Cover It Up, Volume 2by Various Artists

If you have studied music, you will know that music evolved from humans using primitive musical instruments to make certain tones. Those tones, when played in a certain way, can create many different types of emotions. The development of musical instruments and tuning the instruments is what helps humans to achieve that perfect sound (even though we will never get it). Music itself developed with the instruments that played it, and because the playing was getting more challenging, they had to find a way to write it down. It wasn't until about the year 1000 that we figured out how to write down music, and the modern system for writing it down was not developed until about 100 years later. Our ears developed, too and because of that ear development, musical styles changed over time. Our views on assonance changed over the years, and dissonance was no longer so broad. This allowed the music to be peaceful and able to blend together. However, while all of this was happening in Europe, in the United States, there was a different story. The African Americans created their own style based on their own ears, which were much different from ours. What the Europeans considered dissonant they considered assonant, and also improvised more than note-for-note playing. This style came to be known as jazz and it spawned the style of Blues, spawning rock and roll, which turned into rock music. From blues came heavy metal, a darker form with more complex song structures. The genre eventually developed into thousands of subgenres, each different from each other. Many other genres of music also developed, but they all share one common characteristic: they have influences that inspired their style. Each band looked up to bands that they based their style upon, but because of the diversity of bands, they created a style all their own. This is the second volume of the artists paying tribute to those bands.