Re: [Harp-L] what goes through my head?



IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) it's all comes down to the music interpretation
(what do you feel and experience when exposed to the musical surroundings).
In order to get a good interpretation on music we need to have a good
musicianship (i.e. musical sensitivity). If your interpretation matches with
the people who are listening to you, they will like your play.

~0.02$ from an amateur who is one of Chris' fans

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Buddha <groovygypsy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I recently uploaded a new video with me playing a Sting's "Is Probably Me"
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ATHYxDkA8
>
> for some reason, the playing seems to strike a chord with lots of
> other harmonica players who have been asking me what I did to be able
> to play the way I do and what goes through my head when I am playing
> music.
>
> To be good at anything requires lots of work, passion and dedication.
> To be great at anything requires the same but you must also have a
> little nuttiness to yourself. Every great musician I have met is a
> little "off" in at least one area not to mention being more on the
> "extreme" end of one spectrum or another.  I've found the better I get
> at music, the level and depth of my emotions increases. Being an
> emotional extremist has many drawbacks but I wouldn't trade it for
> anything. I love living on the edge of creation.
>
> How did I get to play the way I play?  It's not as difficult as it
> would seem.  What I play is actually very simple and the technique I
> employ is within reach of everybody on this board.  The most beautiful
> things in life are usually the simplest things.  I'm all about what
> sounds good and what is musical rather than being flashy or
> demonstrating the greatness and depth of my technique. My goal is to
> play good music not to show people how good I am.
>
> The difference between me and most is I listen to everything and
> anything. Some of my craziness comes into play here, if I don't like
> something, I will listen to it more and more until I understand what I
> don't like about it.  There are rules to everything and I generally
> believe if you don't like somebody then its because you don't
> understand the rules for that song or person.  And, once you figure it
> out, it becomes a thing of beauty.
>
> So what goes through my head when I am playing?  Everything is like a
> movie soundtrack and I just play what I think is appropriate for that
> bit of the movie. While you are playing, if you are grounded in the
> music and yourself, you can step out side of yourself and the music
> and direct yourself.  When you do this, you hear everything and in a
> way it's actually traveling a few seconds into the future where you
> are actually creating the moment to be displayed  to your audience.
> Creating music with others is to me, proof of a multi-dimensional
> universe where many beings and energy units can exist in the same
> space in time yet we are all having our individual moment of creation.
> Many voices converge to become one beautiful moment.
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