Rock Band is a 2007 music video game developed by Harmonix and distributed by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. The game is available for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Wii game consoles. Rock Band is based on Harmonix's previous success with the Guitar Hero series of video games in which players used a guitar-shaped controller to simulate playing rock music. Rock Band expands on the concept by adding a drum and microphone peripheral, allowing up to four players to participate in the game, playing lead and bass guitar, drums, and vocals. The gameplay in Rock Band is comparable to that in Guitar Hero along with elements from Harmonix' Karaoke Revolution.
Rock Band for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 and 3 shipped with 58 songs on disk, while the Wii version, released at a later date, contained 5 additional songs that were released as downloadable content for the game. The European version of the game also includes 9 additional songs that have since been released as downloadable content for other regions. The player can expand their music library on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions by purchasing new songs offered on a weekly basis through the consoles' respective store systems. A full list of downloadable songs is available. For the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of Rock Band, Harmonix has created Rock Band Track Packs that contain a selection of the downloadable content already offered.
With Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players can export a majority of songs from the Rock Band soundtrack to their console's storage device by purchasing a "transfer license".[1][2] Additionally, certain songs rated as "Family Friendly" by Harmonix are playable in Lego Rock Band. "Enter Sandman", "Monsoon", "Paranoid" and "Run to the Hills" cannot be exported to any other game in the series. The original recording of "Run to the Hills" was made available as a downloadable single and also in Iron Maiden Pack 01 on June 9, 2009.[3] While initially not exportable to Rock Band 3, "Black Hole Sun" and "Dani California" were made available via a patch released on November 8, 2011.[4] On the European version, "Hier Kommt Alex" & "Rock 'n' Roll Star" can be exported to Rock Band 2 but not Rock Band 3.[5] Exports of the Rock Band soundtrack (with the above exclusions) into Rock Band 4, for those that have already exported them into Rock Band 2 or 3, was enabled in January 2016.[6]
Players can play Rock Band alone through a Career mode for lead guitar, drums, and vocals, earning in-game money for their character to purchase new outfits and instruments. Each of the 45 songs[7][8] has a different difficulty ranking for each instrument part, as well as a total band difficulty. There are a total of nine difficulties, or tiers. In career mode each song in a tier must be successfully completed to move onto the next and unlock the songs in that tier. This tier system is also used for rating the difficulty of the song (the "Band" tier) and its separate instrumental parts for downloadable content even though the songs are not used to unlock new songs in career mode. Once songs are unlocked, they may be played in any mode, including Quickplay, and multiplayer (competitive and co-operative modes) off- or online. Each instrument part in each song can be played at one of four difficulty levels, which include Easy, Medium, Hard, and Expert.
A total of 13 bonus songs can also be unlocked through the game's Career mode.[8][9] The bonus setlist consists of bands formed by Harmonix employees as well as local bands from near Harmonix's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, or from Boston. The exceptions are Flyleaf, Crooked X, and Mother Hips. "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld" comes from the titular fictional band featured in the comedy show South Park.
The European version of Rock Band features nine additional songs not available on the North American disc. These bonus songs include English, German, and French vocals.[11] These songs were released as downloadable content in the North American market on May 20, 2008.[12]
Now, of course, there is more knowledge about the dangers of concert-goers having their ear-nerve endings destroyed, and Guinness subsequently ditched the category. They still recognize the loudest drummer in the world, however: in 2006, Col Hatchman recorded 137.2 decibels playing the drums during a gig in Australia. His record was around 50 decibels higher than the noise level that risks permanent hearing damage.
No band can possibly match the fictional group Douglas Adams created for his book The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe: Disaster Area are a band whose concerts can devastate entire planets. However, when Foo Fighters played Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2011 they did make the earth move. The effects of their bass frequencies, along with fans jumping up and down, meant that the ground was shaking three times per second in a rhythmic motion. The signal, similar to a volcanic tremor, registered 3Hz on the seismic meters at Herne Bay and Eden Park.
