vocalman2004 odds & ends

  In this trip down memory lane, brought to you by cdza, Mark Sidney Johnson charges through the history of the guitar solo using 28 songs from over the past five decades. Watch to see how differently the instrument has been incorporated into rock music through years, and cover up the left side of the […]

A short animation, with appropriately rousing musical accompaniment, which manages to condense Wagner’s magnificent 15-hour epic, Ring Cycle – complete with gods, heroes, dragons, a castle in the sky, love triangles, magic swords and Valkyries – into a succinct, coffee-break friendly two and a half minutes. Get it? Got it? Good! Original Story – Guardian

Moving in time to a steady beat is closely linked to better language skills, a study suggests. People who performed better on rhythmic tests also showed enhanced neural responses to speech sounds. The researchers suggest that practising music could improve other skills, particularly speech. In the Journal of Neuroscience, the authors argue that rhythm is […]