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Posted by Kris Krieger on January 10, 2008, 2:33 pm
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>>> "Warm Worm"> wrote
>>>> That's fine, and is kind of what I do too, although I can still
>>>> play rudimentarily, if that's a word.
>>>> Listening to all this fine online open source electronic music from
>>>> different countries is beginning to get me wanting to get back into
>>>> the groove again-- this time with a laptop. Last time, it was with
>>>> an Ensoniq SQ80, a Korg Poly 800 and Fostex X15.
>>>
>>> Get serious with it, go get a real instrument of some sort.
>>> There's something missing in the *push button* arena that can't be
>>> replicated.
>>> Its that connection in your soul, right in there where you live,
>>> that makes music.
>>> You gotta *feel* it - it'll move you.
>>
>> Oh, playing is great, no doubt about that, but composing is a
>> different facet of it. Beethoven composed even after he went deaf,
>> which made playing irrelevant.
>>
>>>
>>> Grabbing an instrument for the first time ever is a shot of
>>> adrenaline that sort of lines all the synapses in single file -
>>> laser beam focus. Hearing can blind you.
>>> Finding the *patterns* and running with it.
>>> Realizing what it is, make it be what you want.
>>>
>>> What can this strange device be?
>>> When I touch it, it gives forth a sound.
>>> Its got wires that vibrate and give music.
>>> What can this thing be that I found?
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>> It's an extension of the self, of, if you will, the soul. IMO, at
>> least. When you get good with something, it's like having an extra
>> hand, but better. THat's how it'd be to fly, and that's how music
>> is. I used to play a lot more, and keep thinking that some day, I'll
>> save up and get myself an oboe (a good oboe). THat was great, it was
>> like singing, except better, since I couldn't sing all that well ;)
>> Guitar is also great. Well, ANY musical instrument is.
>>
>> It also helps keep your mind sharp, yoru fingers moving, and your
>> heart young :)
>
> Ever heard of muscle memory?
> For decades I thought such a thing was a fairy tale.
> Then one day I experienced it and everything changed from that moment
> on. Its the edge.
> In many things I have been right up to the edge but thought that was
> the end.
> It wasn't it was just the end of the beginning.
> Now, there are some songs that I play on guitar that I've played
> hundreds of times and sometimes if the mood is right I go over the
> edge. Factually, its the only way to play them properly and
> physically. You can't play them right with both feet firmly on the
> ground. I'm talking about very high speed and accurate guitar picking
> on the order of 200-300 notes per minute.
> One of the most notorius of these songs is Yngwie Maalmsteens 'Far
> Beyond the Sun'. jeezis.
> I have a video around here somewhere of me playing parts of it on my
> cousins $3000 PRS guitar. dawgies....
> It is so fast that the pathway between eyes, fingers and brain simply
> cannot handle the bandwidth so the eyes are removed from the equations
> and the fingers link directly to the brain.
At first I wasn't sure whether "musical memory" referred to playback
(where one can hear, instrument by insturment, a piece with which one is
familiar, to the point of forgetting that, no, the radio/stereo is *not*
on, it's playing in the mind...), or referred to "direct connect", where
it seems to go from eye to finger regardless of what the mind is doing or
where it might be wandering off to.
I never got that fast, not even close, but I used to be ableot play some
rather complex chords (I played Classical, not Rock). Similar thing with
Oboe after a while.
((So why the heck is my typing os dismal...I could never figure it
out...must be those numbers and letters that look backwards or seem to be
other than what they are...))
Anyhoo, it's fun when it ahppens. Very meditative.
> Actually, its the ears that link the fingers to the brain and the eyes
> aren't even in the same hemisphere on the planet.
> Its weird man, the first time I did this it was scary.
> Like my fingers were doing their own thing and I was no longer in
> control of them and I was barely conscious of what was going on and
> there's an electricl charge just below the surface on the skin.
Exhilerating :)
> This ride on the edge, the first time, only lasted a few seconds but
> it proved to me that something else was going on here.
> So I kept at it and found that groove again, and again.
> I can't do it anytime I like but I can do it alot more easily than in
> the beginning.
IF you keep up with playing, yup, it can get like that.
> The muscles in the hands and fingers do not need a conscious signal
> from the brain to do what needs to be done if they've been trained
> properly. My wife used to get uncomfortable when I'd go into the zone,
> she said I turn into a zombie, barely alive. LOL
> I'd just laugh and tell her I'm never more alive than when I'm in that
> zone.
THat's what I was going to reply until I realized that you already said
it.
I find it irritating when people kvetch about someone "zoning out" merely
because that person is in a place that is not he everyday mundane "did
you see 'Friends' last night" dumbass bullshit plane of what pathetically
passes as an excuse for "reality".
IMO, the times when one can transcend the petty stupidities are to be
cherished as a blessing.
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