Let's Find Out - A History of Music from Pre-history to Post-Symphony

Episode Date: August 20, 2019

Without music, life would not be worth living. -Friedrich Nietzsche Thanks for listening. *If you want to give feedback, please go over to my youtube channel, Let's Find Out ASMR", I'd love to read your input.

Music is found in every known culture, the most isolated tribal groups. It exists. And so we evolved. We invented it deep into our ancestral past. And that evokes the question of why, you know, what's its purpose? What is so important about it? That we would develop it. any and we would evolve parallel to it in all places you know no culture exists without music you know

the culture's music is influenced by all other aspects of its of itself you know including social economic organization and experience climate um access to technology of course we're an example of that this is an example of that the emotions and ideas that music express the situations in which music is played and listened to, and the attitudes towards music players and composers all vary between regions and periods. So there's a lot of nuances, you know, there's subgenres, a lot of ways of dissecting what music is, but it's inevitable that you're going to find it where you find people. It's probable that the first musical instrument was undoubtedly the human voice,

which can make a vast array of sounds. From singing to humming, oh, why did I do that? Whistling through clicking, coughing, yawning. As for other musical instruments, in 2008, archaeologists discovered a flute made out of bone in the whole fels cave near olme germany considered to be about

35,000 years old the five hold flute has a v-shaped mouthpiece is made from a vulture wingbone and of course birds bones are very low density and I think they're mostly hollow

right what enables them it doesn't drag them down to the ground the oldest known wood pipes were discovered near Greystones, Ireland in 2004. A woodline pit

contained a group of six flutes made from yew wood between 30 and 50 centimeters long. American, I don't know how long that is. Tapered at one end but without any fingering holes without any finger holes

it is it's been suggested that the divie deive g e d ivjee babe flute a cave bear femur dated back to

43,500 years old is the world's oldest musical instrument it was produced by Neanderthals This was on Wikipedia, so citation needed But Wouldn't that be interesting?

We jacked their culture and we Murdered them to extinction How nice it was But some critique This claim suggesting that the holes in the femur were actually Probably just maybe nod by carnival by carnivores trying to get to the marrow. So I'll let your imagination decide which is more probable.

So now from method behind the music.com forward slash history. Prehistoric music. The earliest forms of music of non-vocal music were probably drum-based. Percussion instruments being the most readily available at this time. you know like I think that's like probably another innate I mean it's wow you know it's one of the big triggers that ravi-tapy does it's just drumming and tapping on it is it is very instinctual almost it's like you just at least for me actually I got this keep my coins in here maybe I'll maybe I'll do an episode on this can imagine how that that would have

evolved how that would have been generated. The genesis of that, I mean, we killed an animal. We can't eat their fur, so we probably had the fur laying out. It was maybe, maybe we were drying it and we were stretched out over, it was stretched out over something hollow, maybe, something that we carry water in. the next thing you know, we started tapping on it. Who knows? Maybe that's how it happened. I feel like most human inventions happen by accident.

Like gum, LSD, all the same, right? The earliest forms, so there were probably drums, percussion. There was no notation. Or no, the simplest of simple instruments are thought to have been used in religious. ceremonies as representations of animals because no doubt we we feel are very very much intertwined with our imaginations and ceremonies and dances and rituals looked at from afar from our

technologically saturated society we might i know i used to look at them as like it's kind of ridiculous but then if you really if you actually think about it that was a powerful way of storytelling you know just imagine being under the stars under a clear sky thousands of years ago no artificial lights

the only thing you have is maybe a bonfire in the middle of a bunch of people who are intimately linked to you and your identity you're exposed to the elements you're in the weather you feel the wind And you have a smattering of, you know, tens of thousands of sharp stars, you know, lights, beams of light, diamonds in the black velvet sky. And you're immersed in this experience.

