Wednesday, 5 September 2018

The Sound Of A Guitar In The World Of Music

By Brenda Hall


Perhaps at some point in your life, you imagined yourself attending the concert of your favourite artist, band or even idol group. Or maybe you visualized yourself as a performer, holding the microphone and singing at the bottom of your heart on a wide podium. That dream sound fantastic and because of that, you wanted to learn some instruments like bass guitar synth controllerism.

Music has now diversified genres that people really enjoyed on listening. Electronic Dance Music or popularly known as EDM become one of the mainstream. Artists like Calvin Harris, Zedd, Marshmello, Kygo and other EDM artists are making big wave to this generation. Perhaps lots of people love to listen on it since it can make you dance with its upbeat and cool melody. Other than that, some people still prefer other genres.

This genre actually comes from the term rock and roll during the early 1950s. It became an umbrella now consisting of various subgenres like alternative, post-punk, grunge, heavy metal and many more. It receives many stereotypes like how the message of some songs depicts only for emos and outcasts in a society. Moreover, fans still love to listen to the songs of this type as its content is more substantial compared to other songs.

Despite its stereotypes, this is still popular among many people usually to adolescents and adults. The music has evolved into different music style. Before you could hear the strong guitar riffs of bands like Slipknot or the cool emo rap of Linkin Park. Now, the modern bands had mixed electronic music to enhance the quality of their song. But one should not deny that a song will not be complete without a certain instrument. The guitar.

On the other hand, one instrument remains constant in making music. And that is guitar. This had been utilized in any area of musical field. It has flexible uses that as a result, most people made it as their favourite instrument. You can even learn it for the process is easy. However, if being an expert is what you desire, passion, motivation and efforts are the key ingredient to master it.

Whether this was first used in Egypt a hundred thousand years ago, people should be thankful of its existence. Can you even imagine your whole world without this? Maybe no. Especially in the domain of rock songs, guitars are very vital.

When you love hardcore songs, you probably do banging your head in the air at sound of electric guitars. Imagine yourself at a concert with Pierce the Veil. Aside that you activate your fangirl or fanboy because Vic is singing, your feet would totally jump and mouth singing at the chorus.

People may argue about what is more preferred in choosing a type of guitars. Electric guitars maybe easy to handle since its strings are much softer compared to the acoustic counterpart. And for beginners, it will be a challenge to find the right tone in using this.

So are you perhaps aiming to become a musician in your future? Or a rockstar in the new generation? No matter what path you choose, if music is your dedication, you can achieve your dreams to be a musician. So keep dreaming and aim for it.




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