Blogpost 7: Music in Games?

Music is a independent source can be used by everyone, you can play it with any instrument that we have but using a little twist it will give everyone a lot of choices to use. Why is music is being use? how did we find out is a stress reliever? We found out  that music can help us relax and focus especially if we use in games, like in kiddie game, arcade game, music game, but how? well we will discuss it with the article that I research in the website.

I read an article discuss about Music therapy can used in the games. This article "Music Therapy and Fun Rhythm Games" by Martianne Stanger from www.special-ism.com. She mentioned why do we need to play rhythm games and how its help us to build our mind and body. It help us to expand our sense of attentiveness and responsiveness that essential to us.

According to Stanger, "The two main components of a musical rhythm are the beat/pulse and the rhythmic unit. They both appear repeatedly in almost every piece of music. The pulse is simple and repeats in a continuous sequence from beginning to end, while the rhythmic unit is a little bit more complicated as it is a note-pattern that appears along the regular pulse but divides the duration between the beats."

Rhythm games can be use not for kids but also can be use by everyone its up to us on how we are going to use music as stress reliever, with a simple games it help us to improve our response and coordination skills with a different level of games and motor skill work. Music for us is just a plain music that we listen if we get bored, but for some of us can help us to improve our meditation, the calmness of our mind and body, improve our attention and concentration.

As you can see we can mix together the music, games and activity that can be used as a stress reliever there is a therapist who use music and a twist of game and this is what we called Rhythm Games. For therapist its help the children and adult to communicate more to there friends by using drum techniques.

I read an article called "Rhythm in communication, the fundamental basis of music therapy" by Benjaman Schöglerby from http://skoogmusic.com. The author talks about how Rhythm play a role as a link to the other people. If you play drums with other people you can create a communication with them, with that you can easily express yourself and release your anxiety or stress that hinder your response and attention.

Accordin to Schöglerby "Music therapy does provide a safe platform to explore rhythmic capacity; it is defined by the American music therapy association as “the prescribed use of music by a qualified person to effect positivechanges in the psychological, physical, cognitive or social functioning of individuals with health or educational problems”. A key element is the therapist’s skill or strength in providing supportive and sensitive rhythm, human rhythm, in synrhythmia, the act of sharing time constructively (Trevarthen, 2007). As musicians we focus on manipulating rhythm in sound, making it overt, available to others and crucially inviting/pleasing or engaging. The importance of human rhythmus in communicative behaviour is borne out by the positive impacts music therapy has for individuals with linguistic or communicative deficits when combined with more traditional speech and language therapies (Brotons and Koger, 2000; Wigram, 2002).

Rhythm games can be used by individuals its up to us on how were are we going to apply it to our self especially if we have a group of friends who wants to relax and release there stress. This kind of activity help people to communicate and interact mo re often to the other at the same time its decrease the level of anxiety because you are part of the game and you lively interact with them freely just by tapping the drum or singing with them while playing an instrument.

Music is a mix of rhythm games and therapy which help us to release our enormous emotion inside our body and mind at the same time its improve our ability to interact with other and help our communication skill by expressing our emotion using music which is the link to the other people that who are shy or difficulties to communicate or interact with them.