Dear Mr, Ferrell

After reading your book Inside Rock Music, I was utterly floored and had to email you.  Let me just introduce myself.  My name is James Bowen and I am a 19 year-old senior at Southern Adventist University.  I have studied piano and organ for well over 13 years of my life.  I am completing a degree in both music performance and Nursing.  I started college when I was 13 and have been blessed by the Lord to have played for hundreds of church services, competitions, weddings, funerals, graduations, and many other functions, and to have studied under some world-class teachers.  I first would like to begin this discussion by letting you know that you Sir are doing Satans work in this book.  Now I know that is rather inflammatory but when you attack Satan's music in such an ill prepared and downright uneducated way, it makes you and your few correct statements look like utter fallacies.  Just so you know, I personally do not listen to any of the music that you labeled in your book, However I must say that your rank misunderstanding is so sad that I felt I must confront you on it.  

1st.  Im going to start with probably your most blatant error, which is the description you had of the heart.  Now before a fiction writer such as yourself step into another individuals field, I suggest you arm yourself with truth and not crumbling lies.  You stated that the hearts ventricles contract during both systole and diastole with one going to the body and the other to the lungs.  This is flat out error!!  My A and P book will debunk you.  Diastole is ventricular relaxation!  So in music, much rock music actually has a base drum on beats 1 and 3 and a snare on 2 and 4.  Therefore it would compare to nature since the weaker beats fall during ventricular relaxation.  Second, I hated the single story you had of the girls EKG changing while she listened to the music.  Im curious if you even know what an EKG is.  However, what exactly were these so called EKG changes in this work of fiction?  A fib?  Flutter?  Tachycardia?  Bradycardia?  Do you even know what these words mean?  
2nd. I find your work full of fallacies and prejudices that were punctuated by the occasional truth.  Take for instance your statement about going from soft rock to hard rock and then heavy metal.  This is textbook slippery slope fallacy!  You weaken your own arguments and do the devils work.  If were going to talk slopes then what about Schoenbergs music that went from atonal to tonal, or maybe Hendrixs experimentation in his later years with classical music.  As to your Sad sad appendix of rock stars deaths, so I have news for you.  Bach is dead!  All sinners die!!!  Diabetes, Pneumonia, how does this connect to rock???  You mistake cause and effect constantly.  The cause of these things was not rock music but their lack of a relationship with Christ!
3rd.  I had to practically laugh when I read about your so called phantom tones.  These are overtones!!!!!  They occur in classical music and every other kind of music out there!  They are what distinguish flute sound from that of the violin or piano.  I sound them all the time when I play the organ.  If your gonna bash 7th chords then I have news for you!  Bach used 7th chords!  Yes!  Now we analyze them as a chord with a passing tone.  However, he did use these kinds of dissonances all the time.  In fact your lists of so called Bad music contains elements such as same key, no tempo, or volume changes is so stereotypical and has so so many artists which create glorious music such as Handel, Bach, even the Kings Heralds who fit these definitions of yours for bad music.  

I could not stand your explanation of luthers A mighty Fortress.  It is Bar form!  Not a bar song.  You did not explain this at all.  So it was the same form as the popular troubadour songs of the day!  So what about joyful joyful we adore thee?  That was a secular tune first!!    

I personally believe that the way to truly find the right listening music is not browsing through what Satans worshippers say, or browsing all the satanic literature and condemning them by what they say,  It is rather to have a relationship with Christ and let the holy spirit tell you what is wrong.  Let the word tell you.  You bold type your arguments in the same manner as the conspiracy theorists do.  In closing, there was so much more I could have bashed as blatent errors, misstatements, and downright lies.  However, I would like to caution you to leave the medical and musical writing to those of us who actually understand those things.  Well leave the fiction writing to you.
(edited by webmaster to remove one bad word in title)