nichad been listening to and studying...
Muse (3 piece band, 1 sessionist pianist, all of them do play a part in their sound! all 3 contribute in sequencing! not drummer just play drums guitarist only guitars! the guitarist is the actual pianist by the way! talented.)
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec03/articles/richcostey.htm
Luna Sea (crazy arrangements...WAH)
L'arc en ciel (basist shiok, pretty boy amazing singer, great sounding)
U2 (as great as ever)
Queen (oh my tien this' old shaitz! try bohemian rhapsody haha)
FIR (ooOo they're gettin ''heavier'', guess they tested market cheenar can accept heavy guitars liaoz)
for those that are interested to go beneath surfaces and pretty faces...
Musical Meditation
by Steve Vai
(Part 2 of 7, originally published March 1989).
When you concentrate on a given situation wholeheartedly, you'll get the best results. The key is single-pointedness of mind. This holds true for any pursuit; a bricklayer who concentrates on the work at hand covers every detail and gets the job done quicker and better. When you read a book with your mind fully focused, your comprehension and retention are vastly improved.
Here's a musical example: I was transcribing music for Frank Zappa, doing everything from guitar and drum solos to orchestral scores and lead sheets. The work was quite intensive, and I found myself spending 10 or 12 hours a day listening to just one minute of music. I was concentrating so intently that I felt dazed whenever I stopped for a moment, but I achieved unprecedented results. I discovered new forms of written notation, greatly developed my ears, and transcribed some of the most rhythmically complex musical situations ever recorded — all by sheer single-pointedness of mind.
Mind control of this sort is a meditation. People meditate all the time without realizing it; watching TV is a meditation, in a sense. When many people hear the word "meditation", they relate it to spiritual realms. "Stilling the mind" is probably the highest form of meditation. That is, keeping one's mind from erroneous thoughts and focusing on the divine (or whatever path you're on). We get the best results when we meditate on a subject, but alas, meditation is not easy. The mind loves to wander, and these intrusions keep you from the precious results you seek.
Now what on the face of God's beautiful blue earth does all of this have to do with learning to play the guitar?
When you meditate on something, you're forced to look at it from many different angles, including some you've probably never thought of. You're forced to reach down into the depths of your identity and individuality. Consequently, your results will be uniquely yours. That's what we seek as musicians: to light that tiny flare (or bonfire) of originality and individuality.
The following exercise will help you develop your musical meditation skills. Take one isolated musical idea, such as a single chord or riff. For our example, let's take vibrato. Vibrato is a very expressive technique, and can say a thousand different things when properly used (or misused). Sit with your guitar and a clock, and vibrate a note for one hour. Sounds simple, but here's the catch...
Never deviate from holding that note.
Pick it as many times as you like. Try many different vibrato approaches (fast, slow, soulful, mellifluous, etc).
Most important, don't let your mind wander. When you find yourself thinking of anything other than vibrato (and you will, probably in the first few seconds), pull your mind back to the note. Your mind will wander off into thoughts such as "Am I doing this right?", then "Boy, what a waste of time this is!" Eventually, you'll find yourself thinking about your friends, your financial situation, what you did yesterday, what you're going to do tomorrow, and of course, "Let's eat!" This is the hard part. Just keep pulling your mind back to vibrating that note. It's a discipline worth working on.
Eventually, you'll exhaust all conventional vibrato approaches, all the ways you saw someone else do it. Then (if you have the discipline to continue), your mind will enter private realms and you will reach deeper into your own uniqueness for different ideas.
You may have to start practicing this technique little by little, doing it for just five or ten minutes. Try timing yourself. Ultimately, you'll find that when it comes time to "just play", you'll use these vibratos with great ease, and you will discover something different in your playing.
You can practice this exercise with any riff, solo, or chord change. Just keep your mind on it and constantly analyze your performance. It can become very soulful. You might, for example, take just two notes — any two — and play them for an hour without straying from them. Try any approach; stretch them, use different picking styles, play hard or soft, make the notes long or short, or vibrate them.
One of the great things you'll gain from this type of practicing is authority. When you play something, you'll feel confident about pulling it off with flying colors.
