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Haha, love it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlR9xasmhWw EDIT: When the music coms from deep within people will rather close their eyes than look at your jackets or shoes (or no shoes at...
I see it as a sign of human greatness if it is possible to make mistakes (of course not all the time) and to apologize. No one is perfect. From what I have read in the other posts most would not have...
Well, it's very good, of course, but Alone Together is a slowish ballad!
Back in the 80's I didn't think musicians in San Diego were interested in full time gigs overseas anymore. I don't know why but they needed an out. I'm straight outta Buffalo not Compton. My choices...
(Yeah, Reg, I know that in the end you have to be able to play fast, so you have to bring your chops up to speed but) I think the Tristano/Marsh thing of practicing very slowly in the beginning is...
You have omitted voicings of a few chord types, e.g., Dominant 7th, Sus2 and 6/9 chords. Sometimes you include the chord tones on the low E string but not on the high E string - or vice versa -...
It took me many years before I started noticing that if a phrase came into my head that I knew very well (from practicing it hundreds of times), but I started it too late, that I sometimes would be...
Being in the moment. Bird quotes: "You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and...
Sometimes I think about chords and pull melodies from them, other times it’s let center noodling. Depends on the song and how I’m feeling. If it’s a song I really know, I’ll try to remember licks...
Yeah, I think when I audiate this happens a lot less even if it is just rhythmic syllables and not actual pitches.
On a good day, my hands are on autopilot and I’m just listening. On the best days not to myself. I think there’s this misconception about how you should hear what you want to play before you play...
Probably is. But not being able to go inside other's heads, what are other people doing in the moment when improvising?
I don't understand My pp wants an ainy And not a male one :smile-new:
Starting a phrase late
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