Four Hour Practice Plan Daily for a Tune

[AllanAllen]

There’s a Barry Harris story of dropping in to see Monk in the bright early morning, seeng Monk work on a tune, saying goodbye, coming back later in the evening, after being gone all day, seeing Monk still at the piano, working on THE SAME TUNE he was playing in the morning.

someone else tells the same story in Ken Burns Jazz.

[JazzKatua]

I practice lines from J.S. Bach's "Das Wohltemperierte Klavier", like for instance the prelude or the fuga in C minor (Book I). Such lines are uncommon to play for guitar, but if I see the execution on keyboard it also seems uncommon.
It takes practice to execute it and such practice breaks common 'jazz-patterns' like constant 1-2-3-5 exercises which I did a LOT in the past, but didn't help me in a musical way and I found them VERY BORING.
By coincidence today I remembered Jerry Coker's book: Patterns for Jazz which I practised a LOT in the past.
But retrospectivally speaking this book is totally USELESS to really learn the Jazz Idiom.

So my 3 hour daily practice schedule consists of listening to the Masters (J.S. Bach DAILY!) and Tristano's School (himself, Konitz, Marsh, Peter Ind [Amazing bassplayer!!!]) for their 'loose' and free improvisation and get this MUSIC into my playing.