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Sarah
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 04/30/2004 : 08:45:02 AM
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Aloha kakou,
In today's Star-Bull, there's an article on how music of certain kinds is good for people. *We* knew that! 
Therapeutically, [Harvey] said, music "can be a tremendous intervention." It can relieve pain and stress, calm the heart rate and blood pressure, affect physical responses for healing and growth, and stimulate creative thinking, he said.
Hawaiian music, for example, has orderly and predictable patterns that tend to be calming, he said. "Someone like brother Iz (the late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole), besides the emotional content of singing and beauty of his voice, the majority of his songs are near resting heart rate (62 beats a minute), in the lower frequency."
Regarding an experiment with playing music to calm aggressive adolescent chimps:
...his general observation was the music had a calming effect on the animals within 10 to 15 minutes, he said. "They were so relaxed, some chimpanzees were falling asleep. That is something that never happened before."
http://starbulletin.com/2004/04/29/news/index10.html
...I've heard that certain cows were falling asleep over a hundred years ago, listening to ki ho'alu.
Aloha,
Sarah
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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 04/30/2004 : 1:48:32 PM
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sounds like art hardy would be a lot of fun to have as a professor!
i'd not heard about putting cows to sleep; that's a cute story. i heard that george kahumoku can play slack key while asleep - at least, some have reported him falling asleep and snoring while continuing to play. that's more talent than i could ever hope to have. 
more generally on the article, there is something similar, at a high level, with baroque music and hawaiian music, in the sense of when i play or listen to it, i compare it to an underlying model of a song. in the case of baroque music, the model is more complex and a lot of the pleasure to me in in that complexity. in hawaiian music, there's pleasure in when the song deviates from the model; a different chord, or an extra two counts in a measure that i didn't expect.
aloha, keith
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cpatch
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 04/30/2004 : 2:04:41 PM
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| My daughter has yet to be able to watch the "That's Slack Key Guitar" video (with Uncle Ray) all the way through without falling asleep! |
Craig
My goal is to be able to play as well as people think I can. |
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Konabob
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 04/30/2004 : 9:44:02 PM
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Sarah, thanks for giving me an excuse to slip this into the Forum.
You have helped me plenty!
Yesterday, my doctor informed me that there was no trace of cancer left in me... Is it all because of the hours I have spent practicing my steel guitar? Maybe not, there have been a lot of people who have sent me their best wishes, prayers, and good vibes...
I do know that they had a big effect on me. However I also know that going through chemotherapy and being confined to my home for quite a bit of the last 6 months has really improved my steel playing!
Taking a break to be with George Kahumoku and Bob Brozman in December was also a big boost to my health and my music. I want to thank both of them, as well as many of you who have written to me.
I do not recommend chemotherapy as a way to improve your musicianship, however I do want to spread the word... If you find yourself feeling a little low, do not be afraid to get it checked out. Catching cancer in the early stages makes it real easy to deal with! Also finding out that you don't have cancer at all is much better than worrying about it for months. See your doctor if you need to, and spend your recovery time with a guitar you love.
Aloha,
-Konabob |
Konabob's Walkingbass - http://www.konawalkingbass.com
Taropatch Steel - http://www.konaweb.com/konabob/
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Konabob2+Walkingbass |
Edited by - Konabob on 04/30/2004 9:49:44 PM |
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 04/30/2004 : 11:29:26 PM
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Bob, Glad you are CA free.
In general _ I have a lot of information of the psychological efects of music. If someone is really interested, send an email and I can get some bibliography together. There's actually a lot of neural activity of various kinds going on in playing and listening to music. One of the things that most fascinates me is how certain pieces of music almost always create a similar effect in the listener, even across cultures and generations.
As to falling asleep with slack key. Well, I have to admit that when I listen to very traditional playing it tends to happen to me, too. |
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 01:07:19 AM
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I must be a rare case; I fall asleep when I play it!
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 05/03/2004 : 01:50:05 AM
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| Sounds to me like you're just stressed out and/or overtired |
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