1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Oh, boy, yeah, WDMN… we are here and there 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 There's no truth in this, we're not even here 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Welcome to Why Make Music, a podcast 4 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Were we dive into the world of creativity and inspiration 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Why Make Music… is hosted by ThinkTimm.We're broadcasting from planet Earth 6 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Now, without further ado, let's embark on a journey to make music 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,000 Talk and to explore the world of Why Make Music… 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Why Make Music… 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Oh 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Yeah 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Welcome, welcome, welcome 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Episode 9 of Why Make Music… 13 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,000 Today's topic is 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 The Healing Power of Music 15 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,000 My name is ThinkTimm and I'm your host 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,000 I am a independent musician slash producer 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,000 No affiliation, no association to anything major 18 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:32,000 I am strictly working out of my home 19 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 And I am trying to be the best host 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 I can be 21 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:45,000 On today's show, we will talk about 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 The healing power of music 23 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 So tell me what you think about that 24 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:58,000 But as I do, I would like to welcome 25 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Everyone that is listening to the podcast 26 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 I have been looking at the analytics 27 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,000 And I want to thank you all for tuning in 28 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I am very humbled by the fact that people are listening 29 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 And it's cool 30 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Like I said, this is a long journey, a long road 31 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:32,000 And I enjoy putting together a cohesive thought 32 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Of ideas to share with 33 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Do it -yourself musicians like myself 34 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:48,000 So like I said 35 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I record out of home 36 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,000 I use digital software 37 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:00,000 I can play traditional instruments 38 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,000 I had a 39 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Basic musical upbringing 40 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 No lessons, can't read music 41 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 Just a musical household 42 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Musicians in the family 43 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 And just the love to create music and art 44 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:28,000 So, with that being said 45 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Welcome 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 The question, the title, Why Make Music 47 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Is something that I said before 48 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,000 But if this is your first time listening 49 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 I just want to let you know that 50 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 If ever you meet a musician or any type of artist 51 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I think the most inquisitive question you can ask them is 52 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Why Make Music… 53 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,000 The reason why I say that is because 54 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:13,000 That question is a prompt to basically 55 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Open up the person to the fact that you're curious about 56 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Their creative process 57 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:32,000 And you want to know what causes them to do what they do 58 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Where do the ideas come from? 59 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Do you get ideas from television, life, reading 60 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Conversation with friends, social media, posts 61 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Memories, dreams of the future 62 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 When it comes down to music 63 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Do you hear the melodies before you begin to write 64 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 Or do you write with a blank canvas 65 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And then make it up as you go along 66 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,000 These are things that musicians like to talk about 67 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,000 Because most of the time it seems like we're kind of on automatic 68 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Like autopilot basically 69 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 That you know we do these things 70 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,000 And a lot of times I told you before 71 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:32,000 The greatest compliment for a musician is basically 72 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 If their track can play