Wikipedia: The 'Freedom' Encyclopedia

Wikipedia has been a very big help for me, just like what others have experienced. But what makes Wikipedia bad is that, it can be anyone, as long as he or she has an Internet access.

I've been a Wikipedia user for months, but what makes me mad about it is that, many people vandalize it with unsourced, unreliable and biased statements, which violate the Wikipedia rules and guidelines.

Take a look at an article of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy in Wikipedia and its history. It's just one of the hundreds of thousands of unreliable articles with unreliable sources. Please help Wikipedia polish those 'vandalized' articles.


And what makes it worse is that, if you search for a certain thing through search engines(e.g. Google, Yahoo), a Wikipedia article related with the search keyword is placed on the first page of results. And in most cases, it is placed on top.

And I'm not so sure with the 'fundraising' stuff inside Wikipedia. They raise funds for what? They say that 'Help Wikipedia share the gift of knowledge.' How can anyone help share the gift of knowledge if such unreliable articles are still posted on the said online encyclopedia?

There are lots of negative stuff on Wikipedia to share with. If you want to know more, there's a Wikipedia article on the Wikipedia itself. Better check it out.

Louie: The Drum Hero

I was still in the 3rd level when I played drums to represent the school once again, but this time, for an interschool cheering contest, not for a band battle. There I found myself that I really wasn't good enough to rock the world, unlike the guy whom I've met during that time, and his name is Louie. He showed me the way to play the drums wherein he's gonna rock the crowd. Yeah, he really rocks the crowd with his mesmerizing drum lines, groovy beats, breath-taking solos, dynamic and powerful playing style, all rolled into one. In fact, he has won the hearts of lots of people in my school, and many consider him as a drum hero, as I do.

And because he earned a very good reputation, majority voted me to back off, and the drum hero will play for the school, instead of me. When the hero and the choreographer told me that I'm not gonna play the drums for the upcoming competition that time, I found myself that I had a sort of a hidden pride. Yes, a hidden pride. For I wasn't able to stop from crying as a result of the pain inside of me after hearing that, in spite of controlling myself from crying out. But I was lucky enough to play for the school once more, out of my request, and we made it as champions, out of God's grace and mercy! Praise His Name!

Classical Guitar: The Gift

When I had joined my classmates to feast with the festival in the district of my classmate's house, I tried to play the guitar owned by my classmate's borhter. As I played, I wished to have one of my own.

And it did.

I arrived home, and then my mom approached me and asked me, "Guess what's inside the box?". Even though I don't know what's inside, but I answered her "Guitar?". Then she opened it. And much to my surprise, it was not just a guitar, but a classical guitar. Since then, I parcticed to play guitar everyday as possible. Unlike the drums, I've gone through lots of sweat, pain and tears in teaching myself to play guitar before I have achieved the nessary attributes of a guitar player.

The journey continues as I focus more on my classical guitar, which I know the Almighty One has given me, than any other instrument. But still, I cannot consider myself a guitarist, because I never did, unlike many others who considered me as such.

Drum Set: The First Instrument

My interest in drums started when i was still 11, after seeing a drummer playing the drums in our church. My drummer life started when I became a school drummer, under the Drum and Bugle Corps, even though I don't belong to those members of the said corps, making me somewhat like a special drummer, becuase I play the drums for the Glee Club in our school's yearly Catholic masses, in spite of the fact that I'm not a Catholic. I thank the Holy Father for through my 5th grade adviser, who discovered my abilities as a drummer, she brought me into the majestic world of music by telling me about the drummer thing for the Drum and Bugle Corps as a 'special drummer' for a backing band of the Glee Club. Even though I am focusing on the guitar right now, still the drummer in me is still showing itself without me meaning it.

Linkin Park's Trademark No.1

C Sharp Minor
Before "Minutes to Midnight", Linkin Park frequntly plays songs on C sharp minor. And they are as follows:

(Hybrid Theory)
One Step Closer
Papercut
Crawling
(Meteora)
Hit The Floor
Faint
Figure .09
From The Inside

In most cases, Chester, the group's frontman, often sings first the G# note on the chorus of the above songs.

D Sharp Minor
This is one of the most often used keys by Linkin Park. And here is a list of songs played on D sharp minor(D#m):

(Hybrid Theory)
Points of Authority
In The End
A Place For My Head
Pushing Me Away

(Meteora)
Easier To Run
(Minutes To Midnight)
No More Sorrow

Influences

As a musician, I have lots of influences. My dad shared me some Beatles stuff, and I really love them. My mom also loves the said British band, but she prefers the Carpenters more than the Fab Four. One of the greatest classic Filipino artists, Apo Hiking Society, had their music played on Philippine radio just like many other classic Filipino and foreign ones. At the height of my dad's career as a disc jockey in my hometown, Davao City, The Eraserheads were a huge success at that time. When I was still in the 5th grade, my parents bought Don Moen cassette tapes, and those ones really inspire us, and we loved to listen those songs over and over again. Together with those Moen materials were some jazz music, especially the instrumental ones. After the era of "manufactured" pop artists, the Linkin Park fever came like a storm, and their music caught my attention. In fact, it was the first time that I became a fan of a loud, heavy rock band. After LP's comeback with their second album ,"Meteora", I tried to make songs of my own, together with a classmate of mine. The music that I've made were heavily influenced by Linkin Park. Later on, I tried to make pop ballads to get out of my conventional LP-influenced style of music.

Then college life came. When I was able to form a band of mine, we were able to make comedy rock music, in our very own Cebuano language, out of making a single one in a certain practice session. When I decided to quit, I formed an another group. And this time, we wrote serious rock ballads in English language. But still, I wasn't contented, until I rediscovered jazz music. Since then, I slowly rediscovered some of my favorite artists when I was still a kid and disovered some new artists and genres, making me a better musician.

And so, here are my influences as a musician:
The Beatles
The Carpenters
Apo Hiking Society
Don Moen
Linkin Park
etc.

And the newly discovered music artists:
Jeff and Sheri Easter
Gaither Vocal Band
Eric Johnson
etc.

Music Structure

I've just started creating a blog with a help from my dad's former officemate. Many people have invited me about this thing called "blogging". I really love criticizing music, especially its music structure. I have a lot of stuff to share with, and I'm proud to say that I've not found even a very single thing describing the music structure of a certain music artist, particularly Linkin Park. Because I'm so familiar of LP's music structure, my posts will be more on the said rock band. But there's one problem. As said by those who invited me about this stuff, I'm gonna earn out of what I'm gonna post on my blog. And I don't know how to earn out of those stuff that I have made, until the day that I found one of the former officemates of my dad, and he shared me some details regarding with this stuff.