But most important, you'll gain discipline. Great results require discipline, and meditation is a discipline. But if you are really into this, it won't seem like a discipline, but a pleasure. But there's one thing for sure: Nothing you read in a column can teach you anything. You just have to do it!
he Physical
by Steve Vai
(Part 4 of 7, originally published May 1989).
Your face reveals much about your personality. When people talk, they use their faces, as well as their voices. Sometimes the true meaning of what they are trying to communicate (or not communicate) is visible in their face and body language.
Body language is an important part of expressing yourself. Just try getting through a conversation while keeping a stone-cold, straight-faced appearance — no laughing, hand gestures, or body movement, just lips. You'll see that it's much harder to express yourself.
The way your body moves reflects your true personality. When someone plays an instrument, facial and body language play important expressive roles. Some people hardly move at all when they play. This doesn't necessarily mean they're not expressing themselves, not that what they're playing doesn't mean anything — some people simply emanate expression from their very being. This, too, can be cultivated with the proper attitude.
Sometimes when you play, you hit a note or chord, and your facial and body expressions contort to match the audio expression. When this happens, it gives you a certain sense of freedom and accomplishment, and it's very entertaining for an audience.
Here's an exercise to help you use your body expressively. First, tape record a musical situation — a jam session, let's say, or a series of chord changes with an overdubbed solo. Listen back and choose a particular section — a chord change, or a riff — that you like. Listen to it several times, and picture the music as an actual "little person" (looking like you, presumably, or a familiar figure like Gumby). If the little person were the riff, what would his body and face look like? How would he contort himself to give viewers the impression of audible sound? (This could be quite amusing....)
Now go back and listen to the tape again. Listen to the passage you selected over and over, but as you picture the body language of the little person, emulate it with your face and body. You'll feel the notes more, and this will translate into your playing.
Here's another exercise: While you're jamming, choose a lick and cycle it over and over. While you do this, think of the point you're trying to get across; then think of how what you're hearing makes you feel. Let the sound express itself in a certain body movement. The movement might consist of throwing your head back, or blinking an eye, or a little pelvic thrust, or rolling on the floor in a convulsive frenzy while humping your guitar in an erotic extravaganza with your eyes rolling back in your head while your nostrils flare and large red veins bulge from your neck — but please be careful. (I think I know that riff, by the way).
Another exercise is one that I stumbled on when I was about 12 years old. Take a familiar piece of music, such as a favorite solo section. As you listen to it, let your face contort and express the music. The first piece I remember doing this with was "Midnight", a great Jimi Hendrix song that appears on 'War Heroes'. Try this technique with your own playing — let your face express what's coming out of your speakers. This is great fun, and very entertaining. The more animated you allow yourself to be, the more the music seems to come alive.
True, it takes a certain lack of inhibition to use this technique live, but hey, what do you care, right? I don't suggest you use these body language techniques ALL the time. But in the never-ending struggle to be original, you must search the depths of your soul, and these techniques may help.
Mind Pictures
by Steve Vai
(Part 6 of 7, originally published July 1989).
Sometimes we play things that just come out, and we don't know why. I believe it's divine inspiration. It's possible to simply take these things at face value, but instead, let's try to pin some "pictures" on these flirtations with divinity.
Pick up your instrument and play one chord. Try to invent one that you've never played before. (It's simpler than it seems — just out your fingers in places you've never put them before, or detune a string or two.) Now strum the chord any way you like, and record it. As you listen back to your recording, let the chord "speak" to you. Allow the sound of the chord to evoke a scene in your mind — perhaps something familiar, maybe an experience in your life. Let your imagination run off for a while. You may start out with a mere impression, and end up with a whole story. Finally, write down whatever it was that you visualized. (When we were 16 or 17, my friend Joe Despagni and I used to do this extensively. We'd sit with a guitar, and one of us would strum a chord. We'd describe to each other the pictures it would conjure up in our minds — far-out and liquid).
This is an exercise of the imagination, and it should be taken to extremes. Don't stop with just one chord. Listen to something that you've written in the past, or a popular song that you like. As you do, let your imagination go off on tangents. As you search for that special theme or melody, you may draw from mental pictures of an actual past event, a future one, or some totally off-the-wall scenario. After a while, you'll see how this procedure affects your playing.
