What are you listening to?

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This is going to be a bit different but I pretty much can't stand Christian music as it might reflect the glory and joy in the afterlife seems to minimize the daily struggles that we go through and therefore often times secular music assuming it's not outright satanic.

I like music primarily rock or classic rock or even psychedelic Rock basically anything I really 60s 70s from mellow to hard is what I like.

However as a musician who plays all the basic instruments I generally listen to my own stuff which is kind of a merge of my belief system and the classic rock Style but I would not call it Christian per se
 
I spend a lot of time actually listening to "secular" music that have wonderful and descriptive lyrics
One particular favourite for this child in Christ is
Land of makebelieve performed by bucks fizz
A 1980s "pop" song
The second verse is astonishingly accurate
"Something nasty in your garden is waiting patiently until it can have your heart
Try to go but it won't let you
Don't you know it's out to get you running
Keep on running
It's running after you"
Definitely not only referencing the garden of eden
But clearly outlining the enemies strategy and intention
Praise God we now have the Spirit to enable us
When we've done all else
Stand
 
An interesting short with an instrument that I doubt any of us have used.


Didgeridoo​

Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo (most likely from the Wik culture group), 1966, Eucalyptus wood, glue, and ochre, gift of Donald and Beverly McGavin, 2009.1.1.

"The didgeridoo is a wind instrument made and used by many northern and central Australian cultural groups. It is crafted by using the main trunk of eucalyptus trees that have been hollowed out by termites. The tunnels created by the termites give the didgeridoo its unique “whirling” sound. To play the didgeridoo, the musician must use circular breathing, a technique in which one must blow air out of one’s mouth and breath air in though the nose at the same time. Correct usage of this skill can allow the musician to play a continual note hypothetically forever. The longest ever recorded was for up to fifty minutes. "

The same technique was used by jazz musicians with the trumpet.
 
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HealthAndHappiness said:
An interesting short with an instrument that I doubt any of us have used.


Didgeridoo​

Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo (most likely from the Wik culture group), 1966, Eucalyptus wood, glue, and ochre, gift of Donald and Beverly McGavin, 2009.1.1.

"The didgeridoo is a wind instrument made and used by many northern and central Australian cultural groups. It is crafted by using the main trunk of eucalyptus trees that have been hollowed out by termites. The tunnels created by the termites give the didgeridoo its unique “whirling” sound. To play the didgeridoo, the musician must use circular breathing, a technique in which one must blow air out of one’s mouth and breath air in though the nose at the same time. Correct usage of this skill can allow the musician to play a continual note hypothetically forever. The longest ever recorded was for up to fifty minutes. "

The same technique was used by jazz musicians with the trumpet.
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I’ve used it before! :)
 
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HealthAndHappiness said:
Wow, That is so cool!
I should have guessed that if anyone here ever played it, you would. 😎👍🏼

As a kid, I played the trumpet.
There was NO way I could do that special breath technique.
How long did it take to learn that?
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I didn’t learn it at all. I pretty much just “tried it out” for a little bit. Someone brought a bunch of random instruments to our elementary school and that was one of them.

I thought that one was the coolest instrument.
 
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I think so too.
That's top of the eclectic instruments IMHO.
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I agree. There is also another instrument I find interesting…it’s like a drum/cymbal where there are many indents on the cymbal looking instrument.

I forgot what it's called but you might know.

Not saying you are a hippie at all but hippie yogi type guys tend to play the instrument because of how peaceful it is.

This is the instrument but I have no idea what it's called: forgive me for this video

 
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I agree. There is also another instrument I find interesting…it’s like a drum/cymbal where there are many indents on the cymbal looking instrument.

I forgot what it's called but you might know.

Not saying you are a hippie at all but hippie yogi type guys tend to play the instrument because of how peaceful it is.

This is the instrument but I have no idea what it's called: forgive me for this video

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That is really cool.

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
I Chronicles 13:8

I just taught Wednesday that cymbals were one of the instruments used in OT services . The Psalms were sung to an variety of musical instruments.

I would really like to hear that accompany a traditional service.
 
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I agree. There is also another instrument I find interesting…it’s like a drum/cymbal where there are many indents on the cymbal looking instrument.

I forgot what it's called but you might know.

Not saying you are a hippie at all but hippie yogi type guys tend to play the instrument because of how peaceful it is.

This is the instrument but I have no idea what it's called: forgive me for this video
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No worries.

I mentioned that if anyone here had played that other instrument, I should have expected that you would.
Why?
You are a musician and think outside the box. That makes you more likely to having that opportunity.
In grade school I remember our music teacher bringing in a wooden fish. That was as exotic as I recall. You scrape the rough scales with a stick.
Then we were all required to buy recorders and take lessons. That was a good experience. I handed that Yamaha Recorder down to my Niece.
 
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No worries.

I mentioned that if anyone here had played that other instrument, I should have expected that you would.
Why?
You are a musician and think outside the box. That makes you more likely to having that opportunity.
In grade school I remember our music teacher bringing in a wooden fish. That was as exotic as I recall. You scrape the rough scales with a stick.
Then we were all required to buy recorders and take lessons. That was a good experience. I handed that Yamaha Recorder down to my Niece.
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You're a good uncle.

My dad was in a band when I was younger, as a drummer. My grandpa was a famous musician in Hawaii and even mentored IZ, the big Hawaiian guy that covered the song “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and my grandfathers daughter, my aunt Tyler, has been a singer musician her whole adult life, where she plays guitar or piano and sings at bars and venues around Hawaii and the state of Washington now.

I mostly got into music in high school to escape, sadly starting off in emo, screamo, hardcore music, then eventually rap and electronic music at the disco clubs in Hollywood, Los Angeles County and around Orange County in California.

I started going to shows and festival type events starting in high school. Last show I went to was in 2011, I went to an event called Hard Summer in Los Angeles, where they mostly had electronic music and I got to see my favorite dubstep artists live, which were “Skrillex” and “Nero” (funny name considering I have my life to Christ after that in 2014)

Now sure why I’m telling you all this but there’s that haha
 
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You're a good uncle.

My dad was in a band when I was younger, as a drummer. My grandpa was a famous musician in Hawaii and even mentored IZ, the big Hawaiian guy that covered the song “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” and my grandfathers daughter, my aunt Tyler, has been a singer musician her whole adult life, where she plays guitar or piano and sings at bars and venues around Hawaii and the state of Washington now.

I mostly got into music in high school to escape, sadly starting off in emo, screamo, hardcore music, then eventually rap and electronic music at the disco clubs in Hollywood, Los Angeles County and around Orange County in California.

I started going to shows and festival type events starting in high school. Last show I went to was in 2011, I went to an event called Hard Summer in Los Angeles, where they mostly had electronic music and I got to see my favorite dubstep artists live, which were “Skrillex” and “Nero” (funny name considering I have my life to Christ after that in 2014)

Now sure why I’m telling you all this but there’s that haha
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That's a wonderful legacy that you are still building on.
Thanks for sharing that rich history. I believe we should always recall the blessings of our past.
Your Grandpa would be proud.
I want to attend the concerts of you and your family when we all get together.
This video is a session going way back to 1978.

 
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That's a wonderful legacy that you are still building on.
Thanks for sharing that rich history. I believe we should always recall the blessings of our past.
Your Grandpa would be proud.
I want to attend the concerts of you and your family when we all get together.
This video is a session going way back to 1978.

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Oh my gosh, I have the chills and in tears listening to this. Thank you so much for sharing
 
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