in the background 73 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:45,000 And you're not greatly offended or bothered by the sounds that you hear 74 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:54,000 You know it can blend in and be in your face 75 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 But discreet at the same time 76 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Music is basically a soundtrack for our lives and our everyday 77 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 You listen to music when you work out 78 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 You listen to music while you drive 79 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 You listen to music to fall asleep 80 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 You listen to music to get yourself hyped 81 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:22,000 It is something that we as humans take for granted 82 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:29,000 And shockingly the percentage of people who are creatives 83 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 That create the music is so small 84 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Considering the amount of music that there is available in the world 85 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:50,000 So before we get into our main topic of the healing power of music 86 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,000 I would like to talk to you folks 87 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Now everybody can get in on this conversation 88 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 And you let me know how you feel about this 89 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,000 But lately because of the almighty algorithm 90 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:17,000 So when I say that I'm making reference to those who are familiar with the internet 91 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:31,000 And there is a thing that basically ties in the synergy of your entire internet search history 92 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Your browsing, your likes, your loves 93 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 The things that you are concerned with 94 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:53,000 That basically allows advertisers to be aware of what you're generally interested in 95 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Where I'm going with this is that now 96 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:09,000 As a creative, as a producer, as a person who is currently independently putting out his own music 97 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I get a lot of marketing and help build your audience type 98 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Mail spam, inquiries about how are you distributing your music 99 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 And how can we help you grow your audience 100 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:38,000 So my question is when you listen to your streaming platforms 101 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 When you go for a playlist 102 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Now I understand greatly that by no means is ThinkTimm a household name 103 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:57,000 Sure I should not be on anybody's playlist unless you are looking for me 104 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:09,000 But there are marketing agencies that are putting together scenarios for a price 105 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 That say that for X amount of dollars a day 106 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 We get your song on to a playlist 107 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Now I understand building your audience, building your community is something that's very very important 108 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:34,000 It's extremely important, I cannot stress it 109 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:46,000 But the thing is when you're building your audience by trying to populate a random playlist 110 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Is that really helping you or is it necessarily helping the said company that you're paying X amount of dollars to 111 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Put your or submit, I'm not even really sure how it goes 112 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,000 I've watched a few videos, I've read some information 113 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:25,000 And I am kind of on the fence with it because I believe like with any product that you create 114 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:38,000 That eventually the product will then become the major situation 115 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Where you have to basically think about all of the other companies and businesses that are going to profit off of what you're doing 116 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:19,000 So with that in mind I am saying to you that okay so we have said company that for X amount of dollars will try to help you reach a larger audience 117 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Now they're not taking your entire catalog, they're charging you a fee per song to put your track on a playlist 118 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:51,000 That they cannot necessarily guarantee that you will get played but you will be placed in a grouping with music that is similar to your own 119 00:11:51,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Which could be a good thing but from what I'm learning and what I'm understanding the amount of money that an artist gets from streaming is very very low 120 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:26,000 So say for example you spend five dollars a song a day to have your song playlisted, are you making back that five dollars 121 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:39,000 From that song being played and streaming revenue to quote unquote reach this new audience 122 00:12:39,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Now I do understand that if you have I guess other states in the fire I guess is the best way to say if you are a live performer and you have an audience 123 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:22,000 If you are out there also marketing yourself in some type of way