/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>803944
I dunno, they never really been popular outside of orchestral music I think. Probably some rap song uses a sample of one or a VSTi. You really only want songs with wooden percussion? Xylophones are sometimes metal too. I think the vibraphone is much more common in pop music.

Here is Kaneda's famous theme with wooden percussion.

A better question is why aren’t harps, celestas, and xylophones used more in music?
Or flutes, recorders, or clarinets used as accompaniments?

Or why aren’t choirs used more for ambience to accompany synth pads?

Pretty sure the instrument being sampled is a wooden percussion instrument.

>>803954
>A better question is why aren’t harps, celestas, and xylophones used more in music?
Because pop music has been progressively been getting less sophisticated. If you use those instruments it sounds like a throwback to the 60s/70s.

This song is a 70s throwback and they use a glockenspiel people seem to think, but it's not in the credits, probably because they used a VSTi.

>>803960
> Because pop music has been progressively been getting less sophisticated. If you use those instruments it sounds like a throwback to the 60s/70s

Idk if they were using those instruments much in the 1970s tbh. They used more violins, cellos, and horns.

Also, most pop songs in the 1950s and 60s were two minutes long.
And they used the same ABAB structure

>>803961
>Idk if they were using those instruments much in the 1970s tbh. They used more violins, cellos, and horns.
They used flutes, harps, vibraphones, glockenspiels, all the time in the 70s. Harp glissandos are such a signature 70s sound.

Lot of famous 70s songs with lead flute melodies.

The flutist on the track:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDepqtAAVhj/?hl=en

>>803967
>Lot of famous 70s songs with lead flute melodies.
Of course The Hustle. Also has glockenspiel.

>>803954
What kind of music are you listening to? All of those are used plenty in orchestral, classical and choir music

>>803969
Classic rock, classic R&B, contemporary R&B, contemporary rock, new school hip-hop/rap

(New school rap is any rap music made after 1984)

They use a vibraphone very prominently on this song, but obviously they're also going for a throwback sound.

>>803973
Also with a vibraphone going for the same throwback sound.

Here OP, I found you a famous song with a wooden percussion instrument. Apparently this is a real marimba, didn't know that.

Alot of classic R&B band used wooden percussion

>>803960
>Because pop music has been progressively been getting less sophisticated
From a compositional and music theory perspective, no. Modern pop music is actually, generally, very musically complex. This is not an appraisal of quality, just a statement of fact.

>>803944
Wood is a giant pain in the ass when it comes to temperature and humidity fluctuations. Not so bad on something like an electric guitar where adjustment is fairly easy, but bars of pure wood are gonna move out of tune and shape.

>>805489
No, that is factually wrong.

>>805534
I am a musician, and it certainly isn't. From a theory perspective there are far more layers, time signature changes and much more complex harmonies in modern pop than there were even just ten years ago. Most pop composers don't want to be pop composers but they know where the money is, this is a known and discussed phenomenon within the music scene. I for one prefer simplicity, but just go listen to older pop music and then turn on top forty. Mainstream music, with obvious exceptions, is very busy and usually features an extremely wide array of instrumentation compared to its predecessors. This is the nature of things, pop music in the late eighties went through a similar explosion of musical complexity before the preferred tambour shifted and stripped the sound back down somewhat.
You don't have to be an expert to hear it.

puzzle video game ass music

>>805604
Give an example.

> This is the nature of things, pop music in the late eighties went through a similar explosion of musical complexity before the preferred tambour shifted and stripped the sound back down somewhat.
Lol at the 80s being complex too. Complex songs are definitely the exception. The 80s was the start of super loopy computerized music. The top 40 used to have songs with multiple sections and solos and stuff. Name one song in the top 40 with a virtuoso anything.

You can easily compare how music was slowly simplified by just comparing the singles from the very same artists in different decades.

Compare:
>Yes - Roundabout 1972

>>805614
To:
>YES - Owner of a Lonely Heart 1983

>>805614
>>805616
Most pop songs before the 1970s were simple ditties that didnt last for more than three minutes.

>>805620
Jazz music used to be the most popular style of music.

>>805626
Before the 1960s it was

>>805614
>Name one song in the top 40 with a virtuoso anything.
Virtuoso performances are not the same as musical complexity, many virtuoso performers work over exceptionally simple musical compositions.
>Provide examples
I don't listen to pop, this is a discussed matter among musicians. I'll concede that in the last couple years the trend has reverted, but this is part of a common back and forth.
>lol at the eighties being complex
Phil Collins sound became popular in the late eighties, much of that music took direct inspiration from actual program rock. Which I hate by the way, gimme simple, approachable music. Music is for the people, it ought not be gatekept by intentionally obtuse composition. Although I do like
>Yes-Roundabout
Not pop, and actually comparatively simple next to much of their catalog.

>>805489
>Modern pop music is actually, generally, very musically complex. This is not an appraisal of quality, just a statement of fact.

>>805604
>I am a musician, and it certainly isn't. You don't have to be an expert to hear it.

<give examples

>>805632
>I don't listen to pop, this is a discussed matter among musicians.
Jesus Christ dude. Why do you people just say shit? You appealed to your own authority and then you backtrack to:
>Well acshually my opinion has no basis other than like the subreddits I frequent say so.

>>805628
Jazz was still going strong in the top 40 in the 60s. Van McCoy, Bacharach, etc. Lots of orchestration and very harmonically complex songs.