Week 4

Week 4
How does business and industry affect music-makers and users?
Music is heavily influenced by businesses such as record labels and distributors. Apart from indie artists, most of the artists we see on MTV or hear on the radio are aided by record labels. These record labels tend to get the artist famous and in turn, allow them to gain lots of money. Thus, businesses are important as they help spread music around. Without good backup, amateur music makers usually have a lot of problems starting out. Thus, the industry has both a positive and negative effect.

Instrument class
Once again we had limited instrument class this week. However, I tried to practice the song "Close to You" in accordance with our singing assessment. The chords of the song seemed quite difficult, so I didn't try them out yet. The melody was easier to obtain though, and I am able to play the whole song already. I might try to improve, to accompany the singing assessment.