And then a bunch of drums start repeating a pattern and a rhythm. And it kind of starts getting you. And of course, you're susceptible. to this because you're you're letting this experience happen to you. You're not you're not denying it. You know that's half

of hypnosis I guess so and then a story starts getting told and maybe even not through words maybe through dance and you're just very familiar with the story so you're just like when you're reading a book your brain actively fills in all the gaps that is missing in the description, you know,

of the environment in which the action takes place. And that could have a profound effect on you, you know. And it's no mystery how music, dance, and art, just art in general, is very, very intimately linked with transmitting profound ways, wisdom about how to live in the world, you know? And I still think that's the case. I mean, you know, growing up,

I learned a lot about the world through great songs, great artists. So anyways, it's something that needs to be respected in my mind. So there's no notation, undoubtedly, or writing of this kind of music. And its sounds can only be extrapolated from the music of the South. American Indians and African natives who still adhere to some of the ancient religious rituals. Now, from drum connection.com, here's actually...

History of African rhythms. Here's a quick aside, and I wrote it, and as though I was going to read the script word for word. And speaking of the music of the African natives, the amount of prehistoric and perhaps even pre-human perspective we can gain from studying their timeless rituals isn't something to ignore, especially since most of it likely contains the roots of music

and ceremony of all of. other culture on earth. You know, I mean, we originated in Africa, and no doubt we can, if we're eager to understand the roots of music, looking at the contemporary natives there, probably wouldn't hurt. As in all prehistoric societies,

African music has a long history that has been orally transmitted from one generation to the other, and the art of listening. has been an important skill that's been perfected by these oral traditional practices. And this is actually fascinating when placed in the context of what skills were crucial to survive, when thriving, to survive and thrive, you know, when living on the primeval exposed landscape that we used to call home, before villages, even towns and walled cities emerged.

The ability to pay attention, whether to the looming weather, a nearby stalking predator, a cat, a lion, a gator, or a crock over there, or to once elders, who had valuable information to be transmitted about how to live and how not to die, must have been one of the ultimate indicators of successful reproduction and flourishing in our deep past. perhaps this ability was so crucial to our identity that it's how we came to develop consciousness anyways a number of African musical songs and dances

are still transmitted from one generation to the next by word of mouth so undoubtedly these can give us a lot of insight into the history of the human species that we never completely know we're a little bit removed from for those of us who don't voluntarily expose ourselves to the wild enough from time to time,

we kind of lose an understanding of the environment in which, you know, some of our deepest cultural artifacts evolved. And while we think of music and dance as being distinct things that, you know, just cooperate during these ancient, ceremonies. Ancient Africans didn't separate their everyday life activities from their music and their other cultural experiences. Dr. Stone in 1998 attests to the difficulty of separating music from the cultural context. As she says, quote, honest observers are hard pressed to find a single indigenous group in Africa that has a term congruent to the usual Western notion of music per se by

itself. There are terms for more specific acts like singing, playing instruments, and more broadly performing, you know, dance, games, music, performing music meaning. But the isolation of musical sound from other arts proves a Western abstraction something we something unique to our perspective of music

of which we should be aware that when we approach the study of these African performances we might not have an accurate perception it might not be as accurate if we're actually

trying to put ourselves in the shoes of those who live and breathe this cultural practice. This to me is a profound observation and of just how integral music and dance is to our world perception. A propensity to make and be in awe of music and passion is deeper than we may be able to bear living without, you know, if you just imagine not having music in movies or music at all, um, we probably wouldn't have dance, probably, I mean, there's a lot of things we wouldn't have.

I couldn't think of another thing, but, um, you know, if, if we still had other cultural artifacts without music, they would no doubt be drastically, different in a very it would be a lot more lame there would be way way more lame life would be lame and lastly although although there isn't much more that i found regarding the further evolution of music in africa by itself it can't be stressed enough that the that the african influence on jazz reggae rhythm and blues hip-hop all these forms that that dominate Western culture, you can't be discounted. They genuinely can't be discounted.

