A Simple Guide for Music Review

How do you rate composition? For me, there are five components that form a final rating of musical composition:

• First, is the melody – i.e. the degree to which the main melody of the song is constructed from a combination of notes.
• Second is the harmonies ie. how each instrument contributes in creating sounds and notes.
• Third is the complexity of the arrangement i.e. the degree in which the instrument (including vocal) being played by the musicians and how they generate a piece of music stream or segment of the music.
• Fourth is change of style i.e. how the style changes in a song which includes tempo changes and/ or heavy or soft musical sounds.
• The last one (fifth) is the structural integrity i.e. the degree to which all musical segments, including changes of style, form a cohesiveness of the music as a whole  from start to end. The five components are very fundamental for me to assess my rating towards the music, especially progressive music.

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