User:Wah3

Hello to all. Although I have used Wikipedia for years, I have just established an account. Although my interests are eclectic (cosmology, religion, archaeology, reading, etc.) I am particularly focused on music --- Rock and Roll and Blues. I am fascinated by the structure of music, how innovation occurs and genres morph into others. One example that I always come back to is the Muddy Waters song "I just want to make love to you." When Muddy does the song it is BLUES but when Foghat does it it is ROCK AND ROLL. My son, a guitar player, demonstrated how "simple" it is to make the change -> up tempo and full chords.

One of the things I would like to see in Wikipedia is attaching musical examples to definitions. Again for example, downbeat, backbeat. I can read the definition and understand that downbeat emphasizes the odd beat and backbeat, the even. But how about just a simple guitar or piano solo attachment taken from a popular song that illustrates the difference in sound.

Or a few examples of the Blues Shuffle, showing several of the "usual" 12 bar progressions.

Wah3 (talk) 16:45, 9 March 2008 (UTC)