MUSC 200 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture II Finishing up crossovers III 1st Generation of Rock and Roll a Influences b Common musical elements IV Some African American Rock and Roll Stars a Fats Domino b Little Richard c Chuck Barry Outline of Current Lecture V Chuck Barry listening VI Bill Haley and His Comets VII Elvis Presley Current Lecture Listening Johnny B Goode by Chuck Barry 12 bar blues with verse chorus form layered on top Primarily R B influences with teenage influenced lyrics Backbeats bass walking lines boogie woogie right hand meandering lines boogie woogie bass on electric guitar Guitar playing combined existing techniques to make new techniques o Double Stops every note in melody is harmonized on an adjacent string o Intro of this song Double Note Voicing play 1 note on 1 string then play a note a half step or whole note above or below on an adjacent string Bend lower note up to the first note Creates a harmonic clash and distortion Grating effect hit a sharped note for a moment while bending These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Distorted quality of electric guitars was originally thought to be a failure of electric guitars because they were originally supposed to sound like louder acoustic guitars Syncopation rhythmic surprise o Accented notes between beats usually in the form of dynamic emphasis o Double note voicing gives syncopation and harmonic distortion o Patterns of long and short notes give syncopation Bill Haley and His Comets Born in 1925 in Pennsylvania in a working class family Began his career in western swing Original band name Bill Hardy and the Saddlemen o Changed name in the 50s to Bill Hardy and His Comets to give a more modern image Combined R B with country 1954 covered Joe Turner s Shake Rattle and Roll 1955 1st white rock and roll artist with Rock Around the Clock 1956 Elvis Presley s breakout year crushing Bill Haley s career o Haley couldn t capture the excitement and spirit of rock and roll he was too mild mannered and old Listening Rock Around the Clock 1 on pop charts and stayed there for 8 weeks This song got lots of exposure due to it being at the beginning of a movie about juvenile delinquents o Song was thought to represent the music of youth gone wild but also not really because it was written by two TPA songwriters who tried to write for teenagers but wrote as though they were children and not young adults Nursery rhyme like lyrics Country influences strict triplet feel in the high hat cymbal no noisy wash like in other rock and roll songs No loud backbeats only backbeats on every other 4 th beat Guitar solo combines ideas from jazz and TPA Brass and guitar function like a paired down Big Band Elvis Presley Huge cultural impact on sexuality gender and race relations Born in 1935 in Mississippi in a working class family Shy until his high school years Much more familiar with black music than wealthy whites Moved to Memphis in 1948 He was an icon persona and had a personal style o Particular gestures sneer lip curl o His manager Colonel Tom Parker not an actual colonel crafted Elvis s image o Early years jeans and a leather jacket the working man look Later years the fancy costumes like the white jumpsuit with fringe Lots of TV and radio appearances always touring Racial Transgression Elvis was the first white artist who popularized styles started by black artists o Combined elements of R B and country o Broke racial boundaries o Overshadowed Chuck Barry and Little Richard Cool was a much more distinctive word in the 50s o Elvis was cool had to do with expressed sexuality and the image of being a rebel Elvis wasn t a political rebel he was a rebel in the sense of personal individualism Sexuality was a piece of that rebellion