It's just rhythms and pitches really, in a sequence. But we don't love patterns, a scale sounds boring. It's the breaking of the patterns that sound good in music, but only in specific ways. Other ways sound discordant. What the duck is going on?

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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I'm also interested in why there is such varying tastes in music. Why do I love metal but hate pop? shrugs

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    And why do I love both metal and bluegrass, and find them similar?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    While I enjoy a lot of metal and not any bluegrass that I've heard, I do sorta get that one. They do share quite a bit in terms of their rhythmic feel, both (depending on your metal subgenre) doing a lot of rapid-fire staccato notes to keep up a really fast pace, and also share some of their roots in Black American music. The timbres of the instruments used the choices of notes are very different of course, but I don't think that you're inventing a non-existent similarity

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    And here I am, I don't really like pop and I don't really like metal but put them together and I'm in heaven.

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