Music
In the current atmosphere of the world I sometimes seek solace in music. Tonight I have been listening to one of my favorite classical albums: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALgIqTql2Jg&list=OLAK5uy_nQXX1rmV1csVkxCtvcarTfiuh4jxMFxYw&index=13 I find it very soothing.
Another genre I have just discovered is Andalusian music, it is a mix of traditional Spanish and Moorish music it can be soothing or it can be invigorating or even both at the same time! here is one of the albums I enjoy the most: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tSUVOd-bM
I believe finding music that brings a peaceful vibe to your heart and mind is healthful. I wonder what others enjoy?
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I love music, and that is an understatement. I was singing early, on tune and all of that. I grew up singing harmony with my siblings, then I started 2 girls quartets & sang in 2 choirs. If music was not present, there was always a song in my head/heart. I sang to the cows when I milked them. We all relaxed together. 😉. Music is my passion, my refuge and my sanity.
I miss singing in a quartet. You don't know how much.
I enjoy somewhat of a variety...Country, gospel, hymns, barbershop quartet, some 50s-60s, some jazz, a tiny bit of bluegrass, acapella is awesome, salsa dance type styles, southern seas vibe, I do like some other genres as well. Pop & rock, and anything from the 70s...nope. Classical is only acceptable if it is Bugs Bunny style.
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@Laurie What about Tom and Jerry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1JKd1C7izQ
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Raised in Europe, naturally I dearly love Classical, & also Folk (but not country) music. - After coming to USA, I also learned spiritual songs, & soft-rock music. Beyond singing in choirs, & quartets, & solo - too I have served as choir-director. And began learning accordion, & piano.
For clearly Relaxing... while watching you can enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbnH3VHzhu8 10 hours sleep music, healing music, meditation music, background music and peaceful music &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfhced4f3c4 Soft Orchestral Music 🎻♫❤ André Rieu , &
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnD30bcAS8 Pachelbel, Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, Janacek, Bach, Handel -- enjoyed 14 million times
Too especially, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjTPKlKPM3Y Relaxing Harp Music 🎵 Peaceful Birds Sounds, Stress Relief Music for 3 hours
Music is 1 of my many passions... & am glad it is the same for you 🙂
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I love music too! I used to teach band but now I'm a stay at home mom. Someday hoping to get back to it though. I play in the orchestra at my church and play hand bells too. I like listening to a variety of music but I really love playing it. What I miss is jazz band! A really good jazz band is so much fun to listen to, direct, and play in. Swing music is fun like that too. 😀
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I grew up on classical music. I'm a vocalist who sings with our worship band, but the music is far from classical, but I love this music too. But in passing I mentioned that I used to play the cello.
The pastor zeroed in on that. "You play a cello!"
"Well, fifty years ago, in high school I did."
"Do you still have your cello?"
"Yes, but I don't even remember how to read the music!"
"I want you to begin playing the cello in the worship band."
That began a whirlwind of relearning how to make music with it. It took me two months to relearn the instrument (practicing up to 4 hours a day) and a couple of weeks longer to learn the tenor part of the old Christmas hymns.
Since all our band music is in chords, I need to invent a cello part for them. I play it a third above the chord base (which our base player plays).
So now when it's my turn to do a set (we have two groups that alternate each Sunday), the cello becomes part of one of the songs I do.
I feel like the Lord has opened up a whole new way of living for me! It includes music I never thought I'd enjoy again.
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your second link is like a total 'mind rest' I love it, thank you much!
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I love most kinds of music. I am especially fond of music with a beat because it fills my body with energy, and yes, I do like even some rap music. Nothing like music with a good beat to help get you started on hated tasks like housework.
When I am sad, listening to some blues from Aretha Franklin helps to get my spirits up.
Coincidentally, my parrot likes most music too, except for the soundtrack to RENT. She makes rude noises while that music is playing.
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Haha! Good question. I really don't remember the music of Tom & Jerry, so I can't give you an answer to that. I didn't care for the cartoon, and maybe that would be why?
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@Laurie the clip I linked to was their version of Hungarian Rhapsody #2, one of the few classical compositions most people are familiar with. (They weren't my favorite either. )
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Jazz, baby, jazz! I love the traditional stuff - Dixieland and swing. This may be the best concert I've ever seen, and features my all time favorite clarinet player, Pete Fountain. (well, best concert without Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden). Anyway, ENJOY!!!
