Blog 5: Improvised vs Composed Music

Today we discussed the philosophy around improvised and composed music. Where composed music is already structured and organized and simply has to be read by the musician. And where improvised music is when a musician or group of musicians play music at random that actually works together to make a good song. For example, at a rock concert, it is common that the lead guitarist does solo of random chords and crazy sounds. The majority of the time it works out well. It is debated whether it was really improvised or prepared. We will probably never know. However, I believe improvising adds a lot to music.