Awesome TEDx talk by Victor Wooten

Music as a Language by Victor Wooten. This guy is SO together.
 

 
The revolution will not be televised!

thanks for that-how eloquent-I had piano lessons as a boy and it was torture-especially as it encroached on playtime-and I still cannot get excited by keys-thank god I found the bass...........    
cheers

 
 
"But it formed the basis for everything I've done since. And that was 50+ years ago. I'll never forget her. I'll never forgive her. I'll never be able to thank her enough."
 
I certainly wish I had perservered with lessons-especially at that age,but football seemed more important -I can play most instruments but have mastered none and my advice to all young musicians is to learn the basics,no matter how boring and pointless they seem because they will serve you well later and hindsight is not much help when ingrained bad habits hinder your playing.
cheers
 
 

yorolpal
Inspiring, yes. Informative, no.

Are you kidding me?  Now I want to be born into a band the next time I'm reincarnated! 

bitflipper

yorolpal
I love Victor and his artistry, and found some truth and understanding in what he talked about. But this was not an awesome Ted Talk or anything else. Inspiring, yes. Informative, no.

Sorry.

Whether or not you accept the "awesome" adjective depends on whether you're using the word literally or in the vernacular meaning as a synonym for "excellent". That talk was indeed excellent, and inspiring. But it did not invoke fear, which is the literal definition of "awesome".

Whoa!  Totally tubular dude! 

craigb
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Ditto..one of the best!

But don't forget Roy!!

Hi,
 
That was a nice, check that ... very nice, talk about music. Now you know how I feel, listening to so much music and getting lost inside of it senseless, and not having had the chance, to learn an instrument, or have a teacher that could help teach a dreamer ... to use his ability and gift, instead of constantly have to "translate" what he sees in music and people continually deny him that it exists and can be done!
 
Yes, the translation is a different language that is hard for all to understand. But, as Victor stated, you didn't trash the child and question! You let it go because it was funny and fun! But in describing things here, sometimes (many of you are tops in my book!), it is really difficult.
 
I, STILL, hear music in my head, and in my dreams, that I have never heard, and some of those instruments are still "invisible" to my imagination, thus, my "looking" for music, is always a search for something that no one else does, or has, or has heard, or has seen.
 
It's been said, there is always hope, but at 64, I'm getting a bit tired of the word "hope". It happens or it doesn't, and I guess that for me, listening is the only high I can have! And I disagree with the bottom end of Victor's words ... the bomb to make love, or the like ... specially when in so many places they use that excuse to create more people to hate, because they do not know, or have marginalized love and hate to an attitude. Like we don't do the same thing!
 
I think it is an honorable thing to think that you can do something for someone ... but I have seen, all my life, amidst a bunch of literary big name folks, that they can be just as good, as they can be bad! PERIOD! And it all depends, on how you translate and define what you saw ... and has nothing to do with your likes and dislikes ... and in so many ways, this is the world of lost children, where the dreams are stolen!
 
I'm not a victim ... I simply did not have the chance to follow my dream! Between change of cultures and languages, you end up losing a lot of yourself, until you can find words to define yourself with ... and then get punished later because no one understands you!
 
Sorry Victor, I know you mean well, and that is a nice talk, but not everyone has the "chance" to get out of the ghetto and make a life ... when you are not in America! This is the land of dreams, except that no one wants to see a friend make it big, because that means the friends failed! And the boards are littered with people that are not constructive. As you well know, that most teachers only know the notes and the chords! Nothing else! 

Join me on the battlefield.

bapu

webbs hill studio
thanks for that-how eloquent-I had piano lessons as a boy and it was torture-especially as it encroached on playtime-and I still cannot get excited by keys-thank god I found the bass...........    
cheers

So, you can't dance either?

ha-I can dance as well as Pino Palladino and do the Billy Sheehan shuffle....well,I used to be able to-
just bought a RC3 loop station so there is a bit of tap dancing going on there
cheers