that in conjunction with what you're doing for your online present is also being compensated by real life 124 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Maybe it wouldn't be a bad scenario but if you are working independently and you are just trying to naturally grow your audience online 125 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:58,000 I don't know if a person, a group, a musical independent entity is necessarily making the revenue to pay into these get you put on a playlist type thing 126 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:11,000 So long story short I just wanted to share my little input on the 127 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:34,000 It seems as though there are businesses set to always be in the pocket of the creative person promising that there will be some type of quicker gratification 128 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Or quicker satisfaction or something quicker than the national, the natural way that people take a liking or people come across one's material 129 00:14:51,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Alright so enough of the quote unquote politics. Let's get into this situation of my main idea and if you can hear in the background I have a special guest 130 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:30,000 I have a special guest named Jimmy the Cricket that's in here with me and normally I will try to excommunicate the cricket prior to recording 131 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:44,000 But today I figured I'm a little lonely so why can't I have company? So the cricket is in the background so please excuse the little chirping from time to time 132 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:53,000 There it is if you can hear it if I don't filter it out but anywho let's get into the main situation and let's talk about the main focus of the episode 133 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:06,000 I'm exploring the calming and restorative effects of music and how it has on our well being, our mental well being 134 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I say that only because I kid you not this week in my regular life has been very very busy and during that time it kind of pulled me away from my normal everyday thought pattern 135 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Because I was put in positions where I had downtime but I couldn't necessarily call it productive time so with my downtime I found myself more so listening to music as opposed to playing music 136 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Now granted it may have been my music but I also witnessed situations where music was put on for other people with the intent of relaxing them 137 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:33,000 And it made me come up with the idea to think about let's talk about the effect that music has on a person 138 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:51,000 It's a very soothing and calming vibe or it could be used to hype you up it could be used to be the background while a story is playing 139 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:07,000 It could be used I know in elementary school and the elementary music classes one of the great things we're introduced to is the story of Peter and the Wolf 140 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Where each instrument represents a character so as the story is being told the music changes from instrument to instrument as a character enters the story 141 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:46,000 That conditions you to basically follow along and subconsciously you are relating the sound, the tone, the timbre of that said instrument with the character 142 00:18:46,000 --> 00:19:01,000 So if I'm not mistaken I'm not sure exactly what instrument represented what but I'm sure Peter was more of a light airy probably like a flute scenario 143 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:22,000 And I'm sure the wolf was a more deeper bellowing more menacing type of maybe brass or rhythm type instrument just to get the heavy effect of the weight of the situation when he entered the scenes 144 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Now we are as humans are basically conditioned without even being aware that this is how we're taking in the music around us 145 00:19:39,000 --> 00:20:05,000 If you think about a lot of times the powers that be when explaining the behavior of people of a mass of people you realize a lot of times they talk about the population like we're somewhat mindless 146 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:28,000 We are heavily under the influence of the things that surround us and we can't necessarily make decisions on our own but we're greatly influenced by video games, by the sound of music, by the context of music 147 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:41,000 By the violence in the media, the television, the movie screens, so forth and so on 148 00:20:41,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Never is it that we're influenced by the violence in real life and the things going on around us or the mental stress that you might be under in your day to day and we are ill prepared to deal with it 149 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:27,000 But that's not my lane so I'm not going to go into that but when it comes to music, music can be used as a catalyst, a jumping off point that will basically be your entrance to common 150 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Your gateway to get hype, your driving music 151 00:21:35,000 --> 00:22:03,000 I have a friend of mine that he used to drive, he would tell me a story when he was driving to work and I think he worked the evening, the night shift so there wasn't a lot of traffic but on his way to work the roads would be clear and he would put on some hype music and he would get his ND500 drive on 152 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I'm like I'm sure you're in a few tickets but he got caught up in the sound of the bump in music and you feel a certain way, your adrenaline is rushing, you're feeling good 153 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Then I have other people who like to listen to jazz, R&B, classic rock, yacht rock, the 70 something mellow laid back and that's reflected in their personality 154 00:22:37,000 --> 00:23:02,000 So it's funny how this week music was put on to lull a person into a sense of comfort, more or less to recall their memories of when they were