Modern Day Music Analysis

types of seventh chords are found in pop, jazz, blues, and R&B music. Jazz musicians also improvise over a harmonic progression, known as changes which are a series of chords played in a strict rhythmic sequence. Composers also arrange triads into patterns called progressions. At the main points in the melody, the triads give the song a sense of forward movement ("progression"). Composers traditionally wrote progressions using only three or four different triads. However the jazz musicians of the "Bebop Era" revolutionized music by creating progressions that used as many as seven different chords. Hence, modern music takes its fundamentals from jazz and uses various progressions of four to five different chords. Modern day music has adopted
“Call and response is a musical form in which a melody is stated in a phrase that is then followed by a second phrase that completes the idea.” It aids in bonding a musician to its audience and can even be seen as two instruments responding to each other’s musical notes. Many elements of African-American plantation songs, the blues, jazz and gospel have found their way into newer modern day music such as hip hop. Hip hop began during the late 1970s in the Bronx and it developed out of a need for young African Americans to express themselves and the world around them. Unlike earlier African-American music forms, hip hop places a heavy emphasis on both rhyming lyrics and beats. Like jazz, it is a method of storytelling used to describe the harsh realities, hopes and dreams of everyday life. It also resembles jazz music in its upbeat tempo and its big emphasis on dancing. An example of a jazz influenced modern day rap songs is “40 Acres” by Pusha T featuring The-Dream, as it mentions slavery times through both lyrics and the use of the call and response
Jazz its self is a constantly evolving genre even till this day. Difficult to defined jazz music can be characterized by swing, bent notes or blue notes, riffs , call and response vocals, syncopation, polyrhythms, playing an instrument with creative freedom, the "extension" of the voice cords, its melodies and musical solos and improvisation. Blues helped with the formation of jazz which in return helped with the formation of popular music. Additionally, the formation of popular music helped pave the way for the evolution of popular music into modern day music. Blues jazz songs and blues singing, aided as a standard and inspiration for songwriters and singers. Continuously, Jazz musicians expanded on the pre-jazz harmony series of three notes (called a triad) by adding sounds to the triad creating a Chord. The most commonly added was the 7th chord. Additionally, Jazz composers also arrange triads into patterns called progressions. Later on Jazz musicians of the "Bebop Era" created musical progressions that used as many as seven different chords. Today modern music uses diverse progressions of four to five different chords. Modern day music had now adopted and expanded on the use of both triads and chords with the seventh. Modern day music has also allowed musicians to play a single instrument or sing a vocal cord for an extended period, these types of solos also have their roots