Silence: The lack of audible sounds
Noise: Unwanted sound, or noise, is how sound begins
When there is no noise, there is no sound, therefore no sound means silence. When you make a noise, allow a silent moment, and continue this pattern you create a rhythm. By simply playing a drum you can chop time up however you please. Although these results may not always be pleasing, you are still chopping up time. When you bring in different types of instruments and allow each one to make their own unique type of noise in some sort of organized manner, you create music.
For millions of years humans have used a drum to make rhythm. Rhythm is how we, as humans, take the illusion of time and turn it into reality.
Throughout time the drum has always been the time keeper. The drum is what breaks the silence. It’s the backbeat, the groove, the glue that brings it all together and makes it stick somewhere deep inside our inner self. To do all of this the drum must have a partner and that partner is silence, that moment of nothing, the lack of audible sound. Many cultures use silence as a part of their rituals to show respect. Silence can be used as both positive and negative, i.e.; a pause and a silent moment for someone you respect. Or in the heat of an argument a long pause of only silence can be unnerving.
When you chop into time with your drum, depending on how you use the silence, you can get many of the same results. The difficult thing here is, you never know how it will affect each individual. On a personal note, there is
one rhythm I love to play and it drives Judy crazy. In her words, “It makes me want to go screaming out of the house while I pull my hair out”. It is not like she can help it. There is something about the way the time is chopped up that just does not settle well with her inner being. This is one example of how powerful the drum can be.
The drum has been used throughout time for healing, communications, and journeying to other worlds. Over time, people began to use other methods for all of these circumstances. After many years and experiments it has become apparent that the old ways of using the drum can be used in modern times for many applications. Drums are now being used to bring heart beats back into rhythm after surgery with great success, relieving stress, improving short term memory in Alzheimer patents, and yes even journeying to other places in time. Just as light has found its way back into our modern world as a very useful means of healing, so has the drum.
Just like all myths in the beginning something real happened that started light, fire, silence and the drum on its journey through time. We as humans have found many useful way to use these gifts. I know I have. There is nothing like being in the silence of nature sitting next to a fire as the night is lit from its glow, chopping into time with the striking on the head of a drum.
The journey is out of this world.
Noise: Unwanted sound, or noise, is how sound begins
When there is no noise, there is no sound, therefore no sound means silence. When you make a noise, allow a silent moment, and continue this pattern you create a rhythm. By simply playing a drum you can chop time up however you please. Although these results may not always be pleasing, you are still chopping up time. When you bring in different types of instruments and allow each one to make their own unique type of noise in some sort of organized manner, you create music.
For millions of years humans have used a drum to make rhythm. Rhythm is how we, as humans, take the illusion of time and turn it into reality.
Throughout time the drum has always been the time keeper. The drum is what breaks the silence. It’s the backbeat, the groove, the glue that brings it all together and makes it stick somewhere deep inside our inner self. To do all of this the drum must have a partner and that partner is silence, that moment of nothing, the lack of audible sound. Many cultures use silence as a part of their rituals to show respect. Silence can be used as both positive and negative, i.e.; a pause and a silent moment for someone you respect. Or in the heat of an argument a long pause of only silence can be unnerving.
When you chop into time with your drum, depending on how you use the silence, you can get many of the same results. The difficult thing here is, you never know how it will affect each individual. On a personal note, there is
one rhythm I love to play and it drives Judy crazy. In her words, “It makes me want to go screaming out of the house while I pull my hair out”. It is not like she can help it. There is something about the way the time is chopped up that just does not settle well with her inner being. This is one example of how powerful the drum can be.
The drum has been used throughout time for healing, communications, and journeying to other worlds. Over time, people began to use other methods for all of these circumstances. After many years and experiments it has become apparent that the old ways of using the drum can be used in modern times for many applications. Drums are now being used to bring heart beats back into rhythm after surgery with great success, relieving stress, improving short term memory in Alzheimer patents, and yes even journeying to other places in time. Just as light has found its way back into our modern world as a very useful means of healing, so has the drum.
Just like all myths in the beginning something real happened that started light, fire, silence and the drum on its journey through time. We as humans have found many useful way to use these gifts. I know I have. There is nothing like being in the silence of nature sitting next to a fire as the night is lit from its glow, chopping into time with the striking on the head of a drum.
The journey is out of this world.
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