(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...
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...
I'm the one who originally told pauln he hadn't written a correct haiku when he first posed one. So I know the form of a haiku. Was doing a goofy pauln one.
It's not recovering, it's called improvising. I play around with starting and ending phrases early or late all the time.
My recent favorite sentence (inspired by a James Blood Ulmer line TBH):...
I learn the lyrics and sing the melody while I practice (or try to figure out by ear) the changes. The lyrics are helpful for the phrasing and for the form.
Bruce Forman recommends to learn the...
Starting a phrase late
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