Perhaps there is something about Western Springs that brings out the desire to be excessively loud. AC/DC had long been one of the loudest bands on the planet and, when they played the Auckland venue in 2015, they ignited a row over noise pollution. The gig by the Australian musicians could be heard four miles away, across Waitematā Harbour in Birkenhead. The band were measured at 103 decibels and their music set off numerous car alarms outside the venue.
Whatever Happened to Slade you guys really have lost the plot to have left them off the list, I saw them many times and my ears would be ringing for weeks after a gig. How can you justifiably not have them in the top ten, they should certainly be at No1 in my view.
I have to disagree the loudest group was the Osmond Brothers. In fact they were louder the fend The Who. But the music industry has always disregarded them. When in fact the Osmond Brothers (Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay) sang and performed every type of music (rock, countryblues etc) but the industry always failed to acknowledge them.
I have to disagree the loudest group were the Osmond Brothers. In fact they were louder the fend The Who. But the music industry has always disregarded them. When in fact the Osmond Brothers (Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay) sang and performed every type of music (rock, countryblues etc) but the industry always failed to acknowledge them.
Blue Cheer, the first American band to use Marshall amps,has been seen as a pioneer of extreme loudness, being the first band ever listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as loudest band in the world, preceding Deep Purple.
The Grand Funk Railroad zijn Julie helemaal vergeten , bizar gewoon , ik heb al deze genoemde bands gezien , ook The Grand Funk Railroad in de Doelen te Rotterdam 1971 , de aller hardste band waren wel The Grand Funk Railroad toen der tijd ,waren ze nog om bekend daarom ook ,daar vallen Led Zepplin en Deep Purple nog in het niet kwa volumme
The Wildman, Motor City Madman Ted Nugent. Back in 1975 he played Summer Jam in Kansas City, MO Royals Stadium, Ted played so loud he put a big crack in the stadium wall. Royals Stadium never had another rock show as they were then banned.
A consensus has not yet been reached on exactly what music is and how it should be defined, but everyone generally agrees that it is a human expression composed of a purposeful arrangement of sounds and silences; therefore, sound is a fundamental and irreplaceable aspect of all music. Sound simply refers to any vibrations that are audible to living things. Breaking down the key properties of sound is critical to understanding how it is manipulated to create music. We craft sound into music using a wide variety of vocal patterns and instruments.
One of the major characteristics that make one voice or instrument distinct from another is timbre. Timbre refers to the tone color of a sound or note without respect to its pitch, volume, or intensity. If you have ever played around with the various virtual instruments built into an electronic keyboard, you probably noticed that a particular note or chord on the grand piano setting sounds quite different than it does on the church organ setting or the synthesizer. You may have even noticed that the grand piano function on your keyboard sounds different than an actual grand piano. Factors that influence timbral differences include the material qualities of the instrument (wood, metal, plastic, thick, thin, large, small, etc.), vocal cord shape and age, attack and articulation (use of a guitar pick versus fingers, use of drumsticks versus brushes), and sustained pitch (notes that are sustained, shortened, have vibrato or decay gradually).
In musical notation, phrases and rhythms are divided into smaller units known as measures. The number of beats within a measure determines the meter. Accordingly, a grouping of 2 beats is a duple meter, 3 is a triple meter, 4 is a quadruple meter, and so on. In the fraction-like figure we see at the beginning of a piece of music, known as the time signature, the beat grouping represents the numerator and tells us the number of note values needed to complete a measure. The denominator indicates what that note value is (whole note, quarter note, half note, etc.).
Rhythm is a lot like language. It helps us arrange sounds and pauses into structures that we can understand and digest, especially when notated. The better you can distinguish rhythms from beats and identify rhythmic feel through meter, the better your grasp will be of musical flow and structure.
The special unit of measure for tempo is beats per minute, or BPM. The higher the number of BPM, the faster the song is going to be. Tempo can also change from part to part within a musical composition to emphasize different feelings or moods. When those changes are gradual, they may be notated by the Italian terms Ritardando (a gradual slow down) or Accelerando (a gradual increase in speed).
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