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i started the painting part of the painting i'm doing (yesterday was the sketching and shit), and it's coming out pretty cool. i started a color-book (a little spiral note-card book, where i'm paintng swatches of color, then writing on the reverse what paints i used to make that range of colors).
i also wrote a song today. i'm pretty happy with it, so far it's one of the best i've written. i need to start really really working my as off at keyboards so i can do the music part of it, too, seeing as i already have some ideas of what i want the music to sound like.
it's kinda odd, something i've always known that not very many people seem to understand, is that in music, unless it's instrumental, the thing people MOST listen to is the singing. everything else just enhances it. now, i'm not saying this is true, but i am saying that this is perceived as true by the vast majority of people. not very many people go to see their favourite band and pay more attention to, say, the guitarist or bassist or drummer, than they do the singer. the singer is always foremost, because everyone believes that he himself can sing, and thus, the singer is the most easily identified with. everyone has a voice, true, and quite a lot of people have good voices, but it's a very few who know how to use their voices correctly. look at whatsisface from soundgarder, for instance. great voice, great singer, and yet through not knowing how to use it, he's almost lost it completely. on the other hand, take billie holiday, or marilyn monroe. horrible voices, but they used what voice they had spactacularly.
the funny thing about that, is that it makes it most difficult to teach someone to sing, whereas it's much easier to tech someone to play an instrument. any instrument, really. because, this is the important bit, *an instrument is detacheable.* you can tell someone, no, no, that' wrong, play that note this way, and they will, they won't be offended. but the voice is such a part of a person, that there comes a time when that person identifies his voice with himself. if you say to such a person, who cannot make the distinction, no no, that's wrong, sing it this way, they'll get all offended. what do you mean, that's wrong? it sounded fine to me! which actually brings us to our next point on the difficulties of both singing and teaching others to sing; that is, that one cannot hear what he sounds like. the way our noise vibrates in our heads does not allow us to hear what others hear when we speak. the hardest part about singing, really, is not the warm-ups, or the scales, or the intervals, or going high or low, or any other little singing-things that people do. the hardest part is training yourself to sing what you want others to hear, even if you can't hear it yourself. some people have to learn to aim high, some to aim low, and then to try to change your cognitive and perspectivefaculties, so it comes automatically. the gap between what you sound like, and what you think you sound like is best exemplified by those people on american idol auditions who think they're hot shit, but really can't hit a single note. they're not JUST delusional, they really do think they're hot shit, because they haven't yet realized that they're actually not to anyone but themselves. these are the same people that, when presented with a recording of themselves, always say 'that doesn't sound anything like me, that recording device of some sort of description must be all kinds of fucked up. stupi recording device!'
that concludes my Rant of the Day, and Possibly the Week, Though Probably Not the Month.
i also wrote a song today. i'm pretty happy with it, so far it's one of the best i've written. i need to start really really working my as off at keyboards so i can do the music part of it, too, seeing as i already have some ideas of what i want the music to sound like.
it's kinda odd, something i've always known that not very many people seem to understand, is that in music, unless it's instrumental, the thing people MOST listen to is the singing. everything else just enhances it. now, i'm not saying this is true, but i am saying that this is perceived as true by the vast majority of people. not very many people go to see their favourite band and pay more attention to, say, the guitarist or bassist or drummer, than they do the singer. the singer is always foremost, because everyone believes that he himself can sing, and thus, the singer is the most easily identified with. everyone has a voice, true, and quite a lot of people have good voices, but it's a very few who know how to use their voices correctly. look at whatsisface from soundgarder, for instance. great voice, great singer, and yet through not knowing how to use it, he's almost lost it completely. on the other hand, take billie holiday, or marilyn monroe. horrible voices, but they used what voice they had spactacularly.
the funny thing about that, is that it makes it most difficult to teach someone to sing, whereas it's much easier to tech someone to play an instrument. any instrument, really. because, this is the important bit, *an instrument is detacheable.* you can tell someone, no, no, that' wrong, play that note this way, and they will, they won't be offended. but the voice is such a part of a person, that there comes a time when that person identifies his voice with himself. if you say to such a person, who cannot make the distinction, no no, that's wrong, sing it this way, they'll get all offended. what do you mean, that's wrong? it sounded fine to me! which actually brings us to our next point on the difficulties of both singing and teaching others to sing; that is, that one cannot hear what he sounds like. the way our noise vibrates in our heads does not allow us to hear what others hear when we speak. the hardest part about singing, really, is not the warm-ups, or the scales, or the intervals, or going high or low, or any other little singing-things that people do. the hardest part is training yourself to sing what you want others to hear, even if you can't hear it yourself. some people have to learn to aim high, some to aim low, and then to try to change your cognitive and perspectivefaculties, so it comes automatically. the gap between what you sound like, and what you think you sound like is best exemplified by those people on american idol auditions who think they're hot shit, but really can't hit a single note. they're not JUST delusional, they really do think they're hot shit, because they haven't yet realized that they're actually not to anyone but themselves. these are the same people that, when presented with a recording of themselves, always say 'that doesn't sound anything like me, that recording device of some sort of description must be all kinds of fucked up. stupi recording device!'
that concludes my Rant of the Day, and Possibly the Week, Though Probably Not the Month.