younger 155 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:12,000 And the person's favorite artist was put on and 156 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Me personally do I think it worked? I do, but I'm not sure if that's something that works all the time 157 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:44,000 There's back, I don't know if it's used as much today as it was when I was a little younger because there were more movies like this and there were more cartoons that kind of just had a wide range 158 00:23:44,000 --> 00:24:05,000 And there was a Bugs Bunny episode where Bugs Bunny had to calm down this big gorilla 159 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:15,000 And it's like it was saying that basically music calms the savage beast 160 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:35,000 And it was a situation where he had one of those little wind up player devices and the gorilla, first it was a monkey and the monkey he realized that the monkey followed instructions 161 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:52,000 That he was taught and trained when the music came on and he danced and he collected change. Now granted Bugs Bunny was made in the 50s, 40s, old, old, old time 162 00:24:52,000 --> 00:25:05,000 So there's probably no reference for anyone young who is watching this and the Bugs Bunny they get is different than the generations of Bugs Bunny that I got when I was young 163 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Which was at that point still old, old, old, but I know that they've redesigned and redid the cartoons so I don't think the Looney Tunes of today are the same Looney Tunes of the 70s and 80s 164 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:36,000 But that little monkey somehow came in connection with a gorilla and Bugs Bunny tried the same technique on the gorilla 165 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:49,000 And the gorilla basically started shaking down people and climbing up buildings and shaking people out the window and shaking the change out their pockets or whatever 166 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:59,000 But the gorilla was still under the effects of the said music 167 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Do you get what I'm saying? I'm trying to tie in some type of music has a commenting effect 168 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:31,000 Psychologically I guess it goes into the situation where I guess music is liking I guess the bell with Pavlov's dog that the study was done that every time the bell rang at one point the dog was given a treat 169 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:52,000 And it got to a point that even when a treat wasn't given and the bell rang the dog came to attention basically awaiting the treat to a point that I do believe the book says that even the dog's mouth was watering 170 00:26:52,000 --> 00:27:14,000 So signs of anticipation was based upon what was triggered in the animal's mind which I'm sure is the same situation in humans that basically when we hear a song or we hear a beat or we hear a sound 171 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:35,000 It triggers a memory in our head that then takes us back to said place and if you put it all together you end up with some type of effect that will be utilized somewhere down the line 172 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Now the reason why I say that is that you think about it there's a whole field of studies where you have people who go and get music therapy and if you've ever gone to a spa 173 00:27:50,000 --> 00:28:05,000 They have the light earth music in the background new age sound and it's relaxing you have elevator music you have environmental music 174 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:28,000 I had to laugh because if you are a Prince fan as I am you would say do you like environmental music birds chirping water rushing both make you horny but kind of makes me want to go to bathroom 175 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:37,000 Anywho back on track any so 176 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 How does it work. 177 00:28:40,000 --> 00:29:00,000 And when these people were putting together the music. What were they thinking so that's where my mind goes when you have calming relaxing music. So like say right now in the background this podcast. 178 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000 This track is playing. 179 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:10,000 It's drums, and it's a few string arrangements over top of it. 180 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:26,000 Now this is lifted from another track from one of my tracks, but there's more to this than the three tracks that are playing, but the three tracks that are playing a very calm. 181 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Very soothing, at least to me, because I like the percussion sounds that are playing. I like the chords that are playing. 182 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:58,000 There are studies that say that there is a sweet spot with the music frequency that hits your subconscious that lulls you into a peaceful place. 183 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:19,000 I've looked into it I read into it. I do not attempt to utilize it because, like I said, I am not a professional musician and I try not to get super super deep in all the 184 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:40,000 technological or all the theory based paths you can go down. Now don't get me wrong, have I played around with it and tweak frequencies and so forth and so on and put, put certain things at certain frequencies to see how it goes. 185 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:54,000 It does, but I just could not see doing that for all the music that I create because creating music to me is not necessarily a planned destination. 