Play from your fucking heart.

What distinguishes good from bad music?
In other words, how does someone know and identify, while justifying the point of identification, if the tune he is listening to is "worth" the attention given.

Well, it depends.

Music is a form of language itself. But despite the strict grammar rules of the speaking/writing language, music keeps evolving and dissolves cultural boundaries. It is in its own way, the language that speaks out the emotions which everyday language has not yet found an ideal description of. A better understanding of finding meaning in our lives.

Understanding music is just the first part of the equation. Through your understanding you absorb certain influences, that affect you later on.
You just have to listen to it. Pay attention. Find your own translation about how it makes you feel. It depends on the listener's perception and way of translating the musical information provided into meaning.

-What kind of music do you enjoy listening to? 

-I don't mind, as long as it expresses my current state of consciousness and embrace the "moment".

Trying to find meaning and understanding throughout our experiences.

This meaning, is in the end, what really matters. 

The answer to the question, "Why do you listen to this?"

• Culture, most likely. People are listening the music other people listen to, in order to fit in a specific kind of group. In contradiction, people listen to music others would never listen to, just to put themselves out of those groups. 
• Feelings, is another option. You listen to a certain kind of music that expresses the way you understand reality in a particular moment.
• Exploration/Curiosity.
• Knowledge.

Ignorance kills. Do not let the marketing fool you. Trust yourself. Not the image of your "about to become" idol.

Now, regarding the taste issue. It really depends on the meaning drawn from the music itself.                

•    A good example is the one comparing different languages. You cant distinguish which one is the best. As there is not such thing. An ethnicist has been conditioned to believe that the greatest nation is the one, he spent his brainwashed childhood on.  Same goes with music, but...

  There is good/structured well formed grammatical usage of writing language (definitely not the one you are reading right now) and there is the "keep it simple in order to survive and communicate with the grocery store guy", in other words, the less intellectual one. Applying that factor into the musical language and you got your distinction of:

• Good taste. Characterized as inspiring, imaginative, creative, epic, heavenly like and so on..

• Bad taste. Characterized as boring, meaningless, done it before, not convincing to the listener.

 ! However, take into consideration that all the above depend strictly on the mindset of the individual listener. The more open-minded he is, the more music he will be able to process and criticize. Being in denial, paralyzes your personal evolution.


The trap. while creating music.
Seeing the topic, from a different perspective.

From personal experience, being a so called "musician", whenever i wanted to create something dark, mysterious and chaotic i would listen to music that expressed those ideals. However, being stuck into this "trap" of "second hand experience" creation, the final sound was not as original as i thought it would be. I was playing the role instead of being the role.




Being the fundamental role is the key for original, great music. Playing from your heart. Expressing your own situations and experiences into musical language is the ideal principle for creative music. Pure music. Feelings, even the most talented poet can't find words for.



Either you listen/play in order to dance, relax/focus, be inspired or travel into the deep oceans of mind, music will always be a bond between our reality and human spirit. Do not disgrace it, let it be a strong one.