Most of the songs that fail are songs that do not touch us emotionally.
Our brains simply do not work like your computer’s processor! But only upto a point! After that, if you continue to increase musical or lyrical complexities, the hedonic response decreases because the brains of your listeners will not able to take it all in. Now here’s the thing: Right from the opening bars of your song, listeners will get more and more interested in what they are hearing as the novelties and complexities of your song increases with the passage of every bar. In the context of music and music production, the Wundt Curve can be used to show how the relative complexity of a song affects the listener’s perceptions of pleasure viz their ‘ hedonic response‘. The Wundt curve looks like an inverted ‘U’. The Wundt curve was named after the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt. The Wundt curve shown below can used to evaluate unity and variety in your songs be it harmony, rhythm, form, melody, lyrics, production and the musical arrangement.
HEDONIC RESPONSE HOW TO
Improve your songwriting and composing skills along with your music production skills because at the end of the day, no one is going to ask you which software was used for producing your music or how good your technical skills are as long as your song has hookiness, catchiness and melody – 3 things that your music software will never be able to create! The Wundt Curve of Unity & Variety How to Create a Hedonic Response From Listeners This advise is especially pertinent for those intent on entering Bollywood as a Music Composer / Director / Arranger.
HEDONIC RESPONSE PRO
Millions of average and boring songs are recorded every year all over the world and all those songs all have one thing in common behind them – wasted effort! No amount of time spent mastering music production tools like Cubase, Logic Pro or Ableton Live can help you create a wonderful song. Here’s the truth that most people who want to learn music production have to swallow sooner than later – Understanding music production softwares and vst’s is far easier than understanding songwriting! Now I know that’s a bitter pill to swallow for most youngsters who enter the world of music production all starry eyed but soon get frustrated because they cannot create songs that captures the public’s mind and heart.
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