Poll: When listening to a song
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Voted "Vocalist" I love a song where the singer can actually sing (as opposed to so instruments improving his/her voice)
Depends, really. Obviously if there are words, I will pay more attention to them (I'm pretty sure that's just what the/my brain does). But sometimes I will go into specifically for something else, or the instrumental part will be that good that I can't help but pay more attention to that.
Instruments and the vocalist/s. For the life of me I seriously struggle with understanding lyrics. If it sounds good, I'll listen to it.
Depends on the type of song. I usually focus on the lyrics, though.
Even if a song has amazing instrumentals, if the lyrics aren't my taste, I won't listen to it. =[
Even if a song has amazing instrumentals, if the lyrics aren't my taste, I won't listen to it. =[
Depends on what music I'm listening to...
If it's baroque, then I can draw my focus back and forth from soloist (instrumental or vocal), basso continuo and the harpsichord.
If it's electronic/remix, then I tend to concentrate on the melody (mostly) and the rhythm.
And rock, well, I'll listen to what I can hear, which is usually the instruments, though I do sing-along (or rather, mime-along) as I go and tap my foot to the drums while reading. (Reading and listening to music go hand in hand with me...)
If it's baroque, then I can draw my focus back and forth from soloist (instrumental or vocal), basso continuo and the harpsichord.
If it's electronic/remix, then I tend to concentrate on the melody (mostly) and the rhythm.
And rock, well, I'll listen to what I can hear, which is usually the instruments, though I do sing-along (or rather, mime-along) as I go and tap my foot to the drums while reading. (Reading and listening to music go hand in hand with me...)
I try to listen to the overall balance of things, switching my attention between different instruments and vocalists as they take the spotlight. Though, I sometimes find it easier to focus on the drum track because I do play the drums and not any stringed instruments.
Let me guess, music major? I took History of Music I last semester for an upper-level art elective, so I sort of get what you're saying here (I think baroque was my favorite period, though I do remember also liking Renaissance madrigals). But I'm a computer animation major, so often the teacher would go and talk about stuff like double-leading tone cadences and I'd sort of space out for a while and wait for the words to start making sense againSckizoBoy said:
I hear the words, as long as they're comprehensible. Actually, I suppose that's the wrong word. As long as I can make out the syllables, I focus on the lyrics. Then there's the kind of classical-type-stuff where you can't make out whether they're even using words or not.
Usually the instruments, as a bassist and drummer that's just automatically where my mind goes when I listen to anything. In addition to the air drumming that practically everyone does, I sometimes catch myself 'air-bassing' if I know the song, once in my sleep as well.
Haha! Much as it might seem so, no... I just have a very varied taste in music s'all. One moment I'm lying back listening to solo harpsichord music and chilling out, the next I've got a guitar riff screaming through the speakers.Lilani said:Let me guess, music major? I took History of Music I last semester for an upper-level art elective, so I sort of get what you're saying here (I think baroque was my favorite period, though I do remember also liking Renaissance madrigals). But I'm a computer animation major, so often the teacher would go and talk about stuff like double-leading tone cadences and I'd sort of space out for a while and wait for the words to start making sense again
Though I'm not that taken by Renaissance music because there wasn't enough variation in different composers styles to 'hook me' as it were. I found Vivaldi to be too much of a yearn for Renaissance sounds that I just don't really like his music... :/ You find me an avid listener of Handel and a lover of Bach's music (secular, I haven't really heard much of his religious music).
Still, the other day, I listened to BWV1041 (3rd movement) over and over again, never getting tired of it, because I concentrated on the different layers of the composition: solo (violin); basso continuo (treble and alto voices); basso continuo (tenor and bass-baritone voices); and harpsichord. There couldn't've been more than eight or nine musicians playing that piece in this recording, but damn, I was constantly hearing something new...
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Usually the instruments more specifically the drums. I don't know what it is but I learn the drum beat of a song before the lyrics. Maybe I should be a drummer. But I do like lyrics, I can't listen to prog rock because there are long periods without lyrics.
Instruments. Because all the songs I listen to have nothing else. I have motherfuckin' Stravinsky open in another tab right now.
Yes exactly this. One cannot go without the other.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
However, there are cases where one part is clearly superior to the other. Take for instance, these two songs from giant squid [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf4tU9uwkXU] - I love them for their instrumentals and even the vocals fit, but the lyrics are...somehow subpar i.e. not conveying the meaning like I wish they could do stealing a bit from what the song could have been.
No, the best songs are those where everything fits together to really express the feeling of the song. For instance The Hounds by the Protomen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChtBpTjvTY] in which our main villain Dr. Wily from the Megaman series sets up the the good Dr. Light for a murder he did not commit and sets, not only the media but the whole city against him - his hounds so to speak. From the driving feeling of the chase down to the bitter hatred of Wily for Light as well as his pure disdain for human life. Everything works together. It's, in my mind, one of the best villain songs ever created - to a good part because just because of the synergy.
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