The following exercises may lead you to discoveries that you could not have attained any other way:
• Think of a person who is very close to you, or maybe even yourself. Construct a song in a standard form (AABA, or whatever), and have each section reflect a personality trait of that person. You'll probably have to start out by defining how you view these different aspects of your subject's personality. (This exercise may sound offbeat, but hey, what am I here for?)
• Try exaggerating your playing. If you think that a passage calls for a chord to be struck hard, smash it to pieces. If you need something fast and aggressive, be as furious as possible — more furious than you ever thought yourself capable of being. (But keep it clean and accurate, unless the part demands something else.) If a passage calls for subtlety, you yourself must be in a very subtle frame of mind. This approach is useful with dynamics — especially band dynamics — because dynamics are most effective when they are exaggerated.
• Think of the familiar expression markings you encounter when reading a piece of music (adagio, legato, and so on). You can actually apply any adjective to a piece of music. Take a random word from the dictionary, and apply it to a riff, song, chord change, or soloing approach (and don't forget to use the exaggeration technique).
Whatever you do, GET CARRIED AWAY! (But don't hurt yourself, or anyone else for that matter).
whoa nic, you finally blogged!
and my goodness that's an extremely long post.
shall digest it slowly, bit by bit. (:
hope you're doing fine & getting sufficient rest.
jiayou ohs.
hopefully you're not dancing till your legs are getting cramps like what weiqi said the other time. hehe.
keep smiling & stay happy.
milubing is being missed! :D
nic here..
yea... havent been slacking... there's always so much to learn..hence so much to do...but so lil time...
we arent pro musicians... we just do what we do well as a 3 piece band..
so many ppl to look up to..
one day we'll be 3 piece sounding like 7 :)
all it takes is hard work hard work hard work and a right frame of mind to learn...same applies to anything! including studies!
heyy.BOY ah.indeed chimology! heh... really damn hardworking huh u..
what d'ya mean about FIR? haha.. heavier? hmm. yeahh maybe certain parts.. but debut's still th best ever. now going back t listen and its really feeling that impact there. seldom listen t english music though.. so cant say anything much.
hmm about th articles, truly enlightening, yes. just read thru them..
Musical Meditation. this kinda thing, abit hard for ppl like me w short attn span? haha.. but i guess its something u musicians hv got t do.. really get into that thing wholeheartedly and th best things always come out from there. or rather, meditation shd be something essential for everything we wish t succeed and do well in? hmm.
am i even making sense =.=
body language wise, nic.. i think you dont have t study too much on that. u got quite alot liao, really. haha. just try not t trip over wires and all w ur big actions :P
lastly, mind pictures. i suppose its somehow a technique used by song composers/writers? as in like not only w th guit playing thing but its probably something that'll trigger memories and thats where many songs come from? its like when we listen t a melody or smth then scenes pop up and it turns into a song? [im sidetracking though] hmm, sounds interesting anywayy. will try it some day (:
okayy why am i like analysing everything -.- aiyaaa see lahh. now you make me VERY tempted t go learn guitar alreadyy.
so. how's life recently? hope things been going well? jiayou alrights, half a year t go (:
im starting sch tomorrow alrr.. everything engineering seems so alienated t me. -.- okayy, i'll try t apply ur approach towards studying too -.- haha, got some stuffs t ask you thou. w ask ya when i see ya next..
there's never an end t learning anywayy. it's like 'continue t work hard and you'll make it big one day'. there's always someone loadds better out there, so there're always learning points we can derive from their experiences and all. time, its always not enough isn't it, even for th free-est people out there. but its really how you make use of your time that matters.. that you make every single moment worthwhile and well used. so... jiayou for ur studying huh! share more with us next time (:
still reading th article on muse..
okayyy. takecare boy! (:
and now you make me feel very guilty you know. like you're so hardworking studying and i slacked for half a year already -.-
but you guys got your own unique points there too.. just remember that its not about making changes t anything, but about making improvements. cuz what ya guys hv is what truly makes a band unique. [any band, to say]
ya ya... like i actually crapped so much. haha. takecare and cyahh soon (:
LONG TIME NO SEE YO NIC NIC NIC =D~~
read 95% of the long passage le; thanks for sharing eh~
mediation? that will come in very handy for people with short attention span - i'm one of them too! so if I'm going to doze off in class again, I'll log on to this page eh? haha...
the rest I don't understand le wor...sorry ah, I'll slow slow read again next time...
