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Direct To Tale Mono Recording (1950-1963)
Early recordings from the were ba...,
Signals would be mixed live have ...,
Tape machines were commonly machi...
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Genres: Music For Film And Computer Games
First films were silent accompani...,
Film scores relied on orchestral ...,
Development of synths allowed sou...
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Genres: Acoustic And Folk
This style of artist came to prom...,
The biggest revolution came in th...,
Folk music in the 70s involved ot...
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Genres: Electronic And Dance
Electronic music s been experimen...,
It was when the use of the synth ...,
The first mainstream form of danc...
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Genres: Urban
Urban music evolved from soul and...,
The use of instrumental breaks le...,
Hip hop used of old records as th...
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Genres: Commercial Pop
Commercial pop has its roots in t...,
The development of the boy and gi...,
Super producers direct how a cert...
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Genres: Disco And Funk
Disco music and funk were evoluti...,
The early exponent of funk was wh...,
Disco became popular in the mid 7...
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Genres: Soul
Soul began in the 50s as an evolu...,
Musicians took skills learnt in c...,
The key labels in soul music were...
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Genres: Punk
Punk first evolved in the mid 70s...,
Malcolm mclaren was influenced by...,
Overtime the rawness of punk got ...
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Genres: Reggae
Reggae has its history rooted in ...,
In the early 50s musicians in jam...,
In reggae there s e phases on bea...
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Genres: Metal
Metal evolved from heavy rock in ...,
Elements include the virtuosic na...,
In the early 80s metal became pop...
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Genres: Rock
Rock includes prog rock heavy roc...,
Rock commonly uses distorted guit...,
Many bands had a background in bl...
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Genres: Rock 'n' Roll
Became popular in the early to mi...,
Early musicians included a combin...,
Began to break down some barriers...
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Genres: Blues
Blues began in america as an evol...,
Blues music includes the 12 bar b...,
Rock n roll continued using the p...
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Genres: Jazz
Began around 1900 in america with...,
Earliest forms share similarities...,
Common melody instruments include...
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Effects: Reverb
Early methods involved playing re...,
Plate reverbs developed in the 50...,
Spring reverb developed in the 30...
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Effects: Delay
Early forms of delay in the 40s a...,
Tape delay units could feature se...,
Delay was developed in the 70s an...
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Historical Context
Metal evolved from heavy rock as ...
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Consumer Technology Formats: Compressed Digital Formats
Since the late 1990s there s been...,
Some audio data in mp3 files lost...,
The bit rate of an mp3 file s the...
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Consumer Technology Formats: CD
First released as a commercial fo...,
Digital information s sampled and...,
Advantage was the quality of the ...
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Consumer Technology Formats: Vinyl
Vinyl records were a development ...,
Vinyl records work by a master di...,
The consumer places a needle into...
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Consumer Technology Formats: Cassette
Cassettes were developed as an fr...,
An analogue representation of the...,
Cassettes were popular in the 70s...
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Instruments: Clavinet
Invented in the mid 60s to allow ...,
Contains a number of strings pluc...,
Used in numerous genres including...
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Amplifiers
Two main types or tube and,
Valve amps have been around since...,
Guitarists would fit to their ins...
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Instruments: Electric Piano
A keyboard that can be amplified ...,
Worked by the keys striking a ser...,
Used in countless tracks since th...
3
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Instruments: Electric Organ
Closely associated with gospel so...,
Most common model is the but mode...,
Hammond organ s an electro mechan...
3
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Instruments: Theremin
An early electronic instrument in...,
Rediscovered by musicians in the ...
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Instruments: Mellotron
An early form of containing banks...,
Would play the tape for that note...,
Launched in the 60d and can be he...
3
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Instruments: Bass Guitar
The electric bass was developed a...,
Pickups were placed on double bas...,
Effects are commonly used in rock...
3
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Instruments: Electric Guitar
Developed from the onwards early ...,
In early 40s experimented with pu...,
In early 50s released several mod...
5
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Digitial Audio Workstations (DAW) And Emerging Technologies (1996-Present Day)
Early versions of daws in the mid...,
By the late most daws had incorpo...,
Daws began to replace studio soft...
5
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Digital Recording And Sequencing (1980-Present Day)
Rather than recording the audio s...,
Analogue to digital converters ar...,
Hard disk audio recorders develop...
8
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Early Multitrack Recording (1964-1969)
By the early 60s multitrack machi...,
Early machines could record three...,
With early recording there was a ...
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Large-Scale Analogue Multitrack (1968-1995)
From the late 60s larger tape mac...,
It allowed each drums to be recor...,
Parts that needed replacing after...
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