Music's Own Ethnicities

     I would like to apologize in advance because it is late. -Jacob Serrano
     We have so many kinds of unique music styles, but ever wondered where we got jazz, blues, rap, country, opera, Latin, or any other music you can think of? 0_0 It is like asking your self, "Bro what if there was no Rap?!" well that eliminates most of the preferred music for teens now a days. Or what about country? Well, that is what makes `Murica, `Murica!
     Music evolved from different rhythms and different scales. A scale is any sequence of notes used to create a specific pattern. A lot of jazz, country, Latin, blues, and rock music came from alterations of  traditional major scales or chords. The simplest scale is a C major scale. It is just the notes c,d,e,f,g,a,b then back to c, very simple. In scales you have something called scale degrees which are not as scary as they sound. Scale degrees are just a way to classify the order of the notes in a scale,. for example; c is to the scale degree of  1, D is to 2, E is to 3, F is to 4, G is to 5, A is to 6, B is to 7 and so on.  Now a chord is where two notes or more are combined to create a harmony. And different styles of music call for different types of chords. ;)
     Let`s start with the basics. There are predominantly two chords that rule music; major and minor. Major chords are happier and pretty and minor chords are more depressing and scary. Here is the crazy thing, we can add, take away, or even change the chord and make a similar yet completely different sound using different scale degrees. A C major chord uses 3 notes, specifically, C,E, and G. The cool thing is you can add a B note to create something called a major 7th chord which sounds celestial (heavenly). It is called 7th because you use the "7th" scale degree which is B. This chord is predominantly used in jazz and rock.
     That is not all though you can flatten the B to an A# or a sharp. What that will do is give the chord a poppy yet weird funky sound. It is too hard to describe the sound it produces. So this chord uses the notes c, e, g and a#. If you are lost, sharps and flats are not between notes, like A is raised to A sharp or lowered to A flat yet it is not lowered to G or raised to B. It is in between. This chord is used in blues and rock. Latin music kind of fuses all chords together. That is why in guitar it is considered the technique god of music.
     What about rap or electronica 0_0?  Rap is rhythm-based. The lyrics are pretty much just poems. and the music is produced through technology such as synthesizers and mixers which produce different sounds.
     I will post a video on my blog where I explain everything about what I just said. Join me next week as I try to figure out the most impossible question to answer. Why do we like the music we do?