"And the four right chords can make me cry"

I strongly believe that good music is felt and listened through emotion. As lead singer, Stephan Jenkins, of Third Eye blind sang in their most memorable song "Semi-Charmed Life", " the four right chords can make me cry", just showing the direct relationship music can have with the soul. There are so many different ways to listen to music nowadays, each giving or taking unique things from music. On a record player music is more warm and inviting. On an ipod it's harder to hear everything that is going on, and the listener might feel a little more distant with the message. At a concert the music is brought to life by the band. It's the opportunity for the artist to fully give their music personality. There is a connection between fan and artist; the atmosphere is full of emotion; each instrument is literally felt in one's chest. Each time I listen to a song on my ipod I try to find something new that I never noticed before. But there are certain effects that listening to music through an ipod has that cannot be heard from a record player, one important one is panning. With panning different levels of music are directly flowing through each hear, the brain interprets the different pieces as one. With this affect there is more interaction with the music but one still does not get the close connection that going to a concert or listening on a record player gives.