![]() ![]() For me, this already starts to make me more aware of the longer structures in the music. ![]() If you do this with both hands starting on the thumb, you end up with a pattern that moves outward in the first four, and inward on the second four. This then moves the second beat to your ring finger, so the cycle then repeats starting with the thumb again. Next time you're listening to a song, try counting each alternate bar starting with the pinky. Most of us, if we're counting along with 4/4 time on our fingers, will hit beat one with our thumb, beat two with our pointer finger, and so on, repeating the pattern with each bar. Please comment if you know where this counting technique has been promoted before. So far I've not been able to find this concept promoted elsewhere, but it certainly seems simple enough: perhaps this is another example of Plato's "anamnesis" - knowledge we are all born knowing, forget as children, then educate ourselves to remember. The idea of using our hands to count music in circles occurred to me last month, and I've shown a part of this idea in a few of my most recent YouTube videos. It's also why emotions like joy and fear and love move through us all like waves: after all, Schrodinger insisted that "all is waves". If there is only one wave function for the universe, then this coming together is not an illusion but a recognition of an eternal truth - and Schrodinger's lifelong fascination with the connections between the quantum world he was helping to discover and the ancient mystical realm of the Vedanta and the Upanishads makes good sense. In Magical Mystery Tour, we saw the Beatles dressed up as wizards in a circle, who Come Together as one to work their magic. For the times I've personally been lucky enough to play in an ensemble where we all locked together in a Big Wave, there is something a bit mystical, or even something spiritual about that feeling. In my video The Beatles and the Big Wave I talked about how some songs seem to have everything - from the tempo, to the feel, perhaps even to the key the song is in - all feel perfectly aligned, with the musicians melding together as one. ![]()
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