I see your reference were quoted from a book...did you typed out word by word? if yes, xin ku ni le! haha!
yeah man~ learn as much as possible when you are young! haha!
take care alright? jia you jia you!!
Wow Nic, you finally appeared & posted a very long message.
I tried reading the first two paragraphs, but don't seem to understand anything from it. It is really very chim for an old man likes me. Haha...
Anyway, hope you are doing well in everythings you have on hand. Jia-you..., you gonna be a free man very soon. :)
weiqi,
Hope you do well in your exams, must not give yourself too much stress, and remember to have good rest. Jia-you... too. :)
Sam,
Have been MIA again! Perhaps you are busy preparing MLB 2nd album. Btw, how is your plan for teaching music? Jia-you... & rest well too. :)
Hope to see MLB in full force on stage again soon.
MLB Power-Lah...
MLBians, take care & Jia-you... too. :)
whoaa. nic, i get what you mean, and what th article means.
http://profile.imeem.com/YzQHFiA/music/pL-eeyve/muse_falling_away_with_you/
http://spaceshipreturns.imeem.com/music/N71h7d1b/muse_time_is_running_out/
http://pedro-zappa.imeem.com/music/VYcVUOVa/muse_cant_take_my_eyes_off_of_you/
truly talking about three trying t sound like ten. amazing! (:
wuhaha, oh my god nic, dunno why i m so deliriously happy to read this post of ures. kept grinning away as i read. u r really one crazy guy. is FIR getting heavier, shall pay more attn to their songs old n new fr now on. muse, dun really know their songs. see if i can dig up some of their songs. know of 1 crazy person who can listen to a single song umpteen times the whole day, gotta tell her abt this meditation article u posted here. goodnite, read the other articles next time, i need to go kowtow to dat crazy fren now. hope she can influence me with her discipline & persistence.
ni here..
haha...happy that itz benificial for u guys..i'll try to keep up a habit...sit by the com n practice so can blog in between breaks.. coz i guess seclusion may not be everything aye..3 hrs straight of guit purely finger work..that my pinkie a lil retarded le..weak weak!...ha! tml got camp...thats 3 hrs time gotta wake up! nitey! so lil time so much to do...haiz
heh heh.. so sorry mlbians, been away for quite a long while..dying in my exams..well,gotta boast here bout my BRO! he is the MOST passionate cum hard-working musician that i know as a friend. No one else really comes close..except dearest shifu and mr clifford(power bassist)..3 ppl who inspire me to improve my music knowledge..
This Nic ah, called me jus now to ask me to read mr steve vai's words of wisdom..sigh..gotta bia studies la bro,after the papers then i read for the projects ya? ;) btw,MK,still owe u a tag here,will get back to u ya,dun worry. But wanna say a big THANK U for watching da changjin that day and passing me the chicken essence although i always feel weird cos a student,who is not earning $ buyin me that,is not really nice la..happen more than 2wice le but through different MLBians..so pls dun ya.If ur parents know bout it they'll (0_0) and dunno how to jiao dai...but still, thanks ya? SUPER nice of ya. Take care peeps..till the nxt time i'm back...take care and enjoy nic's super long post hahahaha... ;)
wahh u all ah.VERY EARLY hor. -.-
nic,
u sot dio again hor. need t wake up at 6plus then still here at 3plus. sleep earlier lah.. then got more jing shen t practise.. or maybe you're night owl like me, then ok dont listen t me. hahaha.. damn chimology but very enlightening la.. at least not chim until i cant understand, LOL. cool bit of studying there anyway (: but dont stress urself too much huh, rest when needed (:
sehh jus now listen t muse now th impact still there.. stuck in my head... cool!
