World Music Day!

Hello,

Today its World Music Day, most of the artists are sharing videos of their performances and streaming live jamming videos. Cool enough. But the thing is how many of them are really good at what they do. Just yesterday, one of my friend from Navi Mumbai shared his biter experience with a singer while performing at at show. The SINGER was not that good and he blamed musicians. But how do a listener or audience know how good or Bad or Immature or Professional an artist is.
The only thing is to develop good habit of Listening good Music. As you develop Taste buds for new Cusinies similarly one should start developing good Taste for Music so you can know how good a performer or Artist is.
Thanks to Social Media and Youtube, we come across Numbers of Artists doing Covers. All they need is good Video maker and Audio Studio with AutoTuner. So AutoTuner, hides all their musical flaws by Putting their Vocal into Perfect pitch and Video shows how Glamorous they are. As many People say that Now a days Music is more a Video and Less Audio. More and More People are interested in Watching a Video of a new song rather enjoying it on iPod or Radio. Thats how society has become. Changed.
My Only Request to all people out there, Please listen to some GOOD MUSIC, develop good taste for music and than Support your Friend who is a non Musician but Pursuing it as a hobby.
Here are some links to help you develop Taste for music :-

Hindi Film Music
- Do Naina Aur Ek Kahani- Isharon Isharon Men Dil Lenewale- Abhi Na Jao Chhod Kar-Ab Mujhe Koi-U Me Aur Hum (Male)

Indie Music (Independent Music)
-Bhor-Leaving Home-Khajuraho-Bandheh-Kesariya Balam 

Fusion Music
-Perc Jam-Bombay Fever-Head To The Heart

You can also Search out for Musician who are actually into World Music like,
Trilok Gurtu, Dhaffer Yossef,  Louis Banks and Ranjit Barot.

Would be happy to Answer and Discuss more about your Interest in Music.

Do you know about frequently heard word Frequency?

Well you must have come across ‘frequency’ word many times but what matters is how far do you understand that what does it means?

And its obvious to understand any kind of technicalities, we need too start off with basics.

When we talk about music, we can’t ignore the word frequency.

Now, Frequency is the amount of full cycles a sound wave (compressions and rarefactions of a medium) makes in a second. We measure this frequencies in Hertz (Hz). Frequencies are the amount of time a waveform cycles. The more cycles, the higher the tone/pitch of said waveform.

Pitch is the categorization of frequencies. Timbre is a quality, or color, of an instrument (or person’s voice) that is not related to pitch. The size, shape, and material can all affect the timbre.

One must know Music or Sound is mainly about three kind of frequency. Lows, Mids and Highs…

 Since these frequencies are used to produce music, lets understand each of them individually.

 A human ears can hear only those sounds which are between range of (roughly) 20Hz to 20,000Hz.

Humans hear through the ear-drum, a series of bones, and the cochlea, which is a snail-shell shaped organ that converts the mechanical movements into electrical impulses for your brain. The cochlea has liquid that excites hairs. Lower frequencies tend to take up a wider frequency range, because the sound waves excite more hairs. By taking up, I mean masking, which is when the perception of a sound is diminished by a louder sound. Higher frequency sounds tend to be more ‘precise.’



When we Say LOWs, it means Those instruments which produces Bass Sound.

For eg. Bass Drum, Bass Guitar, Lower Octave of Piano and Cello.

These are some of the Instruments which are used to Get a Bass Sound for any song.

Basically It gives a THUMP feel. Generally Dance Music has heavy Bass Line or Bass Drum Sound to make anyone Dance on the floor.



Secondly Mids are that range where actually most of the things fall into.

From Vocals to flute to Guitar Riffs..Its also known as Full Range of Presence because this where the Music is Present.



Lastly, High Frequency is what you can refer to as Sharpness. When you hear something like shaker or hi-hat sound that's hi-frequency. Tweaking around this Frequency it gives you sharp and edgy sound.



 Queries related to frequencies are most welcomed.

Hope it was worth reading for you



-Nadeem Parmar

Recording aspects of Music world

One important aspect of music world is recording,  one should also know the process of Recording a song.
Process always takes a lot of patience aspects such as how much time it takes, what it takes to get a song ready to release, how easy it has become to be a Singer, Producer.
Only monetary aspect or only having a video channel and getting some paid views doesn’t make you a good artist. It takes hell lot of patience, training and thorough knowledge to be a good musician or singer.

Talking about the process, I would like you to know some of the jargons used for recording.
Few tools like MIDI, DAW, Microphones, Amps, Vst, Plugins, etc. I would like to talk about each of them in my next few blogs.

Waiting for Your Suggestions and questions.

~Nadeem Parmar