Broadly speaking, music is any kind of artistic, pleasant, prudent or other arranged sound. The definition of so-called music is still hotly debated, but it can usually be interpreted as a series of temporal organizations of sound and silence, including rhythm, melody and harmony of different scales.
Music can be experienced in several ways, and the most traditional one is to listen to musicians on the spot. Radio and television can also play live music, similar to listening to tapes or watching music videos. Sometimes live performances will be mixed with some pre-recorded recordings, such as the friction sound made by DJ with records. Of course, you can also make music, sing, play musical instruments or compose music loosely.
Even deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibration of their own bodies. The most famous deaf musician is Beethoven, and most of his famous works were written after he completely lost his hearing.
When people want to learn music, they go to music classes. Musicology is a broad field of music history and scientific research, including music theory and music history.
As an ancient art, many music schools have changed. Ethnomusicology, as a branch of anthropology, is a discipline that specializes in the origin and development of these schools.
This is a matter of opinion, and there are many opinions. The author thinks that music is the art of sound, not the art of vision or other feelings. The art of organizing music sounds according to certain rules (sometimes using noise appropriately) to make people feel wonderful when listening to music is called music.
2。 R & ampB
The whole writing of R & ampB is Rhythm and Blues, which translates as "Rhythm Complaining" or "Rhythm and Blues". A form of music that combines jazz, gospel and blues. This musical term was put forward by American Billboard magazine in the late1940s. Derived a variety of different music types, such as rock, disco, rap, which we are familiar with, can be regarded as R&B developed.
Origin-blues
The predecessor of R & ampB appeared in the black area of America in the 1940s.
At that time, not many people could afford colorful entertainment. Music-loving blacks like to gather in the street after dinner and play music with simple instruments such as guitar and harmonica to express their feelings about life, work and leaving home. This developed the predecessor of B, Blues-R.
With the invention of audio tapes and the emergence of more and more small radio stations, blues music began to jump out of the black circle and became popular in Chicago. I don't know if it's because blues music has been spoken for too long, and fans are eager to hear blues songs with strong rhythm, bright rhythm and less sad content.
However, the word r & ampb was originally a music marketing term created by Jerry Wexler of American Billboard magazine in 1947, which replaced race music (originally from the black community, but considered very unpleasant by the post-war society) and1billboard category Harlem Hit Paradox in June 1949. This word was originally used to define rock music with 12 blues format and boogie-woogie with back beat, and later this music was transformed into the basic elements of rock and roll.
In Rock &; Roll: an unmanageable history "(1995), refer Palmer defined rhythm and blues as any kind of music created by a headline. In Deep Blue published by him 198 1, Palmer used the phrase "r&; As the abbreviation of jump blues, Lawrence Cohn, the author of Nothing But the Blues, wrote that rhythm and blues was invented by the umbrella company $ TERM Industry Conference. Besides classical music and religious music, Rhythm and Blues includes all black music, except that it is a gospel song, and its sales volume is enough to enter the pop music charts.
In the1960s, R&B was used to summarize soul music and funk music. Nowadays, the abbreviation of R & ampb is almost always used instead of full rhythm blues. Referring to the modern soul developed by disco and the pop music influenced by funk, the mainstream usage of this word is not so popular.
Musicians adapt to the changing tastes of the public, and add piano, drums, sexualism and ultra-new technology-electric guitar to their works, so that the audience can dance with this new school of blues with strong rhythm, which has achieved a classic "rhythm accusation".
Fresh rhythm
Important research and development; 1950s and 1960s; Musicians include ray charles, Ruth Brown and Wanderers. After listening to their classic works, we will find that R&; B Music, such as Jay Chou and Utoda, is very different. But as far as musical elements are concerned, there are still many similarities. The most prominent part is the rhythm part.
Most r & amp；; B works take 4 beats as a paragraph and 12 as a paragraph. Different from traditional white pop music, rhythm complaint emphasizes the second beat and the fourth beat in a paragraph, which is a very fresh rhythm effect.
The sound quality is changeable.
Both the timbre of singing and musical instruments will have great changes.
