SCHOOL OF MUSIC- MUSIC AND EMOTIONS (part two)

SCHOOL OF MUSIC:::: MUSIC AND EMOTIONS (part two)

                 MUSIC EMOTION

Like I said earlier, there are different kinds of emotion generally and not all of them work in music, for example, the emotion of fear and anger. Your aim is not to put fear in people or make them angry unless there's a particular course you want to achieve with your song. But emotion of love is a good tool to use in your music.

Now writing songs that talks about love
is not necessarily a love song. You can even mention love a hundred times in a song and it is still not a love song. A love song is a song that inspires the emotion of love in the listener. Yes! This is why you could just listen to some songs and just want to fall in love. Even if you have been badly hurt by love, a good love song will make you want to love again. If you have seen the movie Titanic, you would be inspired to love. Now Titanic was a story about a ship called Titanic that sunk years ago, but in the movie, they were able to inspire the love emotion and that became the selling point of
the movie. Emotion sells anything. As a musician, master this skill and use it in your music.

As a Gospel Artiste, do you know that you can write songs that will inspire love for God? Yes. People can listen to your songs and want to just love God more. Once you are able to do this with your song, it is a guaranteed hit. This is exactly what popular Nigerian Gospel artiste SINACH did with her song "More of You", you go listen to that song again. EBEN also did this with his super hit song "Jesus How I Love You" he inspired love emotion with that song.

Some of the emotions you can use as an artistes to create hit songs and blow faster are the emotions of love, deep words, joy or feel good, trust or dependability, relativity, Confidence, strength, memories, nostalgia
and HE-MOTION. Hmmm! I have an article on HE-MOTION dropping soon. It is the most powerful of all Emotions because it is the Emotion of God. I know you were told that God isn't moved by Emotions but that's not true. God is emotional. He feels.

These are powerful emotions to master as an artiste and use them to your
advantage. These emotions are mostly created with words and rhythms. You can use one way to create them or both ways; Combining words with rhythms. When I use the word rhythm, it is a combination of sound and progression. Now this is very very important. A song can go on many rhythms but only one of those can actually get the song to connect with
people's emotion. Only the rhythm that connects with emotion will blow the
song.

This is why I advise people to be careful with producers who are quick to want to change the originality of a song. Most times they end up
killing the song. Some music rhythm on its own have deep emotions too and most times I see some songs that has great emotional word do well on them. I have listened to "African Queen" by TUBABA on raggae
sound and it was great. I also listened to "All of Me" by John Legend on a raggae sound and it was also beautiful, even though both songs have a common factor; they both have strong emotional connections, the question is, would African Queen by TUBABA have blown on a raggae beat? Or would "All of Me" by John Legend have blown on a raggae beat? I doubt. You need to carefully chose a genre and sound that best communicate the Emotion of your song for it to blow.

Word emotions are created Intentionally. Sometimes you may have to be
poetic but still be simplistic enough to connect. Hillsong is one music brand
that you can learn alot in times of creating deep emotional words that often
sounds poetic yet simplistic enough to connect with the audience emotionally.

To be continued... In part three.

Amachree Ikijana Alex (AIA)

Celebrity Music Coach
Music Content and Business Coach

PS:: This is an excerpt from this book, "EASIEST WAY TO BECOMING A MUSIC SUPERSTAR" written by me. Published on Amazon. If buy a copy, you get a one month mentorship access to me.