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Today's blog post considers how maths is applied in the music industry, ultimately helping us to prove our aim, that maths is used in everyone's everyday working lives.
Today's blog post considers how maths is applied in the music industry, ultimately helping us to prove our aim, that maths is used in everyone's everyday working lives.
1) It's all about timing!
If you want to be a singer, or an awesome guitar player, you will need to consider timing. How will you know when to start singing, if you don't count the beats until the song begins? This also applies to playing guitar, or any other instrument, you will need to know when to start playing the instrument, to ensure you keep a steady beat for other musicians and the singer. You will also need to know when to stop playing, to perhaps allow time for a solo.
2) Have you got rhythm?
To ensure you have rhythm, you will need to understand a time signature, which is a fraction at the beginning of a piece of music after the clef and key signature. The top number of the fraction shows how many beats occur in each measure, the bottom number reflects
the length of the beats. 4/4 time is also called common time, and is regarded as the most common time signature in music as it apparently the most easy to comprehend and play.
3) How do you buy music?
Whether you listen to classical, pop, or rock music, ever considered the maths in how you buy your music? If you like buying albums, you will need to ensure you have enough money to purchase the album when you go to the store to buy it, or if you prefer to use iTunes, you will also need to calculate if you have enough funds to purchase the single you want to buy, or if it's worth purchasing the album instead as it is better value for money. I bet you didn't even realise that purchasing music involved maths so much!
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4) Number of sales/downloads
You may not have realised, but downloads affect an artist's career and development in the industry, and importantly to this blog post, tracking the number of sales and downloads involves counting and statistics, proving that maths skills are needed, and are regularly
applied in the music industry. Once the number of sales have been calculated, songs are ordered into a structured chart that changes from week to week. The higher the song is in the charts, the more prestigious and renowned an artist is considered to be; as we all know getting a Top 10 single is better than being 38th in the music chart.
5) Do you want to be a chart analyst?
Chart analysts look at trends in when people buy music, and advise artist's when it is the best time for them to release their new single, or album. This job involves considering profit and loss, working out percentages by calculating when people buy music, and tracking carefully how the chart develops to ensure the artist will release their new material at the pivotal moment.
So, here are the 5 ways in which maths is used in the music industry. We hope you've enjoying reading this post.
Don't forget to head back to this blog next Wednesday for a brand new blog post!
If you want to be a singer, or an awesome guitar player, you will need to consider timing. How will you know when to start singing, if you don't count the beats until the song begins? This also applies to playing guitar, or any other instrument, you will need to know when to start playing the instrument, to ensure you keep a steady beat for other musicians and the singer. You will also need to know when to stop playing, to perhaps allow time for a solo.
2) Have you got rhythm?
To ensure you have rhythm, you will need to understand a time signature, which is a fraction at the beginning of a piece of music after the clef and key signature. The top number of the fraction shows how many beats occur in each measure, the bottom number reflects
the length of the beats. 4/4 time is also called common time, and is regarded as the most common time signature in music as it apparently the most easy to comprehend and play.
3) How do you buy music?
Whether you listen to classical, pop, or rock music, ever considered the maths in how you buy your music? If you like buying albums, you will need to ensure you have enough money to purchase the album when you go to the store to buy it, or if you prefer to use iTunes, you will also need to calculate if you have enough funds to purchase the single you want to buy, or if it's worth purchasing the album instead as it is better value for money. I bet you didn't even realise that purchasing music involved maths so much!
4) Number of sales/downloads
You may not have realised, but downloads affect an artist's career and development in the industry, and importantly to this blog post, tracking the number of sales and downloads involves counting and statistics, proving that maths skills are needed, and are regularly
applied in the music industry. Once the number of sales have been calculated, songs are ordered into a structured chart that changes from week to week. The higher the song is in the charts, the more prestigious and renowned an artist is considered to be; as we all know getting a Top 10 single is better than being 38th in the music chart.
5) Do you want to be a chart analyst?
Chart analysts look at trends in when people buy music, and advise artist's when it is the best time for them to release their new single, or album. This job involves considering profit and loss, working out percentages by calculating when people buy music, and tracking carefully how the chart develops to ensure the artist will release their new material at the pivotal moment.
So, here are the 5 ways in which maths is used in the music industry. We hope you've enjoying reading this post.
Don't forget to head back to this blog next Wednesday for a brand new blog post!
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