What Makes Music
The goal of this website will be to give you a rough understanding of how music works and the science behind it. Lets dive right into it!
There are a lot of concepts going on in the background that make music what it is but with just a few basic concepts you can go a long way. The first thing to understand about music would be Notes!
These are the sounds and pitches we are used to hearing. When making a song you are basically just using the notes and organizing them in different ways to make unique sounds. Sometimes you'll play
the notes in ascending order, sometimes descending and other times you will be going all over the place. Interesting melodies are made from using interesting combinations of notes.
The next concept we'll be covering is called Scales! Scales are interesting ways of organzing notes to target a specific sound. The important part of scales are the intervals inbetween notes.
The spacing of notes causes the feeling of them to change or sets a different atmosphere. Some scales feel happy by nature, others sad, and some even feel dark or menacing. Just like notes
you can play scales in all different orders. As long as you are targeting the key notes the sound of the scale will still be recognizable.
The final thing to understand about music is timing or Rhythm! Rythm is the idea of making interesting sounding beats and playing them on time. When you're at a concert
and nod your head to a song you are locking into the rhythm. Usually there are many different rythms being played at once by the different instruments but generally these rythms all lock together.
This is where the timing comes in. When playing with other people it's important you're all on the same page and playing to the same time. Just like notes and scales, rhythm is made interesting
by finding different combinations or patterns of playing the notes.
