TAMFERMABLES TV: you Greetings and grace be unto all of you with love, joy, peace, prosperity and longevity from God our father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. And welcome once again to the Good News Reporters podcast. Yes, with me, your host, Dr. Furman. But today we want to talk about music. But before we get there, you know, I've been meeting some family. Can I just, you don't mind. Hey, Delgado, hey, where you at? Hey, Delgado, out there in Beeville, Texas. And him and Kathy and Sam had an opportunity to connect with Delman. Then there's Rebecca, hey, Rebecca, she's out there in Germany. she's in London. I didn't get a chance to really connect with her. Yeah, but I've heard much about you, Mimi. Yeah, so look, and then, listen. Last week, or was it yesterday? Listen, I don't even remember, but I was on the All About Me podcast. They did an interview with me. Yeah, that's me. I was so grateful and so excited about it with ⁓ Infinite 7 and Brick. Jayden, yeah, he wasn't here, but good fellowship, a good conversation. Like, you know, like back in the day, being able to sit down with some men and just communicate some things. I appreciate the All About Me podcast. I believe they're on it every Wednesday, eight o'clock or something like that. But you can check, just you know how to Google that stuff, you know, but I'm looking forward to go back and even looking forward for them to come on our broadcast podcast. Hey, listen, I really had a good time with them. We were able to exchange some information. I learned some things about them guys just looking at their website. Very excited about it. But just take a look. All About Me podcast. Down to Earth Brothers. They like to talk about music. Hey, they talk about all kinds of things, really. But, you know, they invite people to come in and just be natural and normal. Hey, you can come here too. But, you know, I have to talk about my brothers Infinite Seven and Brick. Yeah, I really thank you guys. I'm looking forward to But we want to get in here and we want to talk about music. Now, a while back, you know, I had introduced myself as maestro. Yeah, maestro. And things started happening. I never had an opportunity to get back to Minnis. to Maestro too. Minister Maestro was number one, me introducing myself ⁓ online for the first time and the things that God would allow me to do. But I'm back now and I want to continue on with three and four and five. I'm looking forward to bring some. Hey, look, if there's something enlightening. Yeah, it's gonna be. I know that for sure because these are some things that, hey look, they come to me and I want to share them as a maestro. this is, this episode is the makings of a maestro. And so, you know, we go in and we wonder, well, what is a maestro? Now here, that baton, that conductor's baton. And the conductor is a maestro. Now, hey look. I have not had the opportunity to conduct the orchestra as of yet, but I directed a few bands and choirs, but a maestro is on a completely different level than a band director. Yeah, so I wasn't a maestro when I was a band director, but now today, another type of maestro, is a composer. I am by the grace of God a composer. Therefore I am Maestro, better known as Dr. Furman. Well, some people have been requesting to meet Junebug, but they will meet Junebug in the series, The Seven Years of In-laws. But yeah, we'll see that for later. But back to Maestro, the word Maestro also means teacher. and or a master probably a mastery he probably masters the music and in most cases just like just like other degrees and things of that nature or what you call it uh disciplines in education academia that it takes about eight to fifteen years of study of education and music music education me oh i have about 16 years 16 years of private and formal music education. And half of those years, I studied directly in music arranging and orchestration. I studied that for about eight years, some private and some, like I said, some formal. But today I am, I am by the grace of God, let me tell you, I am by the grace of God, capable. to compose music for a 65 piece orchestra, even on paper notations. But hey, look, if it come down to heavy metal, a three piece with an extra guitar or something on the side, yeah, I can deal with that also. I started communicating with a young man concerning that. But nevertheless, let me tell you. Now, I'm gonna tell you straight up. I don't know all the markings, the dots and the symbols that are used in composing music. But when I sit, and notate music? No, not out the top of my mind, not all that stuff. It's quite a bit, quite intense. And I haven't had a whole lot of orchestrations to put on paper. I haven't had that kind of work. You know, I did it, I learned it, especially in school. But, you know, one day maybe it'll be used somewhere, used in this kind of stuff. But not off the top of my head, but just like a good attorney, just like a good attorney. Hey, if he fighting a