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Mostly zooby dooby squiddly bop, and buddely dumba da! Da! It’s pretty embarrassing. Probably I’m doing it wrong. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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...
Starting a phrase late
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