I LEARNED A song bY JS BACH TODAY On THE PiANO
i don't even really play piano, it was amazing, i felt so awesome
like, two hands, two parts
crab canon
lmao
i learned it in an hour
or at least, half of it, sort of
its like, a totally symmetrical piece
where the first half is the second half in reverse
and then your hands switch parts
and LMAO when you print out the music score in MIDI form, it looks just like a crab
clever bach
but yeah, i recorded myself after i basically learned it, and like, to my astonishment i pulled it off perfectly
on the first try lmao
something about the self-consciousness
and like, listening to it, it sounds beautiful
like, with all the delicate hesitations
i realized what piano is all about, and playing with emotion
the goal isn't to sound mechanical, like a computer
the real humanness comes in playing a piece you don't have confidence in playing
and you're in the moment, trying to pull it off,
and how you work around what comes out
in the moment, strange looped with yourself
and its beautiful, if you start playing something dissonant, you can always relieve the tension into something harmonious
like, if you just start playing chaotically, you can then reason your way into harmony
like, starting with a handful of random legos, and then putting them together into a shape
and the most beautifulest sounding music sounds like that
ppl making music up on the spot, because its the realest humanity
its like the musician makes up a lie (chaotic dissonance), and then justifies his way around it into truth (the harmony which relieves tension)
like, the musician plays something he didn't intend to play
it just came out
it just happens like that, because we're not mechanical
and then, the musician takes that spontaneity, and runs it with it, into new structure and harmony
and pretends he meant to do it all along
(this strongly resembles the geometry of creativity)
the difference between the unintentional dissonance, and the correction
IS the emotional content
the reasoning the musician uses, is a total capture of who the musician is, and what he feels at this moment
and one should often play like he has no idea what he's going to play
just like
free writes
and turns out jokes
you just jump into it, and justify and piece it together on the spot
kind of ilke romance
it really is music
jump in without knowing where you'll swim to
improvise along the way
dance with chaos
justify the noise
twist all loose threads into beautiful harmonies
dangling your legs over the void
with the confidence that should the cliff on which you sit crumble to pieces, sending you tumbling into the darkness, you'll be able to turn around and grab onto a tree
and climb back up to higher heights
music is beautiful
and its interesting how guitarists think vs pianists
guitar, its more about numerical geometry, and rhythm, and the amount of emotion you can pack into a single note
piano its more about harmonic/key based-geometry, and accompanying yourself (two hands), and the emotion you put into sets of notes
being a geometric thinker.. i rather like to read the MIDI piano rolls when learning piano
although i'm jealous of those who can sight read sheet music
because, there's a lot of emotion going on in those notes, on the sheet music page itself
like, groups of notes, and the key, and the sharps and naturals
its like, social
the notes are social entities
and you apply the part of your brain that deals with social-things to it
where as the MIDI piano roll.. its all about geometry
and shape
guitar tablature? hmm, maybe a little bit of both, and more about numerology and number math
tabs i'm most comfortable using, sometimes ill try to play piano like that
but when you get into the habit of translating from one to another, you lose the sort of, direct learning, that you really want
its like, learning a new language in terms of what it means in english
instead of how the language relates to itself
instead of how the language directly connects to meaning in reality