In a given day, how often do you listen to music?

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 21 Mar 2002 1:46 pm

Mostly I listen to music that has little to do with what I play. I very rarely listen to music that is performed by bands except for jazz bands. I hear plenty of music by bands when I am on stage with them

Music is like food for me.
If I spend some time with Debussey, Partch and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan I can bring more to the table when it comes time to play.

I have been listening to news radio quite a bit in last year or so but it is so redundant that I think I can learn more about the world from a Charleton solo on an ET tune or a Beethoven string quartet
after all.

Bob

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 21 Mar 2002 2:27 pm

To me music is one of the primairy needs, next to food, warmth,love and rest. It doesn't matter what kind of music I listen to, I love it all. I need the change in style, however...
JJ

erik · Post by **erik** » 21 Mar 2002 4:24 pm

Paul F, i am surprised that you actually listen to music when you're not playing. I would think your mind would be fried. But then you are a unique musician, always being on the top of your game. Whenever i hear you play in a tune i believe i sense a pent-up energy waiting to explode. Sometimes i think the context of the music is holding you back. If only i had that kind of energy. But listening, yes, nearly everything i learned about music, guitar, bass, drum programming, songwriting, singing, came from listening. I've had very few music lessons. Of course, you have never heard anything of mine so what does that mean? Nothing!

I would unload a song today if my stupid sound card worked. I have May off and i will get at least one up for everyone to critique. Thanks for posting, Paul.

David P, I too sing harmony to songs that have none. And what do you know, it sounds good on my end too! LOL Truth is, if i were a tenor i would prefer singing harmony. I am a baritone, and that is the harmony that usually gets burried in the mix. So, i must sing lead. Ha Ha

Jerry Gleason · Post by **Jerry Gleason** » 21 Mar 2002 4:29 pm

Interesting topic. I try to make time to listen to music, because that's how I can draw inspiration for my playing. The local public radio station plays an eclectic mix of interesting music, and that gives me exposure to new sounds.

Having said that, I sometimes find that listening to music is a huge distaction from the music I always have in my head. (some people hear voices, I hear music...). I can't stand to have a radio on in my workplace, especially tuned to any commercial station here. I'm too connected with music to ignore it, and it becomes some form of torture that I just have to endure.

Sometimes, when I'm listening to music in the car, and I hear a particularly cool solo in a song, I just have to turn it off before the song ends, so I can think about what I just heard, and try to take it in and digest it before I hear anything else.... weird, huh?

Allen · Post by **Allen** » 21 Mar 2002 5:03 pm

Jim, I am glad to hear that someone else is as screwed up as we are in our musical taste. Keep your young son singing. Maybe someday we will see him in one of Opera Colorado's productions. And yes, sometimes silence is good, but I believe that music is food for the soul.

Erik, Yes she likes country music. Although she studied classical music from the time she was 7 or 8, her dad had country playing all the time. When we met and married we discovered this great common bond of music. She grew into the New Age jazz thing in the last 15 years.

Paul, My wife and I agree totally that listening to music, of all types, is one of the best ways to expand your skills, knowledge and style. Besides that, it's just plain good fun.

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Allen Harry
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Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 21 Mar 2002 9:35 pm

A subtopic here might be how wide a range of music you listen to each day. Is it primarily the kind you can steel to, such as country, swing, jazz? Or do you go for musical styles outside of your steel repertoire.... maybe classical or reggae, etc.? I work in an audio company where employees play all sorts of CDs. I get to hear styles of music I wouldn't normally seek out myself (hiphop, rap, grunge, heavy metal, along with more traditional fare). Maybe that helps me grow.

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Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 22 Mar 2002 1:30 am

I think there is a distict difference between Growing and Expanding.
I believe you can "Grow" just fine; even if you stay in your own neighborhood.....but if you want to Expand...then you might have to leave the neighborhood.
So what I listen to or don't listen to; has nothing to do with my Growth; but it may keep me from Expanding to other areas in which I don't care for in the first place.
I only listen when I need the theropy.
Ricky
[This message was edited by Ricky Davis on 22 March 2002 at 09:13 AM.]

Kim West · Post by **Kim West** » 25 Mar 2002 8:13 pm

i listen to music all the time... i've been a public defender for twenty years. for the past eight years, i've had a laptop computer that plays cds, or, like the current one, can either play one, or store the info, and play from the media library i've stored. whether i'm in my office in my courtroom, or in my other office, i've got music playing.i have all sorts of music stored--from grateful dawg (blue grass), allman brothers, govt mule, pj harvey, lucinda williams, my own band's cd, jazz, whatever... it provides a white noise cover for conversations, and it mellows out all but the most tightly wound criminal--and those usually wind up going to jail, where they most likely start singing the blues.