The difference between Indian music and western music

The music plays an important role in human being's life. The music covers our lives from all sides. People like music with bottom of heart. There are so many types of music like folk music, Ghazals, classical music, etc. etc. The internet is a wide platform for all types of music and they search their favorite songs on different websites like play it.pk, YouTube and Dailymotion. There are two industries which support music that is Bollywood and Hollywood. The Bollywood songs are mainly popular and like by people in eastern countries, while Hollywood movies are like by western people.

In both the systems you will find some essential differences: the Indian music is based on melody or single notes played in a given order, while the Western music is based on harmony: a group of notes known as chords played together. The Indian classical music system is horizontal; one note follows the other, while the Western music is vertical; many notes played at a time. In music of India, melody and rhythm offer a variety of subtleties, which is not possible in Western music. Indian notes are divided into units called shruties (22 microtones), whereas Western music consist of 12 semitones. Western music has the capacity of producing many feelings and moods. While Indian music, has the capacity to produce a principal emotion or a mood in a raga.

You can find these differences on the internet while visiting music websites for example  playit pk watch, Vimeo etc etc.