I fell in love with music again today,
so hard when life gets in the way.
My dedication was no sacrifice
I took my own advice
sat down to let it flow
down from that upper region
to the hands that know
where age suddenly falls away
and I fell in love with music again today.
Yes Ray. A sort of muscle memory. Then arthritis got in the way. Cramped the fingers, cramped the style. So, music to while away the time. Incidentally, the only surviving use of the verb while, meaning “to spend time.”
Thanks Hannah. I'm glad you identified with the sentiment!.
Hi Graham. This could apply to most instruments of course. It's the piano for me and I do try to be disciplined but try improvisation too. I'm lucky my fingers still work ok.
Good analogy John. Most musos I know are certainly addicted but I like to diversify and not be a slave to it. Thanks for liking the poem.
Don, music is an international language and plenty of variety too. Glad you liked it.
Hi Jennifer. Due to lockdown I've lost my live work so I have to self amuse! Still works and a piano is self sufficient.
Mark. The drive to go pro was strong for.me in the band world so had to learn fast but it sticks with you. Much more freedom being amateur without being dictated to on each occasion. Another story though! Thanks...
Ray.
Nice one, Jon. I had just sat down at my piano and tested my abilities, and felt good for it! Thanks Glad it had some effect.
Ray
Hi Ray
I really enjoyed this. It inspired me personally today.
Nice one!
Jon
I think there may be an odd dichotomy involved - between those who
are drawn into music as a "profession" and those who enjoy it as an
aural experience that helps their sense of mental well-being. I have
described music elsewhere as "medicine for the mind". I hold to
this view even when it seems to my own to be just jangly tuneless
disruptive sound. Someone somewhere gets something from it, I
imagine and there is, thank goodness, enough variety to go around:
to discover or, in this instance, perhaps to return to.
Understand what you mean Ray. Producing music 'the hands that know' must be immensely gratifying, bit, as you say require dedication to get anywhere. Glad the love affair is still going!
Jennifer
Some music makes your spine tingle. Others just leave you cold. Interesting......
I liked you piece Ray. And the rhyming......
Music is the drug of choice for so many of us. You capture it, Ray.
A tune for each emotion too. I envy greatly anyone who can produce music themselves. I think cello is the most sublime instrument in the world. How lucky you are.
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Tue 28th Apr 2020 20:35
I know what you mean, music is that great love affair, starts when we are a child, one day we hear some and think - what is that ? !
Then it is on and off throughout our lives. So glad it has come back again to yours.
Love this.
Hannah
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raypool
Thu 30th Apr 2020 16:39
Thanks John. That is a big sacrifice - muscle memory is so important . When I try to learn pre written music it is as it were through the training of the hands rather than a visualisation of the dots. It's a blessing that keeps the mind active. Thanks for whiling away your time !
Ray