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Ryan Ross

Ryan Ross. Creative Singer/ Song Writer. Ryan Ross. Biography. August 30, 1989 – Born 2004 – Helped form band Panic at the Disco September 7, 2005 – Released Album: A Fever you Can’t Sweat Out. Late 2005 – Went on first Tour

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  1. Ryan Ross Creative Singer/ Song Writer

  2. Ryan Ross

  3. Biography • August 30, 1989 – Born • 2004 – Helped form band Panic at the Disco • September 7, 2005 – Released Album: A Fever you Can’t Sweat Out. • Late 2005 – Went on first Tour • March 2007 – Started Composition for Songs featured on Panic at the Disco’s album, Very Odd • March, 2008 – Released Album: Very Odd • June 2009 – Left Panic at the Disco • 2009 – Helped Compose songs for Panic at the Disco • 2011 – Released several songs on Panic at the Disco’s album, Vices & Virtue

  4. Hurricane – Composition History • Fast paced energetic song • Composed as part of Panic At The Disco’s third studio album, “Vices & Virtue”. • The song is the third track on the album and • Features the most use of the guitar found in any song on the album. • The song makes use of trumpets, digital atmospherics, violins, marimbas, xylophones and of course the guitar and bass guitar with a standard drum. • Writing for the song began in early 2010 and the recording officially started in April 2010. • Released on the Vices & Virtue album on March 22, 2011.

  5. Hurricane – Composition History • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgW4w3OY1kM

  6. Memories – Composition History • Written for the 2011 album “Vices & Virtues.” • Fourth track. • Three minutes and twenty six seconds. • More scaled-back and in many ways, both musically and lyrically more personal. • Writing began in early 2010 and the recording officially started in April 2010. • The album with all songs was released on March 22, 2011.

  7. Memory – Composition History • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrihioC_LXg

  8. Trade Mistakes – Composition History • Fifth song on the Panic at the Disco album. • This song is ten seconds longer than Memories coming in at three minutes and thirty-six seconds long.

  9. Ready To Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) – Composition History • CafterTrade Mistakes on the Album by Panic at the Disco. • Sixth song on Album. • This song has a strong focus on the marimba and xylophone giving the song a different feel than any other on the album. • This song debuted as the song for the rolling film credits at the end of the movie “The Smurfs” in 2011.

  10. Ready To Go (Get Out of My Mind) – Composition History • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nB1oCdvRH8

  11. Listening Guides

  12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=curTIZsPFBU Hurricane • 0:00 Introduction: The song begins with a cell phone vibrator buzzing in the background accompanied with the same cell phone's polyphonic ringtone. • 0:07 The violin is bowed in one direction ascending in both pitch and strength (crescendo). This starts the song feeling very energetic and in a way anxious. • 0:08 Drums enter to set the tempo as fast paced and the rhythm for the song as simple duple like most pop/ rock songs. • 0:14 Verse 1 Begins: The guitar and voice for the song enter, starting the first verse. Throughout this and each successive verse, there is a pulsing brass instrument melody that repeats the same set of three motives throughout each verse. This adds to and continues on the energetic/ anxious feel of the song. This background gives a clear separation between chorus and verse as it plays throughout the verse and ends with each chorus. • 0:46 The last two words of the first verse are sung out without the accompaniment of the instruments which allows it to be sung softer (piano) without losing the energetic feel. • 0:47 Chorus:The chorus starts. The chorus lacks the tell-tale of the brass instrument that can be heard throughout the verses, this helps differentiate the different song segments.

  13. Hurricane Cont. • 1:21 The drum which up until now has been playing one beat for each quarter note plays a stream of eighth notes to mark the transition into the second verse. • 1:25 Verse 2 Begins: The second verse begins. The pulsing brass instrument picks up again with the beginning of the second verse. • 1:57 Chorus: • 2:28 Bridge: • 2:44 A new instrument joins in: the marimba and plays a countermelody to the melody sung by the vocals. • 3:00 Chorus: • 3:02 - 3:03 For one line "you'll dance to anything" the music drops out and leaves just the vocal. • 3:40 False End: • 3:45 Transitional Music Begins: This section consists of simple piano chords followed by a simple beat played out on the trombone, first the piano by itself, then the trombone, then both. Motives from both the current song and the next song can be found in the melody here, but the overall sound of this transition is separate from either song as it is set to a much slower and simpler rhythm and the simplistic use of the instruments gives a whole different feel in the timbre.

