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How to Tag Hard to Categorize Music

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Tagged: Keywording, metadata, Music Genre, Music Tags

  • This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 2 months ago by Desire_Inspires.
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  • November 5, 2013 at 3:03 pm #13364 Reply
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    How to Tag Hard to Categorize Music

    If you happen to set up categories for your music library or you are an independent artist categorizing your own music, I am sure you have stumbled upon a song or two that you really can’t pinpoint for a main genre. Here are a few listening tips to help you with this challenge:

    What to listen for:

    Rhythm and groove: What kind of beat/groove does the song carry? Many times the rhythm section in a song will give away the emphasis for the main genre.

    Texture/Sonority: There are 3 main sonorities that I listen for: Acoustic, Electric and Synthetic. Sure a lot of music will have a mixture of all 3, but more than likely, one of these sonorities will stick out more than the others. This can aid in not only genre identification, but also the era the track is from or the influences.

    Instrumentation: Listening for featured instruments and the style in which they are played can be extremely helpful.

    Examples:
    Below are 2 examples of some hard to categorize tracks and what my process would be when tagging them.

    The first track on this youtube example has a mixture of Jazz Big Band and Retro Rock elements. It’s helpful to know the era in which this music was recorded. This style of music was popular during the 1950s to mid 1960s and you hear these elements in contemporary tracks used for TV/Film that are sometimes labeled as “Dramedy”

    Rhythm and groove: Swing
    Texture: Acoustic/Electric : Big Band textures are most prevelant with Blues elements and light 50’s Rock textures.
    Instrumentation: Featured instruments are Big Band horns, raspy tenor sax and electric guitar with light organ.

    Main Category: Jazz
    Sub Categories: Big Band, Exotica, Lounge, Retro-Rock
    Music For: Detective, Investigative, Crime Scene

    This second track is a mixture of Funk, Rock-n-Roll and Surf Rock with some Jazz and Blues elements. It is a vintage track from the 70’s. There are many textures involved i.e. melodic electric guitar, acoustic rhythm guitar and muted guitar rhythms. These influences put this track in a category of Vintage, Blaxploitation and Pulp film style or maybe something that you would hear in a Spaghetti Western.

    Rhythm and groove: Rock-n-Roll
    Texture: Electric: Predominantly electric guitar.
    Instrumentation: Featured instrument is electric guitar.

    Main Category: Rock-n-Roll
    Sub Categories: Funk, Soul, Surf Rock, Blues Rock
    Music For: Vintage, Pulp, Detective, Retro, Blaxploitation

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    November 5, 2013 at 5:08 pm #13370 Reply
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    Tags are pretty for me. Libraries have extensive tagging systems for songs. I have a list of around 500 words that I use for tagging purposes. As much as I think my music is unique, most of it falls into preset categories with ease. Composers need to simplify and use preselected tags for their works.

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