Sunday, December 8, 2013

Smash Out Music Without Reading a Note - Part 1 - What Is Music?

Q: What is Music?A1: A Form of CommunicationWhen a child is born, she has the ability to communicate. From the moment she arrives in the world she can cry. This is how she says "I'm not very happy right now and I could use a hand please." or "What on earth is going on? I'm feeling a bit stressed at the moment!"The point is, she's letting someone know. What good would it do her to cry while no-one is there to hear and respond.We are designed to communicate from the word go.As she gets a bit older and settles in to the idea of breathing, home and Mum & Dad, she'll make other noises as well. We get so much enjoyment from cooing with babies and doing the "Goo goo, ga ga" thing.She doesn't have any particular reason to say that stuff except that she's really happy and content.Then after a while there's the laughing. Why does she laugh?? Have you noticed how people usually only laugh when they're with other people. Weird! But that's the way we are... and it's so good!One day soon she'll learn to talk, one word at a time. And she'll do something quite remarkable - She'll let you know exactly what her words mean by how she says them."Look, Mummy! Dere's a buddafwy!" The words come alive with the passion of the moment and Mum knows exactly how she feels about seeing that special butterfly. She's not scared of it, She's not just stating a scientific fact... she's just so amazed by it.Those words didn't come out in a monotone like a robot's voice but with all the beautiful ups and downs and louds and softs of a great musical work.How does she know how to do that? Funny how we take it for granted.She's just changed simple words into a form of communication that's easily understandable and nobody taught her how. She doesn't even know she's doing it.I don't know about you but I think that's absolutely incredible.You must be getting my point by now. We are designed to communicate in so many ways other than just using words and we use all of these ways every single day - I haven't even touched on body language and there are still other ways of communicating beyond that.I'm going to say something that you might find hard to accept.It is only a small transition from communication using your voice to communicating using music. This is the point where half of you will say "Yeah, right!" but hang in there... It's actually true.Music is the communication of feelings and thoughts.This is the most important concept of music to grasp... Just take it in for a moment.See an example of Steve's on the spot composing at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x783c3xw0Y

Steve Nossiter Ramath Creations. Wollongbar, NSW Steve has been composing music for the last 25 years and has composed for advertising, film, TV, theatre, and more. He is currently completing his bachelor degree in Audio Production at SAE Byron Bay. Steve is a husband of Silvana Nossiter and Father of 3 awesome kids, all of which are following in his footsteps and creating mus

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