Music

[Nathancat7]

I think I may have bake my noodle a little with this but I've been musing harmonics and music and maybe a little bit of its relationships with language.
Sometimes I have a tendency to be tone deaf when I sing.
It's not that I can't being Harmony and on key, it's just that sometimes I like to express myself emotionally, or indulge myself emotionally, in a disharmonious relationship to the information presented in songs.
So basically I've decided to really focus on being accurate in my tones when singing mostly by putting my hands behind my ears.
Sometimes like an amateur portrait artist I will have trouble with various keys and will try to match the key of the singer rather than just harmonizing in the lower key which is more natural; and that's a factor in sometimes singing off of tone.
Sometimes when focusing on matching tone I lose sight of the lyrics and the verbal language information.
So it it hit me that folk songs a various cultures contain a lot of information in history within their songs that can be accessed by seeing them because I think that originally language was much closer to song and it is now.
So I've just sort of decided to investigate this further by looking up a bunch of folk songs in original language of various cultures and just singing and see, and to see what happens and what I discover.
First I have to have an original translation the song into English and to understand it well, because well I'm an American.
And then the idea is to simply bridge the different parts of the brain that process verbal and musical harmonies.

 

[MusicMan]

Hello Nathancat7, you didn't mention whether or not you play an instrument; if not, it might help you to learn to play one, especially one that you can sing along to as you play. The reason is that there are several different functions that your brain has to perform as you progress with a piece of music.
Basically, read the words; read the musical notation; play the notes/chords; keep the tempo; keep the pitch; breathe at appropriate moments, co-ordinate with other players/singers, and so on: Your brain really has its' work cut out to do all this and I find that it is a good discipline.
My instrument of choice was guitar, and I had a six-string and a twelve stringed instrument as well. I have played in church music groups, and sang as well, although my voice is not that powerful. Getting too old for it these days, though.
Good luck with it.

 

[Nathancat7]

Yes I played the clarinet in high school and I played the drums some too.
I playes just the djimbe-- but let me tell you:
Some of the most tremendous experiences in my life have often been playing music in the orchestra. It just came alive with the sounds of, of I forget what the song was, that it was so thrilling. People who play in orchestra know this feeling.
So many people, working a part all together, creating a resonant whole.
And playing the drums with other people just changed me it was wonderful.
So I think what I would like to do is be able to sing and play an instrument at the same time.
And I think you're right guitar would be something that would be really helpful (especially for brain entrainment).
I think one of my favorite most favorite instruments is the flute I wanted to play that but the fellow said my armature wasn't suited for it and then I could should play the clarinet instead--which thrilled my parents of course because we already had a clarinet.
But I truly love the sounds of the flute--
any flute
To love something is to want to be a part of it, so I long to play the flute.
But singing, and playing guitar-- I think I'll take that up

 

[Nathancat7]

Yes I played the clarinet in high school and I played the drums some too.
I playes just the djimbe-- but let me tell you:
Some of the most tremendous experiences in my life have often been playing music in the orchestra. It just came alive with the sounds of, of I forget what the song was, that it was so thrilling. People who play in orchestra know this feeling.
So many people, working a part all together, creating a resonant whole.
And playing the drums with other people just changed me it was wonderful.
So I think what I would like to do is be able to sing and play an instrument at the same time.
And I think you're right guitar would be something that would be really helpful (especially for brain entrainment).
I think one of my favorite most favorite instruments is the flute I wanted to play that but the fellow said my armature wasn't suited for it and then I could should play the clarinet instead--which thrilled my parents of course because we already had a clarinet.
But I truly love the sounds of the flute--
any flute
To love something is to want to be a part of it, so I long to play the flute.
But singing, and playing guitar-- I think I'll take that up

The flute has always seemed to me to be a solo solitary instrument to some degree having to beat sometimes chained up in an orchestra.
And so this sounds coming from it I could identify with it and it appeals to me.
It's a calling to a deeper source I guess.
That kind of reminds me of this kung fu movie where this sort of crazed fellow was going around fighting and on the lam, and he was called in by a monk who used to a beautiful flute and he could not resist it.
For me the important thing is actually the social interactions that music can create I would not be happy just playing a musical instrument solo.
There's got to be some aspect of a shindig in there for me.
Another thing that's interesting is that if I try to play a song in my head and then I try to force my own impression or interpretation on it it doesn't sound that great but if I just leave it alone and let it let it play it's just I don't know where it comes from, but it's it's the song right as its heard.

 

[Cleopatre VII]

@Nathancat7

Just out of curiosity: have you ever tried to compose your own music or improvise while playing instruments? It seems to me that such an improvisation is truly an amazing experience. It allows you to feel the music flowing inside you at the moment.

 

[Nathancat7]

When I was younger I would make a songs up.
I think my favorite one was a pretty simple tune just saying just singing to my mother:
We're all in a van going to beautiful, beautiful, British Columbia.
Also I made song during solo walks.
And of course I've, and who hasen't, made up sort of decrescendos and crescendos in the classical genres.
When first started to play the Clarinet I improvised (my father approved, calling it "the fooling around stage")
trombone is really good instrument to train the ear which can greatly increase improvisational techniques I think.
Guitar too.
You are right though, improv and originality are where it's at and facullitates collaboration as well.

 

[Nathancat7]

When I was younger I would make a songs up.
I think my favorite one was a pretty simple tune just saying just singing to my mother:
We're all in a van going to beautiful, beautiful, British Columbia.
Also I made song during solo walks.
And of course I've, and who hasen't, made up sort of decrescendos and crescendos in the classical genres.
When first started to play the Clarinet I improvised (my father approved, calling it "the fooling around stage")
trombone is really good instrument to train the ear which can greatly increase improvisational techniques I think.
Guitar too.
You are right though, improv and originality are where it's at and facullitates collaboration as well.

I mean they should really consider having music as a counting as PE credit, because I was doing incredible changes of finger positions in complicated overtures.
I do think other students had and are developing and could understand music more than just wrote notes.
I think if you asked me to play a note I was just reading notes I didn't even know what a the note sounds like really.
Just just focused on getting the technique down and hope hope whatever came out sounded okay.
So in my education in that sense music was kind of ignored.
On the plus side when one is participating in a group concert and it's just a wonderful experience and so there is a benefit to just getting everybody up to speed without really integrating the music into their being if I'm even right in saying that.