Do the Jonas Brothers play their instruments live?
(This isn't a hate or love thread and I hope it doesn't become one, but I'm sure it will. This is just a curiosity question. I am indifferent about the Jonas Brothers.) Anyways, my question is: Do the Jonas Brothers play their instruments during live performances? I just saw them perform live on Regis and Kelly and 2 of the brothers were holding/playing electric guitars which didn't appear to be plugged into anything. Additionally, behind them were 2 guitar players, a drummer, and someone playing keyboard. What's the deal?
Why can't I sing while I play an instrument?
i've been playing and singing for over 20 years and if you can find a good answer to this question let me know. I'm convinced it's a matter of some have it and the rest of us don't. i have adapted my playing style to a call and response type where i sing the melody line and do sweet fills between lines and then do my thing on lead, but to play and sing at the same time, other than basic chords underneath, is damn near impossible. the only time i can make it work is when there is lead under the vocal which closely follows the vocal line. good thing for me i have a good rythm guitarist who only wants to be a rythm player. i'd be willing to bet alot of these guys you see "singing and playing at the same time" aren't really playing that much, just looking like they are....alot of times i'll hold a chord form and scratch the pick across muted strings to give the audience the illusion that i'm playing and singing when i'm not. bet that's happening when you watch alot of these people sing and play.....i know quite a few other guitarists who do this as well....it's rare the peson who can sing one line and play a different line or chord progression under it......it's almost like thinking about something while you carry on a conversation with someone about something completely different....it's just to much of a disconnect between brain and fingers and mouth......the big problem is with recording and making a recording that i can actually perfom on stage....lol...sometimes the lines i pplay recorded i can't reproduce live because i can't play under the vocal line the way i recorded it....I practice several hours a day, and practice hasn't seemed to help with this one bit
What are the instruments commonly used in hip hop music?
Originally, rap music was produced with drums, synth, guitars for bass & lead as many other disco tunes, using more synthetic sounds as it progressed into its own genre in the eighties. When Def Jam began to rise you generally hear a nearly all-drum machine & sampled sound that was very simple in composition meant to drive lyrics. This sound was produced by drum computers such as the TR-808 which consequently, the sounds are used religiously today This was culminated when samplers became more sophisticated and old breaks Djs used to spin for MCs simply were sampled. The sampling became very much the standard after the mid-80s and most of the massive super-famous producers of the 90s began using this technique. One of the main tools of this era was the MPC by Akai, or the ASR 10. Folks like Pete Rock, Dr Dre, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Dj Premier, J Dilla & Madlib with their heavily layered collage of sound pushed the boundaries and as technology improved, methods changed. During the Jiggy Era, the Virginia sound, live band Hip Hop as well as the Dirty South use of live & synth instruments and the freedom from the royalties paid for using samples exploded with producers like NERD, Timbaland, Master P taking the forefront with syncopation, synth-driven tracks and sample elements not always being the prime driving rhythm of tracks. Since then, Rap Music has been a mix of electronic, sampled & live produced music generally created first by electronic means. A producer sits down at their digital audio workstation or DAW, from literally millions of potential sounds they will create the vast bulk of the composition with a midi controller if not the entirety, with a mix of samples and live-played synth sounds. If they play live instruments, they will be added into the mix or the producer will bring in other artists to add to the composition. So literally any instrument can be used to create Rap Music, yet radio hits can usually be broken down into the instrumental sounds of a TR 808 drum machine, Motif & Juno pads & synths with various effects from a daw or an internal effects processor of the workstation.
Do the Jonas Brothers play their own instruments?
I watched them on Jay Leno The only guitar playing that the one kid did was three or four G power chords while pretending to play the complex stuff, but I saw the real guitarist in the back in a few of the shots. They play, but nothing that would be considered impressive by any means.
What's the hardest instrument to learn? Guitar, Drums or Keyboard?
I think drums is definitely easiest though I don't play it myself. Guitar to me is harder in the long run but at the very, very beginning, you may pick it up faster. I first played the keyboard and then started guitar recently. I think the initial curve is faster with a guitar than with a keyboard (you'll be stuck with very basic tunes for quite some time with the keyboard but knowing even just a few chords, you can play many songs very quickly on guitar). But, personally, I find guitar harder in the long run. My fingers are small and inflexible and I wonder if I'll ever be able to some of the things just intermediate players do. Every on in my guitar class that played piano first agreed with me, guitar is harder in general.