Music is something that takes up a lot of my time. Whether it is playing, writing, experimenting with new sounds or just listening, it is something that i greatly enjoy. I am lucky to have to ability to have access to nice equipment to produce music, through my job at a musical instrument store. I am very interested in the concept of different and new sounds and effects. However people have not been able to play with different sounds for that long. In this post I will be looking at how the music sean, how music sounds and what is used to create music and sounds have changed from the 1950's until now.
 At The Start of the 1950's, a new instrument became widely available. This Instrument was the electric guitar. Before the invention of the electric guitar, guitar had never been at the front of stage, as it was to quite to compete with horns. Blues players were the first to use this new instrument, It allowed them to do things they never thought were possible, and form this came rock n roll. Rock n Roll was fast and new, it got the young people moving, and the old people angry. Artists such as Elvis enjoyed great success in the 50's and early 60's. New affects began to be used, a band called the shadows pioneered tremolo effect. In the 1960's a new band was out, The Beatles, with new sounds and ideas. The Beatles were the first band to use feedback on a record. They also used strange new effects and instruments. In 1966 Pysadelic rock was born, This music was loud, distorted, and sounded so very different to anything before. This new style heavily used new affects such as wah wah and fuzz. Fast forward to the 1980's music had changed, it was now being recorded with new technics and affects. New affects such as chorus, flanger, and fazer where used heavily by bands such as Guns n Roses.

The 90's is where a lot of sounds came from which affect todays popular music. The use of modern syntheses and computers heavily involved in affecting the sound came out of the 1990's. From this music has continued to grow and change and will continue to.