In fact, jazz is a kind of musical fusing of elements from such widely differing sources as European harmony, Euro-African melody, and African rhythm, into a kind of improvisational style based on a fixed rhythmic foundation. Its beginnings can be traced to the black musicians in the French quarters of the city of New Orleans in around 1890 you know it was like 120 years ago

and jazz of course is the foundation upon which the blues then rock and now hip-hop is based so again from my perspective the division between spiritual religious worship and the hypnotic effect

of live music concert goers is a hard line to draw you know but back to the music history proper as for more advanced instruments the revolution was slow and steady it's known that by 4,000 BC the Egyptians had created harps and flutes and by 3,500 BC lyrics and double-readed clarinets had been developed. In Denmark by 2500 BC, an early form of trumpet had actually been developed. This trumpet is what is known as a natural trumpet. It's valvless. It depends completely on manipulation of by the lips to change the pitch. In fact this was what Thor was depicted playing in the book of Norse myths that I read. I had to return

it to the library maybe I'll check that out again soon. One of the most popular instruments today, it was created the general concept of having the use of frets to change the pitch of a note of vibrating strings using vibrating strings was thought of by the Hittites in 1500 BC and putting together you can make a chord boards together make a melody i'm talking about the guitar and it's just so cool that you know this general concept was thought of 3500 years ago um and then by 700 bc there there are actually records of songs that contain vocals as well as the recorded music and a whole new dimension to music after that called, technically called, I guess, accompaniment.

So the song, hopefully again you're hearing now, is the oldest extant, which is another word for existing song called the Hurrian myth, Hurrian hymn number six. It's an ode to the goddess Nicole. It was composed in kuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the fours, 14th century BC, the clay tablets containing the tomb were excavated in 1950 from the ruins of the city of Ugarit in Syria. Along with a near complete set of musical notations, they also include specific instructions for how to play the song on a type of nine-stringed liar. Herian hymn number six is considered the world's earliest melody. By the oldest musical composition, to have survived in its entirety is a first century AD Greek tune, now known as the Cyclos epitaph.

The song was found engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's grave site in Turkey. It says, I am a tombstone in image. Seiklos placed me here as an everlasting sign of deathless remembrance. The column also includes musical notations as well as a short set of lyrics that read, While you live, shine. Have no grief at all. Life exists only for a short while. In time demands, it's toll. Was that meant to rhyme?

I'm always fascinated at how something that rhyme. in one language can be translated into a new language and it still rhymes and still be made to rhyme, you know. Even with the intention, it's still interesting how they can find other words that mean the same thing. Well preserved inscriptions on the cyclos epitaph have allowed modern, modern musicians and scholars to recreate its plaintive melodies, note for note. Dr. David Crease of the University of Newcastle performed it using an eight-stringed instrument with a mallet. An ancient musical researcher, Michael Levy,

or Levi, has recorded a version strummed on a liar. There have also been several attempts to decode and play hurrying hymn number six. But because of the dead, difficulties in translating the ancient tablets. There's no definitive version, but the one I'm playing now is to me the most, the most beautiful.

It's simple. So music in Rome, ancient Greece in Rome, was the root of all classical art. So it's no coincidence that classical music is rooted in Grecian innovations. In 600 BC, the enigmatic ancient Greek figure of Pythagoras, with mathematical devotion that laid the foundations of our knowledge of the study of harmonics. On here, that's all the strings open.

But on the 12th fret, if you don't press all the way down, I guess the vibrations of the strings would complete harmony. had certain points on the guitar because down here they don't work but Pythagoras was a genius I mean he devoted his entire life to mathematics

and discovered some things like the Pythagorean theorem for instance that he genuinely didn't want to tell people he kept it secret because he was so scared of the profundity of its of the meaning of it So harmonics is how strings and columns of air vibrate, how they produce overtones,

how the overtones are related arithmetically to one another, etc. It was common to hear of music of the spheres, that phrase from Pythagoreans. He dissected music as a science and developed the keystone of modern music, which was the octave scale. Yeah, I guess guitar follows that scale. Again, I'm no theorist at all. I don't know. But musical notes do repeat.

So I can play an E all the way up here. Right here. It's cool, and it kind of works all around the guitar. I can play an open E or A. And it right here. So the octave repeats every eight notes, roughly. or really precisely, I guess. The importance of this event is obvious.

