Re: Music
MIGleader said:
excuse me? Rap is AWSOME!!! many epople who have only listened to rap once or twice think rap as plain rhyming. but its really evloved music.
first off, your lyrics must rhyme well and at the same time be flavorful. in the 90's, rap had alot of meaning to it too, primarily songs made by the late Tupac Shakur. nowadys though, all they can rap about is bling, cars, cribs, and girls...there are only a few "real" rappers left.
Beats are another key element to a sucessful song. Rap has terrific beats to it
Ryhthem? the beats are all rythmically placed and the rapper must rap with the beats
accompaniament is not uncommon in rap, as rap artists will star pop or R&B artists in their songs somethimes, which also adds melody. Jay-z and linkin park's collision course album is a perfect example of a cross-genre rap. It's lead single, Numb/Encore, soared to number one on the charts.
studio made sythesized sounds also add to rap's melody
The most listened to song in history is 50 cent's "In da Club". dont tell me rap is not music.
Ok, first of all Mig, don't take it personally, I'm not trying to offend you or attack your type of music, just wanna point some things out. And I never said rap is not music.
1. Personnally, I have heard VERY FEW rappers who actually rap about poor people on the streets and such alike. Many of the black rappers are so inmoral.
2. While it is true that rap has a strong beat, it is not a very sophisticated beat. At the most, it's just some four quarter note, maybe add in a eighth note, beat that repeats over and over again. I find all the beats in rap music to be really rigid. If you ever listen to any mozart or beethoven, you will know what I mean.
3. I can hardly call Numb/Encore rap, it's more like rock/pop.
4. But it is true that many rap songs only have a certain type of melody in the chorus, and the verses are all wrythm. It is not very evolved, in the sense that it does not have something to balance out the melody/wrythm. In classical music, when there's a melody, almost all of the time, there will be a harmony underneath the melody to add more texture to the sound. And in marchs, a lot of the times when there is a melody, there is a counter-melody, which also adds flavour to the sound. In rock/metal, The singer's sounds are supported by a harmony or wrythm, being played by the guitarists and bassists, with the drums being accompaniment, which adds flavour to the singer's sounds. In rap, well, a bunch of digitally made sounds. They are not as good as using real instruments, in the sense that digitally composed sounds are very rigid and allow no flexibility and decreases the amount of emotion that can be expressed in a piece of music, and besides, you can hardly hear any harmony or counter-melody in these sounds.
5. Sound support. When there is a high/medium voice, it will sound out of place, unless there is a low voice supporting it. That's why there're tubas and double basses in a band, supporting the medium-ranged alto saxs, which in turn supports the higher-pitched flutes and clarinets. In an orchestra, low-pitched basses support the medium-low trombones, baritones, which in turn supports the medium-ranged viola, which in turn supports the high-pitched instruments, like violin. In rock/metal, some of the times, the guitarist plays on the same level as the vocalist, with the bass supporting. Sometimes, the guitarist plays something really high, the vocalist in the medium range (well, it's really hard to sing high, you need an instrument for that), and the bassist in support. (I'm not very well-versed in rock, correct me if I'm wrong) Rap? Nothing's supporting the wrythms...
6. It's not as complicated as some of the other types of music. Such as, I cannot hear the difference between a moderato, to an andante, to an allegro, in rap. That's because rap does not emphasize the difference of tempos. A melody can be defined as a series of moving notes that is the main stay of the piece. Rap does not have a melody, just wrythm. And the songs that do have melody in their choruses, they're not very advanced, covering one octave of notes, max.
7. Oh, forgot to mention one more thing, rap does not emphasize the changes in dynamics (or, "loudness"). I can hardly hear any change in dynamics in a rap song. The common dynamics are: pp,p,mp,mf,f,ff. pp being the softest, and ff being the loudest. Of course, you can add in more p's and f's to exaggerate it. For example, I've seen quite a few pieces with parts written in fff, and one piece that had an ppp in it. I'm not sure if you note it this way in metal/rock, but I can certainly hear the dynamic changes in it.
Again, please don't take it personally.
, but no one is perfect)
