Listening Blog 7

 Good Afternoon Music 1020 classmates. For this weeks Listening Blog I decided to write about the first song I saw on this list of choices. I am writing about the song “Papas got a brand new bag” by James Brown. The first thing that I noticed when I started playing this song was the jazz music sound. I like how you can hear each individual instrument throughout the song. He followed the basic concepts of music and  kept everything really simple. I related this song to a personal experience in my life, I spent 6 years in band class playing this at football games and I thought that it was really annoying because it was so easy. So it is nice to hear the origins of the song. I really like being able to see how music has progressed up until this point in time. I feel like this is setting everything up for the next few decades of music to come. I can hear a lot of the same concepts in this music as we hear in todays music and its really cool to me. Thank you!!