Music was a passion for the Greeks. With their surplus of leisure time in the golden age, thanks to slave labor, of course, they were able to cultivate great artistic skills. Trumpet competitions were actually common in spectator events. They were probably spectacular too, by about 400 BC, so around the time of Plato and Socrates, it was in Greece that the first bricks of the foundation of the layers of musical theory were laid. Aristotle wrote on music theory scientifically and brought about a method of notation in 350 BC.

The work of that genius is still studied today. So the next significant step in music evolution was by Bothius. Botheus in 521 A.D., he brought the Greek system of notation to Western Europe, allowing the musicians there describe accurately the folk songs of their lands. Incidentally, it was Botheus who wrote first, who first wrote the idea of the opera. it's particularly interesting to note that at a certain point Plato complained he had complained about the new music of his own time

I clearly didn't refine this script I was kind of all around so forgive me but the point is that the evolution of music it's it takes a while sometimes because music is good and people aren't creative enough maybe um but primarily i guess it's because like anything traditional that works it's hard to get most people to accept a new version of it you know or an improvement or an

evolution of it nonetheless so plato i mean one of the pinnacles of thought in art and philosophy and even science of his day, said, our music was once divided into its proper forms. It was not permitted to exchange the melodic styles of these established forms and others. Poets who had natural talent but were ignorant of laws of music decided themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way to play music,

that it was to be judged good or bad purely by the pleasure that it gave. By their works and their theories, they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges of what is good. That's what Plato said. So clearly he had an elitist mentality.

And in a way, if you devote your life to making music, how terrible the music on radio generally is is a pretty good argument for leaving the canonical judgments of what is good to people who actually play it, but it's just a passing of thought. It's not all bad, though, on radio, I suppose. This proves the intimacy of music and spiritual sensation. I'm glad dismissal of Plato's dogmatic adherence to his theory of music culminated in our own modern diversity

of our oral art. But there's no doubt that he may have been right at least to revere its psychological essence. And although music revolutions were occurring in his time, it's clear

that the change came slowly. In fact, it's commonplace in musicology to say that harmony in the sense developed in the sense of a developed system of composition in which many tones at once contribute to the listener's experience.

So it's commonplace in musicology to say that harmony, in the sense of a developed system of composition, in which many tones at once contribute to the listener's expectation of resolution, was invented in the European Middle Ages, and that the ancient cultures had no developed system of harmony. That is, for example, playing the third and seventh above the dominant

in order to create the expectation for the listener that the tritone will resolve to the third. And I don't really know what that means. But I do understand the general concept is what I, if I attach to the intro, I don't know if I will. but it's just the general progression I believe of chord structures that make you anticipate a resolving note at the very end so you would expect that final note or this one I think I used so if I don't play it now I played it there why did I do that same effect is when you really drive it home with the final note

You know. So, Plato's Republic, even notes that the Greek musician sometimes played more than one note at a time. Although this was apparently considered a very advanced technique. So music in the Middle Ages now, go back to both ears. Most of the music created after the fall of Rome in 476 AD, the fall of Rome fell, was commissioned by... the church. The Catholic religion had a long history of involvement, for better or for worse, with the musical arts. In 600, Pope Gregory had the Scala Cantorum built. This was the first

musical school in Europe. And, oh, actually, Andy, I guess I'll probably, probably insert your beautiful melody that you made for the channel here. I listened to some girl on YouTube the other day singing in an empty stone, huge stone cathedral. And the reverb on it is, I'm just a sucker for reverb. It sounded so good. So meanwhile in China, meanwhile in China,

music was progressing also. It was reported that in 612 AD, there were orchestras with hundreds of musicians performing for those sordid dynasties. Although the specific music from the period is unknown, the distinct style supposed to have developed there is reflected even in orchestral, asiatic pieces of today. By 650, a new system of writing was developing using noons. E-U-M-E-M-E-S as a notation for groups of notes and music.

144 years after the Scala Kintorum was built and established, a singing school opened in the monastery of Fuda, fueling the interests in musical vocation. And by 790 AD, there were splinters, I guess I could stop saying AD now. there were splinters of the Scola Cantorum in Paris, Cologne, and Metz. In 800, the great unifier, Charlemagne, the leader of the French. The guy was crazy. I had poems.