186 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:17,000 It's not necessarily something that I can say, oh, this is what I plan to do and this is where I plan to go so this whole entire project right here is going to be overlaid with very relaxing earthy strings and whatnot so truthfully I'm sure that if you were to hear this song 187 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:31,000 in this whole, these parts are not necessarily super prominent all the time given such the mellow feeling that it has right now. 188 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:40,000 As this other track kicks in with a little bit more of a kick drum a little more uptempo type situation going on. But, 189 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:49,000 how do you feel when you listen to music what do you, when you put music on what are you looking for. 190 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:54,000 What do you find to be the, 191 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:20,000 the reason that you're playing music. Do you put the music on because you like music because I know for a fact that I said it before and I'll continue to say is that I know that listening to instrumentals all the time is not necessarily everyone's cup of tea. 192 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:48,000 People tend to write off the instrumental part of music as though it's very interchangeable, hence the popularity of remixing a song where some of the better albums I've heard have had very good remixes done where all the original music has been stripped away 193 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:57,000 and there's another track another more popular more upbeat, a more 194 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:18,000 popular, whatever's going on so they say if you took a song by the Beatles or by any artists in the past and all of a sudden you repopulate the instrumental track with something that is ultra current. 195 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:30,000 And if you mix the right blend. It sounds good and then like it can mean a whole new world for a person who likes the old song and likes the new song. 196 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:50,000 So, it's a strong connection that we have to music. 197 00:33:50,000 --> 00:34:05,000 It goes into, I guess almost the night, night even take other lyrics of a song like back in the day on the gene Kelly singing in the rain and the visual that goes along with it. 198 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Here you have a older black and white maybe early technicolor visual of a dude singing and dancing on a curbside with an umbrella and I'm seeing, you know the song I'm not going to sing it, but that 199 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:38,000 meant something and it captured a feeling that rain is gloomy, a dark day at dark night. 200 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:51,000 The light pole I do believe was illuminated so therefore I'm assuming it was nighttime and it's taken from a movie so I can't really tell you what movie was and movie might have been called singing in the rain. 201 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,000 But, um, when putting that together. 202 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:05,000 What were the writers producer and that day and time going for. 203 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000 What was the intent. 204 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:22,000 I asked that because my second example is a song that if you listen to modern music in this year 2024. 205 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000 There's a song by 206 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Kendrick Lamar. 207 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Not Like Us. It was part of a big bubbling scenario of back and forth of a rap beef with Drake. 208 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:48,000 Now, the energy of that song tends to pull you in immediately. 209 00:35:48,000 --> 00:36:04,000 And it stirs up feelings emotions memories or something that is that was a spec in time for a hot second. 210 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:22,000 And it's a very verbal song that paints a picture. And if I'm not mistaken the production was done by DJ mustard, and it was very much so on point. 211 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:44,000 It seems very spontaneous. When you think about the progression, the creation of the track now, don't get me wrong people take as long or as short amount of time as they want when they're producing something so I don't know how long it took. 212 00:36:44,000 --> 00:37:05,000 But the song has a staying power that has basically engraved itself into our consciousness, because of the time that it came out. 213 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:21,000 And when I talk about the healing power of music. It became bigger than the beef that created the song. 214 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:49,000 And when I say bigger than the beef that created the song is that after that song dropped. It was almost like a victory parade, and it basically somewhat not necessarily healed the scenario that they were going back and forth about, 215 00:37:49,000 --> 00:38:09,000 but it brought light to the emotion that every time the song comes on which I'm not gonna lie to you when the song comes on. I prefer to catch the song from beginning when the song comes on and it's kind of I'm flipping through stations. 216 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:23,000 I listen to radio stations in the car every now and again I do, and it comes on I tend not want to catch the song in the middle or whatever I want to catch it from the opening note and rock with it throughout. 217 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:46,000 I don't turn off midway through because I have a short attention span and it is what it is but I have a greater chance of completing the song if I listen to it from the beginning because it is such a song that encapsulates a victory lap. 218 00:38:46,000 --> 00:39:10,000 For whatever reason, then I could care less about either point of view I have my favorites for the reasons I have my favorites, but that song, I can't necessarily come along or want to bring back memories of any other song, especially from the other side of the beef. 219 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:18,000 But anywho, that's another story, and I told you I would never speak negative I rather just not talk about people. 220 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:27,000 So, with that being said, we're talking about the healing power of music. 221 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:38,000 What happens when you put on a Steely Dan album, and you listen to it from from the back. 222 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:46,000 What happens when you put on a Luther Vandross album, a Teddy Pendergrass album. 