Sound quality is the "texture" of sound. When we hear Mud, we will feel that Xu Zhian sings very sadly; The sound of the wooden boy flute often gives us a very lively feeling. This is the sound quality effect of different songs and instruments.
In B's works by At R&, such as Jay Chou's Bullfighting or The Lady, we can easily find that the opening paragraph and the chorus are obviously treated differently in terms of music and sound.
The singing part and instrumental part often echo each other-in R&; In song B, when the singer sings some sounds, the music part or chorus singer will play/sing those sounds repeatedly, just like "asking and answering questions" or making them sound like echoes.
Another characteristic of R& is that some phrases and sentences will be repeated many times. Just like the continuous "I don't, I don't, I don't" in Tornado, it is an obvious example.
This craze spread all over the world.
R & 1950s; B can bring shock to white youth in America. In addition to a strong sense of rhythm, the frankness of lyrics is also one of the main reasons.
Influenced by different music types, markets, technologies and cultures, today's R & ampb has developed from street black music to music that is popular all over the world, occupying the main sales charts in Britain, the United States, Europe and Asia.
The influence of R & ampB is not limited to music. Our fashion culture, oral life attitude and behavior have also undergone some changes due to R&B music. Hey, man! Duck-billed hat, shit pants, braided head of bag, I believe you and I will not be strangers! That's it, R &；; B has become a channel for many blacks, reds, yellows and whites to get to know each other and appreciate each other's culture!
3。 Electronic drum
China beatbox China Association [i bbox i show] www.bboxcn.com.
Introduction to B-BOX:
B-box is short for beat box.
Is to use your mouth to do the rhythm!
It only flourished 8-9 years ago to form an independent culture.
BeatBox's learning style-use your mouth to make rhythm! (Chinese translation)
Learn beatbox:
The vocal art of percussion instruments is naturally accepted by people. They can make a strong sound with their mouths since they were young, and later they learned that this kind of thing is called beatbox, which is very popular. However, not everyone will find this art.
This article is for beginners of beatbox, but it is only part of it:
Study guide:
Anyone who has read our beatbox guide will make some different sounds with it. When you can make a sound like a keyboard, you begin to understand it basically. If your voice is not very good at first, it doesn't matter. Keep practicing and trying. You don't have to work hard to make your voice sound like an audio player; Everyone has his own unique voice. Finally, I want to say that our mouth and vocal system are not exactly the same.
Listen to beatbox
Listening to beatbox as much as possible is very important for your study. A large number of audio materials of beatbox are saved, especially the original materials of beatbox, qualified audio-visual materials and some MVs. Try to buy all the recordings of beatbox. There is a reason why listening to beatbox is very important for learning:
1 can provide inspiration for your entertainment performance. Many people listened to La Hersel's "If only your mother knew" a long time ago and began to imitate it. This can inspire you to learn beatbox.
Second, we can know who the authority of beatboxer is. Some people can tell you that they are great, but when you listen to them head-on, you probably don't know what the real authority of beatbox looks like.
Third, listening to some types of recordings can help you understand the different styles and techniques of beatbox. Finally, subconsciously, from the recording of beatbox, we can find beatbox's solid and deep voice. This will help you get the right attitude when playing beatbox, and also make your beats sound more natural.
attend a live performance
Try to watch some live performances of beatboxing. If you see an extraordinary performance, it can inspire you to further create beatbox. It can also tell you how to perform beatbox on the stage in this atmosphere, and then gradually develop the mentality of how to make a better beatbox. Tell your friends, too, because when they see a good performance, they will also support you and be interested in the art you are engaged in, which will help you grow and develop. In a word, if you have friends who also decide to learn beatbox, then the competition between you two will begin.
Imitation and creation
Many people have been opposed to imitating other beatboxer, but imitation is a valuable tool for beginners.
