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thegarnet up to Iasos two important rules for creating music
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thegarnet up to advice on live performing. 9:33
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 okay are you all comfortable?
+===== Music Appreciation =====
+==== Please yourself, don't guess about what others like =====
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   * ** very very important!!**
-when you're trying to please other people you're guessing you're
+| 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 |
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+| When you're trying to please yourself: | You know exactly what you like you know exactly what you don't like |
-stabbing in the dark you don't know you don't have a clue when you're trying to please yourself
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+now here's the bottom line:
-you know exactly what you like you know exactly what you don't like now here's the bottom line no matter what you
+  * 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
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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
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-so here's the basic formula for how it works art appreciation
+so here's the basic formula for how it works:
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+  * art appreciation boils down to consciousness matching
-boils down to consciousness matching if the person
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+if:
-perceiving the music is in a similar consciousness or similar mindset as the one that created it they'll love it i
+  * if the person perceiving the music is in a similar consciousness or similar mindset as the one that created it they'll love it - "I think this is great it's the best music on the planet"
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+  * if they're on a different level of consciousness they don't get it at all, and,
-think this is great it's the best music on the planet if they're on a different level of consciousness
+  * if they're on a much higher level of conscious it's kind of crude and simple
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-they don't get it at all and if they're on a much higher level of conscious it's kind of crude and simple for example when i do my music i try to
+(laughs)
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-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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-bless him at least he's trying so music appreciation boils down to
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+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
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+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't and that's the way
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-it is personally i'm happy with that arrangement i like that arrangement so because of that don't waste your time trying to please
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+Personally i'm happy with that arrangement i like that arrangement.
-other people you're stabbing in the dark you're guessing please yourself that's something you
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+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
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+**Please yourself** that's something you know about you know what you like. Do that and know in advance that not everybody will like it, but people whose mindset is similar to yours will love it as much as you do.
-everybody will like it but people whose mindset is similar to yours will love it as much as you do
+===== Be Heart Guided, not Mind Guided =====
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-another suggestion is be heart guided not
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+Another suggestion is be heart guided not mind guided.
-mind guided let your heart be the boss don't let
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+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 there are many years ago
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+Music is primarily an emotional communication.
-when i was auditioning guitarists for a band i had and some of the
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+There are many years ago when i was auditioning guitarists for a band i had. And some of the
-guitarists when they're talking me on the phone before we met said i graduated
+guitarists when they're talking me on the phone before we met said "I graduated
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+from uh Juilliard!" like "oh wow you know!"
-from uh juilliard like oh wow you know well the juilliard
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+well the Juilliard graduates were like exquisitely sophisticated machines.
-graduates were like exquisitely sophisticated machines
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-they could place things so smoothly so perfectly with absolutely no feeling it was like a
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+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 typewriter.
-machine there's no heart in it at all so don't do that don't be an efficient
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+Follow your heart not your mind.
-typewriter follow your heart not your mind a lot of people like to think of their mind as being the boss but your heart is
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+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 don't be you know mechanical like that.
+==== Cornell University trying to recruit Iasos into music department ====
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-don't be you know mechanical like that when i graduated from high school went
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+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
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+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
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+So the director of music Cornell university kept phoning me up trying to persuade me
-got to have in the cornell behind you so the director of music cornell university kept phoning me up trying to persuade me
+to get in the music department.
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-to get in the music department i said no no way i'm not going to do it he couldn't persuade me to do it and the
+I said no no way i'm not going to do it. He couldn't persuade me to do it and the reason i didn't was because i was hearing unusual music in my mind and i didn't want to be programmed by their idea of what music is supposed to be, because i knew i was hearing my own idea what music could be. Very different.
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-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) at Foothill College but then you know just like this is how music is supposed to be. Forget it! you know i told them i want to 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't get the new kind could exist!
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-their idea of what music is supposed to be because i knew i was hearing my own idea what music
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+==== Columbia University couldn't understand Iasos vision for music ====
-could be very different now i'm not saying that's what's happening here
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-at fijo college but then you know just like this is how music is supposed to be forget it you know i told them i want to
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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't get the new kind
-could exist
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-when i went to uh columbia records trying to release my first record
+When i went to Columbia records trying to release my first record all they knew was already established success formulas for music. They couldn't foresee any new genre being popular, which is new age music, it became very popular well known since then, But then they couldn't see it. They couldn't say "where's the lyrics", "where's the catch", "where's the beat", you know they just totally didn't get it.
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-all they knew was already established success formulas for music they couldn't foresee
+So very important let your heart be the boss.
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-any new genre being popular which is new age music it became very popular well known since then but then they couldn't
+===== Letting heart guide you to what is right =====
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-see it they couldn't say it where's the lyrics where's the catch where's the beat you know they just totally didn't
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-get it so very important let your heart be the boss when i'm
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-recording i might record a part many many times before i get it just where i like how do i know when i get it just right
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+When I'm recording I might record a part many many times before i get it just where i like.
-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
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+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 so i let my heart guide me
+  * I listen to my heart - I played and I played back I listened to it my heart goes MMMMM MMMMM MMMMM, then i didn't get it.
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+  * my heart goes "aaah!" then i know i got it. then i'll go on to the next thing we're going to record.
-like an okay or not okay meter if that was a good take or not a good take and if it isn't a
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+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  "aaaaaaaaaahhh!" feeling in my heart i just keep doing it. I don't care how long it takes.
-feeling in my heart i just keep doing it i don't care how long it takes
+===== Advice on Live Performing =====
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-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
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 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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