One good thing I am doing is staying true to the spirit of improvisation when I do these DailySings. I know this because I am always surprised at where I end up, whether it be on a harmonic tangent, in a percussive interlude, or at the end of the whole piece. I never know where I'm going from one second to the next. Some very happy accidents happen this way. In fact, I'd say that a good portion of new innovative musical ideas are the result of unexpected occurences, "mistakes", my piano teacher used to call them. I call them "Happy Accidents", and my rule is, if you have one... have a BIG one... then REPEAT IT... several times!!!
Tonight, I came to the task of playing with my voice in good humor. I quicly found myself letting go, in order to "go" farther afield in my musical explorations. I started with a typical (for me) pattern and immediately built up a little percussion around the central melodic idea. Problem was, I kept coming back to a variation of the melody, I couldn't seem to remember the original main melody. It didn't matter because I then explored long tones, melodic soloing, my falsetto voice, vocal drum riffs, and bass jazz phrasings until I was surprised to find that the ending was already past me. Hmmm... Sounds like life!To listen to DailySing - 14, click
here.
I believe that singing is our birthright, and that it is good for our brains, bodies, and spirit. Singing releases oxytocin in the brain, and many studies have shown a correlation of oxytocin with human bonding, increases in trust, feelings of calmness and security, as well as reductions in anxiety. In other words, SINGING IS GOOD FOR YOU!
I get high making up music on the spot. I get high(er) when I can do it with several people at once. There's nothing like riding the crest of a creative wave, linked harmonically and rhythmically, supporting, leading, following, creating, coaxing, cajoling, p-l-a-y-i-n-g... THAT'S MY BLISS!
Singing for 15 minutes a day means trusting yourself. It means clearing your mind, opening up and discovering what sounds can come out through you, if you allow it.
To listen to each of my daily sings, click on the "songs" link on the left in the grey field above the most recent post or on the link at the end of each post.
