The Crossover (black friday sales crowd) Music Genre

February 28th, 2010 admin Posted in music |

By Rob Jones

Classical/Popular crossover music is massively popular today and in some circles is called Popera. The definition is generally thought of as An artist who produces a variety of show-tunes or popular tunes, when he/she would normally only record traditional, classical pieces of music. Also, collaborations between Classical and Popular artists can also be looked upon as Crossover in style; for example, ex Police singer and bass player Sting and Edin Karamazovs album Songs from the Labyrinth. Of course, there is such a wide variety of different genres these days that almost any type of music is being experimented with in this way.

Some artists are extremely criticized for their cross-overs by their die-hard fans and the fans of the songs theyre covering, as territory they shouldnt really be venturing into. Others think that new life can be breathed into an old genre and will attract a wider audience. This has been the case in quite a few cases, and in fact, is no new phenomenon.

By far though, the most popular fusion of music genre is that of classical/popular. Back in the 1950s the American tenor and film star Mario Lanza reached across his classical background to appeal to a massive audience of popular listening fans and many of his tracks made it into the music charts. His song Be my love made it to number one in the Billboard pop singles chart in 1951, and sold a total of 2 million copies worldwide; a feat no classical artist has achieved since. Lanza recorded two other million selling singles that made it into the Billboard chart.

The more popular and well known crossover artists of today include Vanessa Mae. Born in 1978, she started playing the piano at 3 and the violin at 5 years old. She has astounded audiences all over the world with her mixture of amazing violin and piano playing abilities, and her youth and exuberance. Her music style is self described as violin techno acoustic fusion, and several of her albums include her techno style. The combination of up-beat, funky sounds and her traditional, classical background makes for a great, modern sound, which is obviously why her popularity has soared.

Another crossover artist is Sarah Brightman. She was born in 1960 and is an English crossover soprano. She first came to prominence in the dance outfits Pans People and later Hot Gossip in the late seventies and early eighties. She later met Andrew Lloyd Webber when she auditioned for Cats. Sarah Brightman appeared in his adaptation of the musical Phantom of the Opera. Toward the 1990s her stage career curtailed and she pursued a solo career, which was inspired by german band Enigma. Her first release was Dive, a water themed pop album. She went on to combine electronic dance music with rock elements and classical strings. In her long and varied career, it is the way she has melded the music genres at her disposal that has set Sarah Brightman apart from other classical performers. Time to say goodbye was the result of a fantastic collaboration with Andrea Bocelli and went on to sell 5 million copies worldwide. Obviously, she had found her calling; combining her classical background and voice with a more popular sound.

Katherine Jenkins is one of todays biggest names in the crossover area of classical/popular music. Not only is she very beautiful, so therefore easy to watch, but has brought the vibrant, classical sound to the mainstream. Born in North Wales in 1980, Katherine has had massive success with her crossover music. After initially just concentrating on the classical side of her music, in 2005 she recorded an Italian version of Dolly Partons I will always love you on the album Living a Dream. After this album was released, uniquely, she held the top three places in the classical crossover music chart.

Classical/Popular crossover music exposes the general public to an area of music they wouldnt normally access and can provide not only the unexpected publicity to an artist, but gives them, (especially in Vanessa Maes case) an extra string to their bow. The magical sound that can be made from the fusion of the two is a sound that Im sure is here to stay.

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What Should I Use To Play Musical Backing Tracks?

By Rob Jones

In the Twenty First Century our digital world today, musicians and other performers have various choices as to how they present their music to the public in a live setting. The whole set up can run from a 7 piece band (or more) playing all the various parts, to a one man show using backing tracks to complete the act.

Backing Tracks are a fantastic option for smaller acts to sound like a full blown band or orchestra. Not only does it make for a more professional and fuller sound, but also makes you sound like a more accomplished outfit or solo performer. In many pubs and clubs, you can find a guitar player playing and singing along to the tracks. These musicians have a wide variety of choices as to the format that those backing tracks take.

No doubt if you were to ask a musician/performer what they would recommend using, as many are stuck in their ways you shouldnt be surprised if they recommend the system they are using with derogatory words for other set ups. The following is just one view of the different formats available to you, with a slight bias towards one. The best information is to consult various articles on this subject to get the full picture and find out exactly what it is you need for your personal set up and taste.

Some musicians/performers will show up to a gig with their ipods loaded up with mp3s (without the vocal track). You can look at these as karaoke files without the graphics. Other musicians use minidiscs, mp3 players, or even boomboxes. Whichever option is chosen, the obvious advantage is that the musician/performer can create or buy professional tracks that sound great - thus making themselves sound really good.

Other musicians/performers want more control and flexibility. In the majority of these cases, the use of standard MIDI files is the perfect solution.

The use of MIDI files as backing tracks requires a little bit more equipment. First, some kind of MIDI Player or sequencing program is needed. This can be easily accomplished by using a laptop. The musician/performer can load all the files on to the computer and then can play them back with a sequencing program such as Cakewalk.

As MIDI is just data, a sound module or a professional MIDI keyboard will be needed to recreate the required sounds. Just push it through the PA system, and you’re then ready to go.

MIDI files provide much more flexibility than mp3 tracks do. Some of these advantages are as follows:

They are not “recorded” so you can make relevant changes to them at any time.

You have total control over every track. Let us say that there is a Bass part in one of the tracks, and on one particular day a living bass player of the human being variety shows up and wants to play along with you. You can now mute that track.

You have full control over the song you can change the instruments; you can change the keys very easily; you can copy, cut and paste various sections; etc, etc.

You can control a light show, which can look spectacular if your act requires this.

You can connect to a harmonizer and deliver some amazing background vocals.

MIDI is definitely not just used by a one or two piece bar band. Get yourself out to a live concert or gig. Relax and listen to some cds. You might be extremely surprised by the range of bands and performers that are using this kind of advancement and flexibility that you can get from using MIDI. From rock to pop, from jazz to trance bands from all musical genres are jumping on the bandwagon if you can pardon the pun.