Develop Your Musical Intuition for More Powerful Performances & Life
The Soul Force Music Deep Dive conversations are about how to give inspiring & powerful performances (musical performances that have "Soul Force"), how that connects to the role of musicianship in an increasingly chaotic world, and all the best self-care techniques that we know. In this episode:
- "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman
- How this quote by Howard Thurman relates to musicianship in this chaotic modern world
- How "musical intuition" is a process of basing your musical expression on the embodied experience of your own emotions as you play
- "I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Joseph and Aaron's stories of transitioning from a "do it right" conservatory model of music-making to a more joyful and easeful means of playing music
- How this Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote helps us understand how music pedagogy should involve technique in the service of expression and not technique as the end in itself
- An easy guide to accessing musical intuition while listening to and playing music
- A few tips for accessing musical intuition quickly