When we talk about music, we would say music is composed via harmonization and rhythm. At least this is true for modern music.
Because for the era long before this ( maybe the classical era, when Beethoven had not started his romantic revolution, rhythm was nothing ). They used mainly tonal harmonization composing style instead of rhythmic composing-which is mainly used nowadays.
Who are the musicians and how we consider harmonization? For me, musician is one of those who are able to play out a sound from something, and it's meaningful-can be solos or harmonization with other musician.
So, as we say that most of the music nowadays are made of rhythmic composing, rhythmic harmonization is at uppermost important. Drummer is the main man in charge of rhythmic session of a song, and the key is to harmonize with other instruments played. Rhythmic harmonization! Although drummer usually don't know about music theories other than beats and pattern, LOL!
Sadly, nowadays, there are too much of music depends solely on rhythm, and sometimes you would be annoyed and disappointed by the identical chord progression and verse-chorus-bridge arrangement style. Hence, if a particular piece of music is composed carefully, that is, considering both rhythmic and non-rhythmic (tone harmonization, as in classical and jazz) part, 'it' should sound very nice. Or maybe i should address that music 'She' or 'He'!
Anyway,
This theory seems doesn't fit in to the 'experimental music'. I still can't get it. One introductory example, try listen to white noise. Yes, White noise, the sound you hear on a TV when those white and black spots come out after the 'national song' sang-when all the TV programs ends.
Lastly, don't think that white noise is annoying. Maybe it's just because your TV speaker is not good enough. Provided the audio system is good enough, white noise is used in some physical-psycho-therapy thingy. It actually makes us feel calm!!! Why?!
Because for the era long before this ( maybe the classical era, when Beethoven had not started his romantic revolution, rhythm was nothing ). They used mainly tonal harmonization composing style instead of rhythmic composing-which is mainly used nowadays.
Who are the musicians and how we consider harmonization? For me, musician is one of those who are able to play out a sound from something, and it's meaningful-can be solos or harmonization with other musician.
So, as we say that most of the music nowadays are made of rhythmic composing, rhythmic harmonization is at uppermost important. Drummer is the main man in charge of rhythmic session of a song, and the key is to harmonize with other instruments played. Rhythmic harmonization! Although drummer usually don't know about music theories other than beats and pattern, LOL!
Sadly, nowadays, there are too much of music depends solely on rhythm, and sometimes you would be annoyed and disappointed by the identical chord progression and verse-chorus-bridge arrangement style. Hence, if a particular piece of music is composed carefully, that is, considering both rhythmic and non-rhythmic (tone harmonization, as in classical and jazz) part, 'it' should sound very nice. Or maybe i should address that music 'She' or 'He'!
Anyway,
This theory seems doesn't fit in to the 'experimental music'. I still can't get it. One introductory example, try listen to white noise. Yes, White noise, the sound you hear on a TV when those white and black spots come out after the 'national song' sang-when all the TV programs ends.
Lastly, don't think that white noise is annoying. Maybe it's just because your TV speaker is not good enough. Provided the audio system is good enough, white noise is used in some physical-psycho-therapy thingy. It actually makes us feel calm!!! Why?!
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drums not only deals with rythme, it also got harmonization..haha!
because we hit at different drums , different tomb, which produce differet pitch... these add into the harmonization color and depths...
africans good in this..
Chinese by nature... poor in this area..
Hmm.. you have your point!
We call this percussion right? It's a lot harder than pure room kit drum. And timpani, you get notes from it!!
Quite a challenging topic, i'll try to check it out!
African; latin music, good in making use of the drum, to harmonize, intensify various music emphasis. Percussionist knows well..
Thanks for the comments.
Although the emphasis is there, sometimes, i feel that latin music is relatively more boring, even if compared to classical music. Maybe the beat is too much harmonized and it's lack of climax, shocks and irony.
However, undoubtedly, they do play a nice job in harmonization.
I listened to some African music (non-latin) before. Their beat are quite interesting. At first, it's very inspiring. But, as in any other music, there is a fixed style that is used over and over again. This may cause the boringness.
It sounds a little bit like latin (maybe they are influenced by / influencing), and a little bit like Indians.
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