10-19-2009, 06:05 PM
Breand Wrote:meh. I dunno calling all music math is like saying there's no difference between Joe Satriani playing a guitar and Bo Diddley.
There is no difference musically. If they are playing the 1-4-5 blues progression they are playing the same exact thing. One player may be able to physically do something the other can not because of the base talent difference but everything else is essentially the same.
Hoofhurr Wrote:Yeah I guess I don't see the point of playing music if solving a proof gives the same satisfaction. Music has emotional component for me that isn't mathematically derived. That being said I have to wonder if human emotion has its own limited range which might really limit originality.
Exactly. That is the same question I am asking just with a slight variation.
You are incorrect that music is capable of creating an emotional response and be completely mathematically derived. Emotions can be created by music but can be perfectly explained by the math used to create them.
For example:
Play a 3 chord progression in a minor key. It is automattically sad and will spark sad emotions. Write the same progression in a major key and it would be happy. This all by changing the third note in the octive from a Major third to a Minor Third (basically a half town downward). Sad or evil songs are in minor keys, happy ones in major keys. (Generally speaking).
This is how the music industry today uses certain pre-formulated things in order to spark emotiongs.
For example:
Modulation. Take Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer" or any Maria Carrey/Beyonce song. When the song is repeating the chorus at the end of the song they modulate the chorus up one key. Say from C to D in order to give the elusion that the song actually kicks into another gear. Actually all they are doing is a simple modulation from one key to another. The chord progression stay's exactly the same they just play it in another key.
This elusion creates a listener to think it actually gets faster but in reality it doesn't.
With out taking your own personal nostalgia or pyschy into account any good musician knows exactly how to spark emotions by playing a certain way. They can repeat it everytime and achieve the same results.
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