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| see i don't need to know the answer to that question i asked that question just to get all of you really alert and awake that's why i ask it | see i don't need to know the answer to that question i asked that question just to get all of you really alert and awake that's why i ask it | ||
| - | okay so we're in appreciation hall | + | okay so we're in appreciation hall. I want to give first comment on appreciation but let me say that when bruce invited me to do this I started collecting tips that I could share with budding musicians people want to get into creating music so i've accumulated a whole bunch of tips which I want to share with all of you and after that it's going to be wide open questions and answers you can ask questions about |
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| - | um i want to give first comment on appreciation but let me say that when | + | |
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| - | bruce invited me to do this i started collecting tips that i could share | + | |
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| - | with budding musicians people want to get into creating music so i've accumulated a whole bunch of tips which | + | |
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| - | i want to share with all of you and after that it's going to be wide open questions and answers you can ask questions about | + | |
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| anything anything yes anything anything okay | anything anything yes anything anything okay | ||
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| - | in the meantime while i'm giving my tips if you have questions about what i'm saying then you can ask then otherwise | + | * in the meantime while i'm giving my tips if you have questions about what i'm saying then you can ask then otherwise save it for the questions and answers at the end |
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| - | save it for the questions and answers at the end now talking is very left brain and just so your brain doesn' | + | now talking is very left brain and just so your brain doesn' |
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| - | going to periodically sprinkle it in with our music or visuals just to keep it interesting | + | okay are you all comfortable? |
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| - | keep the right brain stimulated so we'll be bouncing back and forth between music and | + | ===== Music Appreciation ===== |
| - | 4:10 | + | ==== Please yourself, don't guess about what others like ===== |
| - | music or visuals and talking okay are you uncomfortable | + | |
| 4:16 | 4:16 | ||
| - | okay i want to talk about appreciation with respect to music or | + | |
| - | 4:23 | + | okay i want to talk about appreciation with respect to music or more general with respect to art i encourage you when you're creating music |
| - | more general with respect to art i encourage you when you're creating music do not try to please other people | + | |
| - | 4:31 | + | * do not try to please other people |
| - | try to please yourself very very important | + | |
| - | 4:36 | + | * ** very very important!!** |
| - | stabbing in the dark you don't know you don't have a clue when you're trying to please yourself | + | |
| - | 4:42 | + | | When you're trying to please other people: | You're guessing you're stabbing in the dark you don't know you don't have a clue | |
| - | you know exactly what you like you know exactly what you don't like now here's the bottom line no matter what you | + | | When you're trying to please yourself: |
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| - | create with music there will always be some people that like it and there will always be some people that don't like it | + | now here's the bottom line: |
| + | * no matter what you create with music there will always be some people that like it and there will always be some people that don't like it | ||
| 4:54 | 4:54 | ||
| - | so here's the basic formula for how it works art appreciation | + | so here's the basic formula for how it works: |
| - | 4:59 | + | * art appreciation |
| - | boils down to consciousness matching | + | |
| - | 5:05 | + | if: |
| - | perceiving the music is in a similar consciousness or similar mindset as the one that created it they' | + | * if the person |
| - | 5:11 | + | * if they' |
| - | think this is great it's the best music on the planet if they' | + | * if they' |
| - | 5:17 | + | |
| - | they don't get it at all and if they' | + | (laughs) |
| - | 5:24 | + | |
| - | make it as celestial and heavily as i can but there are angels who are cruising way higher than me and they listen to my music and say well god | + | for example when i do my music i try to make it as celestial and heavily as i can but there are angels who are cruising way higher than me and they listen to my music and say "well god bless him at least he's trying" |
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| 5:30 | 5:30 | ||
| - | bless him at least he's trying | + | |
| - | 5:37 | + | so music appreciation boils down to consciousness matching between the perceiver and the creator of the music. |
| - | consciousness matching between the perceiver and the creator of the music this also | + | |
| - | 5:43 | + | this also applies to all of the arts: painting architecture sculpture all of it. So no matter what you do |
| - | applies to all of the arts painting architecture sculpture all of it so no matter what you do | + | people with a consciousness similar to you will love it and people with a different consciousness won't. And that's the way it is. |
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| - | people with a consciousness similar to you will love it and people with a different consciousness won' | + | |
