We shall today be speaking of
tunes, rhythm, symphony, and melody in terms of music, 'Raw' music. Music possesses
the ability to lift your spirits, make you calm, cheer you up, align your
overall mental state into a more comforting position. Rarely does one realize
but our subconscious mind is attracted to rhythm and melody. If you don't
feed your brain and soul with tunes, then your subconscious naturally makes
you move towards activities where music is involved.
For example, you may think you
really want to watch a film, but through my analysis, I have learned valuable
lessons and would love to share them with you. Everybody knows that films have
ample of background music, but no one knows what makes them literally feel the
'scene' and why they want to watch more films. It's the background music, the suspense fueled tunes, the spirit-lifting
melody, the mind-calming lyrics, the natural rhythm of wind instruments that
makes you morph into the characters in the film. Let me break this down for
you.
We are in a generation where
uniqueness is abated by the monotonous happenings in one's life. It is a very
subtle move played by society, intending to partially control our consciousness
so that we do not curb their individual growth. You do the same thing every day,
travel in the same vehicle on the same road to your same office to meet the
same people and come back to the same home in the same vehicle on the same road
to the same people, that's why your brain and the neurons within it are not
getting enough opportunities to fire themselves in all directions, which is
also why you think just like another ordinary person. Your brain has been
programmed to follow routine tasks with aplomb so that you don't fall out of
sync with monotony. Now, we should know that music is played at multiple
frequencies and these frequencies are supposed to induce a multitude of
emotions within us, such as fear, happiness, exuberance, melancholy and many
more. One fact is that Hitler while making public announcements on loudspeakers
would set the sound to be released at a specific frequency which induced fear in
the people. Sadly, we depend on people either directly or indirectly in order
to activate any emotion within us.
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The secret for me is, I depend on
music to activate my emotions and that is a one-way process, unlike its
predecessor. I'd like to conclude by telling you how music activates any emotion
you wish to summon.
When you listen to rock and roll,
you're blooming with a zeal for enjoyment in life.
When it's jazz, you're calm as a
bird and you groove.
When it's country you get
peaceful and thoughtful.
When it's slow and the lyrics
denote depression then you get melancholy.
Each genre has its own impact on
your mind. Those half played, highly prolonged notes in jazz when heard, send
waves to your brain which in turn send signals to your nerves all over your
body and that energizes you to begin the groove, sing along and feel the voice
of the singer- basically, it ignites an emotion which you would otherwise depend
on other living beings to ignite for you.
Every song you hear has its own
story, its own composition, its own melody, and its own meaning. That's what
makes it friendly to you in the process of exercising your brain with
undiscovered fortes.
