FINDING YOUR TALENT

By Peter Perini | Published: February 9, 2010

Fast Track Learning

 
 
It only takes 30 minutes 3 times a week to start getting good at something. Most people are really good at watching sitcoms or reading newspapers.
 
The trick is to commit to something. It really doesn’t take long to improve quickly. The first couple of attempts is when most people give up. They see no progress, it seems impossible so it’s back to the sitcom. Well the other trick is, don’t give up here. All of a sudden with an extra couple of attempts, things start to really happen. People get pretty excited at this stage and want more.
 
The committed few find that after only 6 weeks, they’re actually really getting somewhere. No wonder, they’ve attempted it 18 times! It soon adds up. This is all fast track learning is and why some people are really good at something after only 12 months. Finding your talent is pretty straight forward.
 
For each 30 minutes try to do something you can’t in your chosen pursuit. Before you know it, these are the things you can do. Get your fingers on the keyboard, feet on the road, dish in the oven, brush on the canvas, needle in the fabric, pen on the paper, hammer on the nail for 30 minutes 3 times a week and you’ll get good at it and love it. This is what the “talented” people did.
 

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UNIVERSAL PEOPLE

By Peter Perini | Published: January 29, 2010

Music in Life

 
 
We are part of a grand odyssey beyond our wildest imagination. A story has never been penned that could compare.
 
Among universal people today, one thing is undeniable. Stress. The farmer in the rice paddy trying to feed his family. The “old money” society mother trapped behind her responsibilities since birth. The experience of stress is identical for all.
 
An uplifting song has the potential to remove the cage of stress, momentarily revealing the freedom in every direction. These universal songs become music in life and do more good than any therapy rhetoric devised.
 
Songs of this nature are becoming harder to find as people neglect the craft in the race for fame and fortune.
 

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ANIMAL CRUELTY SONGS

By Peter Perini | Published: January 25, 2010

Animal Respect

 

Animal Respect

Animal Respect

Cruelty is a horrible unnecessary fact of humanity. People are cruel to each other and to the creatures in nature. It makes no sense at all. Necessary hardship and struggle are a part of living, but maliciously subjecting another living creature to pain is no way forward.
 
They say that music soothes even the savage beast. Songwriters, turn your attention to cruelty and the savage human. You can’t fight cruelty with cruelty, a fools belief. The power of song is one of the best solutions. Nobody gets hurt.
 
Animal cruelty songs are few and far between considering there is so much animal cruelty and so little animal respect. Songwriters step up!
 

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MUSIC SECRETS BETWEEN 2 NOTES

By Peter Perini | Published: January 23, 2010

Harmony. The Colour of Music Simplified

 
 
Strike a note on your favourite instrument. On its own it has very little colour. It’s just a pitch with some timbre of the instrument thrown in. Now strike that note again, this time striking any other note at the same time. Now it has colour.
 
Harmony is the relative difference between 2 notes. The 1st (or root) note is irrelevant. As long as the number of steps between your 2 notes is the same, the harmony will have the same colour. Happy, sad, pure, awkward, strong, soft… All with just 2 notes.
 
Try playing the 2nd note above and below the root note. The colour is the same. There are many simple music secrets. This one is important, so play around with it for a while. There are only 12 notes, choose 1 root note and listen to it’s 11 different colours. Take your time, really listen to the music simplified.
 
Have you the capacity to add a 3rd note? Don’t be hasty. That’s ANOTHER 110 colours.
 

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WHAT ARE THOUGHTS?

By Peter Perini | Published: January 21, 2010

Tapping The Source

 
 
There are techniques to realise your own existence. Here’s one of them. With attentiveness this becomes extremely interesting.
 
What are thoughts? During your daily happenings you will notice many coincidences. For example, you may be in the kitchen preparing some food, your thoughts wandering here and there, when you abruptly come to from your daydreaming. A word or sentence from the television in the background was precisely in line with your thoughts.
 
Another example. You are driving along with the music playing, once again daydreaming through the traffic, when again you are awoken by a billboard or shop sign precisely in line with your thoughts.
 
By acknowledging these moments, you begin tapping the source. It may get a little confusing, what came first, the thought or the physical moment.
 
Can you tell?
 

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EARTH IN BALANCE

By Peter Perini | Published: January 18, 2010

Living in Life? Are You Pulsing Right?

 

Baryonic matter

Baryonic matter

This physical world is made up of what is called “baryonic matter”. This is everything visible. Planets, mountains, cities, trees, man, atoms. Look at the picture of the earth from space.
 
