Before we go any futher I'd like to show you all a game I made up. This game is called "ShuHaRi in Music" and it can be played with any [word-laden electronic music album]. You may be surprised. Now, if you have a pair of headphones, you better get 'em out and get 'em cranked up... 'cause they're really gonna help you.
-- via Hot Chip, adapted for 'ShuHaRi in Music'
The Idea (adapted from Martin Fowler's)
...is that a person [may pass] through three stages of [insight from a given word-laden electronic music album]...
In this beginning stage the student follows the [rhythms, melodies, beats] of one [album] precisely. She concentrates on how to [hear the music], without worrying too much about the underlying theory. If there are multiple variations on how to [interpet the music], she concentrates on just the one way [the musician intended].
Suggested Technique:
- Put on good headphones; preferably of the earbud and/or noise-cancelling type/
- Put the album on repeat.
- Walk around your city or neighborhood for long enough to hear the album a few times.
- Let the beat/tempo adjust your cadence.
At this point the student begins to branch out. With the [basics of the album understood] she now starts to [discover how] the underlying principles and theory behind the [music may have alternate meaning]. She also starts learning from other [albums] and integrates those into her [experience].
Suggested Technique:
Listen for deeper meaning in the individual songs and ways in which the words may be applied to your particular life circumstances.
Now the student [is not only] learning from [the music as written], but from her own [interpretation of the album as a whole; it's application to the present]. She creates her own [interpretations] and adapts what she [has heard] to her own particular circumstances.
Suggested Technique:
Listen for deeper meaning in the album as a whole and ways in which the overall theme, as a cohesive whole, may be applied to your particular life circumstances.
- Settle by Disclosure
-- The initial inspiration for me, Corey Innis. - Tales of the Forgotten Melodies by Wax Tailor
-- The further inspiration to codify it here. - Boys & Girls by Alabama Shakes
-- via Melissa Perri - Made in the Dark by Hot Chip
-- ...from whence the opening quote herein is adapted.
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- Martin Fowler
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