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  1. Brett Nortje

    Brett Nortje Well-Known Member

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    Music is something of an art to be enjoyed, yes? This means it is emotional and physical, a part of our real world. To get the emotions to 'the excited point' where we feel enjoyment and euphoria because of it, we need to observe, since it is in a practical physical world, it will be scientific and mathematical too.

    Most songs today are made to a certain formula. This is where we randomly pluck away at various instruments, trying to make a beautiful melody of some sort. This is remembered and written down onto sheets of paper showing the sequence and patterns we use. If you were to observe that we often merely string strings of notes of the same sort together, we will find we have made words and phrases out of music, where we will be able to make paragraphs and chapters of song, of course.

    So, if we were to observe that, like cooking, these sounds will tweak our senses or taste buds, we could fathom that we could cook up a nice song nearly every day, yes? This is beautiful because it appeals to your emotions, but, why is some music dismissed as being too different - is there a song that everybody will enjoy?

    If there is a song that everybody will enjoy, it would be something that reminds everybody of home. Some people have voices, like Barack Obama, that makes everybody feel comfortable. This is because when he speaks, his voice washes over all eardrums and soothes them, making them listen to 'something nice sounding.'

    How do we define, for example, Barack Obama's voice? What genre of music would that be, first of all? I would guess that it would be something deep, and, this would infer a tuba, maybe? So, our perfect song, or, universal song, would use a tuba, so far.

    To observe that the tuba is a base instrument, that it makes base sounds, unlike a guitar which makes more artificial sounds, means it irons out the problems of variety - there is very little one could do variety wise with a tuba, yes?

    Then, take a phrase everybody likes; "I love you." This phrase will resonate with all cultures and time lines in every language, as it sounds like his voice, yes? This is a short sentence, making it simple for our tuba, and, the syllables will be 'iey luv yoo,' yes? Three is considered to be beautiful for all languages as a chant in soccer stadiums and other sport, always cropping up due to popularity. This is because we associate it with 'ha ha ha,' or, it infers three short breaths, which will be enough to raise our heart rate without going overboard. So, it is like the shortest bit of vocal exercise we can accomplish, put into three flat sounds, through a tuba.

    Now, to find the notes, we would observe that all tuba notes are flat and deep. Simply regularly breathing and pushing the buttons will result in a beautiful song everybody will like, logically.
     
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    So, that was a song that everybody should enjoy, as much as Obama's voice? Let's try a different technique to make 'the perfect song?' This will require a little bit of a sound everybody enjoys - names, everybody enjoys the sound of their own name being called, and, voices, everybody seems to like the sound of their own voice, but let's go with names?

    Have you ever heard the sound of the soccer fans chanting? They break it into syllables, or, it seems to result in broken syllables. This will usually be a three word chant, or, three breaths. I remember finding, to my amusement, that people's emotions will be pleased - that they will enjoy the act emotionally - of reading a lot of short words, as, they will not stop to decipher the word. Truth be told, unless you are familiar with the word to some exemption or greater calling, a great 'used to it' if you will, you will always hesitate before a big word as you try to put it into the sentence, because, the longer the word the harder it is 'to say to yourself.'

    ~ If you were to observe the voice box, we breathe when we read. This is a nervous impulse of the taking the word in, or, for lack of a more base explanation, swallowing the word, okay? This means we can alter our heart rate to be slower, which will be more relaxed, and, more pleased, and, also, not break the breathing cycle of the calmness we seek, of course. This is achieved, I find, by keeping the language simple and steady.

    So, if we were to observe that we are looking for two, maybe another value at this point, but probably two, syllables, as most names have two syllables, and will sound like our names, we would also want them to be as if the sweetest sound of all - our names coming from our mother's mouths when we are small, yes? What pitch would that be in? I reckon it would be in a soothing pitch, so, it would not be done by a flute or a piano, but rather by a guitar, I reckon. The guitar has the long sounds that resonate or echo for a while, and, the longer a note is, the more soothing it is.

