I'm not intrigued by how they do what they do, specially music. In my home, only my sisters could take piano lessons, boys were suppose to learn a skill that makes a good living. We had a piano and the lesson were only one dollar fifty once a week. I suppose he had his reasons, being that the depression was upon us in the early 30's. So in the end my sisters lost interest, but i learn, bad as it was, by ear. I think I would have had as rich a life if had stayed in music instead of sculpture. Any one can do it, specially with the right circumstances & people behind you. The secret to any accomplishment is intense interest and one step at at a time, mando
On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Michael Brady wrote: > On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:41 PM, armando baeza wrote: > >> I don't think Michael has the desire to become a classical composer. >> A little melody with some variation would probably do with him. > > I think you're missing my point. > > I really don't want to learn how to compose music or write stories. > I'm just intrigued by how people who can do that do that. > > I know when I paint or do graphic design, how to approach the blank > sheet, how to start, but more important, how to conceive the whole > and see how the parts can--and then do--fit together. How do others > do it? > > For me, to expand this discussion, anxiety in many things comes, > not so much in not knowing how to start, but in not knowing how to > make the transit to the ending. I remember taking a trip several > years ago, going to a place I knew but by a different route across > poorly marked country on dirt roads, and getting very apprehensive > and anxiety ridden because I really didn't know where I was and how > I would come out of the wilderness. I did get there, and I did know > that eventually if I kept driving in one direction, I would again > get to a paved road on the map, but that was a long 10 miles in > completely unmarked terrain. > > I remember a time when I was putting the grandchildren to bed and I > didn't have a book to read, so I tried to tell a story out of pure > invention ... and I couldn't think of anything. Nothing came, and I > felt very stranded, sort of like the trip across the unmarked > terrain. I didn't know how to get across the gulf of unknowing. > > Weird. > > So, I was asking how others get an idea and then take it to a > larger, more elaborate completion--especially writing a story or > musical composition. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
