What are some random music facts?

Question

Anything at all!

Answer 1

"Video killed the Radio Star" was recorded by The Buggles. I don't remember the second video on MTV, but the third was Rock 'n' Roll High School, by the Ramones. I was watching all three when MTV first started.

Kip Winger was the bass player for Alice Cooper back in the '80s, before he formed Winger.

The lead guitarist for the band Ratt, Jay Jay French, is now the manager of Sevendust.

Michael Balzary, or Flea, the bass guitar player for The Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a graduate of Juilliard school of Music, possibly the most influential music school in the world. Too bad he studied Trumpet there...

Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, also graduated from Juilliard. He studied saxophone.

The name of Lawrence Welk's 1930's band was the Hotsy Totsy Orchestra.

The guitarist that played for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" was Eddie Van Halen.

Answer 2

- An octave of a note vibrates with exactly twice the frequency.
- A piano is technically a string instrument (it uses little hammers on strings inside of it)
- The guitar originated in Spain
- A typical major chord might consist of the root note, a 3rd, 5th, and an octave.
- Most wind instruments play in the key of Bb.
- Rock and Roll is said to have originated from a mixture of Country and R&B (rythm and blues)
- The chords to "La Bamba" are C, F, and G.
- A Cello and a Viola have the same tuning, with an octave difference.
- p - piano(soft) f - forte(loud)
- EGBDF - names of the lines of the treble clef
- A simple drum beat usually uses the bass drum, hi-hat, and snare drum.
- An eighth note counts for half a beat.
- A kazoo requires you to hum in order to produce noise by vibrating a thin piece of paper.
- A variation of a xylophone that uses wood rather than metal is known as a marimba.
- In latin percussion, congas are big, bongos are small.
- Most banjos come with either 5 strings or 4 strings
- Flutes are held to the side, rather than in front of you like a clarinet.
- Gongs sometimes need to be warmed up a bit so they dont crack when they are hit.
- A "D Dorian" scale is the same as a C major scale, starting on the second note.

Hope that's enough random stuff for now.

Answer 3

Bread got their name when one of the members was stuck behind a bread truck in a traffic jam.

Jimi Hendrix was in the 101 Airborne Division in the Army.

Ice T was a Army Ranger for about 3 years. He left due to leadership problems.

Flaw (alternative band from Louisville) broken up years ago, even though that their website flaw.com states that they are still together to this day.

Flea (the drummer) from Red Hot Chili Peppers is also a very talented trumpet player

The song, 'F*** it, I don't want you back' is in the Guinness Book of World records for most explict words in a #1 single

Kurt Cobain's credit card was used 3 days after his death. The card was on him when he was found 4 days after his death.

Answer 4

Some people think that Kurt Cobain(the famous singer from Nirvana that shot himself in the head) had a serious heart disease and took drugs not to feel the pain anymore....

Answer 5

Music was invented by Michael Blinkley in 1745 so that he would have something to listen to instead of the sound of his wife yelling at him.

Answer 6

Roger Waters from Pink Floyd said he tried acid only once in his life, and it scared him so bad, he never did it again. Pretty strange for teh leader of a "psychedelic" band, eh?

Answer 7

Happy hardcore is between 165-180 bpm.

Answer 8

People now spend more time watching music videos on www.youtube.com than on MTV

Answer 9

when you sing an "A above Middle C" your vocal cords strike together 220 times per second.

Answer 10

"Video killed the radio star" was the first music video played on MTV