By Andy Price, Music Radar | Music is a dressed-up form of communication. When you strip away all the reams of theory, dismantle the myriad technical processes and shake-off the daunting mythology of rock and pop, all anybody that’s ever written a song was ever really doing was offering connection to another human being. Often, lots of human beings…
Whether that connection is expressed via a heart-tugging story, making a grandiose statement or provoking an action (typically, dancing), we all want someone to hear, understand and resonate in-step with our music.
Even if we’re telling others (and ourselves) that we’re oh-so very serious artists. The act of expression is itself an invitation to others to respond to what we’ve created.
Everyone wants to be heard.
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Lesson #3: Listening to a wide-range of music and tapping into how that music works to affect your emotions will make you a better music-maker
In his seminal book How Music Works, David Byrne, the former Talking Heads frontman, stated “Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike.”
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