Baseball Music

Music for a baseball game is supposed to be full of good will and high jinks. The sunshine songs that make players hit home runs like the devil collects curses are produced by musical maestros. Baseball has long had a history of high-flown positive music that makes you literally want to get up and play (if not dance). Baseball music is fast but it is not noise. Noise is meaningless music. Baseball music on the contrary holds a lot of meaning not just for fans and players but for other interested music lovers too.

In any baseball game music has to be added at the end on the TV program. Of course it can be added during the game itself in the form of a live band. But mostly it is just the addition of an upbeat (or rather offbeat) melody to the general score commentary. This is top cheer up the viewing audience. No game wants to lose its audience. That would be tantamount to suicide. So baseball has put its music where its mouth is and come up with entertaining videos. The pictures rhyme with the musical direction. That sort of puts the people in the right mood.

If you were to listen to old baseball music in the 70s and 80s you’d be surprised at the lack of fundamental chirpiness in them. There’s too dark and somber a tone to be found in them. No pep or bounce which came about in the nineties. Today in the year 2007 baseball is the biggest most popular sport of America. And so is its music.

Baseball organ music has some of the hints and tones of church organ music in its sub-notes. To play the organ requires consummate skill. Only an organ grinder can get the job done. The scale of notes in the organ follow the sol-fa tonic. Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-do. Rather like the sa-re-ga-ma-pa-da-ne-sa found in the subcontinent. From these seven notes over seven quadzillion tunes could be generated. In fact an infinite number of melodies and compositions could be made from just a few of the notes. It all depends upon the combinations.

Then baseball and country music have a very deep link with each other. The twang of that rusty guitar makes the cowboys kick off their rodeo shoes and head to the baseball field to practice some of those good swings right off the bat. Country music is funky and fun. It cannot make a person who listens to it depressed. That much is for sure. Even pop music has its doleful and sad numbers but not country music. People living in that region need this sort of music just to survive.

How a baseball sounds and music that goes with it are important indeed. At the crack of the bat the music starts. Baseball theme music has the downside that it distracts a little from fully focusing on the game. But most fans are riveted to the TV screen so it doesn’t matter to them.

So music played at baseball games has to be exciting and go with the flow. Otherwise the game sounds bland and can be boring to some weak fans.