Originally Posted By: Anthony Lombardi
but making music for yourself & fellow musicians only, & assuming that non-musicians don't understand music, is rather elitist & esoteric to me. it's rather silly to state that if you're not a musician you don't understand music;


I'm not quite sure if you're generalizing, or reflecting on my exact words, but that's not what I meant by my passages on jamming. I just think that a musician and a listener get two different things from a spontaneous act of music. But I think both points are viable and important. I kind of miss listening to music before having picked up an instrument, because I certainly listened to it from a different perspective.

But, then, what's lovely to me is different musician's will still listen to music differently. I think a drummer will listen to music differently than a guitarist. I think a bassist will try to listen to the common ground of a song to bring the two together. And so on.

What I'm getting at is the feeling or connection founded amongst musicians engaged in a jam. Which certainly is rather hard to explain to a non-musician, and pointless to explain to a musician.

Last edited by long_lost_corleone; 05/26/07 08:39 PM.
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