Guest Kenneth Emmons
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I’m inspired to watch our MLT’s effortlessly make chord changes with fill-in’s. It must take a lot of work in time to put music together and play it in The Cavern under pressure. I can see the form of some chords by the duo session videos, but their library of song chord charts ever helps to fill in the rest, that way I can pick it up faster on how to play their songs somewhat like how they do it.
In my rather young years of 4 through 12, I was taught piano by my Mom and somewhat by a piano teacher. Then at age 16, I restarted to play piano just because I wanted to, just because it made me smile. I then picked up guitar at age 17. I quickly could play the main body of a few of my favorite songs, but it took many more years to learn piano and guitar well and each at about to the same degree.
Then of the past three years, I finally came about to put my all into making even more complex rhythms and generate new melodies while discovering chord changes on guitar. I had not known until I tried to go beyond, to achieve much more than I had earlier imagined. I’d like to transfer that spirit and hope to anyone else, who is younger than even my present older self. PPL – Practice, Perseverance, and Learn out loud .
But my little jealousy is that Lisa shows to have a fair reach on guitar and I just do not have that form of finger stretching’s, for that is simply my fingers sizes from birth. Such was the genetic lottery.
Peace Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love……
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To both of your thoughts, my first Beatles influence started in 1970′ by way of my cousin Loren, who brought multiple Beatles albums to play on a simple record player, but,… it was magic to my older brother and I, listening gave me my beginning insights into what were the things we longed/ wished for,… and what were the harsher realities when life goes wrong, and then the possible synthesis or solutions that my be offered to work out the nasty elements of life,… better. Later when they broke up, I much appreciated the musical works of George Harrison, that”s when I grasped the genius of all their works and the skills that it took to do what they did for all of us.
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“For me, a song is a moving story poem, as it envokes imagery,…”
Jacki
What you wrote here is so true and is sometimes true of many good songs that use poetic imagery in their song. Sometimes like in these ‘Twins’ originals, songs weave together so well, when melody, lyrics, and rhythm, come together in expressions of beauty and perhaps funny musical thought or concept.
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I see things of life with in – depth insight, yet I sincerely understand where other peoples are at, some, who be simple, in that they are designed and interested in simpler pleasures of life. So yes, the DNA (body) designs of all humanity is diverse, to understand them, allows you to be able to relate with them well, and be relevant to where they are at, and gain trust in the process.
Some day I would like to travel everywhere, with that purpose in mind.
I took this song in, with all its facets noted and put it together, and then interpreted it, which took me 2 months, also with the reading of your lyrics.
So yes, this is likely how everyone takes time to hear, enjoy and perhaps interpret any given song.
Thanks for answering my question, the influences in my life were quite diverse.
Kenneth
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Yes, definitely; We live in many layers of order in life, and of which they would be counted as the Dances of Perpetual Rhythms.
When I wrote that, it was a moment of practical insight, which came out of my many years of developing complex rhythms. I had never thought to put it that way before, thus it was a noted aspect of musicality to share.
The pleasure is mine J.P.
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Now I get it, it’s a literal physical matter interfering with those kinds of instruments, And I know something of your dilemma, in a different area of life.
So do enjoy playing the instruments that do work for you, it is something to appreciate on behalf of your own interests, as you go on in life.
Kenneth
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Well this is tough, but let’s try one other thing;
Sit down with your guitar.*
With left hand on the upper neck, hold a pretend chord and tap the strings at an even pace, or tempo,…. for a minute..* After a minute, continue the same doing, and…
While warming into this motion, place your right hand near the open guitar hole and pretend to strum the strings at the same pace as your left hand. *
IF you touch the strings, fine**,.. as long as the sound does not trip you up.
Sooo…
*If your left hand is tapping at 1-2-3-4, then try to make your (right hand’s) vertical motion at 1-2-3-4.*
I’ll give you slight variations later after you achieve this first step.
Later, as you warm-up, try to be or become relaxed and also focused at the same time. Chil!…breath, etc.
It could take a month to encourage your brain to rewire together, perhaps but a small degree of progress. We don’t know,… YET
And yes, this is repetitive, and no fun until later, but there is a similarity between these two motions and the drumming with your left and right hand, on a percussion instrument. [This is called rote learning, like when you learned basic math in Elementary school.]
Write to me if you have anything that you need to fill in.
And yes, I also had a degree of brain damage, due to too many mercury fillings in my teeth, starting age 16,…long story* — it affected the organizing of my short term memories.
Kenneth
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I’m glad that I could help, Jung Roe,…. am essentially a teacher of many subjects, except I never got a certification of teaching, because I didn’t believe I would be able to one day organize such (practical) depth and would mature one’s understanding on various subjects.
It has felt much better whenever I can help and give these gifts away. -
Brian, Lisa and myself,… to Hey Jung Roe, it took me many years and then more, to hear and just do chord progressions well and then later with some theory to back me up. I had an ear and could harmonize, but I did not understand what and how I was doing it. So theory helped me some, even after I was making my own melodies.
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Yea Lisa, I try to listen to many types of songs that have clever and beautiful modulations/ particular progressions, and then as the years have gone by, I have made new songs that reflect what I have learned from that. It is still challenging for me to find the right chord structures to fit the melody line for my originals. And especially to imitate/ discover the arrangements of the songs I have listened to for 52 years. One could always cheat by buying into a service that provides all the chord nuances,… Nah!
And just for the fun of it;
To look up the older classic and (“movie track”?)
called “Exodus” — I’m still finding all it’s right chords for a well-written piece.
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On the case of singing “Close to you”,..when you LIsa, jump (a trill?) an Octave as the song dictates, you are better controlling that kind of difficult passage, in contrast to a few songs of that kind in your earlier years.
As I’ve known, are you planning to never stop learning til’ you can’t go any further?
Do you write your originals with the aide of a able person who can help you shape what you want done?
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Hi Jacki Hopper and Jung Roe,…
If either of you come to a point where you want to try guitar. go further with piano, then I offer this;
For every left hand chord, there’s a rhythm to be applied on your right hand. And for each progressive chord, there will be rhythm’s that require you to make transitions between measures. Meanwhile, your left hand must change from chord to chord smoothly. This idea could also be applied for each hand with piano.
The point is that to put these two elements together, I suggest you slow down the speed of the song your mastering and better arrive at putting together the (difficult) coordination of the left and right hand movements.
Hope I didn’t overwhelm you, but it could be for inspiration and of a practical insight.
If nothing else, just remember your controlling of speed and the training of your left right hand, which reprograms your brain in a unique way.