My Ethnography essay is on an individual who is part of the heavy metal subculture and is a guitar player. I decided to do it on an individual of the heavy metal subculture because I was introduced to that subculture by my boyfriend, who I am doing this on.
Most people in the heavy metal subculture have long hair or are bald, while he has brown hair down to his ears. He wears blue plain jeans and most of the time black t shirts with different metal bands on them. He always wears black sneakers with a gray Nike sign. He wears no jewelry like most of the people in the heavy metal subculture.
There are two things that are his favorite possessions and they arte his guitars. He has a sunburst Godin freeway classic which is a special design since it’s made to be light. The other guitar he has is from the Schecter Domain special.
During the week he interact with his friends by doing many different things like band practice, playing shows or just hanging out. Every Tuesday he has band practice with his friends who are in his band. They have band practice at his drummer’s basement there they have all the speakers and everything else they need. While at his band practice you can hear them talking about the new songs they are going to write and the places they are going to do shows at. You’ll see them all playing and just having a good time.
If you go to the store with him you’ll notice he mostly buys stuff that he needs to play his guitar. He mostly goes to Daddy’s music store in Dartmoth where he gets any music equipment he needs. The most things I see him buy are Picks, guitar strings, fret board cleaner and string guitar toner. He is always going to the music store for something he needs or just to check out the different things they have there. The walls of the music store are full of Guitars and basses and then all the other equipment around the store.
Three future dreams and they are to get signed to a record company with his band, play music for a living and see the world. He wants to get signed to a record deal so he can play around the world. He wants to play music for a living since he loves playing Guitar. The two places he wants to go to in the future are Germany and Finland since they have huge heavy metal festivals there where a lot of his favorite bands play.
He has a few influences mainly guitar players and other metal bands that he listens to. Some of the Guitar players that have influenced him are Yngwi Malmsteen and Jane Liimattenen who are famous guitar players. One of the metal bands that influence him to write his own music is Sonata Arctica.
I have found this subculture interesting since I never really listened to music or was ever interested in it. Over the eleven months I have found out that Metal music was really cool to listen to and that there were a lot of nice people in that subculture. This is my Ethnography essay on an individual of the subculture Heavy Metal.