good case, he gonna bring out the books, he gonna get them off the shelf and things of that nature. Hey, he gonna fight a good case. So it is with music. The same thing. You know, I'm gonna sit down, I'm gonna get my music books and I'm gonna sit down. Like I say, I don't keep it all in my head. It's quite a bit. Maybe one day I'll be able to keep it all up there. But so to put together a good case that applies with music to put together a good piece of orchestrated music. Yeah. I have to use books. I'm gonna keep on using them as long as they... You know, it's just like doing homework. You dictionary or doing your studies in the... with the church or the Bible, whatever you do. You got extra books, thesaurus and things of that nature. So to have the books, books are very good for anybody. You know, good books. Stay with me now as to why I'm teaching about a maestro. Hey, listen, it's really on my heart to do so. because there's an absence of good music in our society today. Don't get me wrong, don't do that. There's plenty of good music, but I'm referring to how music that dominates the media. There's certain music that dominates the media and having control over people's emotions and giving them heartaches and headaches and that is not music. That's one reason why I like to talk about music, real music. Real music it produces a good result. So if there's not a good result behind all that music, it's not music. Plain and simple. You can call it what you like or what you think it is. But if it doesn't produce a good result, there's an, there's... There's some kind of ingredient missing. Wink, wink. Yeah, so there's a difference between good music and evil music. How can a person tell the difference? That's up to the person. That's their job. My job right now is to explain it. How they apply or if they listen or when they listen. There's some valuable information that's coming, more of it's coming. So when we talk about music and we're going to make it make sense, we're going to make this music thing make sense because you know, and then you probably hear me repeat this over and over, they don't teach it in schools anymore. Music, there is music law and laws of music that should bring about a law for music. What I mean by this music law. Well, of course, that's the area where the lawyers get involved. Copyrights and contracts and publishing and things of that nature. Some people sign a life away. You know what I mean? Then the law of music is basically music theory. Beats, measures and eighth note, whole note, you know, ain't gonna put them in order. Later in the series, probably the third episode, which is coming up right behind this one. I like to explain. Each of the 12 elements of music, like I say, I really want to get into that. So what would that add? A moral compass, perhaps. Good and clean, that's music. Well, people say what they like, but the truth is the truth. A lot of the music that I have, what they call it on the highway, they call it congested, the music business, that was not music. Stay with me. Most of us know that music appreciation classes were once in the educational system in America, but recently removed. I just wonder, have you noticed, well, do you pay attention to the fact that little Chinese children, someone played the piano like a master pianist. Why? When I was attending one of the universities, most of the Leiskin sisters, they were playing the guitar. You know, like Tella Swift. That was a normal thing. Admiring Tella Swift, I believe they would, but you know, guitar was a part of growing up. Learning some type of musical, educational instrument, or just learning music theory. They don't teach it at home too much, neither. You know, but don't get me wrong, there's some families, man, they got some grandchildren, they be rockin'. I don't know if they teachin' music theory. You know, you look online, you see all kind of talent and things of that nature. But any type of musical education can provide a well-balanced dose of discipline, diligence, and determination. Look what music do to the brain. Check that out. That's just, you know, that's what, one of the things that music, I'm talkin' about music. Yeah. Cause then all this stuff do something to the brain too. In most cases, put it on tilt. So what I'm saying is this here, can anybody really hear what I'm saying? Now you're watching, do you really hear and understand what I'm saying? So please take time out, know, give your child, boy your children some kind of musical educational background. It's a part of who we are. Music is... part of us. Yeah, well, one day we'll understand it better by and by like you're saying at church house. But you know, it's really a part of our nature. That's why we gravitate to it so quickly. We remembered certain parts of it. Some of the highlights in the song just do something to us. It's music. But good music. I ain't talking about that stuff that, you know, we talked about that. Hey, listen, let's go ahead. Would