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Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:43 pm

tbh I'm not sure this is something you should put a lot of thought into from just a musical pov...lyrics yes, but with playing an instrument it seems to me if you're forcing the expression of emotions you're probably going to miss the mark anyhow. Also the emotions we feel (again with music, not lyrics) are going to be interpreted differently by different people. If someone gets it that's cool, but if they dont I find often it is interesting to hear what they got from the piece

audientronic · Post by **audientronic** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:47 pm

Bemused resignation.

deastman · Post by **deastman** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:53 pm

I voted for happiness. It always comes out sounding like an 80s TV jingle.

The emotion most often expressed in my music is existential angst.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:07 pm

Hink wrote:tbh I'm not sure this is something you should put a lot of thought into from just a musical pov...lyrics yes, but with playing an instrument it seems to me if you're forcing the expression of emotions you're probably going to miss the mark anyhow. Also the emotions we feel (again with music, not lyrics) are going to be interpreted differently by different people. If someone gets it that's cool, but if they dont I find often it is interesting to hear what they got from the piece

Yeah, exactly. I've never sat down at my piano or picked up my bass and thought, I'm going to play something that expresses...oh, let's say, consternation over an upcoming vasectomy. That's just not the way I approach composition. Maybe that approach works for others, but it doesn't work for me.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:09 pm

I never wanted to express any emotion directly, but if I did, it would be anger. I always fall into harmony, which is either happy or sad, can do calm passages as well al suprises - the latter ones are key in club music. But anger is is quite distant to me. Why would you feel angry while making music?

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:29 pm

The only emotion you get from my music is-wtf what kind of drug history is behind this....

look at the kvr database at my Preggers demo video

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:41 pm

cryophonik wrote:Yeah, exactly. I've never sat down at my piano or picked up my bass and thought, I'm going to play something that expresses...oh, let's say, consternation over an upcoming vasectomy.

The blues. Definitely the blues.

"Well I woke up this morning
My baby makin' days is gone.
I woke up this morning
I ache so bad, my balls is all alone"

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:56 pm

robojam wrote:
cryophonik wrote:Yeah, exactly. I've never sat down at my piano or picked up my bass and thought, I'm going to play something that expresses...oh, let's say, consternation over an upcoming vasectomy.
The blues. Definitely the blues.

"Well I woke up this morning
My baby makin' days is gone.
I woke up this morning
I ache so bad, my balls is all alone"

that last line doesn't make sense...it aint right grammar an I should know because I scored 100% on a FB grammar test

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 8:58 pm

Hink wrote:it aint right grammar an I should know because I scored 100% on a FB grammar test

Yep, I saw that - you certainly know your grammah!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:12 pm

robojam wrote:
Hink wrote:it aint right grammar an I should know because I scored 100% on a FB grammar test
Yep, I saw that - you certainly know your grammah!

I may have been channeling my grammah, that might explain how I did that

Actually the funny thing is Grandma was not a term in my family. My maternal grandmother was just nana (and she lived in the same town I grew up with), My paternal grandmother was up in Maine, she was very, very proper and us kids were not allowed to call her anything other than Grandmother. My father always called her mother and when my parents married my mother's father asked my dad's mother what he should call her and her response to him was "Well, Mrs. Hinckley of course"

...meanwhile my nana could be like granny form the beverly hillbillies at times, she was a riot.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:18 pm

robojam wrote:
cryophonik wrote:Yeah, exactly. I've never sat down at my piano or picked up my bass and thought, I'm going to play something that expresses...oh, let's say, consternation over an upcoming vasectomy.
The blues. Definitely the blues.

"Well I woke up this morning
My baby makin' days is gone.
I woke up this morning
I ache so bad, my balls is all alone"

Doug1978 · Post by **Doug1978** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:30 pm

Thank you chaps - there's some really wonderful replies here: very funny as well as thoughtful.

Very good points about happiness sounding cheesey, and also about why someone would wish to convey anger in music (although it might be fascinating to use chords / melody to try to mimic betrayed or hurt feelings, say after the breakup of a relationship).

Excellent points too about regarding how musicians can convey emotion, and whether the listener will feel the same.

And whilst lyrics can clearly help with the communication of emotion, sometimes the most powerful feelings - even about aching balls or consternation over an upcoming vasectomy! - can come from non-lyrical songs.

Let's be fair though, fishiness is pretty tricky to pull off...

Many thanks for your interesting views.
More thoughts are very welcome.

Turello · Post by **Turello** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:48 pm

the most difficult\simply emotion to express in my music is the bewilderment of his own existence...

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:05 am

Humor. It's a lot of work to make a funny song...

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 12:16 am

Tricky-Loops wrote:Humor. It's a lot of work to make a funny song...

I disagree. People often ask "Is this a joke?" when I play my music.

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