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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
If we're talking about playing tunes the crowd likes to hear - sure, to a point. But it's *how* the player plays a request that is his doing, his creating. This is why I never understood bands whose goal is to "play it just like the record." What art is here? Art of mimicry is all I see.
Anyway, Mark -- I know what you're saying, I believe: if the audience is paying, if only attention, an artist whose shared music speaks nothing to them... this artist is screwed and won't be on stage long. He'd better produce something delightful. But how he does this should be 100% his call, I think. When we listen to Julian Lage play Autumn Leaves, the audience has nothing directly to do with what Jules plays on his guitar. But are they moved? Oh yeah. That video has 30,000+ views, I believe.
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09-26-2012 06:30 AM
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Thanks KJ.
I guess that I just wanted to warn against over dependance on learning licks. I suspect that most would agree that other crucial methods of learning, e.g. transcribing and studying solo transcriptions, simply listening to jazz and spending "time on the instrument" (possibly my favourite quote from a member of this forum!) also play a big part on the road to effetive improvisation.
Carl.
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Originally Posted by Kojo27
>>>"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'" <<<
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I myself always found learning licks a bit time wasting. I never think in terms of licks because I found it to be quite hard and not very rewarding. I have my `own` ideas, which repeat but it`s not like I have the phrases in my head like melodies. They just come into my fingers when I need to play them.
Moffa Mithra
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