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| - | it is personally | + | |
| - | 6:01 | + | Personally |
| - | other people | + | |
| - | 6:06 | + | So because of that don't waste your time trying to please other people. You're stabbing in the dark you're guessing. |
| - | know about you know what you like do that and know in advance that not | + | |
| - | 6:12 | + | **Please |
| - | everybody will like it but people whose mindset is similar to yours will love it as much as you do | + | |
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| + | ===== Be Heart Guided, not Mind Guided ===== | ||
| 6:22 | 6:22 | ||
| - | another | + | |
| - | 6:28 | + | Another |
| - | mind guided | + | |
| - | 6:33 | + | Let your heart be the boss don't let your mind lead the way when it comes to music. |
| - | your mind lead the way when it comes to music music is primarily an emotional communication | + | |
| - | 6:40 | + | Music is primarily an emotional communication. |
| - | when i was auditioning guitarists for a band i had and some of the | + | |
| - | 6:46 | + | There are many years ago when i was auditioning guitarists for a band i had. And some of the |
| - | guitarists when they' | + | guitarists when they' |
| - | 6:52 | + | from uh Juilliard!" |
| - | from uh juilliard | + | |
| - | 6:58 | + | well the Juilliard |
| - | graduates were like exquisitely sophisticated machines | + | |
| 7:05 | 7:05 | ||
| - | they could place things so smoothly so perfectly with absolutely no feeling | + | |
| - | 7:10 | + | They could play things so smoothly so perfectly with absolutely no feeling. It was like a machine, There's no heart in it at all. So don't do that don't be an efficient |
| - | machine | + | |
| - | 7:16 | + | Follow |
| - | typewriter follow | + | |
| - | 7:22 | + | A lot of people like to think of their mind as being the boss, but your heart is really the boss and that's especially true with music. |
| - | really the boss and that's especially true with music be heart guided | + | |
| + | Be heart guided | ||
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| + | ==== Cornell University trying to recruit Iasos into music department ==== | ||
| 7:28 | 7:28 | ||
| - | don't be you know mechanical like that when i graduated from high school went | + | |
| - | 7:34 | + | When i graduated from high school went to cornell university i was studying different majors like anthropology psychology. |
| - | to cornell university i was studying different majors like anthropology psychology | + | |
| - | 7:40 | + | But my high school teacher kept phoning the director of music cornell university saying this guy is a great musician you got to have in the Cornell band. |
| - | but my high school teacher kept phoning the director of music cornell university saying this guy is a great musician you | + | |
| - | 7:46 | + | So the director of music Cornell |
| - | got to have in the cornell behind you so the director of music cornell | + | to get in the music department. |
| - | 7:52 | + | |
| - | to get in the music department | + | I said no no way i'm not going to do it. He couldn' |
| - | 7:58 | + | |
| - | reason i didn't was because i was hearing unusual music in my mind and i didn't want to be programmed by | + | Now i'm not saying that's what's happening here (laugh) |
| - | 8:05 | + | |
| - | their idea of what music is supposed to be because i knew i was hearing my own idea what music | + | |
| - | 8:10 | + | ==== Columbia University couldn' |
| - | could be very different | + | |
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| - | at fijo college | + | |
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| - | create a whole new type of music they thought i was crazy well is it jazz no it's pop no is it classical no then what is it they couldn' | + | |
| - | could exist | + | |
| 8:30 | 8:30 | ||
| - | when i went to uh columbia | + | When i went to Columbia |
| - | 8:37 | + | |
| - | all they knew was already established success formulas for music they couldn' | + | So very important let your heart be the boss. |
| - | 8:43 | + | |
| - | any new genre being popular which is new age music it became very popular well known since then but then they couldn' | + | ===== Letting heart guide you to what is right ===== |
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| - | see it they couldn' | + | |
| - | 8:54 | + | |
| - | get it so very important let your heart be the boss when i'm | + | |
| 9:00 | 9:00 | ||
| - | recording | + | |
| - | 9:06 | + | When I' |
| - | i listen to my heart i played and i played back i listened to it my heart goes then i didn't get it my heart goes | + | |
| - | 9:14 | + | How do i know when i get it just right? |
| - | then i know i got it then i'll go on to the next thing we're going to record | + | * I listen to my heart - I played and I played back I listened to it my heart goes MMMMM MMMMM MMMMM, |
| - | 9:20 | + | * my heart goes " |
| - | like an okay or not okay meter if that was a good take or not a good take and if it isn't a | + | |
| - | 9:27 | + | So i let my heart guide me like an okay or not okay meter if that was a good take or not a good take. And if it isn't a " |
| - | feeling in my heart i just keep doing it i don't care how long it takes | + | |
| + | ===== Advice on Live Performing ===== | ||
| 9:33 | 9:33 | ||
| - | now for those of you that perform live how much do you need to practice for a live event | + | Now for those of you that perform live how much do you need to practice for a live event |
| 9:39 | 9:39 | ||
| i learned this when i was doing piano recitals as a little boy it's unrealistic to expect that in the | i learned this when i was doing piano recitals as a little boy it's unrealistic to expect that in the | ||
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