weiqi,
starting paper this week i heard? jiayou ahh. (:
haha.. ya la.. ur perfectionist bro, think he's th most hardworking person i ever know.. not only in terms of music.. like those ming ming dunid t do so much but really put in so much effort t study and all. seh.. ppl like me supposed t study one then nv study.. make me guilty liao lor. haha..
ohh. u owe me a tag huh? u know what... actually i can't even remember what i wrote? hahaha. oops LOL. anww dun hv t thank me for th chic essence la.. no worries! long time one time nvm, and you need it mah :P [anw its th second time im buying for u liao, haha..] but dont have t thank me for watching da chang jin please, lol. wahh i nearly died watching that show -.- drama mama not my type. haha..
nic very zai huh, calling u in th middle of th night just t get you t read? haha. :P go chiong ur studies first la..
both of you ah, very cute hor.. haiyo.. go kun earlier la! if not become zombie again bohh. jiayou at camp nic! and jiayou for ur exams laa mrchan! (:
wahh i jus wake up.. see u all tag i chiong and on my laptop already -.- starting sch today.. all e best to all poly peeps who're starting sch today! and next week. (: jiayou jiayou!
nic - 3 hours of sleep....won't you faint in camp? haha! I can dozed off in class with 4 hours of sleep too lor, somemore today's lesson....OMG!
haha never mind, jia you and take care yo~
weiqi - you can ask him to summarize for you ah? haha!
jia you for your exams ok~
class starting le. jia you all! bye bye! *trying to keep eyes open*
wa..nic n weiqi, v early hor.. -.- for once, i slept earlier den u 2 tagged..zzz..
nic, u v funny can..call mrchan to ask him read wad u posted..haha..anyway, e sound from muse is like damn cool..someone gave me e links last nite, n reali! like 10 piece band sia! wooh~ aiyo, how to survive w 3 hrs of slp..slp earlier la u..n take care of ur lil pinkie! jiayou at camp! :D
weiqi, yea yea we noe ur bro v hardworking..mr perfectionist at work ma..heh..we noe u v busy pia-ing ur studies la..no worries..exams in like another 3 days? duno when's ur 1st paper la..but jiayou yea! 3 mths hols aft e exams! :D (gah i dun hv cos i geh kiang go apply for special sem -.-) hmm dachangjin ar, mk nearly died watching it sia..she got alot of things to say abt e show lor..hahaha..n seriously, it gets boring when u are watching it for e 2nd time..zzz.. -.-
ah wadever..jiayou for e exams k! :)
u 2 hor, can like chat on e blog liao hor..hahaha.. :p
hmm all e best to poly ppl starting to sch today..mk, sheena n i duno who..dun mi lu ar! hahaha.. :p
Hi Nic kor..! It's been such a long time since u have posted!!! Haha... Hope that u are fine... It is really a long message for MLBians... Haha... But I'll take s0me time reading it next time... Hehe...
WQ, Hope that u don stress much for ur exams ar... Support Jia Xi mah? Lol...! =)
Hello Quizzy me!!! =)
Haha. Weiqi and nic u both very early hoh..
Nic u very funny to call weiqi to read what u posted. Dun disturb him lah. He still busy studying for his exam. He will read it when he is free de. Haha.
Weiqi yesterday u noe i saw who? Haha. I saw Cx & Jx. Both of them so kind,friendly,cute,handsome and cool leh. So happy 2 saw them until i forgot to tell them 2 help me to sign.
Sam u mia again. I think u are busy with ur stuff.
MLB jia you and take care. ^_^
yoohoo~~! sorry for the interruption~! I saw this from Mr Paul Chan's Ba Gua TV blog (http://community.mediacorp.com.sg/TV/CS/blogs/baguatv/archive/2008/04/14/superstar3-let-s-emo-before-campus-superstar-3-starts.aspx) - this will be Channel U's only big free concert uniting the best of Project SuperStar 1 & 2, Campus SuperStar 1 &2, SuperBand 1 & 2, U Are The One and possibly local and foreign stars as well
O_O does that mean....heh heh...=D *giggles*...we can....see Milubing on that day?? hehe...
well if now bu fang bian answer then never mind then...haha! thanks anyway~
I go keesiao le. ciao!
