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Improve Taste for Music

1. Intro

Too many to choose from, what music I like?

I need to try

2. Western Classical

Early music

Baroque

  • Opera
  • Marches
  • Classical
    • Symphony
    • Romanticism

Suite:

  • Prelude
  • Allemande
  • Courante
  • Sarabande

3. Jazz

Early:

  • New Orleans, collective improvisation and strong brass band
  • Swing: big band and danceable rhythms

Bebop: reaction against swing’s commercialization

Fusion:

  • Hard bebop, mix blue, gospel, R&B
  • Modal, simple and modal scale
  • Fusion: rock, funk, world music

Modern:

  • Acid Jazz: groove oriented, danceable
  • Ethno Jazz: global

4. Rock

Characterized by a strong backbeat

5. Why Human Like Music/Jazz

How to appreciate random music?

  • It still to contain some form of information
  • Image it like the random step frequency from human

Why certain frequency? Fire the neuron more predictable

  • That means it carry some information
  • Has lower entropy, means easier to decode

6. Genre Explained

Music Genres Explained in 8 Minutes

Classical

Jazz 90’s

Blues: from deep south

Country music: love, hardship, life in rural America

Rock’N”Roll, fix

Soul and R&B, vocal, smooth, saxphone

Funk: 1960’s

Raggae: Jamica music influence

Disco: 1970, night club, night life

Hip Hop: 1970 in New York, social and politic issue

K-pop: visual elements

Trap: 2000s, sub of hip-hop