  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0irupCYxE Memories • 0:00 Introduction: Song starts with a steady beat played out by the drums while mixtures of the violin, guitar, and the percussion keyboard instrument the marimba. The marimba sets up the motives that it will use throughout the rest of the song. The tempo is set as fast paced. • 0:08 the violin momentarily plays strong setting the main melody for the rest of the song. • 0:14 Verse 1 Begins: The simple duple the rhythm is mostly kept by the drums and the marimba which plays the same motive in steps throughout the background. • 0:42 Chorus: The marimba falls away throughout the chorus which helps to define the chorus separately from the verses. Although hard to hear, the violin plays a countermelody throughout the entirety of the chorus, this counter melody is heard coming to a distinct and strong stop as it plays a descending rift which also serves to signal the end of the chorus and the beginning of the next verse. • 1:12 Verse 2 Begins: The verse picks up with the marimba background and the classical string instruments fall away a little more. During this verse the marimba focuses on the higher notes and plays in what appears to be an offbeat rhythm which gives the illusion of bells.

  15. Memories Cont. • 1:40 Chorus: The end of this chorus is denoted by the entry of countermelody played by the marimba while most of the other instruments other than the drums fade away for a few seconds. •  2:01 Bridge: The bridge starts as the guitar play the melody while the violin again plays the countermelody in the background. The marimba appears to match the guitar in melody striking once for each strum of the guitar. • 2:17 Verse 3 Begins: The beginning of the third and final verse is played without the accompaniment of the guitar, or the drums. The marimba keeps the tempo while the violin is played in long slow strokes acting more as a blanket of the background silence than anything else; this effect almost gives the appearance that the violin dropped with the drums and the guitar. The whole effect sets the verse apart from the other two and can be seen as a bridged verse. This section of the song is simpler and it becomes easier to hear and focus on each individual note. • 2:31 The drums join in and the violin is played crescendo and accelerando, getting louder and faster until the end of the verse. • 2:45 Chorus: This chorus has all the instruments that have been featured so far all playing simultaneously. The violin and marimba take up their respective counterpoints while the guitar and main vocal follow the melody, the guitar as usual keeps rhythm and a second set of vocals sing another countermelody that has been featured as the melody in segments of the chorus. • 3:19 The guitar matches the drum tempo and repeats the same note leading straight into a final descending rift played out forte by the violin.

  16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cktm1jAh6_o Trade Mistakes • 0:00 Introduction: Song starts with a string duet performed by the violin and the double bass. Although not the melody that will be used throughout the song, the violin plays melody with the double bass bowing counterpoint. This intro is devoid of any percussion instruments that clearly set the tempo, but the strings play to the same tempo that will be present throughout the song. Like the other songs being reviewed, the song tempo is simple duple. • 0:18 The marimba plays an ascending intro into the main melody. • 0:24 Verse 1 Begins: The vocals enter for the first time as verse 1 begins. The melody of the vocals is accompanied by a countermelody from the marimba. The tempo is slower than the previous song and is kept by a steady beat on the drum with a shaker percussion instrument a half step before every fourth beat. • 0:26 Two seconds after the verse starts, the drums enter to set the definite tempo. This separation of entrances gives the tempo a more prominent feeling and after listening to the song once or twice, the beat can be felt and anticipated up to a full measure or two before the drums even start. • 0:48 Chorus: The melody of the chorus is mostly marked by the vocal and the guitar with only percussion instruments playing in the background. Like often with this artist, the change of which instruments are keeping melody and which are keeping tempo helps to mark the difference between chorus and verse. In this case the marimba either falls into synch with the guitar or fades away all together. The classical string instruments are also decidedly absent.