:) interesting post that reflects the right attitude in Arts. Cool! Not a post for the complacent.
the post talks about vibrating the same note for goodness how many times; is the similar to editing a same video clip for many weeks. The results for both music and visuals are the same - the more you edit, you see new angles and then you will burst with creativity. Then the sense of satisfaction and pride in your work decend.
Recently, I was in a rather melancholy mood as I was annoyed with my team mate for his disregard to a simple film exercise, cause to him it is "Just an exercise" which holds a low % of marks.
Which to me, an exercise is 1 more precious lesson learnt and if you can get the simple things right, definitely, you can proceed to achieve higher. The more I fretted abt this irritating attitude, the angrier I became; for many of my team mates aim to be directors but fail to see the importance of building up the foundations. Angry that most of them hold more "glamourous" talks than practical learning.
Which in fact, music or any form of arts, the glamours are within the processes of learning, created through the hard work which a true art person aims to put in to polish his/ her craft. The humble attitute to learn = that's indeed the true passion of an art maker. ;)
gasp!!! that's what happened to me when i scrolled down and it seemed like i havent reached the end of the tag?! ;) nic! you are really passionate about music..thought was gonna take a while to read through but hey, before i knew it, i had reached the end of it..hope i didn't missed anything? may need to read a couple of times more..mayb the technique can be applied to other things ba? thanks for sharing with us..hope the techniques worked for you ;)
haha, mr chan, you are lucky to have such a crazy, passionate guy for a bro..hope you guys inspire each other like this..jiayou for your exams!
and hello to sam!
nic, u listen to luna sea and L'arc en ciel? music transcends everything hor. though luna sea has disbanded, L'arc is still making waves. the group has asian tour which includes paris (paris is part of asia ma?). scratch-scratch. not easy to have long staying power. but if one can stay this long, it means sumting i tink? hope you will continue to work hard and continue for at least 20 years! interesting read on muse-still reading. hee. thank you ah, u humble guy.
nic
thnks for reading guys! realli appreciate the time for tagging and reading!
ADELINE ... i salute u.. ya got me.
its simple..some spend their time on things they deem worth..its matter of choice..this i deem worth to someday get ''there''... its weird..when you're tired u feel as if working hard gives u a much greater sense of achievement... what earned is hard earned..
dunno how long this nlog will be up.. but new motto.. to revive the nic that had time to think and share his thoughts..hoping it'll make a diff in readers lives :)
nic ah, u practised for 3hrs strgt!no wonder pinkie no strength liao. hee, act when i read the 1 note exercise, i can imagine u doing it conscientiously for 1 hr or maybe more? ;) haha i use my mind pictures wrongly. nowadays usually see pic when i can relate to the lyrics, quite rare it's evoked by chords. good dat i m not a composer den:P eh...physical exercise mah, i really agree mus hv a lack of inhibition or self-consciousness to achieve this. as long as the performer is being himself wn playing, i think the enjoymt will show wn everythg clicks into place. aiyo u make me wanna study music liao, give us so much hmwk to read! i m v good at paper talk, doing it is another matter altogether. haha so i will hv my fun discussing the topic on paper, while u n ure bros plus all the practitioners out there can hv fun practising it :P
WQ, poor guy, cant imagine nic act called u up to read his post but it's really v inspiring! :D Mus read aft ure exams!! Ah sam, hope u dun miss out n hv read it too & get inspired at the same time :)
Thks nic for sharing! :)
just realized i haven't tagged...hmm...I am tired now...working hard gives me a greater sense of achievement? Yes ba, cos you persevere mahz. right right? haha!
what adelene mentioned, is MINDSET OF EXCELLENCE - one of the values learnt in my secondary school. right right? haha...
i salute nic and weiqi lor. considering my work is not so jialat kind, I am still tired from chionging studies, work, FYP....then nic and weiqi? you guys must be iron-men is it? haha!
well never mind, jia you all!!
aloha to sam too~!
hi mlbians, came across tis news.. hope is useful..
"upcoming on Sunday 1stJune'08 Mega Concert at IMM Garden Plaza open rooftop (this will be Channel U's only big FREE concert uniting the best of Project SuperStar 1 & 2, Campus SuperStar 1 &2, SUPERBAND 1 & 2, U Are The One and possibly local and foreign stars as well).
