My Favorite Piece Of Music
Music is an essential part of life. Everybody appreciates it all around the world, it does not matter which part of the world it from someway or fashion we are able to connect to it. I love music, it has a powerful effect on my emotions. I listen to many different types of music genre. The reason for this is because I wanted to be more acknowledge and experiences in the different type of music that is out there and to see how I relate to them. Music has been an important thing in my life because it has helped me cope with a lot of stuff that I have been through. My loses and gains music have support and bring me through them. I believe that music is life and it is impossible to envision a world without music. However, my favorite’s piece of music is from a Jamaican reggae artist, his birth name is Windel Edward but goes by the name Gyptian the name of the song is “Serious Times”.
Most reggae songs deal with social concerns and religious beliefs of the Afro-Caribbean awareness of the Rastafarian religion. To start with, the song “Serious Times” was released in 2006 on his album “My name is gyptian”. The Riddim is called spiritual war. Normally, most reggae song makes you have to think about what people are doing and how they feel the world. Reggae, which is one of the world’s most influential music, was originated in Jamaica around the mid 1960’s. You hear the real things that people are seeing every day in society.
The first time I heard this song, I was like 10 – 11 years old. I really like it because it had a calming, meditating vibe. I would sing along to it, plus my family was strongly into reggae music. However, at the time I did not understand the full meaning of what he was saying. But as I growth I realized that even though the years passed these kinds of stuff was still taking place. Not just in my country, but all around the world. This makes me feel like there should be a major change in the society today. Reason for this is, the world is getting worst, there are more crimes and violences than every before.
Lyrically, most reggae music comes from a deep sense of animosity and need for survival and to be fighters. At the beginning of the song you can hear the percussive instrument like the shakers, congas/bongos. And opens with a nice saxophone solo which is a family of the woodwind instruments. With some guitar backup which is a part of the family of string instruments. Furthermore, like most reggae music it's in 4/4 meter. It as a chord progression of 1, 6, 4, 5 therefore, it’s in a major key due to the fact that the chord progression as a minor fall. The chord progressions of reggae songs are fairly straightforward. In addition, a chord progression is a series of chords played in a sequence. The term reggae is also applied today to reggae’s precursor styles, including mento, ska, and rock steady. The meter of a piece of music is the arrangment of its rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats. Also, The guitar is playing the key of B major, B major is a major scale based on B. It as bass-heavy tone. The song is repetitive because it is not classical, repeated words or phrases.
Also, it as a chorus (hook) and (2) verses. Moreover, he is singing in a middle register and also sings in a tenor which is the high end of the male register. A register is a division of the range of an instrument or singing voice. His voice as a bit of a bright timbre to it. The change in the dynamics gradually changes from softness at the beginning of the song. In addition to that, the song has a syncopation beats also called "skank" in reggae. Anything that happens in the rhythm of the music to change this pattern of strong and weak beats in a meter is called syncopation. The lyrics of the song also bring a calming vibe. Additionally, the tempo of the song is slow and gives off a calm and solemn vibe.
The lyrics also contribute to this as well because he is singing about the time that we are living in, And how it is very violent and we as a society need to come together and make a change. However, I like this song because when i listen to it, it makes me think about where am coming from. It makes me think about life and my surrounds, my family and friends. This song makes me gives thanks for everyday that I wake up and I still have my families around me.
