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My Dream goal

Posted: 02/11/09 23:40:07 | Member: (way-kung) | Tag: default

My dream goals I want to be a professional musician like A. Wannapha. I want to have a good job , a good instrument and good friends. That I must have a respondsibility and have to be on time. But I like to play drumset too . I have my idol , he is a very good in drumset . His name is A Kittisak Tantrarungroj. He graduate from college of music Mahidol University in Performance.Now he working in GMM music and have his own school name Extreme Drummer. He is very good teacher tha I wan to be like him.

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My ScHooL CollEgE oF MuSic ^^

Posted: 02/10/09 22:10:02 | Member: (way-kung) | Tag: default

The College of music was established with an aim to produce music students of high quality, with good taste and with a social conscience. Such aims are reflected in all components that make up the college; the curriculum, buildings, and activities organised by the college etc. From its establishment in 1995 to the present, the college has expanded, developed and progressed in all aspects, from teaching quality, number of students, buildings, social and international missions. The college retains huge potentials for future expansion. Realising that the grandeur of material constructions does not necessarily reflect their true merits, the college thus values the intellectual and emotional nourishment of its students and personnel towards their goals and enables them to become a pillar of the music society and the country. The progress of the College of Music is the proof of the development in quality of all involved parties. The future of the College of Music is therefore not about the future of a music college, but about the future of a musical utopia in a borderless world. Program Overview The College of Music, Mahidol University, offers courses starting at pre-college level and called the Young Artists Music Program, because we believe that practicing music should start at a young age and there is a need to provide a creative environment to nurture young talent which is not possible in mainstream education. At the undergraduate level, the college offers courses in seven fields of study: Music Performance, Thai Music and Oriental Music, Jazz, Music Technology, Music Industry, Pop Music, and Music Composition. In every field, students are required to enroll in fundamental subjects; music theory, music history and music technology. With over 1000 students College enables students to join and form many different types of musical bands and gain experiences from many kinds of activities or internships. At the masterâ€™s degree level, the college offers three fields of study: Musicology, Music Education, and Music Performance. In the future, College is expanding its Masterâ€™s degree curriculum by adding another six fields of studies: Music Pedagogy, Music Conducting, Music Composition, Jazz, Music Industry, Music for Health and Therapy. Students at the masterâ€™s degree level are given opportunity to study with experts of each field and with honorable guest lecturers. Many opportunities exist to participate in music activities and academic affairs both at the national and international levels. At the doctoral degree level, the college is the first educational institution in Thailand and Southeast Asia to offer curriculum on music. The fields of studies offered are: Musicology and Music Education. Experts and Music Academicians are among the students of the college. The PhD curriculum for music studies places emphasis on Thai and Oriental heritage, aims at establishing excellence in knowledge and in academicians and music professionals. The distinctive point of the collegeâ€™s curriculum is the fact that it is student-centered. A number of exchange programs with universities abroad exits for further advancement. The College of Music offers music courses to the public, to those who wish to learn music in a systematic way at the Music Courses for the General Public at the Seri Center shopping complex and Siam Paragon shopping mall.

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My InStrUMeNt ~MaRiMBa

Posted: 02/10/09 22:04:56 | Member: (way-kung) | Tag: default

The modern marimba was developed by Japanese and American builders based on the Hispanic-American traditional marimba. Modern uses of the marimba include solo performances, woodwind ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band (front ensembles), drum and bugle corps, and wind ensemble or orchestral compositions. Contemporary composers have utilized the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years, and it is common to find them in new music for wind ensemble, although less so for orchestra. African marimba music sounds unfamiliar to North American audiences because most of the marimba music played in the Western Hemisphere has been South American. However, marimbas originated in Africa hundreds of years ago and were imported to South America in the sixteenth century. The original African sounds were incorporated into and changed by the music of the local American cultures.[1] Bars (keys) The marimba bars, like xylophone keys, are usually made of rosewood, but bars can also be made of padouk or various synthetic materials. Rosewood bars are preferred for concert playing, but synthetic bars are preferred for marching band use because they are more durable and less susceptible to pitch change due to weather. The bars are wider and longer at the lowest pitched notes, and gradually get narrower and shorter as the notes get higher. During the tuning process, wood is taken from the middle underside of the bar to lower the pitch. Because of this, the bars are also thinner near the bottom and thicker near the top. In Africa, most marimbas are made by local artisans from locally available materials. When playing the marimba it is preferred to strike in the center of the bar for the fullest tone, while striking the bar just off center or right on the edge produces a more focused tone. Playing on the node (the location where the string passes through the bars) is sonically very weak, so it is only used when the player or composer is looking for that particular muted sound. Range There is no standard range of the marimba, but the most common ranges are 4 octaves, 4.3 octaves, and 5 octaves; 4.5 and 5.5 octave sizes are also available. 4 octave: C3 to C7. 4.3 octave: A2 to C7. The 3 refers to three notes below the 4 octave instrument. This is probably the most common range. 4.5 octave: F2 to C7. The 5 means "half"; the instrument goes down a fifth below the 4 octave instrument. 4.6 octave: E2 to C7, one note below the 4.5. Useful for playing guitar literature. 5 octave: C2 to C7, one full octave below the 4 octave instrument. The range of the marimba has been gradually expanding, with companies like Marimba One adding notes up to F above the normal high C (C7) on their 5.5 octave instrument, or marimba tuners adding notes lower than the low C on the 5 octave C2. Adding lower notes is somewhat impractical because as the bars become thinner (more fragile), the resonators become longer or larger, and the sixth overtone becomes more present than the fundamental tone. The marimba is a non-transposing instrument with no octave displacement, unlike some other keyboard instruments, which are pitched one or two octaves higher than written.

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