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about Beethoven's 5th helping someone with Alzheimers. It was amazing, I'll ruin it trying to summarize. I'll shoot the person's story on video so you get a sense of how much it effected him.

I was down at Stanford University for a lecture on music where I heard one definition

"music is a drug we use to self-medicate our moods with incredible accuracy and control" AC/DC helps get me up, although lately Carrie Underwood's Last Name has been my jogging song (alternating with Smashmouth walking on the moon). I've grown up on jazz, classical (from old cartoons) and motown (living close to Detroit). "Flight of the Valkyrie" is still the "Kill the wabbit song" Beethoven's 9th, Ode to Joy had a very special thing - I'll talk about it later.

I play the wedding song melody (some variant) constantly: (8, 7, 5, 6, 5, 4, 2, 1, 7-1, 3, 2, on different instruments. I'm jazz trained and play very melodic solos, either major or harmonic minor scales preferred, but I get lazy and go minor pentatonic often.

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