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visionari1
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Re: Gary Burtons Improv Course!!!
Well yes, that brings up the thought, when encouraging others with their efforts on playing a tune, actually how to encourage someone, without putting them down. Realising, maybe what they don't hear about there own playing needs to be told, also even though I can't myself play any better, is it appropriate to advise/tell others where I think they can improve on.
It's a bit like the Coursera course, one needs a healthy mix of being open to hear your own faults, while retaining enthusiasm to help yourself to make improvements.
I am finding actually all the tunes I really delve into I come to really like... I wouldn't have picked, like Olhos De Gato or How High the Moon.....they became more enjoyable as I focused on the finer points of them.
I'm starting to really enjoy solid focus and the grinding into ones mind, memory, & fingers a particular tune and transcribing certain sections, with a mix of ear and figuring out which notes etc then really copying exactly the timing the tone the weight of each note, the phrasing, the flow from phrase to phrase.
I'm doing this on the Sonny Rollins version of How High the Moon... I don't care if this is pure copying... I am learning so much in the process.... I've spent the last three nights of an hour per night on his first 32 bars....which is only 47 seconds in total...and now I have so much more appreciation of the genius and the sound of Sonny Rollins including his rhythmical sophistications and creativity.... he is awesome...... Can I transfer any of this into my playing ...I hope so...at least I'm giving it a chance!
Many people say...find your own voice...well the voice I have is uneducated, and anyway even copying others who are masters or others even who are just better is education.
So in short ...I encourage you to find the enjoyable parts (to you) of any version of any of the tunes we have a crack at...this way it's more enjoyable and therefore more likely to improve on!
Well yes, that brings up the thought, when encouraging others with their efforts on playing a tune, actually how to encourage someone, without putting them down. Realising, maybe what they don't hear about there own playing needs to be told, also even though I can't myself play any better, is it appropriate to advise/tell others where I think they can improve on.
It's a bit like the Coursera course, one needs a healthy mix of being open to hear your own faults, while retaining enthusiasm to help yourself to make improvements.
I am finding actually all the tunes I really delve into I come to really like... I wouldn't have picked, like Olhos De Gato or How High the Moon.....they became more enjoyable as I focused on the finer points of them.
I'm starting to really enjoy solid focus and the grinding into ones mind, memory, & fingers a particular tune and transcribing certain sections, with a mix of ear and figuring out which notes etc then really copying exactly the timing the tone the weight of each note, the phrasing, the flow from phrase to phrase.
I'm doing this on the Sonny Rollins version of How High the Moon... I don't care if this is pure copying... I am learning so much in the process.... I've spent the last three nights of an hour per night on his first 32 bars....which is only 47 seconds in total...and now I have so much more appreciation of the genius and the sound of Sonny Rollins including his rhythmical sophistications and creativity.... he is awesome...... Can I transfer any of this into my playing ...I hope so...at least I'm giving it a chance!
Many people say...find your own voice...well the voice I have is uneducated, and anyway even copying others who are masters or others even who are just better is education.
So in short ...I encourage you to find the enjoyable parts (to you) of any version of any of the tunes we have a crack at...this way it's more enjoyable and therefore more likely to improve on!
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