Havens Above! Richie Havens' Perspective ... | Guitar.com

Havens Above! Richie Havens' Perspective ... | Guitar.com:


Esto es lo que nunca entiendo de los chicos que quieren que uno les "transmita" la capacidad de tocar guitarra. No puedo dejar de creer que si realmente les gustara, simplemente encontrarían ellos mismos la forma de hacerlo. Eso es lo que Richie dice:

"Guitar.com: Do you think that someone who is, say, 35 years old and has never played music before, could develop his or her musical abilities?

Havens: Oh, absolutely. There isn't anybody who couldn't.

Guitar.com: What would you recommend to someone like that who's just starting out?

Havens: The fastest way to learn how to play is to start by playing something you really love. You love a certain song, and you don't even know why, but something in that song has got you. That's the song you learn to play. Once you get that, now you know the chords to twenty million other songs. Now you hear what else you can do. That's all it takes. I know this is true, because it happened to me. I learned how simple it was to take what I had and to learn that other song that I just heard."

"I think a great song is a song that's informative ? informative in a lot of different ways. It could be emotionally informative, to let you know that you have feelings. It could be intellectually informative. It could be visual -- some people see movies when they hear music. A good song would be, to me, a song that you could call "cult." It does it only to a certain type of person. You'll find all the people who like that particular song are a certain type of person. It's like medicine for those guys. They need to have that medicine. There's something in there that triggers the instinct of that strata of people. Other people kind of tap their foot when it comes on, but they don't really want to. Something's getting them, but it's not enough of something. (...) 

But I hear music on that scale. There are no words to distract you, the emotion you feel is coming purely from sound. It's not coming from words or thoughts. It's an emotion that somebody wrote down on paper, and knew what instruments to use to portray it. That's what classical music is, really. It's pure emotion. That's what I like about music. It's a tag on the fact that everybody has exactly the same emotions.

Redes para la Ciencia » Redes 153: Los bebés comprenden la música

Redes para la Ciencia » Redes 153: Los bebés comprenden la música

Muy interesante. Recomiendo la primera parte de este programa a todos los músicos, a todos los que tienen hijos y a quienes quieran conocer más sobre el ser humano. Vale totalmente la pena.

La segunda parte también está buena, solo que no me gusta mucho el enfoque de que los padres no saben criar a sus hijos y necesitan la asesoria de expertos con base científica...