Grammy® Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is one of today’s most popular and performed musicians. His works are programmed worldwide by orchestras and choirs, while his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united singers from over 120 different countries. Check out his virtual choirs--he's working on the 6th one right now!
Learn a brief history about where hip hop came from, some terminology, and try your hand at being the DJ with your own set of turntables.
'How Sampling Transformed Music' - Mark Ronson
"Sampling' is a electronic music technique where an artist borrows, uses, or 'samples' parts of a song that someone else created.
They may use any part of the rhythm, melody, or lyrics exactly the way they sounded in the original, or they may mix it up.
Here's Mark Ronson, writer of the song "Uptown Funk" telling you about this musical technique and how it all got started.
Steve Reich's Clapping Music
Steve Reich is the composer of a piece of music called 'Clapping Music', written in 1972. The really neat thing about this music is that you can play it using only 4 hands! Watch the video first and then check out the app that helps you learn this piece. Sorry Android users, this app only works for iOS devices :(