First of all, you can prepare for the goal and learn to copy accurate prosodic details or beat style. There are also learning standards through imitation. Whether you can copy and shoot accurately can reflect your ability, so it can help you improve your ability. But remember, it's not advisable to simply copy what others do. Just like Kela put forward: "It's like two DJs have exactly the same records", completely divorced from their own exploration, blindly copying other beatboxer. The main thing is that you make beatbox in the bedroom instead of on the stage. However, since you really want to learn something and impress your friends, it's no problem. The basic idea of creativity is to find a suitable and good beatboxer and learn from others. If he helps you, study, but you should create your own style. First of all, don't be afraid, try something new. That's why you really become a beatboxer.
discuss
Ask more questions you need to solve during the discussion, and there will be many great beatboxers to help you. But before you ask, you need to know whether the question you want to ask has not been asked by others. Or you can make some good suggestions on the online beatbox tribe. You can improve your ability by learning from others.
Practice and practice again.
Perhaps the best advice is: practice and practice. Many beatboxers think that they have been making beatbox for many years, and they are completely practicing, practicing with their mouths. Practice often, anytime, anywhere: bedroom, car, rain, street, etc. Make beatbox your second talent. Try a new sound. Don't be afraid to have a bad voice at first. Keep this mess. A good technique is based on the existing sound, such as the effect of a word or a sound, and then use your imitation ability to try to make something new at a certain time every day, make a complete new sound effect or beat pattern, and then practice it every day or week.
Beatbox
After learning beatbox, your ability will be enhanced, and you will fall in love with it like many other people in the world who fall in love with it. This musician's tool makes you enjoy more happiness, but beatbox is different.
4。 Tone change
There are many kinds of transliteration. Generally speaking, there are three commonly used. 1. Tone conversion. 2. Real voice to falsetto. 3. The accent is nasal. You must be familiar with the first one. In many songs, such a melody often appears, so it is good to mention it. As for the second one, because the real sound and falsetto sound are two different processing systems, just like fm and am, after proper modulation, the trachea suddenly expands, that is, the real sound is sung. Because virtual sound sounds lighter, there will be a sense of distance from real sound to virtual sound. The last one is accent versus nasal. The most commonly used transliteration is Emil Wakin Chau and Faye Wong. In their music, about half of the songs are interpreted like this. As for the way, as long as you sing, when your accent turns nasal, you suddenly close your mouth, don't close your mouth, then pronounce it through your nasal cavity and break it. This is a nasal accent.
5。 hip hop
Hip-hop is a popular culture, including rap music, dance style, graffiti art and fashion. This word is thought to have originated from new york in the 1970s, especially the club DJ (music program host) in that era. This word appeared in the lyrics of some of the earliest rap hit songs, including Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" (1979). Break dancing became a very popular form of street dance in1980s. Today, this word is most commonly used as a synonym for rap music.
Hip-hop is translated into hip-hop and rap is translated into rap. These two concepts are different. Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term, but a cultural term, including rap, graffiti, street dance and DJ disc playing. Singing originated in the 1960s, while hip-hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor is RAP (sometimes with a little R(B)).
Literally, Hip-Hop is Hip, Hop is hop, and together it is Hip-waking. At first, it refers to the budding hip-hop (that is, we used to talk about break dancing), and then it gradually developed into a huge concept-the hip-hop culture we are talking about now also includes loose clothes, heavy pure gold ornaments, and "YoYo?" What's the matter? "Oral habits-in short, it is the lifestyle and their" style "of black people in poor neighborhoods in the United States.
The origin of hip-hop can be summarized by one word "poor". Why do you have to wear a bigger size? In addition to being convenient for exercise, the advantage of this large size clothes is that they can be worn for a few more years; Why is there graffiti? This thing was originally a symbol of dividing the sphere of influence between gangs in the block, and later it became more and more exquisite and developed into folk art; Why is there street dance? Because they can't afford to go to the ballroom, and the problem of racial discrimination still exists at that time, they may not be able to have fun in the white ballroom if they have money; Why are pure hip-hop works dominated by black and dirty words? Because these black street youths have no future and hope, they hate much more than love.
The whole world is cold and hot here.
