Practice really does make perfect!

yeah…so, i practiced piano last night for two hrs. i was feeling pretty good about myself…then i heard this…

The Musician Lives

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein

Get this record!

Travis and I stumbled across these records at flea market, buried under a stack of old newspapers! Little did we know that what we held in our hands would prove to be the greatest musical inspiration we’ve ever found! Why? Because reading these albums from front to back was not full of priceless information, but was an experience entirely of its own. I learned far more than I have time to write now, but will share more later!

a few of the newest additions to the NEW Mountain Top Studio!

the one and only….johnny cash!

Do You Hear The Sound?

Sometimes, we underestimate the POWER of our gifts! Especially if we’ve always had them, they may seem even “normal”, and if they haven’t been used in years, may even appear gray and boring. Reality is, that the talents placed within you, whether in need of practice or not, were put there SPECIFICALLY by YOUR CREATOR! That’s HUGE! And, it’s quite possible that people out there, are still searching for the “sound” of Hope that ONLY YOU can bring to this world. That is, your light, your music, your art…It is not merely “Chance” that your here…

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“Music is as powerful as any medicine” — Oliver W. Sacks

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.” — Oliver W. Sacks

“Certainly it’s not just a visual experience – it’s an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.” — Oliver W. Sacks

Check out Oliver Sacks website, the most inspirational genius on the study of music and its influence on the human brain, even without our conscience awareness…absolutely amazing!

http://www.oliversacks.com/

The Lost Chord

 

Bought some old sheet music the other day at a flea market and found this song! I thought it was so deep!

Oh, and there are instructions by the writer, as to “HOW” their song should be played if anyone ever does i thot that was awesome because it basically tells the person that if they are gonna play their song to be passionate very cool it says,

The Lost Chord

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wander’d idly over the noisy keys;
I knew not what I was playing, or what I was dreaming then,
But I struck one chord of music like the sound of a great Amen.

It flooded the crimson twilight like the close of an Angel’s Psalm,
And it lay on my fever’d spirit with a touch of infinite calm.
It quieted pain and sorrow like love overcoming strife,
It seem’d the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

It link’d all perplexed meanings into one perfect peace
And trembled away into silence as if it were loth to cease;
I have sought, but I seek it vainly, that one lost chord divine,
Which came from the soul of the organ and enter’d into mine.

It may be that Death’s bright Angel will speak in that chord again;
It may be that only in Heav’n I shall hear that grand Amen!

Heritage

King David. Jerusalem. “Living Sound”. Roots. Heritage. Light. Whole Music.