In the first video of our series on the Elements of Music, Music Wizard founder Chris Salter introduces the yin/yang of music. Here's an intro from Chris.
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One of my life long fascinations has been with the essence of things, and while I loved music, I did not study it as a child. In college when I approached it I was given a full dose of conventional music training as I audited college level music courses to satisfy my curiosity and thirst. Not only did this make no sense, no one seemed to be able to explain the basis of it with any real understanding or insight.
But gradually, deeper truths and other insights emerged, largely because I had one very unconventional professor of "group piano" who opened the doors to rethinking everything. Here are some of the insights I gathered and collected along the years that form my view of the "Elements" of music.
1. The universe's primary reality is energy and the different bands of energy are vibrational, and spiritual.
2. Music is a subset of that bandwidth of vibration.
3. Being part of that bandwidth, it obeys, reflects and communicates many of the laws of the universe on the vibrational level, and must express those relationships in "time".
4. Music reflects the binary quality of the universe (yin and yang) with the principles of tension and release in time. This is the primary engine of music. This can be achieved with many different strategies and tactics. The following are some of the ways tension and release are created and found in all known music cultures and can be considered universal.
Topics covered:
a) Dissonance and Consonance
b) Repetition and variation or Creating Expectation and Deviation
c) The opposite side of that coin is Confusion and order.
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