223 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:54,000 What happens when you put on a Bob Dylan record. Where does that take you? The Beatles. 224 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Jimi Hendrix gets you hyped. He has some mellow bluesy type guitar playing but the vocals are like fire. 225 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 Led Zeppelin the Who. 226 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:22,000 There's so many great artists that have left their marks with a style of music. 227 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:38,000 Not every artist has the creativity to bounce from box to box and give you one album that sounds one way, the next album sounds a different way. 228 00:40:38,000 --> 00:41:01,000 This is when I was going through my Sutton Such period and this is when I was going through this, that and other, which those albums themselves are the perfect time capsules that will be or are the healing albums or the healing music that I'm talking to. 229 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:14,000 It may not necessarily have the grand effect on everyone, but what if you were going through something at that time frame when that song first came out? 230 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:29,000 What if you were living your best life when an album came out and you basically now recapture those feelings over and over again, 10, 20 years later when you hear that album. 231 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:45,000 I remember, I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm like I'm going to take a horrible situation in modern times and I'm going to tell you that, oh, I remember 9-11. 232 00:41:45,000 --> 00:42:00,000 I remember the tragic situation. I also remember The Blueprint coming out by Jay-Z, which basically musically put me in a better place than the world was in at the time. 233 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:22,000 But I don't necessarily relate the album when I'm listening to the album to 9-11 that when since, fortunately, I did not know anyone or lose anyone in the 9-11 situation. 234 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:32,000 So I remember how the world shut down and how it was a very solemn situation. 235 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:44,000 But at the same time, I remember while I was traveling from point to point in the car, I was blasting The Blueprint. 236 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:54,000 You know, so part of my healing and dealing with that situation was a good album. 237 00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:15,000 I told you that I spoke of before that when I came home as a young child after seeing Star Wars, there was an Earth, Wind & Fire song that was playing on the radio. 238 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:26,000 This Is The Way of the World or something like that. I think that the title is. But every time that song comes on, I think of Star Wars, but I don't watch Star Wars and think of Earth, Wind & Fire. 239 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:47,000 You understand what I'm saying? So everything is relative when it comes to the way we as humans process our memories and how certain things help you get better and help you get past certain things in life. 240 00:43:47,000 --> 00:44:14,000 Music has the power to heal, to stimulate your brain, to take you to another place and give you solid memories that will last, that will motivate you, that will calm you, 241 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:31,000 that will put you in a special place that not many things do. I'm like, what other thing you don't walk around looking at pieces of artwork? 242 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:46,000 You don't walk around necessarily. You can do it with books, I guess. But music is something that you can do other things while indulging in music. 243 00:44:46,000 --> 00:45:11,000 Music has such a subconscious property to it that it allows itself to live within you. So remember, when you meet a musician, ask them Why Make Music… 244 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:24,000 Why Make Music… Of all the things you could do in the world, you can make music. 245 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:42,000 The reason why I say of all the things you could do in the world, you can make music, it's because it's something that comes so naturally to those who do it. 246 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:59,000 It's something that you are willing to share. It's something that touches everyone. Music transcends language. 247 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:13,000 Think about it. Especially when you make cool instrumental music like I do. You don't need any language. Music could be my language. 248 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:30,000 I want to thank you for tuning in. And I know that as time is ticking away and I am on my mission to oversaturate the world, today is October 18th, Friday. 249 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:46,000 Next Friday, October 25th, I will be putting out my third volume of 26 songs. It will be called SuperlaBass… Reality Effect. 250 00:46:46,000 --> 00:47:05,000 Not the reality effect, but just reality effect. SuperlaBass, S-U-P-E-R-L-A-B-A-S-S dot dot dot Reality Affect with an A. 251 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:17,000 It will be available on all streaming platforms. I hope you guys enjoy. Take a listen to it. Download it. Play it. Do what you got to do. 252 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:29,000 I hope you enjoy it. I hope you enjoyed emotional, cool feelings. I hope you enjoyed botanicals, booming bouquet. 253 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:44,000 Right now, I am three months into three projects. Each project has 26 tracks on it. So I am at a cool 78 tracks released. 254 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:55,000 And I plan to drop two more by year's end and keep this thing going as long as I can. I have music in me, so I will never run out of stuff. 255 00:47:55,000 --> 00:48:10,000 But remember, tune into the podcast, Why Make Music…This is ThinkTimm saying thank you once again for all those who have listened and all those who have tuned in. 256 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:27,000 Peace. Why Make Music. Enjoy. Live life. Be creative. And listen to whatever it is you love to listen to. Peace. 257 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:55,000 Thank you.