Although hip-hop culture only rose around us in the late 1990s, in fact, as early as 1980s, hip-hop started in the United States and swept the whole western world. From 65438 to 0986, the "Def Jam Tour" by artists of Def Jam Records Company, including Beast Boy, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and Run DMC, triggered a global hip-hop craze. In the 1990s, there appeared numerous hip-hops, such as the gang rap of Dr.Dre, the popularity of Hip-Hop in P. Diddy (P. Diddy) and the rap queen in missy elliott. They gradually made this folk music the most important part of the mainstream music market, and it can easily create tens of millions of copies of sales. Hip-hop music has become a major source of income for American entertainment industry. Especially in the late 1990s, a handsome young man like Eminem appeared. As a white man, he became the hottest star in the field of hip-hop in just one year, completely breaking the racial problem of hip-hop. Just as Elvis Presley needs to prove that rock music is not only black, Eminem's appearance marks that hip-hop culture accepts white people and goes global.
Someone asked me if hip-hop culture is also a fashion in America. The answer is no, hip-hop culture is a way of life in the United States, just like we have yard life, country life and hutong life here. It's a pity that our position in popular culture in the world today is not as important as that in the United States, otherwise our peasant brothers or Hutong Chuanzi might have their own style (joking).
People in China can't hip hop.
Many people think that Chinese is not suitable for Hip-Hop, because its pronunciation is not similar to that of English, and on this basis, it is concluded that the hip-hop that appears at present is rubbish. I want to say that this is wrong. The quality of hip-hop works is fundamentally not in its rhythm and soundtrack-these are just "models". The real essence of hip-hop music lies in the content it expresses and the attitude of the creator. At this point, some people do very well.
The Harpoon Gang, the Big Blue Hall and the four lower classes in Taiwan Province Province, including the more popular Maji Brothers, are all very popular. For example, Hare Dog Gang, whose works have scolded the old people, teachers, pop singers, even fans and themselves on and off the island, but after listening for a long time, you can only say that they are reasonable and have the jerk temperament and cuteness that a Hip-Hoper should have.
The more important hip-hop groups in Chinese mainland include CMCB (Chinese Rap Brothers), Hidden, Kung Fu and Longmen Group. Their standards are different, and each has its own characteristics, but their similarity is that they don't swear, and the content doesn't involve ethnic groups, and even the mainstream culture is afraid to take it out (especially Bruce Lee and Dai Bing, who debuted earlier).
We all know that they are afraid that their future will be ruined, so you can be funny (in fact, CMCB has a very popular work about meeting netizens), learn from Xue Cun, tell small jokes, and make fun of foreign leaders when necessary ... Unfortunately, these hip-hop people now always want to upgrade themselves to the level of street missionaries. The most modest people also regard themselves as the preachers of fashion life and fashion music, and the content is often about state affairs, life principles and fashion nightlife (of course, it is a very healthy kind of pediatrics, without drugs, sex, fighting, racing or other things that are considered dangerous). Kung Fu, Shui Yue and CMCB brought hip-hop music to the Great Hall of the People at the 1 1 Chinese song chart party. They sang at the performance site: "Kung Fu, Shui Yue and CMCB give China pop music a forward force ..." Save it and let everyone take you to play first.
The Internet is absolutely in full swing. In fact, the best Hip-Hopers in the Mainland gather on the Internet, where there are almost no restrictions: funny MC Hao Yu's university study room, higher education, moon flowers; To a certain extent, Shenyang MM (whose real name is unknown, and whose online name may be Xiaowu) is "super sigh" and "recovering Xiaowu"; "Dalian Railway Station" and "study abroad garbage" of returnees; The mysterious Shanghai girl MacLucy's "Sister K in Shanghai" and so on are all hip-hop masterpieces widely circulated among the people. Do you want to know how popular they are? Search the Internet with a search engine, or visit the FTP of any university. There is a joke that college students who have never heard of the university study room are not college students.
Other well-known works include Black Friday by An Zi, Network Syndrome by Zhou Jiayang, Who Corrupted the Entertainment Circle by Xiao Fei, This is Hip-hop by JE and so on. You can find them online.
label
Hip-Hop is a subculture with anti-cultural tendency, and its destructiveness and folk nature run counter to our traditional popular culture. But from the current situation, it has not only become an important part of mainstream culture, but also is rapidly rising, spreading and developing. A reasonable explanation is that in our increasingly metaphysical era, life and entertainment need not only emotion, innocence, nobility and seriousness, but also the shameless style of being funny, heartless, inferior and daring to despise everything-I'm telling the truth, our cultural life really lacks these. If China's Hip-Hop has so-called hope or development direction, I believe we should start from these places and enter the market in a way eager to flatter mainstream music. I'm afraid it's hard to make a difference.
