PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin were some of the first bands to perform the metal scream, but the origin of screaming in music actually goes back a lot further […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ What is music? From John Cage to Legendary Stardust Cowboy, avant-garde artists have forever been pushing on the edges of what is considered music. Composers like Arnold Schoenberg, Harry […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/soundfield Kacey Musgraves won the Album of the Year award at the 2019 GRAMMYs, becoming only the 4th country album to ever […]
Is learning music theory important? Music theory the way that musicians communicated with one another. However, it is often the one element of music that musicians are least excited to learn. In this video, I consider the idea of music as language as mentioned in Victor Wooten’s book ‘The Music […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ Today goth is a subculture popularized by movies like the Addams Family or the fashion of Billie Eillish, but where did this scene originate? Many agree that the sound […]
For beginners studying music theory, one of the first questions they ask is, what is a time signature? How do time signatures work and why are they important? What are simple and compound time signatures? What do the top and bottom numbers mean? If you’re new to music theory and […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ We broke down every song in the Billboard top five from the last two years and found some interesting trends. LA and Nahre try to write the next Billboard […]
🎫 Tickets for Justin Hawkins Rides Again tour in London & Liverpool: https://tinyurl.com/kneukve2 The Black Keys have released a new song called Beautiful People. I was a huge fan of some their earlier albums, I really loved them. Let’s have a listen to this and see what new direction they’re […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ We explore where the blues came from and how it went on to influence many modern genres of music. From Delta Blues pioneers like Robert Johnson and Son House […]
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSoundField ↓ More info below ↓ We visited the Mexican-American band La Santa Cecilia to learn how they mix latin genres with pop and rock. They told us about a Dominican style rhythm called Bachata […]
