Session Three: Vibrational Use of Key and Scale
Cultural Permutations
Music as healer has been an integral part of the lives of the peoples of the world even long before the first vocal sound or the first rocks were banged together. The magnificent orchestrations of Nature have provided moving and cleansing ambiances since the forming of this planet. And as civilization has actually done more to dumb people down from their profound connection with the Natural world and the Spiritual world, humans of the past had direct access to the soundings of life itself, through multidimensional connections and access to long lost communications and celestial music.
Tribal cultures, unencumbered by the distractions of the civilized world have kept the gift of music as power alive and well. Through active Shamanic practices the use of sound as vocal music and chant and mantra has been a vehicle of miracles…healing believers on a regular basis. The fear based Western culture has done much to make humanity doubt itself and lose touch with its infinite connections, capacities, and remarkable talents, making them dependent on traditions and institutions severely lacking integrity, but plenty full of greed and manipulation, control, and disempowerment. So be it. These times are fast ending…and that is precisely why this information in this course can be shared freely.
We live in a remarkable time when the vibration is so high that we can bypass the patterning and beliefs and pressure to conform to the way it is…and rediscover our hidden talents and true self as vibration. As Paul Simon says, “these are the days of wonder and miracles”…and because of this we are able to shift symptomologies and conditions with remarkable ease.
If we desire to truly access the power of music and sound, we must surely harken back to include and learn from the cultures who remember. And even saying this, the truth is that these are just current building blocks upon which the new forms are being birthed just around the corner, arising through the lives, experiences, and inspirations of people like you.
One of the most interesting pieces is the element of tuning. In the Western world we are so used to a structure, a sound, an experience of the music that it is a challenge for many to even be open to something out of the “ordinary”. In the first lesson I included a short essay on tuning as A=440cps. This is most certainly not a world agreement. Most cultures use their inner connection to find the tuning that oscillates with spirit, with the natural world, with the Source, itself. And the West has the audacity and the arrogance to claim a standard. We must be open to exploration based upon feeling and response and impact, rather than training or that’s just the way it is. So, first explore with different guitar tunings as to pitch relationship and play familiar songs and listen with your heart to really digest the impact. Find your own reference pitch. Find a host of them and use them for various healing purposes. It can be that simple.
And when including other musicians, have them change pitch, at least for the instruments that have this capacity. Pianos are a bitch to retune. But many synthesizers or piano keyboards can make the adjustments. And the voice just goes where the pitch cues are…we shall look more at alternate tuning later. But let it be known that many cultures do not use A440…and that has made the difference in the music healing or just being entertainment. Consider this.
In the context of this lesson, let us look at some scales that are considered ethnic, from another cultural tradition. Feel free to incorporate them in your creations. The very fact that so many cultures are mixed in countries now is the very reason to use them. Your creation in a Western scale may be fine, but to the man from Bulgaria, hearing his scale may be the very frequency to impact him to release the energetic baggage that feeds his condition.
Algerian Scale 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 7
Gypsy Minor Scale 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 ♭7
Hirajoshi Scale 1 2 ♭3 5 ♭6
Hungarian Gypsy Scale 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 7
Iwato Scale 1 ♭2 4 ♭5 ♭7
Persian Scale 1 ♭2 3 4 ♭5 ♭6 7
Slendro Scale 1 2 4 5 6
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