*is baaaack from the land of sniffling zombies*
Glad to hear that
. Welcome back
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I actually think under the few right emotional/mental circumstances I could pull of some what of a stage look ( i enjoy fashion & style ) except I'll never play well enough and most of the time my self-conciousness would badly kick in and ruin any easyish flow I might have gathered up!
LOL, I hear you. I'd react the same way.
(That said, if my friends ever wanted to go to a karaoke bar I'd be right there with them, belting it out on stage, so figure that one out)
I'm not stylish at all. So there goes that factor for me
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I bet you'd do a hell of a lot better than some sorry excuses for "musicians" that exist out there, I'm quite sure I'm safe in stating that as a fact.
as for the musical originals...there have been a few times whe when I realize I've picked up someone/band's work...part of a meoldy line...but other's I think are mine.
i made up my own notation based on what i learned when i could read music (2 brief years quite a ways back) , but with out a key to start in ...hard to reconstruct.
But I do have somewhere a electric tuner, plus the guitar ( and I have a eletronic key borad too) I'll find the little scribbles I've notated down nd see what's up.
Bah, with music being around as long as it has,
everything is picked up off of somebody else's work somewhere.
I find it absolutely fascinating that people can do things like that, learn to read music and know just what notes to hit when and all that sort of thing. Learning about the intricacies of what go into making a song has always been a bit of an interesting subject for me. Especially when you consider this...
Bono has said he's found it frustrating because he can't read/write music!
I've noticed a lot of musicians say that. There's very few out there, it seems, that can read music, they instead go more by what they hear and what comes out of them through purely noodling around and experimenting. A lot of them seem to just sort of stumble into the talent, and that's just as impressive as the technical schooling/studying that some artists do.
I definitely think these sorts of talents are a natural thing. You can learn techniques and such that will improve upon your talent, and expand the possibilities of it, but I think the talent itself has to be there from the get-go.
I always wonder in "Breathe" while "...running down the road like loose electricty" could be anything related to the stream of ideas he has going on BUT the NEXT line
"while the band in my head plays a striptease" --whether that refers to what he's "hearing music-wise" in his thoughts but can't easily put down.
That's what I've thought, too. It'd fit perfectly with the stream-of-conscious feel of that song-"I'm just sort of rambling here, and I know it doesn't make a lick of sense to some people, but I swear it sounds better in my head!"
I can relate a bit to that, sometimes the idea sounds so good and looks so right in your mind's eye, but for some reason, getting it actually produced on paper or in a song or whatever, it's harder to replicate that way. Whatever the meaning behind that line, I love it, it makes me laugh and it's so perfect an example of Bono logic. That's one of my favorite songs off of
No Line, I love the way it's sung and I love the music, and the total randomness of it all. It doesn't make sense and yet it does all at the same time.
I've even at rare times have gotten partcially full arrangements of melodies for goodness sakes!
That's cool! I can imagine the rush that must give somebody, having a moment of complete, or near complete, inspiration like that.
I wonder if B has been able to finally try Garage Band! If I had it I'd try it!
Dunno. I bet he'd have fun with it if he did try it, though
. And he'd probably try and bug the other guys to play along with him. And they'd be like, "But we have our own REAL instruments...?"
Angela