJDbFGmQ
Saturday, March 30, 2013
A Series of Announcements! If you are subscribed, please read!
Hey guys, I'm here with an few announcements for you guys.
First off let's start by saying thank you guys! We've finally hit the 4,000 viewer mark! It's been a few days, and now we're closing in on the 5,000 viewer mark. Also, this is the first time the blog has had 1,000 views in a month! I am going to upload a video that the people on the Facebook page requested. For those who have been following me on Facebook or Twitter you also know of an upcoming contest. This is the official announcement of the 5,000 page viewer contest along with a few other things so keep reading!
The second announcement is I am adding a new author to the blog. Introducing Lester (also known as Distonal), a music education major at Long Island Univ. and a man who I've known for a long time. He will be the main author to the World Music Experiment, and will contribute a lot more to world music than I ever think of. He will also be sitting in on other topics that I will be talking about. I am also working on some cross overs in the near future as well from some other YouTube musicians, so stay tuned! I'm also taking in offers for the "song of the week" series. If you want to have something you've made posted on here, then submit it via the Facebook page, Twitter, or leave me a comment below with your name and the URL. I will consider anything you show me as long as it is music!
The next thing on my agenda of announcements is the fact that I've messed up rather badly. I read over some of the practice episodes and the theory lessons (before the suddenly vanished) and I know of the lack of quality versus the way they started out as. I would rather put a series on hold than give you wrong or very hard to understand topics so I am giving both of those series a temporary halt. Once I get through my end of the year stuff, I will start the series back up and clarify anything that you have to know. If you want me to answer a question before then, then send me a message to either Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/sulliadm) or Twitter(http://www.twitter.com/sulliadm).
As usual, don't forget to subscribe to Facebook or Twitter if you prefer! Between the admins (Yuki, Kyte and soon to be Lester) and myself, we try to keep fresh material on there daily. Also, if you have ever had something you want to ask Lester, to the other admins or to me directly, then I will be taking questions for an admin interview once the Facebook Page hits 100 likes! We are almost at 60, so if you want this to speed up then click the link above! And another note on communication; don't be afraid to comment on the articles themselves. I don't know a lot about your past when it comes to bloggers but I love interacting with the community I'm working hard to establish. If you want to say something, as long as it isn't offensive or spam I don't mind it. I love feedback, because it helps me get an idea on where my audience is and if something isn't to your liking, I want to improve on it. That's why it took so long to catch the problems with the episodes, I didn't know about it until one of my professors start pointing stuff out to me.
And finally, the moment you've been waiting for... the contest! I am offering a package consisting of a poster out of any 1 of the 3 pictures I've created in Photoshop and a black/red para cord bracelet to one lucky viewer. The bracelet was graciously donated by a fan, and is considering making them to sell as a way to show support for the blog. That leads me to a discussion for you guys later on, but for now it's just a thought for everyone to think about. The poster will be around a medium sized poster; I'm thinking about a 16in X 12in... but I'm not 100% sure on the dimensions yet. If you want the poster autographed, I will happily do so but if not then I understand. I will cover shipping in the US and possibly international shipping. I may need a little help shipping them internationally, but I will let you know what I've worked out once I completely announce it and get the bugs worked out. I will let you know what the contest rules are once we hit the 5,000 viewer mark so keep sharing if you want it to happen sooner. The reason I'm telling you guys now is so you get ready for this instead of just dropping it out of nowhere! Here is what is for the give-a-way:
First off let's start by saying thank you guys! We've finally hit the 4,000 viewer mark! It's been a few days, and now we're closing in on the 5,000 viewer mark. Also, this is the first time the blog has had 1,000 views in a month! I am going to upload a video that the people on the Facebook page requested. For those who have been following me on Facebook or Twitter you also know of an upcoming contest. This is the official announcement of the 5,000 page viewer contest along with a few other things so keep reading!
The second announcement is I am adding a new author to the blog. Introducing Lester (also known as Distonal), a music education major at Long Island Univ. and a man who I've known for a long time. He will be the main author to the World Music Experiment, and will contribute a lot more to world music than I ever think of. He will also be sitting in on other topics that I will be talking about. I am also working on some cross overs in the near future as well from some other YouTube musicians, so stay tuned! I'm also taking in offers for the "song of the week" series. If you want to have something you've made posted on here, then submit it via the Facebook page, Twitter, or leave me a comment below with your name and the URL. I will consider anything you show me as long as it is music!
The next thing on my agenda of announcements is the fact that I've messed up rather badly. I read over some of the practice episodes and the theory lessons (before the suddenly vanished) and I know of the lack of quality versus the way they started out as. I would rather put a series on hold than give you wrong or very hard to understand topics so I am giving both of those series a temporary halt. Once I get through my end of the year stuff, I will start the series back up and clarify anything that you have to know. If you want me to answer a question before then, then send me a message to either Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/sulliadm) or Twitter(http://www.twitter.com/sulliadm).
As usual, don't forget to subscribe to Facebook or Twitter if you prefer! Between the admins (Yuki, Kyte and soon to be Lester) and myself, we try to keep fresh material on there daily. Also, if you have ever had something you want to ask Lester, to the other admins or to me directly, then I will be taking questions for an admin interview once the Facebook Page hits 100 likes! We are almost at 60, so if you want this to speed up then click the link above! And another note on communication; don't be afraid to comment on the articles themselves. I don't know a lot about your past when it comes to bloggers but I love interacting with the community I'm working hard to establish. If you want to say something, as long as it isn't offensive or spam I don't mind it. I love feedback, because it helps me get an idea on where my audience is and if something isn't to your liking, I want to improve on it. That's why it took so long to catch the problems with the episodes, I didn't know about it until one of my professors start pointing stuff out to me.
And finally, the moment you've been waiting for... the contest! I am offering a package consisting of a poster out of any 1 of the 3 pictures I've created in Photoshop and a black/red para cord bracelet to one lucky viewer. The bracelet was graciously donated by a fan, and is considering making them to sell as a way to show support for the blog. That leads me to a discussion for you guys later on, but for now it's just a thought for everyone to think about. The poster will be around a medium sized poster; I'm thinking about a 16in X 12in... but I'm not 100% sure on the dimensions yet. If you want the poster autographed, I will happily do so but if not then I understand. I will cover shipping in the US and possibly international shipping. I may need a little help shipping them internationally, but I will let you know what I've worked out once I completely announce it and get the bugs worked out. I will let you know what the contest rules are once we hit the 5,000 viewer mark so keep sharing if you want it to happen sooner. The reason I'm telling you guys now is so you get ready for this instead of just dropping it out of nowhere! Here is what is for the give-a-way:
Picture 1:
Picture 2:
Picture 3:
Bracelet:
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