- Piano: the instrument with the most complete range of pitches and the largest dynamic range of any acoustic instrument except for
the pipe organ. It has been, up until the creation of synthesizers, unsurpassed as a solo instrument, as an accompanying instrument, and as a compositional tool. Evocative compositions can be impactful in the healing music arena, especially when attention is paid to key, scale, and mode. - Flutes: The purest sound of any instrument, the flute is the second oldest of the instruments. It vibrates the head best and pulls the spirit upward. A constant in much ethnic music, the flute comes in many tonal flavors, some breathier than others. It is an ideal accompaniment instrument. Using particular pentatonic scales it is evocative and earthy, pulling up, in fact, earth energy that is very grounding. It pairs well with guitar and strings and piano, as well as the voice.
- Electronic Instruments: These have come a very long way from approximating instruments to actually sampling them to give a limitless palette of sound. The celestial and other world washes they can create are breathtaking in scope. The current generation of virtual instruments and synthesizers are a powerful tool in the hands of the healing musician. Somewhat portable, new technology has put them into computers, where all that is needed to create the sound is a companion controller portable keyboard. Many are capable of alternate tunings, making them culturally indispensable. They represent a new sonic frontier, capable of creating new inspired sounds far outside of the natural spectrum. Though some argue that the electronic/digital medium compromises their vibrational impact upon the body systems, their infinite capacity to make sound all but makes up for it, in my opinion. An ideal pairing with an acoustic instrument like guitar or piano is a best of both worlds.
- Quartz Bowls: An offspring of the computer industry, these pure tone quartz singing bowls are a remarkable new instrument for the healing musician. Coming in various sizes, shapes, and in a variety of mineral augmented materials, they make a striking sound effective as a solo instrument or in combination with the human voice in vowel sounding, mantra, and chant. They are sold as individual notes in the C scale.
- Tuning Forks: Frequency based metal instruments designed to sustain the actual pitch of a growing number of varied tones. They are powerful as specific tools for a specific healing purpose. Sets include the harmonic spectrum, the planetary tones, the Sacred Solfeggio series, the Fibonacci series, the color spectrum, meridians, body organs, brain waves, angelic call in frequencies...and on and on.. Very useful for enharmonically bringing compromised areas within the body back to resonance.
The greater the number of tools the healing musician has, the more variety available. Though profound changes can occur at the hands of a single well-
As far as players in the historical application of healing music goes, it began with the shamans and witch doctors of the tribe. By tending their open connection to spiritual, natural, and animal world they created sounds and songs specifically designed to heal. Holy men, those developed to keeping open their spiritual connection through conscious activity, channeled and created repetitive sung chants and spoken mantras. These were learned and passed on. Each culture has contributed specific and unique elements to the healing music genre. From vocalizations to interval singing to orchestrated compositions in major and minor keys using a variety of scales and instruments to wandering minstrels who told stories of history or individual accomplishment the journey spiraled. Once the emotional impact of sound as music was understood, or, at least, witnessed, then musicians/songwriters simply began telling the stories of their lives, or the lives of the
people. Songs reflected love and loss. Songs became revolutionary anthems. Chants supported the daily work grind of the masses. Mantras lifted practitioners into the realms of the gods themselves.
An ongoing element of intentional music is that it energetically amplifies the intentions of the creator/Creator with each expression. Thus, these songs and mantras and chants have some serious high frequency energy contained in them. Conscious application can be empowering or disempowering, depending on the intention. Much of it creates altered mental states, fertile ground for healing suggestion...or fertile ground for manipulative suggestion. Be aware...
Healing music is a time proven tool of profound change, a conscious alteration of lower energetic frequency for the purpose of reawakening the inner knowing of the true self in wholeness. It is to be respected. It must come from and through the vibration of Love. So, get your own house together...do your inner work. You will know the results of your own evolution by the nature of the ones attracted to you. They are a direct reflection of your frequency, as well as, an invitation to the next phase along your personal growth spiral. This is an essential element of these times. Many are being called to work the frequency born out of their own unique experience of life up till now. Beautiful things are occurring. The more you attend to the bigger picture and the dance of people into and out of your life, the more you will open up and surrender to the even greater amounts of information waiting to be downloaded. Becoming the receptive vehicle is one of the reasons each is called to this work. I honor you for your choice to walk the path.
Session One: Music and Spirit...An Historical Overview
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This course will provide you with some very powerful tools with which to create intentional music for the purpose of witnessing people back to Wholeness. The more you learn, the more present you will be to provide the proper vehicle for your client’s return. Use the tools and the techniques to not only create your specific methods and repertoire, but also to build your personal arsenal of songs, chants, mantras, tones that work and continue to work. From this point forward, everything is fertile ground. The true healer is the constant observer. For, in this dimension, everything has meaning. The other kingdoms, animal, plant, nature spirit, angelic, are in ongoing contact, advising, assisting, inspiring, and teaching. Open your heart to them and begin to witness and deepen the connection through conscious contact. It is all vibration. And much is being poured into this field via the benevolent Multi-
There are twelve lessons in this course. A new one is made available each Wednesday to you. I suggest you immerse yourself in each, even this one. You will be given information and exercises to practice. You will be given samples to clarify and inspire. I also suggest that you start creating from this model as soon as you can...like now! Create a sacred space where you can study and create...and pick a notebook for your creations. Each lesson will give you direct access to previous ones as well. Finally, begin to expand your sonic toolkit by gathering rattles and instruments. They will begin to appear before you, now that you have made this commitment.
A number of examples are included here for your listening experience. Listen with your heart and your cells. The samples are priming your creative pump to release the fertile flow...
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