I use to play piano the way I was taught, so I played the way the music was written and kind of wooden and I heard other people play they brought in a rhythm of their own which I liked. I had a friend whom was teaching piano and guitar as well as theory which was her strongest. I went along to learn to play guitar and borrowed a spare of hers for a few weeks and decided I liked playing so bought my own. During the course of learning it opened a whole new window because I learned to transpose music as well as using a kapo (bar that you place over the fret so you can keep playing the chords that are easiest and you don't have to learn the difficult chords) I had to sing while playing so my confidence grew and different temposdeveloped in the 6 weeks I took the lessons, I did not have to learn music as I already knew how to read. I was able to change my whole outlook playing piano, keyboard or organ and bring in that natural rhythm I had desired. My first few poems was set to music. I started when one of my girlfriends back in NZ showed me her book of poems and I really like a couple of them and sat down and wrote music to them. Then I wrote a couple of my own lyrics and setting them to music.
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How true Kathleen, songs are poetry set to music, I just never thougth of it that way before. Quote:
Hi Mike, I was married to a man for a quarter-century who said "Why write poems? They just take up a full sheet of paper...why not just put it into one sentence instead of wasting space?" THAT's from a man who had a collection of 250 music CD's and always dreamed of being in the music industry. I said to him, "SONGS are POETRY set to MUSIC!" Sheesh! Besides that, poems don't usually "waste the space" of repeating lines the way songs do. Anyways, Miguel is correct, write from this moment forward, from your heart & soul, and now you have more life to write about than you did before...and I think all writing from peoples' hearts is always captivating!
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