Something Different
Here’s something a little different, a part of my past, a song I wrote a few years ago.
Music and martial arts, I don’t really see that much difference between them.
Timing, technique, sensitivity, and self expression.
May your Monday go a bit more smoothly…
Posted by Roy Dean on 01/15 at 09:29 AM
Comments
Wow! Very nice, Roy. Good melody, with a new age feel to it. As an armchair musician, I can appreciate
musical talent. Your spiritual side shines through in your arts, both martial and musical.
Have a great day and thanks for sharing. Looking forward to getting back into town Thursday to continue with training.
Really nice Roy. I am a Logic/GarageBand/iMovie user and know that is not easy to pull off. Sounded great.
You reminded me of a connection between music and bjj I recently made with the help of guys like Paul Schreiner and John Frankl. I took a private with each of them and noticed how each of them really shut my game down with posture instead of “techniques”. It was a real watershed moment for me since I can be guilty of accumulating techniques and ignoring the boring like posture, shrimp drills, etc. They set me straight.
To bring it back to music, I was reading Alan Watts last night and he spoke of the duality of all things. There is no light without dark kinda stuff. As the conversation went to music it became clear that music is not just about the notes, but moreso about the spacing between notes. Each chord has a formula regardless of the note it begins on, a major chord is a major chord and that is what gives the emotion. It is the same in a string of notes, the spacing is really where it is at. If you don’t beleive me, listen to BB King.
We as people spend too much time focusing on the notes of music and missing the spaces because they are almost unnoticable, yet they give music its life. BJJ is the same. To me, posture and body postion are the spaces and techniques are the notes (hand goes here, etc). 2007 will be the year of the spaces for me.
Very true Paul. The space between beats is just as important as the beat itself. The fewer elements in the mix, the bigger and more pronounced each of those elements can be. Reminds me of Marcello Garcia’s game. He’s stripped the mix down to the core technique of taking the back, with all other elements (sweeps, takedowns, etc) leading to that end result. Powerful and deceptively “basic”, you can’t help but get caught up in his rhythm!