There’s been a whole lot of theories tackling the mysterious origin of music melodies, that is, where music melodies come from and how they get impressed on the mind of the musician/composer.

I had an experience as to this regard and am moved to share my experience with the world. I wont make lousy claims that my experience delivers a final blow to the question. Afterall music is multifaceted, revealing itself to its mediums in different ways. Every individual endowed with its gift professess to have had experiences unique to their being and dissimilar to that of other musicians.

At about 4:20am the serenity of my room is compromised as my phone rings out, I’m stired up from my sweet slumber. I had been in dream-state, unaware of my material self and surrounding, for my sense organs had taken a break. But while my material existence was temporarily shut down, my immaterial self from its slumber was aroused like the animalistic part of the human brain on a full moon night.

Once again my soul as done every night had sailed to the real world as Plato would call it, where ideas exist abstractly, awaiting a 22 to help give these ethereal ideas a material composition.

Time went by.

As my soul was about exiting the borders of noumena in a bid to return to its shell following the unpleasant disruption of its other half’s rest, something mystical wins my attention over. I heard a tune being played. There I stood utterly transfixed with shock and delight, quietly regarding how beautifully woven the melody before me was.

The impression this musical encounter had on my psyche was so fierce that even after my departure from dream-state to the realm of material consciousness I still could perceive the said melody reverberating through the walls of my mind.

For fear of losing this precious piece, rather than returning to sleep I reach out for my smartphone. After which I straight-away launch the voice recording app already installed in the phone. Singing out the tune as best as i could recollect. There and then I record the melody I had earlier encountered and received in dream-state, thinking that when the morning fully matured I would unfailingly weave lyrics good enough to give soul to this mysterious melody.

Source:
https://blarckbillboard./2016/06/26/where-do-music-melodies-come-from/

​After absorbing myself in Jon Bellion’s recent Album: The Human Condition, I felt I had achieved a heightened state of music consciousness. In my liberality I considered sharing one of the most impressive songs from the album with a Childhood friend of mine. One minute after playing the song from his phone I notice a frown on his face, a sure sign of discontent. He takes off his ear-phones slowly, turns to me and says “this song no sweet jare, e wohn make me sleep”. He immediately deletes the song from his phone.

In other words if a song lacks an African fast-tempo beat or fails to fall within the category of Dance-hall, then such a song isn’t worth listening to in Nigeria. A very faulty conception of music.

After carrying out an intensive study on the Nigerian music industry and songs that have topped the music chart in the last 10 yrs, I discovered that Dance-hall songs topped the list. All those Nigerian music artists who have expressed themselves through music genres other than Dance-hall have vanished into thin air.

Trying to solve the puzzle as to why 99 percent of Nigerians today fancied Dance-hall songs over other music genres led me to an article that explained the typical African’s music root and fascination with drums. It further explained how the sacred love of drums and use of the instrument in Africa by our ancestors is unprecedented by any other continent in the world. It is therefore logical to conclude that if our ancestors held the beats of drums sacred, and loved to dance to the beat of drums, then we of this generation being their offspring would act no different, for we bear their genes and their blood runs through our veins. This perfectly explains why the average Nigerian’s love for music strictly leans towards the Dance-hall genre and why Dance-hall artists are the only ones getting all the recognition, fame, accolades, and ambassadorship.

I guess the typical African cannot be seperated from his drums as a result of his roots but there needs to be a paradigmn shift in our conception of music. Music genres other than Dance-hall have to be accepted, promoted and given adequate recognition in Nigeria if our Music industry is ever going to reach the state of perfection and not one-sidedness.

Source:http://blarckbillboard.