He's crazily influential. He's just like nothing, nothing, like Rome falls, and then nothing, nothing, maybe Muhammad, and then nothing, nothing, Charlemagne. And then, like, 600 years later, then we have, like, interesting. stuff happening again. So I might do an episode on Charlemagne. But anyways, in 800, Charlemagne had poems and psalms set to music. In 850, Catholic musicians had a breakthrough by inventing church modes. These modes would later metamorphose into today's major and minor scales. In 855, the first first polyphonic, which means two unrelated melodies and voices at once, was, a piece was recorded.

And by like 200 years later in 1056, this polyphonic style replaced the Gregorian chants that we're probably listening to right now as the music of choice. even after the church made polyphonic music illegal and uh even though this band was later lifted tritone that's what it was so adam neely i want to mess up my mic set up but it's called this really cool video it's only ten minutes long but it's called the devil in music an untold history of the tritone um and i guess it's forbidden notes See if we can hear it quick.

I know what it is. Okay. Okay. The dance of death. Yeah, we all, you've all heard that. So it's a note that sounds dissonant. It's like harmony is where notes come in concert, and they sound consummate.

They amplify each other. The waves sit nicely on, they superimposed nicely on top of one. another, whereas dissonance. Dissonance is when two things are slightly out of harmony with one another. I don't think that hand movement really shed any light on it, but in 980, the great anyways, that's definitely worth checking out the devil's music, the devil in music, an untold history of the tritone. So in 980, the great tone,

antiphonium, no, no, antiphononium, a little extra syllable in there. Antofanonium, Codex Montpellier was scribed. Anything else written about it. In 1000, Guido de Arezzo made many improvements in music theory. He first improved and reworked standard notation to be more user-friendly. So Guido de Arezzo first improved and reworked standard notation to be more user-friendly by adding time signatures.

He invented solfage. This is the vocal note scale. This intonation has affected almost every modern vocalist except me. In 1100, a new secular movement began. This separation of church from music was a straddling one, and soon this new folk music looked down upon pagan was looked down upon as pagan and borderline blasphemous. The Renaissance now, moving on.

On the dawn of the Renaissance in 1465, the printing press was first used to print music. The way I wrote that made it sound like that was the first thing it was used for. But no, it was in that year was the first time music

was printed. By using a press, a composer could organize his pieces and profit from him with great ease. In 1490, both Eus' writings on opera were republished in Italian.

When the onset of the Renaissance, with the onset of the Renaissance, the rules of music were about to change drastically. This was the beginning of a new enlightened age that would showcase some of the greatest musical minds ever produced. One of the most revolutionary movements in the era took place in Florence in the 1570s and 1580s, those two decades, with the work of the Florentine Camerata, who ironically had a reactionary intent, dissatisfied with what they saw as contemporary musical depravities. Their goal was to restore the music of the ancient Greeks. The fruits of their labors was a form known today as opera.

The first operas written around 1600 also defined the end of the Renaissance. in the beginning of the Baroque eras. There wasn't a lot of money flown around. Music prior to 1600 was modal rather than tonal. Several theoretical developments late in the 16th century led directly to the development of common practice tonality and major minor scales begin to predominate over the old church modes. so music after 1600 beginning with the tonal music of the baroque era

is often referred to as belonging to the common practice period but it sounds legit but it sounds legit the baroque era took place from the from 1600 to 1750 as the baroque artistic style flourished across europe and during this time music expanded in its range and complexity. Here, multiple simultaneous independent

melody lines were used, also called counterpoint. The late Baroque style was polyphonically complex and richly ornamented. Important composers from the Burroughs era included Bach, let's go with their full name,

Johann Sebastian Bach, Archangeloch Lowe Corelli, Gio Lamo frescobali, George Friedrich Handel, and Antonio Vivaldi, the music of the classical period. This is characterized by homophonic texture, or an obvious melody with accompaniment. These new melodies tended to be almost voice-like and singable, allowing composers to actually replace singers as the focus of the music. I think I read somewhere that Mozart, it was one of the famous composers, was writing accompaniments and there was one operatic female he didn't really like and she always moved her head up or down depending on the lowness or highness of the pitch of the notes.