Pete Fountain at Wolf Trap in 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCIvcec9wE&t=2s
Al Hirt Concert at Wolf Trap in 1979
Here is part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7l9_0edDA&t=2s
Al Hirt Concert at Wolf Trap in 1979
Here is the encore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7l9_0edDA&t=2s
Interview With Pete Fountain and Al Hirt 1979
Oh, and an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=womKQUX9Xs0
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@judsoncarroll4 I have learned to like Dixieland late in life. As for jazz, give me jazz fusion.
My husband is a trombone player so will be glad to know someone is still into traditional music.
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I only got into it 5-10 years ago, after being a western swing fan for a very long time. Kid Ory and Jack Teagarden are my all time favorite trombone players. Here are some link he might like.... 25 hours or so of classic music...
https://archive.org/search.php?query=David%20Niven%20kid%20ory
https://archive.org/search.php?query=David%20Niven%20jack%20teagarden
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Hi @wbt.affiliates - Soo glad you have Found a way to once again enjoy... playing your cello.
They tried that with me, people love "your soulful singing from your heart". - Yes, naturally it's the only way I know to live.
But seeing as I resigned myself to only attend church on Easter, & rarely at Christmas, I wasn't accepted into their chorus; but she said "Anytime you want to sing a solo, just let me know & I will make it happen".
Yet my good friend Janice & I sing in the full Handel's MESSIAH = she a quiet alto, or when I encourage her 2nd.Sop; & then she tries telling me I'm still hitting the high notes well. - If only that was Truth, lol - I long for the days when high C was a little any day thing, instead "oh Lord, help me !" LOL
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@rainbow I can't imagine singing the whole Handel's Messiah, even in a choir. My father did every year. I've soloed parts of it, and sang various selections from it, but to do the whole thing, ah well, you have far more ambition than I do. But your "note" on singing a high C reminded me the other reason I took up the cello. Yes, the high C is more difficult now. It no longer floats the way I want it to. So I believe the Lord opened up another avenue for me to express my love for music. Thank you for understanding.
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The many sounds of music through modern instruments and those produced naturally by the winds as the tree branches and leaves rustle, and grasses sway with delight. I grew up singing Christmas carols with the family around pianos. I’d record tapes of music from radio stations. I taught Girl Scout songs. Also, being part of musicals from Jr. High into High School in the drama departments. Theatre and acting brought about music theory. I belonged to a church choir. We sang from the second floor in the rear of the church along with a large pipe organ. Nowadays, I enjoy all genres of music, I sing and dance. The ultimate favorite is bagpipe music, makes me fling off my shoes and dance barefoot.
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I love all music though not a musician like so many here. I am 80% deaf in my left ear so I don’t exactly pick up all the notes. My second husband was a musician (bass, guitar, violin, keys, drums...basically any percussion or string instrument but no wind). I just loved listening to him play!
I am a dancer though and music with soul moves me. Music with a beat lights me up.
This guy is my current obsession💖Damien Escobar https://youtu.be/NlmiJek_hi8
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@herbantherapy thanks for the link, I have listened to him before, I like David Garrett too. He gets a little over the top with some of his crossover music, but still very enjoyable. I am not gifted with musical talent although it does run in my family. My grandfather on mom's side was a fiddler and square dance caller and he taught all of his children to play just as his mother taught him. I have a picture of his mother playing the guitar, his dad on an old carvery drum accompanied by his sister on cello and his brother also fiddle. They played dances in the area to make cash money for taxes and what ever groceries they couldn't raise. My mom went to school on a music scholarship but when I was young we didn't have any instruments in the home and couldn't afford lessons, except there was a teacher in our school who would give free lessons during recess to those who wanted to learn. The instrument he used was an auto-harp and I skipped recess everyday to go play, Mom and Dad scrapped enough together to buy me one. I loved it. As we older ones left the nest money wasn't so tight and my younger sibs had lessons and instruments and two of them went on to school with music scholarships. I have always regretted not having gumption enough to teach myself the piano or the guitar, however, it's never too late.😏
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I play several instruments... some of them at a professional level. My main instruments are guitar, mandolin, harmonica and tenor banjo... but I can play maybe a dozen more. I could do some instructional videos, just for the group, if anyone is interested... and Ms. @Marjory Wildcraft allows it.
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I'm a big fan of music...I love the way it can make you 'feel' just with sound. @judsoncarroll4 do you play any piano?
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I'm rather eclectic when it comes to music. I like a lot of the rock and roll, jazz, smooth jazz, swing band, big band, saxophone (like Yanni), celtic (like Enya), banjo, bagpipes, etc. but I don't care much for most rap, or traditional country music.
I grew up with a love of music and dance and a fascination about musical instruments. My parents were both dancers but I didn't just want to dance. I wanted to make the music too. So every chance I got I would try learning a new instrument. My first instrument was one I made when I was 5 years old. It was a box that I cut slots in the sides of and stretched rubber bands across. Later that year, my parents decided to get me piano lessons. My 2 older sisters were already taking them.