you perhaps allow your children to be taught about music in society like the last few decades rap, thug rap, gangster rap, degrading rap, killing rap, gun rap, as well as an overdose of freak rap. That's what you call music. Really though, you make it make sense. You know now conscious rap is a lyrically perv- aggressive form of true hip hop. Now, we know hip hop was clean, family oriented, happy. We had some happy music. Hip hop was fun. It was enjoyable by everybody. The whole family could, it wasn't that kind of dancing. No, probably some double Dutch jumping rope. wasn't that. Now, so those so-called musicians took drug money, then corrupt executives' money, and created some kind of noise. But society, for the most part, because they pushed it on us, thought it was music. You know, Satan can imitate anything but love. Yeah, check it out. Anything but love, that's Satan. He can imitate it. So we're gonna talk about Satan, his before and after. his before and after in a minute. Hey, we coming with it. But listen, so they took that and remember the children when they were learning their alphabets and having fun in class with the hip hop music and their brain was developing in such a way. Then somebody took part of them away. It's part of our nature. They took it away and now they replaced it. Yeah. Now we all realize it. So the executive take a little beast-like critter from the hood. No, hey, look, there's a whole lot of good that come out the hood. Don't get it twisted. I'm talking about the critters that come out the hood and help them use music to poison society as if they were taking poison and pouring it into the water system. Music has a power. and it was abused. Who gonna blame it on music? Rap is rap and music is music. How do you say? Period. If we allow rap to dictate to our family again, to our friends and our loved ones again, music will still be out of place. We need music. We need real music. Stay with me because I'm going to talk about these different kinds of music that's being created today. Music needs to have its rightful. in our society. Music produces beauty and rap ends up with murder, death, and destruction. Put it on the scale. You don't need justice. Moral. You got morals? We have moral. We have a moral compass. Look at it. Once again. Now here's a question. Would you purchase a pair of shoes like the red bottoms and they have a hole in the bottom of them? I don't think so. Yeah, a hole in just one of them. No, you wouldn't do that either, would you? Exactly. incomplete. It's just like music. There's 12 elements. It need to be completed. It's part of society. I.T.'s piece of music does some things. I ain't gonna go through all those things and I'm sure if someone wants to go and check out some of the things and how the effects, you know, what music does. Now, I did do a little, it's coming up some things. I'm gonna talk about what I got from Harvard, you know, and their medical research about music. It's just a piece, You know, would include it. I would like to include it. I did the research for it, but incomplete music can damage the brain, man. Did you see it? Look around again. But not only those who make the music, brains get damaged when they are like, just like a doctor. If a doctor used that scalpel the wrong way, somebody getting cut. So if people take the power of music and use it the wrong way, Guess what happened? Look, we can blame it on anything, but one thing we need to add in that blame is the lack of quality music, which we all need. Music. I talked to a young man, what was that? Goddard. I talked to Dale Goddard that day and he said he relaxed and was listening to some music from the eighties. Yeah, music from the eighties. That makes sense. That makes plenty of sense. Music from the eighties. Did you hear me? Music. So now that music, some of it can damage the brain. If music is not properly presented like a complete full course meal is presented, like the power source from the meal, it's like the power source from the music. It fuels the soul. I know the brothers asked me a question and I didn't get that in. A question about the brothers on All About Me podcast. They asked me about what is missing in music. I did say rhythm and blues and hip hop. But I forgot soul music. Music, you know, that would fill us up like a good full-course meal. Man, we had some fun with music. We had fun with music. Even back then, they was drinking something like, you know, sometime when they thought they were cool, they would drink some 99 Ripple wine and take a tote or two. And man, but they enjoyed music. Like I said, on the operating table, if that doctor don't use that scalpel the right way, you know, so it is with music. You know, how would the operation turn out? How do the music turn out? Exactly. That's what I'm saying. You must be sedated before an operation, right? With the right operating tools, those doctors and all his assistants ought to be ready, right? So the music industry gives