Music lessons designed for all people with an interest in the creative process and unconventional methods to playing & composing music. Surprisingly simple approach. Any style. Any instrument. Any level. Apply to your music right away!
As of now I'll be uploading no less than three videos a month. Soon I'll do one a week or more.
I’ve taught thousands of people how to open up their creative potential for writing and playing music. Now I’m attempting to bring that to RU-vid. I’ve been teaching these methods at my own school in Tokyo and at universities, private schools, and workshops around the world for over 15 years. I’m also a freelance composer and performing musician.
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The recordings of Dharma Son Collective and AnomalyEnsemble have space rock elements incorporated with psychedelia, noise and experimental weirdness..Everything from spacy instrumentals to modal drones to acid rock to straight up frenzied apocalyptic noise explosions,,some of their stuff can be chaotic at times but Damn are they odd and Very original! I don't think they are on RU-vid but they are definitely worth seeking out if you can find them! Some standout works are "We're Not The Only Spirits Awake" and "Kryptic Triptych" from 2006, "Subliminal Messages From The Attic" and "Zenogenesis" from 2007, AnomalyEnsemble's "Fantasmas" and "Space Peace" from 2008, "See Thru Tribulations" and "Citaedelia" from 2009, "Headcoasting" from 2010,..They are strange birds!
The recordings of Dharma Son Collective and AnomalyEnsemble have space rock elements incorporated with psychedelia, noise and experimental weirdness..Everything from spacy instrumentals to modal drones to acid rock to straight up frenzied apocalyptic noise explosions,,some of their stuff can be chaotic at times but Damn are they odd and Very original! I don't think they are on RU-vid but they are definitely worth seeking out if you can find them! Some standout works are "We're Not The Only Spirits Awake" and "Kryptic Triptych" from 2006, "Subliminal Messages From The Attic" and "Zenogenesis" from 2007, AnomalyEnsemble's "Fantasmas" and "Space Peace" from 2008, "See Thru Tribulations" and "Citaedelia" from 2009, "Headcoasting" from 2010,..They are strange birds!
As a free improv musician, I am predisposed to champion free improv as the most experimental form of experimental music. We never know what we're doing.
I've sat down and just played and responded. I loved learning from you that any music theory I learn will work its way in. I came here wanting to introduce my inner self to the process of learning guitar by the 'making your own scales' query. I was rewarded. The answer, stay with your inner hearing, make the player free. I was made to realize here tonight that this thing I have loved doing before I already know how to do and that it is me, creativity, not just something I make do till I learn to play. I had by that token enjoyed 'playing'. That gift was uncovered here now. The expressing, in listening, the response wanting made. And lastly, I was taught that this is not about performance. I the ego needed to know this and keep it about my intrinsic joy and journey and not capitalize or worry about its outer perception, or loose the seed it in the selling. So now I truly have more to look forward to.. that thing I do, the stuff that I did but was abandoning till I learned how to play, is an absurd irony taking away the playing. But then giving a home for all of the theory that will incorporate rather than becoming a box. I am so grateful for aware people, it opens a door for others like me who are just ready but needing a centre and awareness for a natural activity, to understand that Jamming is a guide, it is a marriage between the logical mind and our very centre that expresses. This cures inner conflict, opens a channel. Who even asks if they should just make their own scales. A playful unbounded child does. You did and I was ready tonight. So I jam and learn theory, let the subconscious process the theory, and keep playing, letting myself be educated by the total experience. Thank you for validating this thing I did a few times in the past and always recalled. It Is a gift.
I once did one improv in the garden with the guitar, and used a starry night as a subject. The sky is dark, the moon is light and round, and stars are bright and small, and the horizon is black. I used very large intervals jumping into the deep bass part of guitar for the dark, the moon as a brighter and softer tone, and stars and many small short-time high bright tones in treble side of fretboard. When I looked up from playing, there were some monkeys on my house roof listening, as my audience. don't ask. 🐒 Wind symbol should have been another one.
I really like this channel. keep up the video flow if you can because there are not many good improv channels as there should be. I just have some technical and practice issues to fix but I myself am going all out into improv.
improv is all I ever want to do. I actually need to start recording some things I play sometime, since I can never repeat something I played twice. cos I forget it in two seconds.
My approach to music is simple: 1, All sounds are none other than Buddha's speech & musical. 2.Break the rules. 3 All dissonance is self-resolving 4.Any tempo is variable and all rhythms are also buoyant and malleable. 5.The musical sky is wide open without limits
awesome! you can also make the composing process faster if many roll dice and write. Another one that is fun is to pull notes out of a cup after scrambling them. With kids, I also love drawing a staff on the ground and making them jump from note to note of a familiar melody or doing short dictations and so on. One last I do is to have a call and response with another musician, can be over free form music or over something already set, kinda like trading fours in jazz.
im a closet experimentalist with music. but have released some of my work on the internet, but dont share it with people i know. not because im afraid of what they will say, but more afraid of what they dont say.
I learned all my major scales and there pentatonic cousins caged system it helped me to break out of the boxes than I started to sing my solos in my head or even sing them out loud like George Benson it improved my solos beyond what I can imagine this is the icing on the cake .Try it start out slow the more you do it the better you,'ll get don't give up it's worth it.
Secret of the Secrets! Holy of the holiest. Real Prayer or Meditation with Kechari Mudra: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3LnyJRNxrd0.html
I don't know how much you know about Dungeons and Dragons, but this reminds me a lot of that idea...as far as setting up a world with loose parameters and rules, and using that as a way for the players to collaborate in telling a story. A "game", in that game theory is utilized, but collaborative as opposed to competitive...that relies on constant communication and reaction to one another without having a visualized goal that you're trying to steer the story toward. Playing off each other in what we think the other is trying to express (so we can try and amplify that), but never being married to any idea.
If I can just offer a bit of friendly advice/criticism... First, I think you're doing very interesting things that teaches musicians to free themselves from the confines of what is easily perceived as "rules". I really like that, and it's already allowing me to be more loose in my musical approach. But I think you should've have shown your musical "resume" first...showing people that you know the more academic mechanics before bouncing a string of beads off the fretboard and making SFX with the guitar. It's important for people to realize that you're a real musician and not just a guy who's saying "Check out the gnarly sounds you can get on a guitar, dude!!" Because, as you know, in order to break the rules effectively...you should first know what the rules are.
