Welcome
Welcome to my blog of Music Appreciation and Education.
Dear Friends, I am sorry that I haven't been updating much on Rock due to a whole bunch of commitments. More importantly, I shall be starting a new vlogging session soon. Still in the process of getting it out. Meant to make it easier to learn. =) Thank you for your understanding!
If you're new here, or wondering what this blog is about, please read:
First Post - Introduction
For Basic Listening Skill knowledge, please start with:
How To Start Listening To Jazz
and
How Do You Start Analysing
The current series: Basics of Listening - Genres - Classical 2
Basics - Genres - Classical 1
Basics - Genres - Classical 2
Basics - Rhythm - Rock
Basics - Genres - Rock 1
Basics - Genres - Rock 2
Basics - Genres - Rock 3
Basics - Genres - Rock 4
Basics - Rhythm - Funk
Basics - Rhythm - Funk 1
Basics - Rhythm - Funk 2
Basics - Rhythm - Funk 3
Basics - Rhythm - Funk 4
Basics - Rhythm - Swing
Basics - Rhythm - Swing 1
Basics - Rhythm - Swing 2
Basics - Rhythm - Swing 3
Basics - Rhythm - Swing 4
Basics - Genres - Pop
Basics - Genres - Pop 1
Basics - Genres - Pop 2
Basics - Genres - Pop 3
Basics - Genres - Pop 4
Reference for dissection of a song: Stacey Kent Series
For a run through of her series to join me in analysing her piece "The Best Is Yet To Come" on YouTube from a live performance:
Stacey Kent 1
Stacey Kent 2
Stacey Kent 3
Stacey Kent 4
Random Comments:
Random Comments 1 - Audiophiles
Thank you.
posted by Seow Yi Zhe @ 12:30 AM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Hi i stumbled across your blog and i am amazed at your knowledge of music. I am a salsa dancer myself and I am trying to learn more about the Rhythm and Timing in salsa music. Attached is one of my favourite salsa music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FadzTIxXZfY and hope you can help me out by sharing your knowledge with respect to this kind of music. My email is black.rainbow69@hotmail.com as I might forget to check back here for your reply. Many thanks.
Hi!
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm doing what I can to spread the love for music. I would like to start this by asking a few questions. At the starting of the song do you feel more relaxed and smoother, and bobbing in a rather fluid form, but after they speed up you actually feel this feeling of overall increase in velocity of your movements, not as fluid, but more energetic.
If you do please do share. I love Latin music because they contain so much complexity without having a single bit out of place or out of point. =)
Hi Yi Zhe thanks for the email notification. Glad to hear that you love latin music also.
Here is what i feel, the starting is indeed more relaxed and smoother sort like a foreplay to the next segment. when the songs starts to speed up and enter the climax, definitely there is a heighten sense of emotions and my movements will tend to respond to the music with much more forceful and faster movements(or "punch" so to speak) which is similar to what you have mention. There are certain parts in the song when the music tends to slow down a bit after the peaks and that is where i try to have more fluid movements in anticipation of the next climax.
I agree that latin music have so much complexity! i must admit that my proficiency in understanding latin music is truly only at the tip of the iceberg.
Tanks for your time once again.
Everyone's understanding would be only tip of the iceberg unless we actually live in South America and live and breathe the music. You'll actually realise that the song doesn't really speed up but feels faster. If you put a metronome to the music you'll realise that the tempo is the same. The tempo is the objective count of how many beats per minute, but the feeling is slowing down and speeding up. This also gives you the feeling of fluidity or punch.
Nod to the beat of the music, you'll realise that the different in the nodding is only in the feeling of it, not the speed. Why's that? Because it's their placement of their notes according to the pulse. We can all find the pulse by trying to find a beat where we find ourselves comfortable dancing to. Then comes the next part, you hear the notes' position in relation to the pulse. We have those behind the beat and ahead of the beat. Behind the beat means after the beat then they play. That's the front of the song, where you feel more relaxed and more fluid. However, at the second half there was a lot more punch because of the fact that they went ahead of the beat. Giving the punch.
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