Re: Finally Found A Hero

On 12 Mar, 18:03, Paul P <a...@xxxxx> wrote:
Mr. Green wrote:
However, I
acknowledge that there are better players out there who have the know-
how and technical ability to sound more like the sounds in my head
than I do.

I find this quite an interesting statement.  Doesn't it mean that
the sounds in your head are their's and not your own ?

I've been trying to figure out if playing someone else's music can
be considered to be music.  I've been toying with this idea that
music is something of extreme significance in this universe of ours,
something that gives meaning to the billions of years it has been
evolving.  The purpose of life on earth can seem pretty vague until
you start considering art, be it music or some other form.  For life
to express itself in such a beautiful fashion is awesome.  Much more
that something so rudimentary as a typical religion.

But - I don't see much significance in repeating the music of someone
else.  While that may be a form of recognizing and even celebrating
that person's expression of their existence it doesn't say much about
our own existence.  I'm slowing coming to the conclusion that it is
far more meaningful to play a single note from the bottom of one's
15 billion year long trek, as our own expression of why we traveled
so far, than to try to tack ourselves onto someone else's effort.

I can see learning from those that have gone before as a sort of group
endeavor, like a pyramid of meaning, with the latest addition to the
musical style at the top.  But to deserve a place in this group you
have to have done something new, even if only to your own particular
branch of the whole thing.  This something can be a single note if you
fully express it in a fashion that is totally from your own being.

So I think playing someone else's stuff may be an enjoyable activity,
like pedalling a bicyle, but it doesn't hold much in the way of meaning.

In some cases your comment may be justified but, you really don't know
just how ME I am.

:-)

I can't imagine you being any more or less than 100% YOU,
like it or not.

Paul P

The feeling I put into my music is 100% me. The scales I use contain
note combinations that have been popular in the western world for the
last 200 years. The styles of music I play (i.e. rock, jazz, blues
etc.) all have very rigid rules which define each style. Like most
people, I have preferences within those styles. When I choose to
follow any of my preferences I am, to a certain degree, copying. If
all I brought to playing music was "feeling" without any knowledge of
all the other factors required to play, I probably sound ***. That's
why I say nobodys music is really more than 10% original.

By the way, your way of looking at music labels classical music as
worthless. I love many styles of classical music.

Green
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