Guide to Writing in Genre Reflection Revised
Blues-rock is one of, if not, my favorite genre of music. I hope that readers will have a greater appreciation of what it sounds like and that they learn to love it as I have. With my essay as a guide, I want readers to be able to identify blues-rock when they hear it. Blues-rock has several conventions that make it unique as a musical form. Blues-rock is simply a marriage between blues, jazz, folk, country and rock music. It should also be very obvious that the greatest influences of the genre are rock and blues. Overall, I think my essay accomplishes these things.
Writing this essay was very uncomfortable for me. Many times I felt like I was trying to explain what music was to a person who is deaf. However, I think I was able to be descriptive enough so that someone with a general sense of music can understand my essay. One thing I thought I did well with was using the examples to help with my descriptions. With the descriptions I gave and with the music to listen to, I felt the reader would be able to understand what I was saying. I should’ve also added in a description of what I want the reader to listen for in the song. This would make it easier for the reader to hear for what I was trying to describe. I would’ve been much happier writing this essay if I knew any musical terms that would help me describe the songs. The most technical musical term I know is tempo and I don’t think that alone is sufficient enough to describe a song, as there are many more parts to a song than tempo. This essay was certainly a good start to being effective with describing things.
This essay was another that was not easy for me to write. Again, I have difficulty with describing things. However, I think that this essay was good at forcing me to be descriptive. In the future I will continue to work on being descriptive and using descriptive language. This kind of language can be useful in Great writing utilizes descriptive and I will continue to try incorporating it into my writing.
Overall, I thought I did very well with this essay. I was happy with the writing skills this essay forced me to practice, and I’m happy with the results. Nevertheless, there are still aspects of my writing I need to work on. Writing is an art that not many people have perfected, however it is something that everyone can perfect if they try hard enough.