A Personal Guide to Music on the Web

By Albert & Harrison

#1 Introduction

Albert I enjoy listening to all

kinds of music, but I usually like listen to silent, smooth music. That is ‘The New Age Music' called by people, and I like the music played by piano. I think that the reason why I like this kind of music is influenced by my child life.

I started to go to the piano academic after I heard that if I go to the piano academic, I'll receive some gift on my birthday, when I was a 8 years old. The Classical music turned on the radio by teacher for 6 years affects me to like  that kinds of music. So even now there are a lot of songs such as 'new age music' in my MP3 player. In addition to I like to sing a song, too. I feel songs by heart through the words of the song and the melody when I sing a song, and sometimes stresses are healed by shouting. So I sang a song with my friends on the stage at my high school festival.

Ultimately, music is part of my life.

Harrison When I was ten years old, I was impressed by Korean Classic gu

itarist Lee Byung Woo's Guitar play. So I played the Classic guitar. And I also played the piano like any other Korean kids did. It help for my Musical development.

In 1999, around the Sunset, I saw MTV with playing the classic guitar. Boring dance music ended, suddenly AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' live concert was turned on. AC/DC music ended, Aero Smith's music video was turned on. I was shocked, I discovered new guitar world. I immediately 'throw my classic guitar', withdrew my save money. I went to guitar shop and bought electric guitar. It was Gibson SG copy model played by AC/DC's guitarist Angus Young. But my father was very angry because Korean father dislike his son play the electric guitar. But I didn't stop playing the guitar. Few month later, I saw Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock festival by video tape. This music penetrated my music life, also my whole life. It whispered to me, 'You were made for play the electric guitar.'. So I still play the guitar.

I performed more than 50 concerts, and I’ve been performing with professional musicians. Even though I entered the business school, I still have musician's passion in my heart. I am eager for the pray people can listen to my guitar sound all the radio and TV.

I have seven guitars. One Classic guitar, two polk guitars, and four electric guitars. My favorite guitar is Fender Strato Caster. It different from other Strato Caster. Because it is custom shop guitar, it made by Jhon Cage. He made Eric Clapton's guitars and Jeff Beck's guitars. This guitar make very clean and loud sound, so it can plays the Jimi Hendrix's song very well. My guitar's nickname is 'FOXY', it was inspired by Jimi Hendrix's song named 'Foxy Lady'.

Now I play the guitar with my band the Metaphor Dust. My band plays Blues/Jazz music. I play the guitar and piano in this band. Come to my concert with your friends!

#2 Favorite Group’s/composers

• Harrison• The Pink Floyd• Jimi Hendrix

• Albert• Yuhki Kuramoto• Lim Hyung Joo

the Pink Floyd

Members - David Gilmour on electric guitar, Roger Waters on base guitar, Nick Maison on drum, and Rick Wright on keyboard.

In 1965, crazy musician Syd Barett made the Pink Floyd. But he was addicted by drug, he went out the band. His following member was David Gilmour. They made very impressive music. In 1973, they released a record 'Dark Side of the Moon', it smashed all the world. It recorded Billboard chart 741 weeks. it is my favorite record. It contain the Symbolism and Metaphor about lunarcy, unconsciousness and the truth. And this album also contain perfect Blues/Psychedelic Rock style plays. I have many metaphors with this record. I love it. In 1978, they released a record 'the Wall'. It also smashed all the world, but from this moment the Pink Floyd had been collapsed. Roger Waters fired keyboardist Rick Wright. In 1983, band was disbanded. The band was divided two band. One is Roger Waters' Pink Floyd, the other is original Pink Floyd. Two bands still play their music.

Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix was born in Washington, 1942. He is the most rev

olutionary guitarist in the world. Since 1958, he played the electric guitar. He discharged from military service when he was 20 years old. He performed many Rhythm&Blues bands. He made his band 'Jimi Hendrix Experience'. He released first record 'Are you experienced?' in 1966. It smashed all the guitarist, and he suddenly got a great reputation. It was really impressive music. This album contain many great song. the Purple Haze's guitar sound like thunder. It is perfect psychedelic song. I played this song more than a thousand times, and I listen to this song more than ten thousands times. Most of Blues/Rock guitarist adored him. After that moment, he released two records 'Axis:Bold as love', 'Electric lady land'. He had great many pans. All his music contains psychedelic, blues, hard rock, and revolution. He made a real rock guitar. Finally he performed the Wood Stock festival. He had all the musical reputation. But he died by drug addiction, in 1970. He was just 27 years old. Many rock musicians missed his death. So many musicians tributed his records. My own goal is to play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix. Someday I must make tribute record for him.

