connecting with feelings through music

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Normally, I have a terrible time with communicating, especially feelings. I typically cannot read another party's attitude, and that party cannot read mine. I have however, found a connection...music! When I listen to music, I "Feel" it...not just in the literal since like bass and stufl, but I mean, through what the musician is performing, I understand what expression that musician is trying to convey. For example, minor chords typically convey negative feelings like sadness, anger, etc. A fast-tempo song in minor chords conveys anger, while a slow paced one express sadness and dispair. Major chords, the exact opposite, conveying positive feelings. THe musical instruments and how they are played makes a difference too. It all works together, and my hearing is so sharp and focused that it all comes together through the tones, tempo, and other componets of the music.

Typically, I don't even pay attention to the words of a song, and I can get it just through listening to the instrumentation. In fact, much of the music I listen to has very little, if any singing. Listening to music to me is an enveloping thing. I will sit in front of the stereo in a dimly lit room with my eyes closed and just absorb it, feeling everything the performers intended. It's an amazing feeling that I don't thing N.T.'s will ever get to experience (that is if they can sit down, focus, and listen to music without performing any other task)

Although I don't typically pay attention to lyrics, I have found that many of the songs that RUSH has written and performed have some very interesting, deep lyrics that really makes one thing. Neil Peart frequently writes about intellectual topics, and things we deal with and experience in everyday life. For example, I posted the lyrics of "Subdivisions" here a while back that really summs up an aspie growing up in modern suburbia. Or, the song "Big Money" that is about what wealth does. Neil Peart frequently writes about historical events too, like "Manhattain Project" which is about the atomic bomb. The song also does an amazing job of giving the listener the ambience and feel like they were observing this historical event as it happened, from the drawing board to Hiroshima! The synthesized strings create tension as they sing about "The Pilot of Enola Gay/flying out of the shock wave on that August day" and the song builds in tempo and sound.

Anybody else just feel this emotional connection with music? During most of my life, I feel I just don't get this emotion thing, but with music as a translator, emotions become easy to understand.

I don't quite get that because I don't know what it's *meant* to be expressing, but usually music evokes emotions withint me, and so often I'm temped to say to someone 'go and listen the this bit of that piece - that's how I'm feeling' but obviously that's not practical. And anyway, it probably evokes other emotions in them anyway (Most of my friends are musicians so they do feel *something* from music.)

I must say, I find myself in a similar position. I would describe myself as 'hypo-emotive'. 'Low' emotions here... if that's the right term. In any case, music acts as a medium for emotion for me. I never really indulged feelings, never really... felt them. By listening to music, however I can seem to develop an 'empathy' for my interpretation of the music. Recently I've been extending this to other areas of art with considerable success.
Oh and if you want some powerful, instrumental music might I suggest Apocalyptica. Four cellos and Metallica. Well only their first album, but their own stuff is mind-blowing. No lyrics until you reach their newer things.

I will also employ this opportunity to say that art is as much creation as interpretation. No real relevance to what I said, I'm just saying.

I don't know if I feel what the artist felt, but I definitely feel something, and it's usually a lot stronger than what I usually feel. Hurricanes of feeling.
We Believe by Good Charlotte, Perfect by Simple Plan, Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day and a few more made me cry uncontrollably, I felt so much.

Not only do I feel more emotion when listening to certain music, be it what the artist was trying to convey or how I interpret it, it also give me an emotional outlet for everything stored inside.

I can relate emotionally much better to the sound, rhythm, and expressions of music. The emotions expressed by other people mean almost nothing in comparison to the feelings provoked by music. Not that I can help it, but there is just more of a connection with musical expression rather that social and non-verbal expression.

Listening to music is a good release brah, especially if you'd had a bad day. may i sugjest some origin, echoes of decimation.