    ~ Have you ever noticed how amateur guitarists always pluck the string three times? Plucking it twice will have better results, or, in clusters of two, I figure.

    There is our base of a song! We can pluck a guitar twice, with semi long notes, as short ones lead to excitement. The short ones lead to excitement because the breathe is short, leading to a raised heart rate, of course. Subconsciously, musicians use short notes to raise their heart rate to give them more energy, evidently.
     
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    Let's add another instrument with new parameters or reasons for them and the whole song? This would have to be a nursery rhyme or bad time song, as, these are simple and soothing, something we might be able to identify with. Instead of copying popular songs, in light that they have topped the hit parades and such with their popularity, we need to 'go base,' yes?

    Which songs should we consider - let's make a short list? The most base song, or, oldest song I can think of is 'a Sumerian Hymn' written before Christ, but that is terrible. Maybe a better song would be "rock a bye baby," or, 'roses are red?' Yes, these chords are good, but, let's stick with "rock a bye baby?"

    If we were to observe this song, it is about saying words the baby is becoming familiar with, the root of their language skill set, with "a," "bye," "baby," "tree," "top," "down," "cradle," and the word "and." let's observe these words for common types of syllables? These are the most comforting words one can hear, if we translate it into music, we could make a great song, yes?

    So, we need merely observe these words to understand the most comforting words - bed, food, yum, good, mummy and daddy. These would indicate the favourite syllable is the one "dhe." This we need to translate into a sound, of course!

    "Dhe..." the way you pronounce the letter "d." This would be like plucking a string on a guitar that is a note that indicates, a finale, so, maybe a low note? A note that is not deepest, but, would indicate, somewhere towards the bottom, but close to the middle of the line notes, that 'the song is pausing.'

    ~ So far, we have a tuba, making three low notes, a guitar making two high notes, and another guitar making semi low notes to the tune of rock a bye baby, yes?

    Let's reflect while I try to imagine how it will sound?
     
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    Then, there is 'pitch.' This would be where we have our song, or, my song's rhythm at 2/4 low chords a 'pause.' This is because there are two seconds to a four chord plucking, of course. This would mean our rhythm now has a beat other than rock a bye baby, but, maybe we could take the tricks we learned from there, with the "dhe" sound, phonetically, being basically the real fruit,

    So, it should take about one tone to a second, of course.
     
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    Now we are going to mix some mathematics into it! I have learned, over the years, that sheet music and maths are compatible, so, what I am going to try to do is take a fractal and make it manifest into motes of music, of course. But, which one looks the best?

    Once, more, back to breathing and psychology. If we were to observe that in music, people feel the sound before they think about it, we must try to make a lasting impression, so each note flows into one another, without interrupting each other - interruption would indicate loss of breathe, of course - that would be for an exciting song!

    So, we need to take something beautiful, like a pentagon - I have a feeling the pentagon is one of the strongest shapes, as, it puts pressure only on the triangles that ease the pressure through the rest of the angel, being very slight, and, then eases them into the ret of the square, as 'five' seems to be the best option at this point. I say this because five features in the golden musical ratio or set of chords suggested to make "perfect music," of course. This is the obvious choice, therefore.

    Then, we need to take the musical note of a low tone, coming to ten seconds for 'each beat.' This would indicate a common tune to the beat of "forty" or five beats to the eight tone electronic beat that seems to be popular with binary. So far, this five is working well?

    Forty seconds or beats, coming to about twenty seconds a cycle. This would mean we can include the guitar with the two high pitched notes, the tuba with the three low pitched notes would go into sixty, and this would have to be sped up or slowed down, maybe, taking away from the crux of the song. Then, the four notes of the guitar, slowed down t o sound like two notes to four or five seconds, either way is fine, I reckon.
     
