Jazz
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Woohoo! A jazz thread.
I totally understand that some people don't like jazz. Apart from some more modern classical music it is the most complex form of western music and therefore can be quite difficult to understand
It definitely helps to be a musician who's had formal music theory education to get to grips with understanding what's happening musically (chord progressions, modes, meters etc).
But it does sound unbelievably cool too, so even if you don't understand it from a technical pont of view you can still dig it.
I devised a system recently to depict music in a visual way so that someone who doesn't read music can get a feel for how it sounds by just looking at the sheet music. It is based on musical theory of harmony:
1)Notes that fit really well together (chord tones) are coded green
2)Notes that fit ok together (chord extensions) are coded orange
3)Notes that clash are coded red
When this system is applied to sheet music is gives the music an overall colour. So a musically simple piece such as pop music looks mainly green and orange (since there are no complex harmonies). Whereas some John Coltrane may look more colourful with more red.
You can see a sample of this system on my website:
http://www.joshualeigh.co.uk/syn…
I stress that it is not at all subjective, I didn't decide what colour the notes should be coded – music theory determined it for me.