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| My Dad on the right hand side, with one of his Guitar Designers. |
If i want to fully explain what my tastes in music are, i have to look back to around he time i was 6-7 years old, when i began to fully understand what my parents did for a living. My Dad is the Managing directing of the Musical instruments company JHS, and he has worked with players of all genere, but more specifically Rock and Roll, people like “Gordon Giltrap”, “Def Leopard”, so from a young age I haven't really been exposed to anything else.
As i got older i learnt to play and spent most of my time either writing songs, ( Which Were Terrible now i look back ), or listening to everything that me friends didn't listen to. Me and by Brother took a huge interest in the “Foo Fighters”, “RHCP”, and all the modern Rock Bands. When i was 11 my dad took me to go see “Status Quo”, as we where doing a guitar deal with them, i though it was Awesome, i got hooked on the power of the Music and the Audience and i got this feel for what Rock and Roll was.
More recently I've been going to parties were lots of Pop and use music is played and getting into media studies and film making means Im more open to different music styles, i use music to help me imagine different ideas to screenplays> For example if the song were to be used as a soundtrack to a film, what would be the film about, what would be happening, who are the characters and so on.
Looking currently, as we have established i take a huge interest in all Genres of Music, as i Serve in HM’s Army Cadet Force, and teach a lot of Drill, I'm obligated to listen to regimental Tunes, such as “The War March of the Men of Glamorgan”, often played during the changing of the Guards outside Buckingham Palace, and other Regimental Tunes, its gets my head into Rhythm for calling out timings on the march. Outside of that, i find the Military and Band genere to be very powerful and uplifting music, which i also listen to for enjoyment.
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| 2IC of my section on Otterburn Plain, I still prefer Drill... |
What has As done for me and what will can i take with me to A2?
I guess the simple answer is that it has further opened my mind to the meaning behind media texts, everything that we see and listen to within media has connotations, even stuff we don't like, we react differently to music and film because it has material that we may or may not relate to, as i found out analysing Blank Space by Taylor Swift. The song had a lot more meaning than i originally would have perceived
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