Yuki Kuramoto Of course the best person who inform 'New Age Music' to the world is 'George Winston', but 'Yuhki Kuramoto' has influenced too. Also, we feel familiarity because he is a Japanese and he has been performing concert a 2 year. We can hear Yuhki's music everywhere, in TV, movie, road and so

on. So there are a lot of music we heard a lot whenever we listen to his music. ‘The New Age Music' yuhki performing is the middle music between 'The Classical Music' and 'The Rock Music'. So it has a natural voice. His music has a power make our heart smooth. The song I like most is 'Meditation'. Although I like all about his, especially I love it. whenever I listening to it I feel my heart being calm and it looks like that I'm meditating. All is very good.

Lim Hyung Joo Lim Hyung Joo do 'The Popera'.

In fact, It's little bit strange. The word 'Popera'means 'pop‘ plus 'opera', that is get out of the stiffness of t

he opera and sing like a 'pop'. Then it can make natural and special music. Lim Hyung Joo is one of the best popera musician around the world. Though still he is young, he is recognized his musicality. He performed his music at Carnegie Hall in New York, 2003. He is the first youngest man vocalist who performed in Carnegie Hal. Also, he sang a national anthem at an inaugural ceremony of president 'Loo Mu Hyun' in 2003. It's his voice that i like most. He has the best natural and pure voice that i've never heard. 'Fly me to the moon' is my favorite song. It becomes his voice well and delightful melody make my crazy. I want to recommend his album as many as possible.

links• Jimi Hendrix

http://www.jimihendrix.com/

http://www.jimi.pe.kr/

http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/hanwooln/1464936.html

• Pink Floyd

http://www.pinkfloyd.com/

http://www.freekid.pe.kr/

http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/

• Yuhki Kuramoto

http://www.yukikuramoto.co.kr/

http://blog.naver.com/doolyking?Redirect=Log&logNo=60005831243

http://sound.jp/lake-louise/kuramoto-e.htm

• Lim Hyung Joo

http://www.hyungjoo.com/

http://cafe.daum.net/salleygarden/

http://www.hyungjoo-jp.com/news.html

#3 Sites•Purchase music

• http://www.KoolCD.com This shopping mall is a foreign web site, but we can read

the Korean letters where we log in. We log in this web site in Korea, we can read the Korean letters. This site's merit is that we can purchase records lightly. Because we can purchase records as proxy. this site's price is little high, but process is so simple.

I usually bought the record, because this site have a lot of rare records.

• http://www.netsoundsmusic.com This shopping mall have the simplest process of purchase.

This site also have very old records, and a lot of single records. But there are many sellers, they present different price. So we purchase carefully. And we need to write the customer's review.

•Download music

• soulseek http://forums.slsknet.org/BB2 This web site is very professional music download site. We can downl

oad 'SoulSeek', and we use this program for download music. All this world's music mania log in this program, so we can meet the many kind of the music. I made Spanish and English friends with this program. I can't speak foreign languages well, but our communication is notwords, just music.

how to use this program is similar to Soribada or Nepster, so we can use this program simply.

#4 Music from different cultures

Brazil Samba

India Music

France Music - chanson

• Brazil Samba This music is performed in Brazil. We can imagine soccer a

nd samba if somebody say "Brazil". Samba is very fascinating music as we thinking. A dance with samba also makes us happy. Samba is not a melody but a kinds of rhythm. 'Bossa Nova' is mixed with Samba and American Jazz. It has beautiful melody and classical beauty. A piano performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim is enough to blow new beauty to Jazz and many Jazz performers were interested in this fusion music. This kind of music has exciting beat, so we can have exciting feeling. But sometimes this kind of music also has melancholy feeling. Because of its passion Bossa Nova and Samba become my one of the favorite musics.

http://www.brazilianmusic.comhttp://blog.naver.com/xman1999?Redirect=Log&logNo=400

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• India music Indian Sitar player Ravi Shankar taught George Harrison, the

guitarist of 'beatles'. So a guitar performance of Harrison has indian's feeling. John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra made India music's improvisation, and special rhythm on top of the music. India music offer me great inspiration, because this kind of music has novelty. Standard major scale, boring blue note pentatonic scale, and swing rhythm can't be used in this music. Real India Music is so hard to find, but we can meet india music with fusion jazz.

http://www.indiamusic.co.kr/http://blog.naver.com/livehere?Redirect=Log&logNo=233229

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• France Music – chanson

Frankly speaking, I've never heard about chanson until I conduct this assignment. Then I selected chanson because it has different melody so I have special feeling. Sometimes we can see 'chanson' in TV or advertisement. So it's not unfamiliar to us.

The words of a song is very important in chanson. So I think that if we learn a 'French',

we will understand about it a lot.

http://www.hoasm.org/IVI/IVIFrenchChanson.html

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