At present, the main hip-hop participants and audiences are relatively young, and most of them were born around 1980. These Hip-Hopers, who have been exposed to hip-hop culture since middle school in 1990s, will grow into the first generation of hip-hop in China. As they grow up, I believe that China's hip-hop culture will be more and more recognized, just as rock music will no longer be regarded as alien after more than ten years, just as Japanese comics and video games are gradually emerging.
Hip-hop is a culture, not just something. It's not that wearing a big POLO shirt, an ape hat, dunk shoes and a big chain around your neck is hip-hop, but more importantly, spirit.
Hip-Hop: Hip means butt, and Hop means jumping. Hip-hop music originated in the 1970s. B (rhythm and blues), but with R &；; B is completely different, emphasizing the pure dance music of D.J.Remix technique in the ballroom. In the 1980s, this kind of music formed rap music by adding Scratch (turning the record upside down intermittently, giving out the special effect of rubbing with a stylus) and the street rhyme unique to black people. So it can be said that Hip-Hop is the predecessor of Rap, but today these two words can often be mixed, but Rap emphasizes rap and Hip-Hop tends to refer to Beat.
Graffiti: Graffiti, dictionary analysis, is to draw or write on public walls. Nowadays, the tradition of graffiti painting and street form has had a certain influence on artists all over the world. As a sales tool, the early promotion of hip-hop dance always invited graffiti artists to design leaflets and posters. However, in the 1980s, hip-hop music was widely introduced and accepted by the public. For a time, Hip-Hop did not talk about selling culture, nor did it introduce early graffiti forms. Graffiti, whether it is a special skill or a painting technique, also has an influence on art forms, such as the angry graffiti of the Mexican revolution. Nowadays, in American cities where gangs are rampant, violent warnings and threats between gangs are also conveyed through graffiti.
Indie: the abbreviation of independent, which means Indie:Independent label (independent company), the record company to which the artist belongs. Unlike the five Major record companies in the world, which have a huge distribution network, they can do overall design for singers such as styling and publicity activities, because Major (the five major record company system) can provide artists with the best objective environment such as sound recording and accompaniment, and make a complete marketing plan. So they often have the ability to mold an ordinary person into a big star. More importantly, under the consideration of commercial interests, good artists under the big record companies are often forced to sacrifice some ideals and persistence. This is why hardcore rock fans spurn Major's strong commercial color, support some independent record companies, and allow artists to make their own albums according to their own ideals without too much commercial publicity.
Introduce some famous hip-hop singers:
Eminem-I have to mention that, as a white man, he performed very well in this black-dominated music. Favorite Goldstein, without me, sings for the time being (covers the old songs of Smith Spacecraft).
50 cents-a very popular number, no need to introduce it. Listen to a lot of songs, and enjoy 2 1 title best.
D12-a famous rap group, D- 12' s debut album "Devil's Night" has proved this point three years ago.
Snoop Dogg-The voice is unique, and the feeling is that the speech is very plain.
P.diddy, Eminem's enemy, is also a very good singer.
Black eyed peas Chorus and Justin collaborated on a song.
Dr. Derry, a top producer and singer, often appears in many hip-hop videos and has produced many very famous albums.
Jay-z-Rap is clean, the only difference is that he doesn't swear.
Neptune (N.E.R.D.)-The first two people, one black and one yellow. Excellent, with a series of albums such as Justin and Britney Jean Spears.
There are also many famous musicians, some improvisational rap is also very good, and some very good French rap, but it is not so reflected in the market occupied by English for a long time. China rap is also in the development stage. At present, the best rap album in Chinese is Tang, which is composed of four producers: Mikel, Jason Wang, scottie Chen Hengyi and Vince Zhang Aojie.