At the age of 9, I got a ukulele and instruction book for Christmas and taught myself to play that. When I was 10, my sister got a guitar for Christmas and she let me tinker with it. Since the chords were similar to what you play on a ukulele, I was able to figure out a number of them and then my sister got a book of chords, and I learned a bunch more. Next I set to work figuring out how to play some of the songs on the radio. The first song I picked out by ear was "The House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals.
At 11, I talked my parents into letting me take violin lessons through an after-school program. I played in school orchestras up until high school and then started playing with the college orchestra for their musicals.
In my high school they didn't have an orchestra, so I picked up a flute during the summer, took 3 lessons on it and joined the high school band that year. That only lasted until the spring when band became marching band and they needed baton twirlers more than flutes (there were 15 flautists in our small band). Since I had experience twirling baton, I was chosen to join the team.
That next summer, my friend taught me how to play a drum set. I had wanted drums for years, but my parents didn't want the noise in the house. So this was a perfect option.
I was given a banjo, a harmonica, and an accordion and attempted to teach myself to play them, but never reached any proficiency. I have an Indian flute as well, I like to play around with.
I was also in choirs from 7th grade on up. I joined all the special choirs that required auditions too, and got parts in all the musicals and plays and sang "The Messiah" 2 years in a row with the church choir. My senior year in high school I was chosen by audition to play a guitar solo for the college musical production, "Promises, Promises". I was also asked to assist the college choreographer that year and teach the "Chava Ballet Sequence" to the actors in their "Fiddler on the Roof" musical.
Sorry to ramble! Once I got started it was hard to find a stopping place. 😏
@wbt.affiliates speaking about the cello, have you ever seen the "2 Cellos" videos on youtube? I love their music and watching them too. They are a riot! Here's one of their vids -
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Our neighbor is a master piper from Scotland. He is certainly a great player.
Nature has beautiful music!
Pipe organ music is something that is in a class of it's own. You just feel it right through your whole body. Have you looked up any songs on YouTube? It is not the same as live, but still wonderful to listen to.
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I second instructional videos! Yes, please! @Marjory Wildcraft
I want to learn harmonica. I have a blues harp...a good one. I should have picked up one tuned to "C" but didn't know any better at the time.
I can play a little piano.
My kids can't play anything even though we have a piano, guitars, and a few other instruments. We live in a dead area. Hardly any musicians, most sing off tune, and there are no lessons for anything. It is so bad. I have always wanted them to learn to play something. I can at least teach them voice harmony and very basic piano.
My brother taught his kids lots. They do strings & wind. They can play pretty much anything they touch. They sing too, but the girls' voices sound too much like their mother's, harsh and off tune. The boys are good, though. It is difficult to listen to them sing.
My sister plays piano, my youngest brother did trombone.
Oh...now wouldn't that be something if we could all collectively combine our talents here and have a live party focused on music & our common interests! That would make my heart glad. 😍
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Not seriously.... I plant to really get into piano soon. I found a beautiful antique piano - over 100 years. I need to restore it, then get serious about learning to really play it.
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@Laurie what key is your harp in? I have all keys, so I could match to yours.
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It is in G
Yikes! 😳 That posted large.
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Oh, G is a great key! My first harp, given to my by my great grandfather was in G.... so I started out with folk, rural blues and Bob Dylan.... can't beat G for Dylan! I have one just like that, btw. I think I have a marine band and a big river, plus the old one he kept in his pocket for decades... dented beyond recognition. I have some odd ones to... strange Marine band with an extra octave and a huge "Chromonica"... that is a C key harmonica that includes every note on a piano keyboard. But the key of G is just 1 half note (or step) from the key of C. C is C,D,E,F,G,A,B G is G,A,B,C,D,E and F sharp. If you learn to play notes both blowing out an sucking in, you can play a C scale on an G harmonica.
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@judsoncarroll4 Yeah, but following audio instruction in C when playing in G sounds so bad! I just could not do that. It's like singing with someone off tune. 😬
A Chromonica sounds complicated but fascinating.
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Oh, it isn't so bad. Just start on C. Play the key of C, and think of the lower notes as bonus notes. c, D, etc.... maybe play the lower B a few times just for fun. Chromonica is complicated.... the slider blocks half the hole …. it has double reeds and 64 notes... I've not mastered
it!
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@Laurie Whenever I hear bagpipes, I pause and truly listen. It makes me think to remove my shoes and outstretch my arms twirling around, dancing. I do prefer live bagpipe players.
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