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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus
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01-03-2017 11:20 AM
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Yeah, I like to flesh it out a little more than that.
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As close as I get...
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Originally Posted by mrcee
(a) I wonder whether you kept good time right through the sleep phase (or perhaps better time?)?
(b) I wonder whether you continued playing the same line while asleep, straight through, or, perhaps instead slipped unconsciously into "Louie, Louie"...
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Originally Posted by jasaco
Last edited by mrcee; 01-04-2017 at 03:09 AM.
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I was playing at a Hispanic marriage conference providing background music on a nylon string guitar with a piano player while the preacher did his thing. It was late night - I was sleepy - the teaching was in Spanish of which I could pick up very little - we were cycling thru the same chord progression over and over and ... suddenly I wake up and I'm still playing.
This happened twice that night. After it was all over I asked the piano player if he noticed I'd fallen a sleep twice during our playing and he had not. He said I just kept playing those chords...
Now if I could just get myself to run arpeggios and scales all night while I sleep, I could get in 6 hours of practice every night!
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One of the things about being asleep is that one loses track of time. It's entirely possible that you fell asleep but, in fact, for only 1 second or less. We commonly have the experience of waking up after dreaming and not really knowing how long it took us to dream a particular dream; could have run in real-time, or might have all been compressed into a flash of a second or two.
By the way, do you play finger-style, or did you hang onto your plectrum the whole time you were asleep? I would expect the muscles to relax and the plectrum to drop...
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Originally Posted by jasaco
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Originally Posted by SwingSwangSwung
There's stories of Charlie Parker when he was on Billy Eckstine's band being sound asleep and someone would tap him on the shoulder a bar or so before his solo and he'd spring to life and play brilliantly. He may not have really been asleep though and his apparent somnambulist state was actually a result of his "issues" and that he was in fact listening and aware of the music.
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Anyone here got divorced due to their addiction to jazz guitar????? :-)
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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This thread is fascinating. I love the idea of the unconscious mind taking over in improvisation.
TBH I think a lot of what I try to do in performance is a achieve a state like day dreaming when I improvise
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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I had a dream once where I was at a club and some "unknown" jazz group was performing Giant Steps in a way that I had never heard before. I was completely captivated by their arrangement and fell so deeply in love with it. Obviously, I didn't know I was dreaming at the time, so it felt no different from going to a club and hearing some group I'd never heard of before just destroying a new version of a tune I knew so well... but with a brand new take on it that I'd never considered before.
I awoke from the dream, realized it was a dream I'd just had, and could still remember the arrangement. It was the middle of the night. I jumped out of bed, ran over to my desk, and as quickly as I could I wrote out the arrangement so I wouldn't forget it. Then I dozed back off. One day, I plan to record an album of reinterpreted standards... and that will most definitely be on the recording.
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Originally Posted by ragman1
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Originally Posted by mrcee
Martino was an extreme example because he had to start again. But we're all the sum total of our knowledge, which isn't much.
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This has actually happened to me once or twice before, I come up with song-writing ideas in my head during sleep. Good Ideas.
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Never in my life have I fallen asleep while playing. I'm always too awake. I'm always too excited and interested.
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Originally Posted by henryrobinett
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Originally Posted by jasaco
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkLast edited by henryrobinett; 01-09-2017 at 03:23 AM.
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