drugs to society to sedate them. Yeah, they use hoodlums. They use hoodlums. But those hoodlums were spreading, spending their time when they were in the hoodlum level, know, petty street drug peddlers. They were spending their time bagging. That took a lot of time. Bagging up drugs took a lot of time to sell drugs on the corner. They ain't had time to be no musician. care what machine they use. They didn't have time. to be a musician. It takes time. Not all of a sudden I'm selling drugs and now I'm a big time musician. No, you're a drug dealer that paid your way to fame. That's just the truth. They ain't put the time in, I'm sorry. A beat machine and fast rapping? Well, that's how the industry looked at them. You know, the industry looked at them as fast rapping dummies. They can make a quick buck off. They made some money. Man, just think about it. How many, well, I know some do get killed and things of that nature. A few might go to prison. But how many executives go to prison? How many executives just fly away with their money after, you know, hey, they're fine investment in the community and what? you know, back in the day, and he's picking at these or something like that. He used to tap dance for that after when we was poor, when people was poor and they had to deal with depression and things of that nature. So I'd get on the corner and do a little tap dance. But that same concept is today, you know? Some of them tap dances on the corner made a pretty good penny. Now here's that study I was talking about with Harvard. According to the study at Harvard Medical School, I'm kind of reading it. Word for word, if you don't mind. Music promotes. Music promote well-being, enhanced learning. Am I telling you about that Chinese little boy? Play like a master pianist. Boy ain't eight years old, so I don't be three years old. But music promote well-being, enhanced learning, stimulate cognitive function. You know, that's the brain. Stimulate it, not like a drug. It hits somewhere in that same area, but music improve. quality of life music real music when you talk about that banging music and the everything in the house is vibrating and stuff like that you can't get no rest like that that's mess up your nervous system and stuff like that well a lot of things happen when it's not correct but music improve quality of life and even induce happiness somebody can sing their way in they feelin low low they can not tell them brothers you can shout your way out shout out you know sing out but Turn on some music. You don't know how to get out. music will do that. It will induce that happiness, the kind of joy. It does something to the brain that make you feel pretty good, almost like a good, you know, intoxication of the brain. But music, something safe. And the answer is music can activate. Why does music do all these things to help us to be? who we ought to be with, you know, some music up in us, some real music up in us. So, music can activate just about every brain region. Now that, this is coming from Harvard Medical School or whatever it is, university, and the reasons and network is in the brain, all the synapses and all those areas, the crevices of the mind where we might hide some different things. put away corners of our mind, songwriter said. Andre Crouch. We have trouble sometimes in the corners of our mind, but that music, glory be to God, can go up in there and induce the happiness. So it does something to the brain. That music, I can't explain it all. I'm doing the best I can though. And it goes to all the different pathways in the brain. The networks are strong, including those networks that are involved in the wellbeing. Learning cognitive function and happiness Y'all said that But it said it again That means it's so important that quality of life and happiness in fact There is only one other situation in which we can activate so many brain networks at one time You know, I read it. It's the social social activity social participation can activate the brain just like music can. What kind of social activity? Hey, look, it's a lot of different kinds of social activity, but there's only one kind of music. And I mean, for me, I'd rather be here with music opposed to getting that same stimulation from society. That's just for me. So now, music, keep in mind, music is a language, just like any other language. But this music, this language, transcends across cultures. Music, it transcends that language. It's reported here for 40,000 years. During history, music has managed to intertwine itself with religion, rituals. tribal gatherings and even war music. You know, they blow the trumpet and stuff like that back in the Bible. They was blowing the trumpet after war. But music have always played a part. You know, just think, like I say, the language, this language of music, you can take a person from Hungary and put them on a guitar. You can take another person from China and put them on a bass. You can get a drum from North