She was singing so he deliberately devised and composed a piece in which she which had so many variations from low to high purely so that she would she would have to move her head a whole lot during the performance and so he like deliberately

apparently made a point to make a lot of drastic differences between notes just to have a nice chuckle at her expense I forget where I read that Probably heard that somewhere

Hopefully it's true So now The Romantic Period Music became more expressive And emotional Expanding to encompass literature Art and philosophy Famous early romantic composers

Include Shumon Sorry Shuman Khat Famous early romantic composers include Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Bellini, and Berlioz. The late 19th century saw a dramatic expansion in the size of the orchestra and in the role of concerts as part of urban society. Famous composers from the second half of the century include Johann Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Brahms,

and Wagner The history of music at this point is best told by the styles that emerged as music became more and more divorced from religion proper I say the nominal version of religion is becoming removed

but not completely extinguished because I think we've all had intimations of the divine when we're listening to a really profound peace maybe alone in a car or a long trip or deep into the night maybe your first thing in the morning and the peace and solitude of early dawn

music can really affect you and I don't think that element has ever been detached from truly enduring music so and this this here is the part where it starts to get really personal

I don't really continue with the history of music beyond this part mainly because it it just goes off into so many different directions I feel like that would be in the for a whole episode in itself, in itself.

But I just wanted to convey my, the depth at which music resonates with me. I've gotten goosebumps, you know, I'm sure we all have. I've been choked up. I've even teared up at some of my favorite music, especially during, during my darkest times, you know. It's so weird that something, you know, like, as seemingly innocuous as music can affect us so deeply.

I wrote, it's like the deeper I went into a sad state, that right music, that perfect score, you know, song I was listening to, it's shown a beam of light that wouldn't have been able to penetrate so profoundly if it were not listened to in that specific mood. You know, if I was listening to it in a really good,

unaffected state it probably wouldn't have been as deep um yeah unfortunately i really and i don't know nearly as much music as i i am sure i i would love to and there's music waiting to be the soundtrack of my daily life i really latch on the music when i find someone i like so in the hopes that I'll inspire somebody out there to listen to the little bit that I know and I know is good for me I'll tell you my favorites boards of Canada number one my morning jacket Alabama shakes incubus they have some great ones the black keys great sublime that guy had passion you know

as as superficial as some of the people who might listen to him are how disgusting outside yeah sublime is I think is really awesome

and they have a lot of I don't know I don't want to get into a breakdown a critique of every band but I think they're they're the original sublime is not given as much credence i think they're equally as good if not better than nirvana and uh they're always way down on the list of like famous 90s bands

bibio and clark those are two electronic artists that are mixed up with boards of canada on the the warp record label i really enjoy their music Um, modest mouse, of course. I love drama. Pixies are really, really good. They're super original and they deserve to be even more well known, I think. Um, some of the grades you all are gonna most likely agree with Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Hendricks.

Sam Cook. That guy was good. Otis Redding. And I didn't realize Otis. Reading, he was, he died young. He might have been in the 27 club, but he was definitely not 30. Um, and his voice, it sounded like he was 50, you know, or it sounds like he was when he recorded that, but, yeah, it's just, it's just unique. I mean, and then of course, Chuck Berry, James Brown. Um, um, a lot of people from that era. Um, um, um,

Oh, again, in the more ambient, eclectic animal collective. I love that song, My Girls. Hip-hop, Sublime's song, KRS1, got me to check out KRS1, the actual rapper, hip-hop artist. And that guy is awesome. That guy is, I don't know, I just learned so much about hip-hop from him. more and then of course you know