Make yourself free and available on that day and get set to enjoy yourself to the fullest.
source:-
http://community.mediacorp.com.sg/TV/CS/blogs/baguatv/default.aspx
Hi all
Wat dalong piece to read. Need to re-read and re-read to try understand wat da whole thingy mean.
tat's one thingy - 3 pcs band sound like 7 pcs band -with the help of all the latest musical gadgets. Long time ago in Southern China, a band is a band and play with no back up musical instrument but today, one man also can play like a whole big band.
mani thingy is not surface but surface is the thingy one look for. Queen,,,one of my fav, Love of my Life!
I once saw a girl sang in a Karaok session, she sang with the expression of her face and the music from her body. Good voice, good as it is not out of tune, and the way she sang, you see the joy, the pain, the love and laughter, the anger and non-returned love..she is in a world of her own. Meditating on her song. When she belted her final note..our hearts were also at the final note with her. Never saw her again. haiz.z.z A good musician is someone who relates and plays with his soul in it..
So much crappy from me.e.e.e.
...declared I am not Nic.
Hello Nic
Indeed a lonnnggggg post...for a moment I thought I had been to the Wikipedia site. But I confess that I kinda miss such interesting, profound and thought-provoking entry for a long time.
I like as it says "sheer single-pointedness of mind", that's so dynamic and powerful! Immediately another word that comes into my mind after reading your entry, is "Passion". Boy, what's keep the passion burning? Yeah, it's pure "sheer single-pointedness of mind". You hit two birds with one stone, not by random for sure...you know the answer =)
I agree as it says experiementing with different vibratos (not particular in music) but in different aspects of life. We see things in different dimensions, and we get different perceptions out of different angles. We also learn that there's always a grey area...for us to explore beyond and further.
In the context of Art, it's a form of infinity; no barriers, no rights and no wrongs. The equation can be complex: it's kinda subjective and yet it's always has an objective to strive for...contradicting? The answer can be found in your heart. And yes, Passion is beneath in every dreams and creations.
Stay passionate. Take care!
wah~ it has been long since i tagged.
if i'm not wrong my previous tag, was like a year ago (x_x) ooppss =X
anyway, i am here to thank Muiling for leaving me a comment @ friendster to let know that do check out this main blog today and making the effort to inform everyone here & there at publicity blog on name so and so birthday is comin' up. =)
that's great, that makes the person to be filled by lotas of wishes & luck on that day of their bdae. to me she's cool, that she remembers each & every mlbians birth date. =DD
Besides, i'd like to thank a list of you ppl who left birthday wishes in their tag. =P
-MuiLing
-the anonymousMLB Mi Lo Boys was that you, Nic? on behalf of the 3s? if yes, thanks alot ar =P weee~!
-cutie yea, i'll be happy at all times smile too =DD
-Pekchoo hey hey, hello thankyou for the wishes ya... nice to know you & qianhui =P
-syl
and to those who sent their wishes via sms. lov ya all.
lastly a BIG BIG THANK-YOU TO YOU guyz, i'm happy to see your tag!
ohya! jiayou weiQi for for studies,
Nic, continue to learn more and improve more in music or else things.... jiayou in producing good fresh piece of music.
Sam, where are you in da blog? haha
nvm all da best in everything u're doing =PP
to you'all 3s,
do rest when there is must for recharging yourself =D drink more water toos i love water ehs!
Misses Da Milos ehs! =PP blah blah
smile yoz!
bye i go to have a lil bite of bdae cake with my momma.
takecare stay healthy everyone (n_n)
-caixia 'I'm a ^^SMILEY' =]
nic here..
sorry if i may sound abit harsh.. dun mean offense in anyway.. but maybe explain abit and hope to give some new insights.
using "musical gadgets" with soul i guess is the ans... (depends on what genres too la..not techno keke)eg with current tech, we can use triggers.. and sequencing just to add icings to the cake (eg sound effects, ambient noises etc) yet while using them "gadgets", u too must play with soul.
i got no right to call myself an artist yet. not really there. but if i'm to discribe what i wanna be..wanna be an artist not artiste.
