Saturday, 13 May 2017

FMP-Case study of Linkin Park

FMP: Case study of linkin park

Linkin Park was a band which was named by three high school friends. Linkin Park was founded by Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson. The band members of Linkin Park kept changing from time to time, meaning some of them were in the band from past to present and some quit the band in the past. The band members have varied/changed over the years. 
In the earlier years, Linkin Park consisted of alternative and industrial rock music etc. However, a kind of change they had in their musical styles as later on there were a lot of collaborations with the band and there were more hip hop songs in the band. They started to combine elements of rock music,hip hop and electronica, and these have been categorised as alternative metal and rap rock. They became more main stream due to their change in musical styles. 
Simha, A (2016) .


The linkin Park band consists of rock and pop music as part of the band. The band also consists of hip hop and electronica sounds as part of their music which they include.
What I understood about this Linkin Park band is that they wanted to take a break from listening to other rock bands, and had decided to produce and record their own music.

Three days grace, Hoobastank, Hinder, Papa reach and Evanescence are the bands which are similar bands related to Linkin Park and also there are other bands related to it like Red, Lost prophets etc.

Simha, A (2016) 

  • Wikipedia (2017) Linkin Park


Linkin Park's trademark sound, comes from the interplay between Shinoda and Bennington's vocal styles. Rapping vs.singing/screaming. Joe Hahn's sampling in the background also adds to the alt-rock/nu-metal feel.

There is a song named numb in which Linkin park got influenced by Jay-Z.There was a song named Numb by Linkin Park and another song named Encore by Jay-Z,and then later on when Linkin Park and Jay Z mashed up both these songs,They named it Numb/Encore. 
The actual version was released in 2003 and the mash up version was released one year 
later,Meaning when both Linkin Park and Jay-Z mashed up the version of both the Songs Numb and Encore.The actual version is in C sharp major scale,and the mash up version is in A major scale. The technology which is included in this song is Electric Drum Kit,Electric Guitar,Hip hop vocals.Why these instruments are important is because they wanted to make a hip hop band with each other using these instruments,They worked very hard especially in the mash up version of both the songs named Numb by Linkin Park and Encore by Jay-Z,The kind of vocals in the song is taken from audio samples to make a hip hop band,Basically known as the Hip hop vocals and even the Drum beat makes a hip hop sound when Linkin Park and Jay-Z  are recording the mash-up version of Numb/Encore.

  • Wikipedia (2017) Linkin Park









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