Musical Sounds

In understanding what musical sounds is, first lets consider sound itself. What is sound? the answer is simple and is taken from different angles.

Sounds are vibrations emitted from a medium when it is being hit, plucked, ringed, tapped, or stroked. Having said that, we now consider musical sounds.

What is musical sounds?

Musical sounds are vibrations emitted from musical instruments when they are being hit, plucked, ringed, tapped, or stroked.

Difference between musical sounds and other sounds(noise)

 A sound is a noise when that has an irregular beat. They are irregular vibrations that comes from any kind of medium, while musical sounds are regular beats or vibrations emitted out from mediums such as musical instruments.

In layman’s’ understanding, noise are irregular sounds while musical sounds are regular sounds. That is why when a musical instrument plays our hearts grows fonder because it reaches our ear uniformly.

Musical instruments are use to produce musical sounds, and we have three main types of musical instrument. They are:

String Instruments: The Guitars, the Banjos, the Violins, and the Harps.

Percussion Instruments: The Drums, the Tambourines, the Cymbals, the Bells, the Gongs, and the Pianos.

Wind Instruments: The Trumpets, the trumpets, and others.

The string instruments are played by plucking the strings, and the percussion instruments by hitting, ringing or striking, while the winds instruments by blowing air into the air columns.

Music Theory; difinition and advantage.

  Music theory or language is about explaining the music we hear through scientific terms and formulas. that you have never toke a music theory class does not make you a lesser musician, in fact if you are a good musician, you already know a lot of music theory, but the only thing is that you just may not know the scientific terms and formulas for what you are doing.

 Music theory is very much like learning the grammatical rules in a written language, also it is to composers what grammar is to poets.

why is music theory necessary?

 Music theory is necessary and rewarding if you want to go into music, because it helps in learning new techniques, and performing rare and unfamiliar styles of music. It can also boost your confidence to explore the unexplored in the music scenes.

 I believe that in music you reap what you sow, so for composers it is strictly advisable to get a bit of music theory, because it makes it easier for you and puts you in a place to know what is next and what to expect before it comes. But it takes some sacrifices and discipline such as: MONEY, TIME, your INTELLECT and you may also have to sacrifice what you love most doing! but at the end it pays.

 Remember, “when the going gets tough the tough get going” and “all perseverance leads to conquering”. Learning music theory is a higher and deeper thing altogether from having the musical talent and can sing very well, it is like a mere computer operator learning computer engineering!