I really enjoyed this week learning about how all the types of music that we had been discussing, The Blues, Country Music, etc, build upon each other and have their roots from certain parts of each other.   I also really enjoyed coming up with our own blues lyrics.  It definitely made me think about the pattern and how I could rhyme words together to fit that pattern.  My blues lyric that I came up with was,

“8am class on Monday, 9:30’s just as bad. No sleeping in in the morning, makes me very very sad.”

This fits the AAB form that Blues tends to follow.  It also fits with the rhyming requirement and it does talk about the “misfortunes” in my life.

I really do enjoy blues music and learning a little bit more background on it was very interesting to me.  The first bit of “blues” music that I remember listening to would be Soul Man by The Blues Brothers.  I just remember my day blasting this music and definitely jamming out a little bit too hard.  I feel the fact that him liking that song so much is what peaked my interest in the song and genre, because I obviously wanted to be exactly like him.  My favorite lyrics from that song would have to be,

Listen
I was brought up on a side street
I learned how to love before I could eat
I was educated from good stock
When I start lovin’ I just can’t stop

I really just like those lyrics and I always have.

Speaking of my dad, I tend to get most of my taste in music from him because he was also jamming out to something new while cooking dinner or working on his cars.  I really like anything from like Billy Joel to ACDC to more modern stuff like Panic! at the Disco and Fall out Boy.  Some of my favorite Billy Joel songs would have to be, New York State of Mind, The Longest Time, and the very cliche Piano Man.  I can rock out to any ACDC song that you could put on and as for Panic! at the Disco adn Fall out Boy I like a wide variety of there music.  It depends on my mood at the time really for which album I’ll put on.  I’ve been liking more of there recent stuff as of late.

Something that I really enjoy listening to on repeat is Musicals.  My two favorite would The Producers and Something Rotten.  I saw Something Rotten on Broadway last April and that experience completely changed the way I view musicals and my love for them grew even greater.  My dad was actually the one that introduced me to musical theater and that is one of the many things musically that we are able to bond over and share.

Well there is just a little background information on my music tastes and on me I guess.  I really do enjoy what we are learning about in class and find it quite interesting.