LADIES/GENTLEMEN/MUSICIANS

Each and every one of you are so very helpful to me, a player, no claim to musicianship. Almost everything you offer on all these threads is helpful to me.

Most of you have communicated with me personally via email to answer my many questions. Additionally, you have shared your music and information with me by personal contact as well.

I know that I am not a trained musician. I know that learning all the things you know about music theory, proper chording, etc. would enhance my music for me and my audiences as well.

However..... When what I play sounds good to me and my audiences... we are all happy campers. On a daily basis I tweak and tweak the sounds in my registrations to make them just a bit better to my ear.

At this point in my life, learning to play all the notes in the bass cleff and exactly as the composer wrote is more of a challenge than I am willing to tackle... My fingers are a bit arthritic and I am getting older...

Kinda like my golf game...long ago given up in order to do other things that I enjoy more. I moved from country club living to full time RV'ing, a very different life. I would not return to country club living and following the rules others find satisfying.

Living in the "Realm Of All Possibilities" is my favorite place to be. Learning by personal experience works best,for me. No ideology is excluded unless proven experientially is valid. What is valid at that point, may or may not be valid to others. For me it may be invalid the next moment, or the next, or the next moment. I know that there will be more moments where change may or may not seem appropriate, for me. So be it... as long as life exists I am convinced there is a moment by moment opportunity to make changes that will or will not enhance my life experience.

My appreciation for life in general and music specifically has taught me that this perspective works really well. I am jumping through my own woops and enjoying living moment by moment....

Maybe one of these days I will really want to learn to play my music according to all the rules of theory as all of you describe, maybe not...

In the meantime, I will keep on keepin on being all I can be, moment by moment. I will be checking in here on a daily basis enjoying all the messages and opportunities to learn more about music through your shared thoughts....

I have sent this page to myself via email. One day, should I choose to get into proper chording/playing/musical theory...I will have it to refer to....

Thank you for all you do. I love all of you very much...

Elizabeth




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