Re: [Harp-L] what goes through my head?
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- Subject: Re: [Harp-L] what goes through my head?
- From: Arnold Wiliem <arnoldw.id@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:37:31 +1000
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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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