Rock is my go-to in the morning, to each their own. We agree on Bach at least.
Rock is my go-to for most of the day, actually.
How I listen to music
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#32It mostly depends on how you feel in the moment, and how you would like to feel some moments later, e.g., if you are feeling blue, listening melancholic music will amplify your blueness, happy music on the other hand (whatever it is for you) will possibly get you out of it. Another factor is your age (your music listening experience). Many times you'll find yourself listening to the same albums/songs and feeling differently than you felt while listening to the same tunes years ago.
Music is just a game of pattern recognition to spur up emotions which may trigger thoughts/ideas or may just provide resolve. Rules like no rock music in the morning, or jazz only in the evenings, though may help, don't make sense. Maybe you hate rock music this morning but next week maybe you'll enjoy. Keeping an open mind about the consumption of music and avoiding self imposed rules like that will only add to your experience.
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#33Rock is my go-to in the morning, to each their own. We agree on Bach at least.
I have found that my consumption of rock is mostly tied to my cortisol levels.
To some degree, one could say that rock / metal is a degeneration of Bach's music (and that's what makes it great).
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Not to sound dogmatic but I would suggest learning notation also at some point so that you can read the original sheet music. It will open up an entire world of what the composer wanted to express apart from just the notes.
Yeah I am learning standard notation and I do look at the standard notation for pieces to look at the instructions from the composer. I mean, I can read music but and I could figure out how to play baroque music from standard notation, I would just be glacially slow. I'm still working my way through Sor etudes so I learn the fretboard.
I used to play classical guitar - not anymore. I fondly remember the Sor studies.
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#35I like listening to albums the way they were produced: starting from the first song until the last one. This modern endless stream of curated playlists and singles is tiring, and loses the storytelling aspect of albums that makes them greater than the sum of its songs. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
Modern music albums aren't really written with that in mind in my experience. They're optimised for people skipping through playlists in a streaming service, not going on a journey through an album.
You can listen to any Kendrick Lamar album either starting from track 1 or last track and still can understand the storyline overall. Very genius. Maybe you should widen your genre? Also I could say the same thing with metal, hardcore or punk in today’s modern music.
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#36Wrote something on similar lines[1]. To understand a song completely I needed to dig deep in the artist's life & philosophy, the same with lyrics. I stopped trying to relate and match my existing life experience with the artist and explicitly tried understanding what the artist was trying to convey, dissolving my own understanding of what I thought it should sound like. Never went back to listening music the old way.
[1] - https://harpratap.com/2023/05/31/on-how-to-listen-Nusrat-fat...
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#37I like to try to match interesting videos with particular musical favorites, for example the record setting French TGV speed record 574,8 km/h run with Stratosfear by Tangerine Dream. I start two youtube tabs and turn the train sound down: TGV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdATLzRGHc Stratosfear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8VsvJ40sM
You might want to try Michael Nymans "Musique à Grande Vitesse" then, which was explicitly composed for the inauguration of the northern track of theTGV: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGV_(composition) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G4vARda08X8
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Modern music albums aren't really written with that in mind in my experience. They're optimised for people skipping through playlists in a streaming service, not going on a journey through an album.
Really depends on the genre you're listening to. Plenty of (prog) rock artists that still work in full album concepts.
Fortunately that's my preferred genre (prog). You'll have to pry Devin Townsend and Haken albums out of my cold dead hands (or just log me out of my Spotify account).
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#40Dub Element's Dub Techno YT playlist can always pull me back to a relaxed but also alert state for working with text (e.g. litrev or writing). For higher BPM his Deep Progressive Techno playlist is ace. https://www.youtube.com/@DubElementMusic/playlists
Love dub too! Dubamix music is CC and the whole ODG label production is free FYI