Music and Melody 音樂和旋律 - Robben Ford

最近在一卷Robben Ford 的教學DVD裡聽到了一段訪問，其中他對音樂和藍調的很多想法說的讓我很有共鳴，所以今天想跟大家分享一下。

先上原文
For me I don't really play too many licks. I never sat down and learn a bunch of licks or took licks of records, you know, writing it out, transcribing whatever like that. For me music has always been a real audio experience .

You listen to music. Music is something that comes into your ear from the air, created by the people but its intangible in itself and that in which inspires music it self is also intangible. It's the emotion aspect of it. Music comes from people. People experiences, people's joy, people sadness, whatever, you know.

Music and melody
The aspect of being music, you have to really attach the technical aspects of playing music to your emotions. Music is just like language. You learn how to speak by hearing and practicing all the time and you have a great need to learn how to speak , cus everyone else is speaking around you, and you have to learn how to speak. It was that important to you. So I kind of see music as the same way. It comes from that kind of need to communicate.

Everybody gets very excited by people who are amazing wizard in their instruments, but only it goes so far you know, and what's really important is that you are saying something as opposed to just playing something. So for me I hear what I am playing as melody. It's not “licks”. There is little bit of it in there, but one of the reasons I am drown more and more to the blues all the time is because it's such a vocal music and the blues guitar players are playing the guitars from the same place that blues singers singing. It's identical. Theres no difference. The medium is different but the emotion, the intent, all those things are the same.

That's why blues guitar is kind of simple, cus it comes from a vocal palace. You keep that and go out from there to more sophisticated music forms, Jazz, Classical music and what ties those things together; the emotions; the sophistication of those more complex musical form is melody. It's a song, so it's actually a singing thing. You know it's the beauty of melody. In Jazz obviously harmony became very important, techniques has always been very important as well, but nonetheless the thing that make it really works is that if there is some kind of heartfelt, melodic quality to it. I've always loved the melody players.

以上是我在看DVD時聽寫下來， 在Robben Ford “Back to the blues” 可以有他更完整的訪談。在下篇裡我會把一些段落翻譯出來。Stay tuned:)

Thanks for reading.
Till next time