How has music Improved your Life?

[Tyrone Biggums]

Hey Fellas,

I've been taking private guitar lessons for the past year and will be taking voice lessons pretty soon. I think it's cool to develop a skill that not a lot of people have and I feel like an improved person. Just wondering, how has playing a musical instrument improved your life either socially, professionally, or in any other area in your life?

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Being able to play music (I'm a guitarist too) has given me creativity, confidence and charisma; at least when performing for someone.

 

[styles07]

Absolutely. I play drums but have played guitar in the past. It's amazing stress relief at the very least. Music never ceases to amaze.

 

[Victory Unlimited]

Yo Tyrone,


I've written and recorded a few songs, but not professionally though. I did it to promote books and artwork I was selling. I even used to be a pretty good Clarinet player too, back in the day, but another Benny Goodman I WASN'T. LOL

But that was ages ago. I've probably forgotten more about playing THAT instrument than I ever learned. Now I dabble in keyboard playing. I can't play it effortlessly though. So what I do is lay tracks and layer them until I have BUILT a complete song.

It's always IMPRESSIVE to me when the final track has been laid, because it usually sounds DIFFERENT and BETTER than I had originally intended, so I can't really take credit for HAPPENSTANCE. lol

The whole music education experience expanded my horizons in many ways. I can get geeked up over Classical, Rock, Soul, and Rap---EQUALLY. I've always been quite interested in the mechanics of songwriting.

I had a habit of becoming intrigued and fascinated by popular music that was intricately stylized (like the highly inventive sampling mixes that Public Enemy were known for). And I was also highly interested in Rock Bands that had versatility enough to blend different styles into something I'd never heard before (like ANY Queen album. NOBODY merged the power and the majesty of Rock, Classical, and Opera quite like THEY did).

All of this has influenced me in real life by fueling my desire to look into EVERYTHING around me deeper than most, to want to understand where EVERYTHING originates from, and to pay CLOSER attention to the MAN behind the curtain (insert HERE whatever Wizard of Oz or Matrix reference you prefer...lol).

GOOD music inspires and infuses whatever I'm in the process of creating. Sometimes I can get so INTO IT that I can get lost----and it becomes a form of accidental meditation for me.

Oh, and one more thing: In the early nineties I was part of a local music/rap/dance group that got me a lot of attention from the ladies. BUT, I rarely was able to capitalize on the attention because I was unfortunately a full blown AFC back then...lol




Peace...one day.

 

[insanity]

it got me a fantastic woman. i was playing guitar at a party and when the singer said guitar solo, i blew the panties off half the chicks. i didn't have to open my mouth or even approach the girl i'm with now. she brought me a beer and said your really good. she flicked her hair, her pupils were massively dialated and we sat down and chatted and the rest is history.

thats why i don't know why most guys don't learn guitar. it saves you all the work of approaching. chicks will naturally magnetize to you

heck there's a guy that works at my ebgames that has nerd written all over him but when his band hit the stage and he started drumming and his set was over, i couldn't believe the chick he was banging. she was smokin

 

[Bro]

It puts you in a good mood. I don't play an instrument, but I do enjoy music alot.

I don't care If I sing like crap. I sing in the car. I sing in public.

There are so many types of music to enjoy. From a Beethoven symphony to Bob Marley to Frank Sinatra to Jimi Hendrix to Irish folk music to Tibetan Buddhist monks chanting to big band/swing roaring 20's jazz to corny 80's music to the rhymes of the Notorious BIG to Johnny Cash doing a concert in Folsom Prison.

I need to pick up my Fender guitar that is in my room and get some lessons.
Any tips for a rookie?

 

[insanity]

just learn G,C,D,em and practice those 4 chords everyday and that'll warm your hands up for alot of songs. then once you learn them everything else will fall into place

 

[Oxide]

So where can I get a cheap guitar and what is GCD??

 

[insanity]

G,C,D are the main chords in most rock and country songs. start with a cheap guitar just in case you don't have the patience to learn so you don't waste your cash. the sound might not be the best but if you learn and take it to the next level then go out and buy an awesome axe.

 

[Falcon]

I've been working on composing/songwriting lately also. One of my dreams is to compose for movies. Just thinking about it gets me so pumped up sometimes hehe. In the last decade or two, the whole electronic side of composing has skyrocketed! Since hard drives keep getting bigger and bigger, sampling has grown immensely. You can have realistic sounds of all of the worlds' instruments all on your hard drive! It's quite amazing actually.

As for music changing my life, it does like no other. I can have the most terrible day, but when I get back, all I need is the piano/keyboard and I'm set