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    I have heard one of my friends compose a similar song, and, it sounds good so far, we just need more soothing sounds to make it sound more commercial, so modern day people can enjoy it. I say that they will enjoy it more with more soothing sounds as the heart rate will drop even lower and then result in a more relaxing experience!

    So, what else can we have? How about a flute? This would, on a 'digital device,' be akin to a long note, one that carries with the wind, or from your breathing directly, yes? This would result in you really feeling the music, so, all songs of flute types, nearly all sheet music, would be to your satisfaction, or, you could not stand to practice!

    If we were to observe 'our rock a bye baby song,' maybe we could mix the flute into it? I propose the lengths of our flute, the capacity to produce long flowing notes, not altering too much at once, as, that would cause a breath in - yes, we want to make the listener breathe out so much they pass out, well, sort of! - would be to use the flute to produce a eight second or digital beat sound, or, multiples of that, and then have them low tones, that compliment the tuba, the most dominant sound.

    ~ If we were to use the dominant tuba as the lead instrument, the ones the others compliment, the sound would stay uniform, as, the tuba would lead the tone and pitch of the song while the others leach off of it's 'loud sounds.' This will produce structure and a pattern we can alter - it is much easier to modify a song around a long low sound that a short high pitched one, yes? I also suggest we drop all the high pitched sounds down to middle of the range sounds, of course. This will produce 'a song of echoes,' or, one that carries a breathe out over to eh next breathe out, leading to maximum enjoyment, of course.

    Then, we could use the flute to produce a two thirds tuba noise, so, if the tuba was to produce a eight second burst, the flute would be now modified to produce a six second burst, so that the relays would carry on until 'the three tones of the tuba,' resonating or causing more echoes, as, the three over three over two thirds, over five over five, over forty / twenty would result in something being active continuously, of course.
     
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    Now let's make a song that makes you full of energy? This would require that your heart rate is raised, and, then that your nerves relay this energy along each other easily. This of course would call for many short beats, and, soothing ones at that. This would require that the tones be made of short dull noises, so that the muscles may relax, as, the high pitched ones will make you stiff, and, that leads to stress.

    Hey, this makes me think of 'voices.' If what I have postulated is true, then the low voices of those nature documentaries will have a soothing effect, allowing us to concentrate?

    At that, to study and work, and, zone in, we should listen to similar music? This would be 'short length notes' of low pitch, of course. But, how do we make it so that we can remain focused, and, what instruments and beat do we use?

    Maybe if we were to use a melody that is exciting, in terms of it having not too long a duration - in other words, it should have a 'chorus' and a 'verse set,' - then it could be based on two things, heart beat and breathing, yes?

    How often does the heart beat between breaths? I would figure, since the heart beats at about triple the rate we breathe, in and out, coming to six beats per exhale time, we could put it down to a measured six beats per medly of beats, and, then six beats to a break, yes?

    The tune should be something that everyone likes, maybe the sound of 'laughter' or 'to the tune of breast feeding?' If you were to listen to the tune of breast feeding, the tune could be "ulp ulp ulp," in that medly, yes? This could be the instrument known as the banjo or such a instrument, of course. The beat would be further edited by having a swallowing sounding instrument in the back ground, supporting the main instrument.
     
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    Music is artistic, though I've met people who turned music into something Autistic; Music is personal, an expression from a person or group of people; at least it should be.
    Nowadays it seems people who can't sing sound like auto tune, and singers don't even have to know how to sing any more with auto tune and it's annoying to me when it gets released and played, but I'm just one man, who likes his guitar and his music from whatever genre. - because at the end of the day, this artistic vice is powered by big business, the music business, and it's big. - and auto tune just seems easier while dreamers who might think themselves talented might surcome to a reality TV show and be exploited; so between exploitation from Big Business you've got big Business being lazy with auto tune; is it designed to keep people down? IDK, I just know making it and making it right has to be aware of traps and laziness.
     
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