Guitar MPEGS

Watch the music videos.  Describe what happens.  Get up to 10 extra credit points

 You need a set of headphones.  Pick up the CD from the librarian and view it on one of the computers.  Open up the CD with file manager and double click on a file to play it.  You can use the slider bar to move to the time points listed below.  As you watch, try to pick out the sound each guitarist makes.

1.    Search Yahoo for the difference between a bass guitar and a regular guitar.  Describe the difference.  Attach notebook paper as needed.

2.    Watch the Rolling Stones play Under My Thunb (1981)  Watch the compression wave as the crowd rushes the stage in the opening shot. (0:36-0:48)

     A football field is 100 yards, plus the end zones.  Assume the speakers are at the end of one end zone. Cheapest seats are likely around 600 feet away.  Sound travels at 344 meters per second.  This is 1128 fps.  It will take 600 feet/1128 fps to reach stage.  A little over half a second.  Do you think this is a problem?

3.    Watch the Rolling Stones play Tumbling Dice at the Tokyo Dome (1995)  You can clearly see the dome at 0:52, coming up behind and over the stage

       What is the biggest problem with sound transmission that will occur in this venue (a dome)?   Circle one:      Refraction        Diffraction     Reflection    Absorption

       Keith Richards has a capo placed the neck of his guitar.  Look for it at time point 3:55, right above his left hand.  Does it change the length, tension or mass of the string?

4.    Watch Frank Zappa on Saturday Night Live play The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing (1978)

  One of the guitarists has a bottle slide. You can see it used at time point 1:40 & 2:28.   Which property (mass, length or tension) of the string does it change?

         What type of music often uses this device?  (Circle one)    Rock    Country    Disco    Rap     Waltz

5.    Watch Eric Clapton play White Room (1986) This demonstrates the technique of bending the strings with your fingers to increase the pitch to accentuate a note. (4:20)

6.    Watch David Bowie play Heroes (1992)  Describe the device the lead guitar player is using.  You can view it at time point 0:11-0:20.  What color is the bass guitar?

7.    Watch David Bowie play Jean Genie (1989)  Here we have two guitarists giving tremolo bars a workout.  (watch at 3:32 especially)

     Which property of the string does the tremolo bar change?    Length            Tension            Mass  

      Describe a couple of the things these guys do with the guitars.

8.    Watch David Bowie sing Scary Monsters. (1997)  Watch the guitarist bend the neck of the guitar.    (1:28-1:32 & 3:30)  (Tremolo bar at 2:23-2:26)

        Which property (mass, length or tension) of the string does bending the guitar change?  What does this guitar sound like?

9.    Watch the Grateful Dead play Johnny B. Goode.  (1989)  Watch the lead guitarist change the sound by changing the location he picks the strings at.  (1:48-2:13)