He envisions 16 songs, dozens of other examples, interviews, printed primary sources, video clips. The thing I can do that people who write about rock generally can't is talk about the music. Maybellene,' there is a certain kind of rhythmic impulse in the way in which the subdominant functions and the melodic apex is reached. That may sound very technical, but it's not. It's rooted in performance.
Winter is exhilarated by digital technology.
In the new medium, he finds, he doesn't have to fight the tedious old cultural-literacy battles. They're irrelevant, and the results are implicit in the technology, so he's free to go on and realize his own ideas. All I'm saying is that in the digital world, talent and brains may have a slightly better chance of rising to the top. He lettered in three sports in high school and briefly considered a career as a professional baseball player before going to Brown University to study science. My father was an engineer, and it never occurred to me that boys did anything other than follow in their fathers' footsteps.