MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Hi JP
Thanks for sharing these. Yeah Yuja Wang is amazing, and she’s climbed up into the top echelon of the greatest pianists of all time lists all over the the classical music community.
That second Bach Adagio rendition was done very beautifully. Bach’s Adagio is absolutely stirring. Bach is a musical world of it’s own you can easily get lost in, I can see how great musicians like Glenn Gould devoted a life time to Bach’s music, and why so many artists in the rock/pop industry like George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ray Davies….etc admired his music from over 250 years ago. Bach captures the beautiful essence of the universe.
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Hey Jacki! 😊 Yes indeed, your magic with words always felt like a song. Your poetry is like music.
BTW, the letter was from Johnny Cash to his wife.
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For the writers and poets, and songwriters amongst us, I found this interesting little article about how written composition can be a lot like music composition. Below is a letter written by one very well known songwriter, can you feel the melody, beat and rhythm? I have to say a well written poem or letter can certainly sing and move you like a beautiful song. I think this one is a good example. Guess who wrote the letter?
“Writing is like music too.
Like a song, writing has melodies, that is the sound of your voice speaking silently in your mind while you are writing (or reading). Like a song, writing also has rhythm. Listen to the rhythm of your breath and write until you find an idea interesting.
Like a song, writing has a story. Writing an email? It should have a storyline and theme; Like a song, writing has lyrics. Every lyric or word must support your story or theme.
Like a song, writing has beats. Write one paragraph to another without missing a beat; Like a song, writing can stutter and stumble. Writing can flow so soft it almost sends you to sleep. Writing can hop and skip, putting a smile on your face.
Writing—creative nonfiction, fiction, or poetry—is more like writing a song. If you believe in what you have to say in writing, then say it in any damn way you think is best. Give the readers a melody and a chord structure that knocks out and sings and play it loud and proud.
By definition, rhythm is the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. Simply put, rhythm is that music component that makes us move, or even just tap the foot when we listen to a song.
In writing, rhythm is defined by punctuation and the stress patterns of words in a sentence. Long sentences sound smoother, while short sentences make your content snappier. When each sentence follows the same structure and rhythm, your writing becomes zzz, also-known-as boring.
“Your mission in writing is to get your readers excited from the first sentence, and a good hook is exactly what you need. Great hooks must be catchy, interesting, and attention-grabbing.”
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David,
Andy’s definitely into quantity I think, maybe a mission to cover the entire rock/pop repertoire. There must be a good one in there somewhere.
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The lead in to Love Me Do with the harmonica is quite wonderful. In this video, we can see a few scenes of John playing a small harmonica. I think the harmonica really adds to the magic of this song.
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Hi Jurgen
I remember as a little kid, my parents had this one album by the Harmonicats, and I was fascinated by the harmonica’s especially the long ones. I remember the album cover of the 3 members standing side by side with their harmonicas and the guy with the moustache. My parents use to play it a lot and I got into it too.
I’ve always liked the sounds of a harmonica in music. I remember one thing that stood about the Beatles when I first discovered them was the use of harmonica in some of their songs like Love Me Do.
I was gifted a little Harmonica many years ago that I still have and like to occasionally play around with. Even tried to learn a bit watching Youtube. It’s a Hohner Pocket Pal, fairly inexpensive I think, but small and sounds nice. Cetainly beats these colorful banana toy harmonicas I use to play with as a kid. Your post got me to pull out that little Hohner.
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Hi Daryl
That looks thrilling and fun! Just seeing the photos it looks like you were moving. Just curious, on the straightaways how fast can you get up to before you have to slow down for the curve? I love watching races whether bikes, cars or trucks.
I use to follow NASCAR very closely in the 90s, and I recall one season Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt Senior were neck and neck for the Winston Cup Championship and I must have followed every single race. There were some amazing race moments that season. My favourite track was the short half mile oval track, Bristol, and it was so fun to watch as the course was so short, these powerful stock cars barely hit a hundred MPH in the short straight away before they would hit the curve and had to slow down. It was quite strategic often the race was won by who could brake the most skillfully and swing past the car in front as they slowed down into the curve.
Later on, I got a NASCAR racing SIM with force feedback steering wheels and pedals, and I experienced racing in Bristol, boy was it fun.
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Thanks David for these stats. With the new Duo Sessions over the last few weeks, as well as all the Live At The Cavern videos being released every week, there is going to be a big uptick and cumulative effect on the aggregate views for all the MLT videos on MLT’s Youtube channel. An uptick in views will likely mean a growing audience. I think it will be great in advance of new MLT original videos from WHY when they are released?
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Hi Dan
That sounds quite intriguing, a new Beatles song some 5 decades later, looking forward to it in September. With Georges guitar work from 1995, Ringo’s new drum track, and 3 part harmonies from the past, it will be the Fab 4 together again, almost like how artists today collaborate across the internet and piece together a song, but in this case it is stretched across the decades. It will be very special!
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Hi Steve
It looks like with this one, both Paul and Ringo endorse it, and in fact I think Paul initiated it getting Ringo to work on it. It is good to leave well enough alone sometimes, but hopefully this will be well received.
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Hi Chris
That is great, always love to see people from different musical tastes and genres coming to discover and appreciate MLT. You can’t escape the lure of Mona and Lisa’s powerful, majestic and beautiful music. Really, really good music transcends divisions and touches people.
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Hi JP
Nice track, I like it. They do capture the feel of Pink Floyd, it’s almost meditative and nice lyrics. Some great drumming in there too. I’ve come to really enjoy and appreciate Pink Floyd over the years, it all started with the Wish You Were Here album. Thanks for posting it.
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Jurgen, nice virtual tour and great photos and sketches, thanks for posting it. I see where the album cover for Revolver came from. He certainly captured some intriguing moments with the Beatles in the photos. I recall Mona and Lisa met Klaus Voormann, there is a photo of them with him in the archives here.
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Hi Jurgen
Thanks for posting that, it’s a real touching video and song. I looked up the song and it looks like Ringo co-wrote it with George Harrison. It would be interesting to see some photos Ringo took, whether taken intentionally for artistic value or not, they certainly capture the moment in a very special way, and become priceless treasures of ones you love. In Paul’s video, he expresses that sentiment too.
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Hi Dave, well spoken. I love the direction their original works are going, each new album is innovative as they expand their diversity and create new sound and style, never repeating themselves. They are on the same creative path the Beatles went on.
