Friday, September 15, 2017

5 Elements of Music that Every Musicians Needs to Know

Talking about elements of music and complete explanations will surely add to our knowledge of music, especially if we are really involved in everyday musical activities as musicians and listeners - There are 5 elements of music that must be known before getting to know the music more deeply and in this article we will discuss it with a complete explanation.


5 Elements of Music that Every Musicians Needs to Know
5 Elements of Music that Every Musicians Needs to Know

It seems almost everyone likes music and in fact we are unconsciously surrounded by an art, which is music art. There is a basic foundation in music art that is a framework that can combine several things that can be incorporated into an art, or we can call it as elements of the art of music.


5 Elements of Music that Every Musicians Needs to Know

Musical scale

We often see it in textbooks on the art of music, the ladder is the order of a tone arranged to form a ladder. There are two parts to the musical scales, the diatonic and the pentatonic scales.


Diatonic tone

A diatonic tone is a scale that has 2 types of distance (1/2 and 1) with 7 pitches.


Pentatonic tone

The pentatonic staircase is simpler than the diatonic scales, the pentatonic scales consist of only 5 basic notes.

There are certain interval patterns on each of the scales, each of which has one basic note and followed by other notes that may be lower or higher, thus forming certain characteristics.


5 Elements of Music that Every Musicians Needs to Know
5 Elements of Music


Melody

A melody is a piece or full form of tone expression to be conveyed to a music listener or connoisseur. Melody with intervals that are reached by both human and musical sounds is a good level of melody. So music artists must learn the melody when they want to express all or part of the notes of the music they make.

The melody is short and high in music. As we used to hear in a song, the melody will sound like a tone that seems to rise to the top and then back to its original state.

Melody consists of tone, duration, and pitch. Pitch is also called the color of sound or timbre that can set a series of notes, denoted by the alphabet A through G. If note A to G is a melody in a certain time interval, then can be called duration. Then Tone is produced from different sound colors and comes from various musical instruments.


Rhythm

Rhythm can not be directly felt by the audience or listeners of music, because it must listen to it repeatedly. Because rhythm is the basic element of music with a series of regular motion. Each circuit is made up of repetition of sounds, the determination of the short length of a word in a song. All that happens because of the change of words in the words of a song. Can also be called as a determinant of beats in music.

The rhythmic feeling will come out when the rhythm gets its pattern, the rhythm can harmonize a person's feelings to be in tune with the physical movement - usually people express it by nodding or shaking their heads to follow the rhythm of the song.



Bar

Bar is a repetitive swing or tap and comes at the same time regularly. Written in fractions like 2/3, 2/4, 3/4, and so on. The "/" sign is called the denominator that shows the pitch value in a tap.

Bar is made up of 2 different types, including bamaar and barbeque bars. Bainar bar is a bar which the value of the denominator is even, while the bar is the weird one.



Tempo

Tempo became the main thing in music which is the measure of the speed of the song, the size of the tempo is the beat. Beat is a tap that shows the number of beats in a minute. In symbolic if a song with a beat of MM 60, it marks in one minute there are 60 beats. A tempo determines the speed of a song - the bigger the tempo, the faster the song is played.




Conclusion about the 5 Elements of Music

With that we can add the basic science of the art of music after knowing the 5 elements of music that have been described, apply the above material and practice now to train the musicality owned. These elements must be known when we want to deepen vocal techniques and instruments, according to the material consisting of:

  • Tone
  • Melody
  • Rhythm
  • Bar
  • Tempo

Maybe that's all we can write to the article about the 5 elements of music that every musicians needs to know as the foundation for every musician and music lover, when someone wants to be asked, please fill in the comment field below - Do not forget to share this article to social media or to friends near you and tell them about the 5 elements of music that have been described.

Faris D is an Indonesian Musical Storyteller who loves to share his experience and aims to improve his musicality. His stage name is Etcz, a Hip-Hop activist.
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