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Adding Emotion to Music

Brad_C — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:07:00 +0000

Music emotion has been my subject of interest lately and has made me reflect on over the past years of how the musician adds emotion to the music. As expressed before this reflection has been coming form my reading of "The Music Lesson" by Victor Wooten. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through [...]

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Music Emotion and Blending

Brad_C — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:51:00 +0000

The mysterious idea of music emotion comes up from time to time when musicians and teachers talk about playing music for an audience. his is intriguing, when I was learning to express my music during my classical study time we were talked a lot about the feel of the music and interpretation of the melody or artist's intent.

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Wanting to Sound Good

Brad_C — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:06 +0000

A most profound statement. A quote from Kenny Werner in Effortless Mastery - "When you approach your instrument, no matter what lofty goals you say you have, wanting to sound good will predominate and render you impotent." This statement is obvious in it's intent to convey how a mindset may be self destructive. I have personally experienced this so many times that when I reread this, it was like being smacked upside the head.

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