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Title pretty much explains what I'm going to say. Music interests me to no end. Someone's favorite song may not be appealing to someone else, and vice versa. How someone can love a certain type of music and someone else doesn't like it both confuses and fascinates me.
From what I know, musical interest comes from:
A. How the person was raised
and
B. What the person wants to be said about them self (I can't think of a better definition right now).
Answer A makes sense. If someone grew up in the country they'd tend to like country music, if they grew up listening and playing to classical they'd tend to like classical, etc.
B is a little harder to understand. If you're a very calm and collected person, you study a lot and are very factual, you would like classical. If you live on instinct and you rush into situations and love adrenaline, you would like metal (when I say these things, I'm just "guessing", so to speak. I'm sure there are people in group A that like metal and some in group B that like classical).
But two people who grew up on classical and loved it can still disagree on songs. Not to mention someone who likes classical may like genres that aren't classical.
As far as I know, aside from the above examples, I don't think there's a psychological example as to why we like music (yet). From what I've read in books and such, animals don't care for music (aside from a few examples such as a dog keeping a beat and cats playing piano in synch with a song). Another thing is, music cannot be produced from nature. Aside from a waterfall soothing you and calming you down or other such audible examples, there is no "music" in nature. In other words, music is something entirely created by humans. Music can entirely change someone's mood,
opinion, or emotions.
Go to a piano and hit a note. Now hit that same note and hit another note after the first is pressed. Now keep pressing notes until you find an order that sounds like a little tune or so.
You now have a rythem going. Notice how it sounds different from that first note? It's almost as if the first note changes its sound. Music works in synchronization (somewhat like humans). As you add and take away notes, you have a completely new tune. As you do this, you should learn something simple: music is endless. I'm sure you've realized this before, but if you think about all the different instruments, different human voices, and endless amount of editting we can do with technology, (not to mention you can make many different electronic sounds in songs) it's almost overwhelming (to me, anyway). The endless ways people can present music, the different ways we can change one's emotions, and the different musical tastes in people makes music truely interesting to me.
I'm not 100% sure why I made this, I just felt like posting it and I hope it makes sense to others. In my opinion, music is one of the best things in life. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR Music is endless and fascinating.
On a side note, anyone else having trouble making a blog? I got like 50 error lines when I made mine and it was hard to fix it.
Title pretty much explains what I'm going to say. Music interests me to no end. Someone's favorite song may not be appealing to someone else, and vice versa. How someone can love a certain type of music and someone else doesn't like it both confuses and fascinates me.
From what I know, musical interest comes from:
A. How the person was raised
and
B. What the person wants to be said about them self (I can't think of a better definition right now).
Answer A makes sense. If someone grew up in the country they'd tend to like country music, if they grew up listening and playing to classical they'd tend to like classical, etc.
B is a little harder to understand. If you're a very calm and collected person, you study a lot and are very factual, you would like classical. If you live on instinct and you rush into situations and love adrenaline, you would like metal (when I say these things, I'm just "guessing", so to speak. I'm sure there are people in group A that like metal and some in group B that like classical).
But two people who grew up on classical and loved it can still disagree on songs. Not to mention someone who likes classical may like genres that aren't classical.
As far as I know, aside from the above examples, I don't think there's a psychological example as to why we like music (yet). From what I've read in books and such, animals don't care for music (aside from a few examples such as a dog keeping a beat and cats playing piano in synch with a song). Another thing is, music cannot be produced from nature. Aside from a waterfall soothing you and calming you down or other such audible examples, there is no "music" in nature. In other words, music is something entirely created by humans. Music can entirely change someone's mood,
opinion, or emotions.
Go to a piano and hit a note. Now hit that same note and hit another note after the first is pressed. Now keep pressing notes until you find an order that sounds like a little tune or so.
You now have a rythem going. Notice how it sounds different from that first note? It's almost as if the first note changes its sound. Music works in synchronization (somewhat like humans). As you add and take away notes, you have a completely new tune. As you do this, you should learn something simple: music is endless. I'm sure you've realized this before, but if you think about all the different instruments, different human voices, and endless amount of editting we can do with technology, (not to mention you can make many different electronic sounds in songs) it's almost overwhelming (to me, anyway). The endless ways people can present music, the different ways we can change one's emotions, and the different musical tastes in people makes music truely interesting to me.
I'm not 100% sure why I made this, I just felt like posting it and I hope it makes sense to others. In my opinion, music is one of the best things in life. Thanks for reading!
TL;DR Music is endless and fascinating.
On a side note, anyone else having trouble making a blog? I got like 50 error lines when I made mine and it was hard to fix it.
Though, it becomes very intuitive over time. You don't even think about those things after a while, they just become habitual once your ear develops.
