THIS JUST IN....

[Session 5]

I started in classical music at age 4 violin to be a concert master some day
My first guitar teacher was Andres Segovia the way Andres explained it was color variations
Makes me wounder what colors Jimmi Hendrix was seeing.

A Purple Haze.

 

[Amp Mad Scientist]

Tone is entirely in the fingers.
Is this true?!...

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[67plexi]

Texas Flood amps.

 

[Trident]

DOH

 

[fretless]

Wow! Y'all are most insightful, and articulate! My own experience has been this: when I can get my head, hands and heart to sync up, the tone is there, no matter whether I'm playing guitar or bass. All my amp does is project what's coming out of me through my instrument. I guess you would call it synergy. Or, maybe I'm hallucinating all this and I'll wake up any minute stowed away on the Millennium Falcon....or worse, stowed away in the Ferengi quarter of DS9!

 

[steveb63]

Tone is everywhere.
To me tone is just sound.
That juicy stinker in the first example, it had tone.
If someone shoves you down a flight of stairs, your screams and the thud you make at the bottom, have tone.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, it still had tone. If that tree happened to be Brazilian Rosewood, it must have had fantastic tone.
But, perception of tone is in the hearing.
You may hear something incredible and someone else hearing the same thing, they may just hear noise.
So is tone in the ears? Even deeper is tone defined by your hearing?
What if you can't hear? Is your world void of tone?
How would you define tone to a deaf person.

I was sitting in a bar a few weeks ago listening to a friends band and there was a guy at the bar drinking a beer, trying to communicate with my wife & I.
It was quite obvious to me he was deaf, possibly mute as well.
But he had something to say to us & she was getting annoyed with his gesturing and pounding on the bar not quite realizing the whole picture. She just thought he was one of the oddball street people that hangs around downtown.
Though he couldn't hear a thing, he was appreciating the music through the vibrations in the bar, the wooden floor and the barstool.
That's what he was "saying". He liked the music and the band.
Once she realized the situation, she felt bad for being annoyed with him.
Anyway we bought him a beer and we all continued to enjoy the show.
Watching him, you could tell he was into it.
He could feel the beat. His head feet and hands were all connected to the music.
At break time my buddy in the band came over to chat and I introduced him to my new friend.
The fellow acted like he just met Clapton. It made his night.

So it obviously wasn't tone this cat was attracted to, but what was it?
It reached deeper into this cats soul.
So my question is can there be tone without rhythm and beat?

That moved me brotha,

I had a younger brother that was severly challenged, mental and physical disabilities. He had a TY life, spent most of my youth fist fighting on he behalf.

Befgore he passed at aged 22, took him to see Aerosmith, for 2 hours he forgot his predicament, Just smiling and rocking out- normal, like what we take for granted.

Music is in the SOUL, music is in Jeff.

Sorry it just took me away for a minute