Meet Trinity’s Rock & Pop Examiner, Moira Hartley
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Improvisation
Improvising in a shuffle style
Shuffle is a feel or groove normally associated with electric blues and some rock ‘n’ roll, but also has a significant stylistic overlap with the swing feel in jazz. [read more...]
Improvising in a fusion style
Fusion is a very broad term, used for types of music which fuse two or more styles together in a strong coalition to create a fusion of the genres. In the Trinity Rock & [read more...]
Improvising in an r‘n’b style
R‘n’b is a broadly defined genre, known for its sophisticated production techniques, virtuosic singing and commercial focus. It’s not to be confused with rhythm and [read more...]
Improvising in a soul style
Soul is a popular form of music born in the United States of America, in the late 1950s/early 60s. It’s largely an African-American derived style, incorporating elements of [read more...]
Improvising in a boogie-woogie style
Achieving widespread popularity in the 1920s, the boogie-woogie style originated in the African-American communities of the 1870s. Closely related to blues music, it features [read more...]
Improvising in a blues style
Blues music grew from the experience of the African-American communities in the Deep South of the USA in the late 1800s, often featuring tales of despair or hardship. Mixing [read more...]
Improvising in a jazz style
Developed in the New Orleans melting pot of cultures in the early 1900s, jazz initially began as a mixture of blues, spiritual and Creole music. Often played at social [read more...]
Improvising in a disco style
The word ‘disco’ comes from the French ‘discotheque’, initially meaning library of phonograph records, but later becoming the word for nightclubs and bars, which play [read more...]
Improvising in a Latin style
In this context, the term ‘Latin’ refers to a large group of musical styles mostly originating from Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities in South America. These [read more...]
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