  17. Trade Mistakes Cont. • 0:54 A secondary set of vocals accent the primary vocal singing quietly (piano.) • 1:20 The transition to verse 2 is marked by the re-entry of the marimba and violin, the latter playing adagio. • 1:24 Verse 2 begins: With the verse 2 vocals, the shaker percussion instrument again leads every fourth beat. • 1:47 Chorus: • 2:16 Bridge: Throughout the bridge, a very quiet (piano) secondary vocal sets up, accenting the primary. • 2:46 All instruments drop out except the marimba, the drum, and the violin played much more slowly than it typically is, again providing a backdrop for the marimba solo which is accompanied by the drum just for the tempo. With the lack of instruments the vocals are sung much more quietly (piano.) • 2:54 Chorus: The lyric of the chorus is repeated, but with the more simple timbre laid out by the marimba and violin combo. This is somewhat of a bridged chorus. • 3:08 The rest of the chorus is played out as normal with the help of all instruments. • 3:24 Song ends: • The song ends with the ending of the same classical string duet that it began with.

  18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDf-_8KvGM&ob=av3e Ready To Go • 0:00 Introductions: The song begins with the marimba playing an intro melody with background vocals as a countermelody. • 0:14 The marimba switches to the main melody for the song and is played with more strength (forte.) A violin can be heard accenting every measure with a sharp and quick two bow motive. • 0:18 The background vocals also become more pronounced (forte) and the tempo for the song accelerates and more fast paced. • 0:28 Verse 1 begins: The melody for the verse is sung by the main vocal and the marimba continues the melody from the intro which now becomes a countermelody. This verse like most of the songs in this review has a strong beat played by the drums which aside from the marimba are the only instruments accompanying the vocals. The verses of this song stand apart in that they don't use guitars like most rock bands and like many of the other songs in this review. The guitar is only used to play a quick two note motive that it repeats once a measure. • 0:56 Chorus: The chorus adds secondary vocals and a violin countermelody. • 1:11 Verse 2 Begins: This verse is almost identical in sound, dynamics, melodies and timbre as the first verse with only the lyrics noticeably changing.

  19. Ready To Go Cont. • 1:39 Chorus: The chorus begins with the signal words “I’m ready to go.” These words reflect the title and point of the song. As this and the other songs detailed here are highly referential, the mantra of “I’m ready to go” helps set the mood for the song as much as any of the instruments. • 1:54 Transition to bridge: This transition begins with a soft vocal (piano) which leads into a brief violin solo which then mixes with the soft vocal and leads into the full bridge. • 2:08 A synthetic keyboard plays a polyphonic melody with the marimba playing the counterpoint. • 2:16 On a personal note this next part is probably one of my favorite lines of music from any song. The synthetic keyboard begins to blend into a classical string instrument which sounds like it lies somewhere between the violin and the double bass. The transition from synthetic keyboard to string instrument is seamless and even with various listens it is hard to tell at what point the synthetic truly stops and the strings truly begin. The crescendo of the string instrument along with the faster pace bows gives a dramatic transition to the main vocal section of the bridge. • 2:23 The vocal section of the bridge is marked by a fast paced untraditional chant that repeats the two lyrical lines: "I think I know I'm ready;" and "I know I think I'm ready." A recorder plays a countermelody with trills at the high and low ends of its range. The violin creates a subtle backdrop for the lyrics, recorder, and drum beat to play on top of. • 2:35 Chorus: The last iteration of the chorus is repeated until the end of the song.

  20. Bibliography • (n.d.). Retrieved from Sing365.com: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Panic-At-The-Disco-Biography/B3080656DAD6128D4825708900068110 • (n.d.). Retrieved from StarPulse.com: http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Panic!_At_the_Disco/Biography/ • (n.d.). Retrieved from panicatthedisco.com: http://www.panicatthedisco.com/about • (n.d.). Retrieved from Wikipedia.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic!_at_the_Disco

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