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What's one of your favorite genres of music and what's your favorite thing about it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Brazilian music is famous worldwide — from bossa nova, to choro, to samba.

Bossa is cool, choro is amazing, but my favorite things about samba is that despite being "pop music" it still has complex rhythms and harmonies.

My top favorite thing is the prevalence of the 7 stringed guitar and their use of counterpoints (i.e., parallel melodies).

I love how what (I think) started as guitarists just playing harmonies, turned into them improvising bass lines and counterpoints every once in a while, which eventually became them doing MOSTLY counterpoints and bass lines and barely playing the harmony lmao.

These bass lines and counterpoints, from what I understand, are often times arpeggiations of the chords and so forth, but they add such an amazing effect to the music.

Examples:

This guy solo playing over a recording.
This solo guitar + singer.
Most music by Cartola which features the absolute timeless 7 stringed legend Dino. This one is a classic.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Dubstep, proper dubstep and not the brostep sound that was popularised in the later 00s.

I love it because I love bass, I love a proper system and standing there feeling the music course through you. I also love how very diverse it is within the one genre, there are so many different styles and sounds to explore.

[–] AdNecrias 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's an example track you like?

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hard to pick just one track for sure but I'll choose this one today :)

∆ - III

[–] AdNecrias 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty cool. Wasn't what I expected. Flows nice

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

It was hard to choose but I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

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