Philadelphia. You get the keyboard player from England. You can put different people from all around the world and you put that sheet of music in front of them and it's one language they all can understand. They can interpret those notes. The power of music. The only language that can do such a thing. Now we know the language of God. But that's the only language that you can get people from all over the world. I remember the Sound of Philadelphia, their orchestra, MFSB, Mother, Father, Sister, Brother. They were from different parts of the country, of the world, international, know, so the different pieces that come together. There were what, 7,000 different languages, but this one language of music, everybody understands. Everybody, when you study it. Right? I mean, we can hear it. That's how participation automatically involved in appreciating music, just the hearing of it. Because somewhere down the line, it's going to sound good. I haven't really met one person who do not love music. Well, I haven't met him. Maybe you have. And believe me, if you don't know for certain about the 12 elements of music, How can you possibly understand? Now you can understand how to drive a car, right? That's power. Music is power. But without the right interpretation of music, I mean, like I said, to listen to it, participate, nah, that's good. But when it comes down to understanding, maybe deciphering what's good and what's bad, that sounds, that's the beat, and that's the, okay, okay, that's what you got. But you know, music is for a good result. Music is for our soul. Music is like eating food. We need that. We need water. We need quality music. It helps us to function better. So stay with me for a minute. So now if a Hispanic brother come up to me and say, hey, mano, I understand that. That means brother. You know, a few words that I got. But if he come and talk in a whole lot of Spanish, I might not understand none of it. It's very fast and I just don't understand it. I might grab a word or two. But I can't interpret Spanish. So is it with music. It's a language. But like I said, if it's not in the school teaching it, what do you really know about music? What do our society know about music? Is it helping us or is it hurting us? I remember one time I went to ⁓ BIC, what was it, like a recovery unit in Philadelphia. I mean, they're playing people all downtown and everything. But then they played the music. ⁓ What was that song? Thin Line? Not Thin Line. Faded Line? Whatever that, whatever it was, it was a song about the drugs. So did they really know or sound good? But you're talking about drugs to a bunch of people who doing their best to recover. It really doesn't make sense. So when you have a music director say, we need this music and we need that music and... No, if it's a drug recovery type of situation, you don't want to put songs in it about drugs. That doesn't make sense. But some may say, well, it sounds good. See, here we go again. We're going circles with that one. But communicating with the Hispanic individual, you know, good morning, good afternoon, that's all good. But that's their native language. music, all of us can grab a hold to music. Music brings about unity. Music helped to change things in our society. We've seen it many times. know, one time they were separated, segregated. This side of the rope and that side of rope. They see the same artist. A black artist. You know what I'm saying? So, just like the language we can use for vanity, it might hurt people's feelings. They've been using it for years, but now all of a sudden it hurt their feelings. And the language of music can bring upon a positive effect. And why I say that? Because people might, they abuse it. They abuse the music. So what you think gonna come out of it? It's not good. You know, and they wind up turning it something other than music or something stacked on top of music. But now of course the educational system knows this. You know, somebody should be smart enough to know that the importance of music and the Heart music plays in all of human development. Yeah, all of human development. That's probably why America is kind of like still a toddler, still a pamper, pooper. Let's go. I'm just talking for a minute. But music matures you. develops. It develops our society. It develops individuals. It helps people with their morals to be more respectful and kind one to another. Yeah, music has that effect. Yes, indeed. There's an old saying that states, music soothes the savage beast. And the scripture declares that when David played that harp and chased away them evil spirits from sorrow. So please come on back and join us as we break down those 12 elements of music. We'll be able to distinguish what is good music. What is evil music? Come on back and join us. There's plenty more episodes in this series that we may gain some of the truth about knowledge that we need. Remember, it's not taught in the school systems anymore. Come on back. Let's learn some of this.