Inspiration With a Beat

Music is Inspirational

Music is inspiration with a beat; there’s much more to music than people think.  It’s not just a time signature with instruments flowing. There’s also a message to be sent to the listener, whether it’s for that special girl, or maybe a person lost a grandparent and he needs to vent.

In the song “Poppy” by: Mac Miller, Miller explains his relationship with his grandpa and how he lost his grandpa, and he wrote a song about it. According to Jay Casteel’s ballerstatus.com video, Forbes interview with Mac Miller they recognize that he is a big name in the rap industry and it proves that rap in particular isn’t just about drugs, gangs and money. Because Mac Miller is a white rapper, he feels that he needs to “step his game up” in the industry. So therefore he puts more time and effort into his music than other rappers do.

Danny Seraphine is the drummer for the band Chicago. He’s so good when it comes to fills and soloing. But he grew up homeless, so he had a dream to make it big, and he did. In Drummer Cafe’s interview with Danny Seraphine they talk about his dream and how he achieved it, also his technique and style that go him where he is today. This goes to show that when you have a dream you can reach it no matter what stands in your way.

Machine Gun Kelly is another up and coming rapper and when I was surfing YouTube I found a video of him and a guy with cerebral palsy on stage. When M.G.K. was finished with that song, he invited the man with cerebral palsy to the right of the stage. M.G.K. walked to the right and kneeled down next to him and handed the microphone to the man with cerebral palsy and the man talked for about a minute or two about how he struggles everyday with not being able to walk and not being able to function like a normal person. So he handed M.G.K. the microphone and the man with cerebral palsy calls his brother to the sage and he lifts him up and he takes 4 steps. That was the first time he had walked by himself outside of therapy. M.G.K had a group hug with the man with cerebral palsy, his brother and himself and then the man sat back in his chair and was on stage for the rest of the time. And later that week he took about 67 steps by himself in therapy.

Another famous drummer is Ricky Ficarelli. He is an independent drummer on YouTube and does multiple drum covers to multiple songs. And when the band blink-182 was doing a weekly shout out to those on YouTube, they mentioned his name and one of his videos. And that’s when he really started to get a lot of twitter followers and Facebook shares. And now he is traveling with his newly formed band “Wellington”.  And he has made a lot of money over the 3 years he has been on YouTube. And he uses all of that profit to market himself so not only the drumming community knows who he is, but everybody knows who he is.

This just goes to show that music is and can be inspirational and life changing. So if a person has a dream he needs to strive to reach it and he just might.

Works Cited Page

Casteel. Jay. “Mac Miller Interview for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 (video)” Ballerstatus.com

            12/20/2011

Drummercafe, Elliot, Bart “Danny Seraphine” June 6^th, 2011, 2/29/2012

You tube Dec. 5^th, 2011, 2/29.2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQ69JYO4FM

You tube Aug.4, 2011, 2/29/2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6gjjPkbtc