Tupac and Biggie more recent ones Nipsey Hustle he is he's just inspiring his music is awesome

and he his story is an awesome one I did a whole video and I'm like a year ago so if you care to search let's find out

and Nipsey Huston Hipsy Hustle, I think. You might find that. But yeah, he's completely independent, and I think that's super cool, because I didn't realize he's independent, so

it's just if you're an artist, thinking about making music, just keep in mind how much money record companies steal from you in these crazy contracts. and you oftentimes sign the rights to your own creative compositions, you know, the songs you create,

you just sign them away so you actually don't own them, and you can't even make money on them. And a lot of these terrible deals, and Nipsey Hustle really shed light on what it is to be your own label. And it's really cool to retain ownership. I think he was affected, educated, influenced is the word by Jay-Z in that respect. Kendrick Lamar, I like him. I like what Post Malone's doing. I think his story is pretty cool too. He just has a passion for music, and the dude is very, he's just very forthright, you know,

like whatever you think of him, he's not, he's not, he's not as disson. as most people would come across who are celebrities, you know. If you like him, go watch. I watch both of his, or all of his H3-H3 podcast appearances. That guy's just super cool. He's just very, just comes across as very genuine, which I respect. And then Death Cab for QDy. Blink 182

The first three Weezer albums And then after that I don't really care for him This guy Com Trues It's a play on Tom Cruise He makes 80s Synthwave type music

Love him Um This death metal band I used to be obsessed with It called O-Peth I don't know if you call him Death Metal exactly But they're a Swedish metal band and they fuse blues and death metal somehow.

They're really cool and unique. And, of course, along that same vein, the first couple of metallic albums, really kill them all is the most fun to listen to. You know, Dave Mustaine was probably a big impact on that. So I like some of his Megadeth records too. Dream Theater is kind of cool. Some of the older Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, too many else along those lines.

Neil Young, Bob Dylan, I like their folksy song, Gordon Lightfoot, My Bloody Valentine, they're pretty cool. The Minutemen, the Minutemen are pretty cool, punk rockers. At least they were. They're actually the people who wrote the theme song Corona for Jackass. Oh yeah, this ambient soft trance artist. I guess the artist, the actual guy's name is Wolfgang Voigt, but he goes under the name Gas, GAS.

And it's so hard to explain, but it's like listening to you. EDM, boom, boom, boom, but from two doors down, or like right outside with the doors closed in a small venue, it's like really muffled and then it's very ambient, not really melodic, but just this, like literally ambient, like just ambient sounds in a very atmospheric relation between the two. I don't know how to explain it, really. But yeah, I would check them out. If you like, I study to that. I use that music to read, drown out.

Other sound a lot. And of course, Apex Twin, who I use all the time in these videos. I'm sure there's plenty I missed. But all these artists in particular have at least, at least have a couple of songs that have absolutely taken over my brain and propelled me into a subconscious state of pure experience, as I wrote. And it is true of emotion and understanding. It's like music really helps you cut through the rational part of your brain

and go right into the feeling part. And in a lot of ways, that matters more than the rational part, you know? You can rationalize a lot of weird stuff, but what true? truly matters is what brings the most meaning into your life. And for me, that's the love and the effects of the love that I have for my friends and family and my girlfriend and the desire and hopefully action of making their lives easier and better. And music really, it makes me feel the love for other people. music, it makes me, connects me with that feeling. It makes me feel more integrated with those

emotions when it's a good song. Yeah, it helps me understand my life experiences, my relationships, my faults, my virtues. It's enabled me, it's enabled me to define those that are most meaningful. And meaning always comes back to who I share these most profound experiences. with. So I hope you're glad that I shared this with you. Music is a permanent manifestation of our contact with the divine. Whatever that really means. And we all share that in common, if nothing else. So I'd like to hear your favorites. Give me your favorite artists in the comments. Definitely, I want to learn some new music. I'm always all ears for new.

good music. I'm signing off guys, so thanks for watching. I appreciate the love, all the likes, comments, subscriptions. It's cool to be able to connect with so many of you. So I love it. I just want you guys to relax and sleep well. So happy holidays for those of you watching now. And Merry Christmas. Happy New Year's. And until next time, sleep well. guys bye be honest with you that i do love you you fell out the window nearly broke your back that's a