France has always been a fascinating country to me. As a little girl, I have always dreamed of maybe one day living there for a short period of time (might need to learn French first though!). So I thought it might be cool to learn about their musical culture as a part of my final blog. France is a large country in Europe that has a culture like no other in my opinion. From the food, to the music, to even the style of clothing. First up in my cool stuff blog, a common instrument you would fine in folklore music. 1. The Accordion Now, this is probably one of my favorite instruments. Im not sure why, but something about the sound of it and the way it is played makes me want to spin around in circles while squeezing it! The accordion is a box shaped, free-reed instrument. It is a portable instrument with external piano style keys with treble and bass being in opposite hands. In between both hands are bellows that are squeezed together, which will then produce sound. The video above, I th
In my family, my dad is the one of the most influential people on my taste in music. I remember dad driving my sister and I to soccer practice/games when I was younger. there was no telling what music would be playing because he listened to so many genres. I do remember when he would play rock or rap really loud and I would be in the backseat asking him to change it or cut it off, because most morning it was just too much that early. . He usually would, but if he hadn't been so completely different than my mom in his music taste, I don't think I would have ever been exposed to the different genres. When coming up with questions to ask him, I asked the usual "did you play an instrument?" If so, did you like it or did your mom make you?" and some of this I had already known because he's talked about it before. And yes, he played piano and trumpet growing up as a kid. His mom made him learn piano because they had bought a really nice piano for the house and sh