Brian Wilson hears the melody Little Surfer Girl in his head? That is astonishing to me. A supernatural power. The only melody I ever heard in my head was God Save the Queen, repetitively, year-after-year. And that melody wasn't even my creation. I am melodically retarded. No muse in my head. My songbook is empty again this month. I can do harmony and arranging, but that is a straight-forward given. Formulaic and scientific. I should buy a book about classical melodic phrases and study it maybe.
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RE: Learning their Craft
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RE: Learning their Craft
I just can't go into the office/studio today. Being a creative artist with deadlines is the hardest job on earth. I'm totally uninspired today. All written out. Writing a hit pop song is the equivalent of hitting a baseball in the sports world. The hardest thing. I've considered suicide many times, like many another artist.
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RE: Learning their Craft
Mueller, King of the also-rans? They compare me now to the diabolical Antonio Salieri. But ... they were on your side and tipping you off? I was a professional guitarist by age 18, but I was never very good. Rule #1: You must sing along, even if your voice is painful. Rule #2: Stop smoking in high school. It makes you sound good, when you aren't that good.
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Glass Onion?
Frederic Chopin, a hater of program music, just received his Etudes back from his English publisher. "What is this? These markings at the top?" he says to his friend in Polish. "Oh ... the publisher decided to give cutesy titles to your studies". After which Chopin flew into a rage. "It's my music!!! Not his!"
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RE: Learning their Craft
Prophet of the musical arts? Soothsayers can use books as crystal balls, hallucinating pertinent and relevant things in them. I wonder if they have the reverse talent of writing meaningless blather and the person on the other end hallucinates something pertinent and relevant to them? Or if a musical equivalent exists. I am a wizard on the keyboard, and yet I never studied it?
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RE: It’s me Little Willow
Willows? Genus Salix? All I know about them yet is that they have long skinny leaves (why is that? There has to be some evolutionary reason for it) and they can cure headaches like aspirin. They are also fast decomposing. I had one in my back yard 20 years ago but its almost dust now. It makes me want to research them.
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I'm back!
Walking out to the post this evening, Covid+ and with flu, sore bones, and a drizzly freezing rain beating down on me. And the Yes song "South Side of the Sky" came to mind. ("So cold that we cried"). Hopefully that isn't my future fate.