WHat genre do you get inspirations from or admire?
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/seits3
Click on this site and download the songs where it says to play the songs. I love music like this.

Today in a subway station, a Oriental guy was playing an insturment, a stringed one and he used the stick thing violinists use. It was the second-most loveliet sound i ever heard from any insturment. The first was from a Rajistani insturment( another stringed instruments). It nearly brought me to tears and in my head i was writing lyrics as to the sound of the insturment. SO sad, and so powerful. the second insturment i ever heard that brings so much emotions.

Mainly Jazz

Mainly Rock, Jazz, Classical, and some Electronica. Also, "Jesus Movement"-style Christian music.

I like all kinds of music, from adult contemporary, to "some" really heavy metal bands...For me, it's all about feeling and melody, so if that's in place, I can dig it...I love Sting, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Robert Plant, etc., and some of my friends bands that play locally where I am from in here in Victoria BC Canada. The list goes on and on, but for some reason, most of my musical collection is Prince...I guess cuz he puts himself on the line, lyrically, and emotionally, with such feeling that you can't deny it's the real thing. His vocal range just blows me away too, and when I saw him live in Vancouver BC at the Orpheum theater a few months back, I really felt connected to his music, and the people that were there with me, of all races and places. That is ultimate to me...I also have major respect for Alanis...She truly is wise beyond her years as a musician, and also puts herself on the line.

subyduby said:

It's called a bow.

I learn from all the genres I listen to. That means almost anything and everything. The only thing I can't tolerate is something like thrash/speed metal. Not to be confused with heavy metal.

And the more you're exposed to as a musician, the better a musician you'll potentially become.

Supernova said:

thankyou!
how embarrasing!

Funk.

thecloud9mission said:

Cna u please give some examples of cds that i should begin with or at least check out? thanks.

JDODSON said:

Please be more specfic of what albums you could refer me to! Thanks.

I bet Jason's referring to P-Funk -- the root of all funk (though this root was fed and watered by much jazz, blues, and r&b before it). I'd recommend Funkadelic's Standing on the Verge of Getting It On for starters. But don't stop there!! Same with Sly & The Family Stone's Greatest Hits, and then continue on from there. I first heard this stuff AFTER becoming a Prince fan, and my eyes were opened to where he was getting so many of his great musical ideas.

Jasziah said:

thanks!

subyduby said:

Don't be embarrassed. If you don't know, you just need to learn - it's the way everybody starts out.

Jazz and the more experimental end of industrial.

Sorry Suby, I didn't have time to get detailed yesterday. I would recommend early Funkadelic albums, Cosmic Slop and Standing On The Verge are good, I also like Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic, Let's Take It To The Stage, and America Eats It's Young. If you are into more soothed out dance jams, you will like the later Warner Bros. years of Funkadelic, with One Nation Under A Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You, and Electric Spanking Of War Babies.

But, my favorites are Bootsy's "Ahh, The Name Is Bootsy", "Stretchin' Out In A Rubber Band", Funkadelic's "Uncle Jam Wants You", and Parliament's "Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome".

I'm a fan of the more danceable but yet weirded out funk. That's why I really like the Camille years when Prince hooked that up. Scarlet Pussy is one of, if not the best, funk jams of the 80's, in my opinion. I would recommend the albums "Controversy" and "1999" to any person getting into the funk for the first time, and also the self titled album "Prince" to anyone simply so that they can hear "Sexy Dancer"

Blues and funk.

I learn from these two primarily but all music is teaching me things everyday.
A major scale has a lot to offer if you play it enough.