See how all of the this baryonic matter clumps together to form a ball. We’re all in that ball. We’re all in there somewhere, living in life, moving about doing our thing. Now if one of us shouts something angry, out of his mouth and vibrating off his face and body to the air around him pulses baryonic matter in an ugly shape. These ugly shapes swirl around like clouds and subtly effect the patterns in the ball. Somebody else saying or doing something kind has the exact same physical effect but produces baryonic patterns in a pleasing shape.
 
Look at the photo from space again. It’s just a ball of matter. The earth in balance. These are the simple laws of physics.
 
This ball of baryonic matter can be whatever we want it to be.
 
Do nice stuff.
 

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MIXING LIVE SOUND

By Peter Perini | Published: January 15, 2010

Guitar Settings

 
 
Rock doesn’t mean loud. If it did, why does a great rock song still cut it when heard on a little single speaker radio in a mechanic’s garage?
 
An amp needs to be powerful enough to cover the room you’re in, then it needs to be tuned to the room. A focused adjustment of the guitar settings, essentially volume, bass and treble will round it out and tighten it up. Listen carefully to the accumulated bass in the room. Cut it right back to just audible. Cut the treble back to just below brittle. A drummer or guitarist playing too loud in a small room is making it difficult for everyone.
 
When mixing live sound, consider the room and adjust your touch accordingly. Your playing will improve out of sight as you are now responsible for your actions. The band can hear each other and not just a wash of sound. Now you can inject true power into your music.
 

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NON-HIT DRUM CLASS

By Paul Müller | Published: January 13, 2010

Drumming Technique That Goes Ping!

 

Paul Müller. Drums

Paul Müller. Drums

Imagine striking any voice on your kit. 99% of the stroke is the non-hit. The moment of impact is the smallest part of the stroke. The goal of the strike is to make the cleanest hit possible so as not to dull the purity of the note. No false double hits or drags to mute the resonance, unless that is your intention of course.
 
The rebound of the stick should feel like a “ping” on your hands. Like a golfer with the perfect swing who accelerates through the shot and follows through, or a cricket batsman cracking the ball through the covers. The perfect strike has almost no feel on the hands, the energy is transferred through the stick and to the drum or cymbal at any volume from the softest soft to the loudest loud.
 
Practicing this drumming technique on a pad to achieve the perfect rebound and then transferring it to the kit, is one of my favourite exercises. To gain full benefits from this drum class, practice the “non-stroke” on a pillow. As it provides no assistance for rebound, it develops strength, speed and stamina. Don’t hit through the pillow but practice pulling the stick away from the surface. Start slowly and build up speed, move through the rudiments to develop stick control.
 

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ENVIRONMENTAL MUSIC

By Peter Perini | Published: January 10, 2010

Conservation Songs Are a Force

 
 
I recently poured a steamy bath on a chilly winter’s day, adding epsom salts for relaxation. It was heaven. I was warmed to the core and felt the troubles of my world disappear.
 
I didn’t really notice at first being so content to float there, but I noticed a plastic bag just below the surface of the water near my feet. It must have been from the epsom salts. Nevermind, put it on the floor and keep relaxing. Ahhh, back to heaven. 5 minutes go by when I feel a plastic water bottle floating near my head. What the heck was going on? Oh that’s right, my girl had a bath yesterday and must have left it on the side. No problem. Put it on the floor. Keep relaxing. Ahhh, this bath is beautiful.
 
Not a minute later there was a burger wrapper stuck to my arm, 30 seconds more and I noticed a submerged beer bottle near my feet. This bath sucked! I went to stand up but slipped from what appeared to be a diesel slick on the surface.
 
Injured and lying on the floor of my bathroom covered in diesel and rubbish, I noticed that a neighbour had been wandering in out of my view and dumping all this sfuff in my beautiful bath! I was outraged!
 
I decided to write a song about the world’s oceans.
 
Conservation songs and environmental music have power.
 

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UNIVERSAL RHYTHM MACHINE

By Peter Perini | Published: January 9, 2010

Simplified Music. Keeping Time

 
 
For practice or playing on your own, a drum machine (or metronome) is ESSENTIAL. Not every single time you play, but at least every other time.
 
The habits of playing solo in your bedroom go unnoticed until it’s time to play with others.
 
Keeping time is an essential skill for every musician. Playing along with the steady beat of your universal rhythm machine is a guaranteed way of acquiring this skill. This simplified music technique becomes an extremely enjoyable way of playing solo. You begin to realise that all of those fancy mysteries you hear your favourite musicians playing, are actually nothing fancy. They are in fact, just simple passing notes in time with the beat.
 
This is an essential key to musicianship. Ignore it at your own peril. A good band will walk all over you if you can’t keep time.
 
beat tap tap ching beat tap tap ching
 

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