Have you lost your focus?
Digging this new playlist!
A round-up of music I am enjoying right now:
Music has the power to trigger emotions which in turn trigger feelings. The right song can turn a frown upside down.
I appreciate music more then I ever have before. Directly tied to my love for music is my admiration for the musicians who dedicate their lives to creating the music I love so much! As I've become more engaged in teaching music to others, I now 'listen with purpose' - with a heightened sense of meaning. I am hearing parts of the songs I've never heard before, and for the first time, I'm thinking about exactly how the music was created.
The wonderful part of music is that there are few barriers of access to it. I can listen to it pretty much all day long, music is my constant companion, no matter what I'm doing. The right music complements everything so well.
Indeed, the idea of going to see our favorite musicians perform live can become reserved for the wealthy, it does not mean that the sound cannot be heard outside the confines of the venue in which it's performed.
The technology of recording music, and then the pervasive breadth of ways to recall music on demand is ever expanding.
I write to music, I work to music, I exercise to music, I make love to music. When we visit with friends, the absence of music is the first thing I usually notice.
Music enhances life.
When I hear a song I really like, I'll grab my guitar or ukulele and try to step into the song, becoming an active participant. It becomes a co-creation.
Of all my senses, I hope hearing is my last to go (evidence suggests it is).
One of our first senses our awareness goes after we are born is hearing.
In the womb, our first awareness of being exists through the sounds we hear (as early as 16 weeks after we were conceived).
In meditation, it's the absence of sound. With my noise cancelling headphones, I relate deep mediation to returning to the womb, a time before sound existed. When sounds are heard, they are faint and muted. This level of sound would be familiar to a developing fetus.
It's all about bringing people together to make music!
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"Guitar playing is kind of like therapy... you can go and not think about things for a while, and just feel. It’s pretty cool." In this episode Ernie Ball artists, Phil Manansala and Alan Ashby from Of Mice & Men discuss their beginnings with guitar, their love of playing, and their relationship with Ernie Ball. String Theory is a web series from Ernie Ball that explores the sonic origins of some of music's most innovative players.