Miles Dewar
107 posts
Dec 05, 2008
7:30 PM
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I would like this strand to explain what makes a certain style of music sound like that "Style"....."What makes Funk "Funk"?" Or what makes Country sound like "Country"?
Im sure there's enough of us to cover many styles. Feel free to get as in-depth as you want to.... and GO BEARS!!!
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Aussiesucker
99 posts
Dec 05, 2008
11:52 PM
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Good question and one that I have often wondered about. If a particular tune is sung by a rock singer it is rock but if sung by a country singer it is country and if sung by a folk singer it is folk -but its the same song! It depends a lot on which audience it is being marketed to. I think that there is only good and bad music. Blues is distinctive with a lot of crossover to Jazz, Country & Rock. Some great some bad. For me I dislike intensly what I refer to as monkey music often played by young idiots driving cars worth about $250 but with sound systems costing $1000's beating out deafening doof doof techno noise! But then I'm probably flagging my age!
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HarpMan Freeman
36 posts
Dec 06, 2008
2:49 AM
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Here is a go at it. At least in part...
Unique familiar musical patterns that are associated with the surroundings of it's origin (geographical as well as Social), people/musicians, and instruments.
Something like that..
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Miles Dewar
108 posts
Dec 06, 2008
4:15 PM
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LOL, the singer. Nope, i don't think so. lol. I'm sure you can't put a "Heavy Metal Singer" with a bluegrass band and call it "Heavy Metal".
Thanks for the thought though.
I understand that it is UNIQUE musical style that makes the "Sound". What contributes to the sound? Whether it be heavy Syncopation, or usually wailing on the 2nd or 4th beat. What are the Unique properties that give it the style?
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Oliver
32 posts
Dec 06, 2008
4:31 PM
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Hmm, good question.
I guess it's a bunch of different stuff. Rigorously defined I suppose certain genres follow certain strict formulas, some more than others. On top of that there are the reoccurring themes and motifs etc. that a particular genre share. Certain genres have a particular scale that they adhere to, or sometimes not.
A blues for example (and I'm certainly no expert on this so take my thoughts with a pinch of salt...) might follow one of the various 12 bar progressions, it might reference the 'blues scale' in its note selection. It might contain flourishes (this is not quite the right word) such as warbles on a harp, ubiquitous turn arounds on a guitar or harp, guitar slides etc. etc. Call and responce. Lyrically themes might be someones baby leaving them, having no money etc.
Country again has its scale. I can't think off the top of my head any defining country musical characteristics in particual, but Im sure there are many. Lyrics might be about one-way tickets somewhere etc.
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oldwailer
359 posts
Dec 06, 2008
6:17 PM
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I think "Style" is a personal thing--like, Little Walter developed a "Style" of playing the blues.
A "Genre" is a type of music--a very broad term--Country, Blues, Rock, Rap, jazz, funk--those are Genre's.
The style would be determined by a specific persons approach to playing a particular Genre.
The Genre would be governed by a loose format--like a twelve bar blues--or a country song which follows (generally) a pentatonic scale rather than a blues scale.
Of course there is a lot of bleed-through on all of these elements--Rock will be blues sometimes, and Rock can also change keys like crazy and sound like jazz. There is some gospel music that rocks my blues-loving soul.
I don't know what the hell funk is--Adam would know.
Of course, as usual, I could be way off base here. . .
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MrVerylongusername
38 posts
Dec 06, 2008
6:38 PM
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Funk emphasises the 1 (downbeat) and not the backbeat rhythm of rock & roll. It's about rhythm and less so about melody - 1 chord songs are not unusual, great to jam along with a harp to.
Check out Sly and the Family Stone's "I want to take you higher" and Funkadelic's "What is Soul?" for funk with harmonica.
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Miles Dewar
113 posts
Dec 06, 2008
6:48 PM
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Now that's what i was looking for!
Thank you "MrVerylonusername" Anyone else have any ideas?
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