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Post by Doug on Sept 2, 2014 15:13:09 GMT -5
Describing what it feels like when a song is right.
Not just when you have everything correct but when you get done and say WOW.
You know those syfy shows where the hand comes out and drags you in side the TV show or radio show. That's what it's like when a song is just right, like you are inside the song.
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Post by coachdoc on Sept 2, 2014 18:02:18 GMT -5
I've never surfed, but I imagine it feels like riding the wave.
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Post by RickW on Sept 2, 2014 22:42:39 GMT -5
It doesn't happen often enough. My favourite gig was a battle of the bands that we played in. Great old nightclub downtown, that was packed to the rafters with people in a mood to party. And something just incredible happened between all of us. It was magic. Sometimes life feels a bit too much like time waiting between moments like that. But I think those kinds of things level out with age.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2014 6:03:43 GMT -5
Good description, Doug. I read an interview with Jerry Jeff Walker several years ago in which he said you can tell it is a good song if you can imagine yourself still singing it 25 years from now.
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Post by Marshall on Sept 3, 2014 8:59:44 GMT -5
I've never surfed, but I imagine it feels like riding the wave. Me neither. But being swept along, is a great description. Me, being a songwriter-of-sorts, I go through ups and downs with the process. But there's quite often a point where some musical idea takes flight. And furthermore, where that flight kicks in full throttle and you feel like you're being carried along by the idea, instead of leading it. And when it ultimately comes to full fruition, it's a totally consuming and awe inspiring moment. . . . , Of course then there comes the practicing and performance mode where the song becomes familiar. And soon you become detached from it as you perform it over and over. Ultimately it becomes reflexive and mechanical. And in the emotional parts, you look around to see if anyone in the audience is really listening to the song. Ho - hum. |
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Post by coachdoc on Sept 3, 2014 14:36:17 GMT -5
I like Marshall's description of conception, realization, and familiarization. It is familiar to me, but when you get to the point of 'looking around to see who gets it,' you can also get lifted by the energy of the audience and enjoy the song all over again as if it's new.
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