lennieh
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This keeps happening, I play saxophone when I get home from work, pretty much every night.
I do long tones, then scales, then I play through my repertoire of standards trying to make them sound nice and then I either go though the ABRSM Jazz syllabus tunes or jam with some one chord playalong grooves I've got, or work on a new tune.
The problem occurs when I work on a new tune, this weekend for example I was working on I've Got A Crush On You from the Gershwin arrangements book that someone mentioned on another thread. Great tune and the written out improv is almost within reach of my technical ability.
The problem appears when I go to bed, because I've played the tune maybe 20 or 30 times throughout the day, I literally dream it, and it's disturbing my sleep, because in my dream I'm obsessing about whether I'm swinging enough, and that 16th note triplet where I don't quite nail it etc.... round and round in circles, actually this morning when I woke up the tune was still there....
Does this happen to others? Anyone found a way to deal with it?
I do long tones, then scales, then I play through my repertoire of standards trying to make them sound nice and then I either go though the ABRSM Jazz syllabus tunes or jam with some one chord playalong grooves I've got, or work on a new tune.
The problem occurs when I work on a new tune, this weekend for example I was working on I've Got A Crush On You from the Gershwin arrangements book that someone mentioned on another thread. Great tune and the written out improv is almost within reach of my technical ability.
The problem appears when I go to bed, because I've played the tune maybe 20 or 30 times throughout the day, I literally dream it, and it's disturbing my sleep, because in my dream I'm obsessing about whether I'm swinging enough, and that 16th note triplet where I don't quite nail it etc.... round and round in circles, actually this morning when I woke up the tune was still there....
Does this happen to others? Anyone found a way to deal with it?