aint wanna be just selling "face".
ok ok...hmm..
a live band backing up a soloist - isnt it the same as a minus one except that its played live got visual aspects within the performance?? well, ppl prefer to see and hear than just hear.. fact.
examples to sustain the motion.
there are many musicians like martin taylor... who goes on stage alone.. expresses his soul using ONE guitar alone.. beautiful..others like eric clapton prefer to sing of his dead son with pain and anguish seeping through his brows with a band backing him.
conclusion.. its subjective.. its the medium we chose to use to help elevate and magnify the expressions of our thoughts emotions and soul. even a solo guitarist uses effects and gadgets.. name you some (just that u dont see! its somewhere somewhere at the soundman there la..haha) ..or better.. show ya the signal flow together.
guitar - wire - mixer - equalisers - compressors - limitors - delay - reverb - amplifiers - house speakers
these are the minimum "gadgets" behind that one man.
there are many a things midst the eye yes.
the above post may be mostly crap.. if it helps its information, if it doesnt... crap..its how we filter out gd stuff to apply in our daily lives. just like 98.7 add. "only hear the good stuff"
cheers.
the old nic is back. crazy as ever.
still on my guit... practicing vibrato..haha...all my life i had been doing it the wrong way.. a way that works yet in the long run will hinder improvement..oh well... re program my brain n fingers ba..
gd night! and happy birthday caixia again!
please la..no need be so hard on me..i'm not that cia lat right? haiz.. ppl got feeling too de ma..anyways spent lots of time thinking bout what ya said.. and came up with that conclusion.
nvm nvm..to each his own..
u declare u arent nic..
i declare i'm not "you".
we're all unique in our own special ways :)
thank god for that..
aint wanna one day, see my pic and name on a tombstone, and death dating back yrs while i'm still kickin *giggles*
jokes aside... we're all special/different. believe it anot. its true.
but saying that... ppl labelled by the public as "artistes" are always "slapped left right center".
oh well.. gd night to all of ya.. if anyone sees this la..
Hello nic. I think i need time to digest bit by bit. Haha. Yup the old nic is back. Haha. Crazy abt music!
Haha. Yuan lai u are the anonymous who wish happy birthday to caixia. Haha. I was thinking this anonymous from MLB mi lo boys shld be u ba. Nic jia you,rest early and take care.
Sam where are u? Nvm. Jia you in whatever u are doing. Take care & rest early.
Weiqi jia you! U can do it! Rest early and take care. Happy belated birthday to caixia. See MLB on june ba. Good night.
Wow Nic, good to see you put some thoughts to my tag.
No Nic, it is not critizing. It is to say how 'music' has changed.
One man or a whole band - one person now can do it.
No Nic, you are not HARSH. You expressed yourself, your thoughts and you share...with Passion!
At last you can call yurself an artist, after all you won the SB title. For me, no way near you at all.
It takes the 'crazyz' to be creative - he who dare explores finds the 'diamond'.
Yup, mediating play one note and the same, over and over, focus, and when yr mind n soul go into it - a new perspective and joy surfaced. To each his own.
Cheers Nic. Good music with either Taylor or Eric or more artists out there is food for the SOUL.
Another round of crapp.p.p.py.
....declared I am not Nic.
dunno where to post this, so i will jus do it here. anyway all this will become cyberspace trash. finally finished reading the muse article. wonder if there is any place like the Lodge in SG? if there is, it would definitely be a GREAT place to record an album & an even greater thing wld be to hv a dedicated engineer & producer who is in sync with the band. maybe dat's ure dream rit now. Sounds exciting to read all the diff stuff they tried to do to create the sound that he wanted. it's hard work for sure to produce the sound you want. A lot of trial & error. Such privileges may not be there for every recording artiste but i believe you can work with what you have & come up with the best sound possible. of cos having said dat, there is a min quality std for commercial stuff la. As u said, its the soul that counts. People can hear the soul in music dats for sure. just take everything else available to you guys as a bonus & make good use of it to your artistic advantage! Rooting for you guys here, SHow us wat magic u can do. Stress ma? haha den i'll say stress can be a good motivator at times. hope this is one of those times ;)
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