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"Life is short. Play hard." - AlanN
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Reminds me of the story I heard of a club band named Wild Country who drove from way down South to a club in North Carolina, where they played as the house band every summer for eleven years. That was before they changed their name and became known as country supergroup Alabama.
-- Johnson MA-100 Mando
-- Eastman MDO-305 OM
-- 3 Seagull Merlin dulcimers (2GDG, 1DAD)
-- 1952 Harmony Roy Smeck guitar
-- Ortega Lizzie Ubass
-- Leigh Campbell electric violin
-- Pfretzschner violin
-- Glaesel viola
-- Ibanez acoustic/electric guitar
-- Misc: a cello, 2 cigarbox guitars, charango, djembe, slide dulcimer.
What do you think about this? (caution some profanity and english humor) https://youtu.be/QUUFb-1hBtw
Agreed. I've worked my tail off at music for 35 years and have achieved more than many. But fall FAR short of the household names discussed here and on the guitar forums that I hang out at. So when someone tells me that I "must have natural ability" I just chuckle. My family could attest to how many countless hours I locked myself away in my music room to practice. My wife and friends could also attest to how frustrated I get when comparing my ability/talent to the prodigies and icons. Just an also-ran. But evidently, I'll keep doing it until the day I die, because I don't really know how to do otherwise.
Yep, he had talent and the necessary balance of OCD and humility to work his ars off. I understand that he had serious mouthpiece acquisition syndrome, not because he liked them, but because he was always searching for an elusive “perfect” tone. I started on tenor sax, and, man, when I first heard the Giant Steps album...daaaaamnnnn...
Chuck
Ya mpc acquisition is popular among reedists - on that point maestro wouldn't have differed from most sax players ..
Here's one more if the ted talk guy wasn't provocative enough .. my favorite anthropologist terence (inspired much of my undergrad education )talking here about mythology, space travel, j joyce etc (interiorization of the body and exteriorization of the soul) .. scroll to 52:00" to jump right in..
https://youtu.be/h086dG4mZ7U
Nature vs. Nurture? Listen to this kid play. Ive been a musician 53 of my 59 years and try as I did, and still do, I'll never be able to play like this. Go gettem Matteo! https://youtu.be/ST9--HWOTA8
Listening to the portion about the test for whether playing music alters cellular building blocks (or something like that) which then makes visible the soul of a person makes me wonder about something.
If someone says they practice X amount and no matter how hard they try they can't get anywhere near as good as "____." Well, maybe the person has the wrong destination in mind. Maybe they're not supposed to sound like the players they cite. Maybe they are hardwired to play and sound like something or someone else.
If Elvis, Frank Sanatra, Dean Martin, George Strait, Johnny Cash etc tried to sound like Whitney Houston or some prepubescent boyband singer, I doubt they'd have even made their mothers smile with their natural "talent."
Perhaps before we play a single note we should listen for the musician hidden within. Only after we hear our own, unique sound, the one we were born to play, can we then properly practice to achieve that sound. Maybe everything else is just a means of physical exercise rather than an exercise in artistic revelation.
Deep lunchtime thoughts. Haha
Yes! Interiority.
Dawg said,basically,that years ago. Play(not practice) until you develop your own unique sound/style.
Maybe it is time for me to grow some of those special mushrooms. But first lets define time...
So John Coltrane "had serious mouthpiece acquisition syndrome"? Sounds like a whole new definition of MAS. Reassuring to know it's not just for stringed instruments.
Last edited by catmandu2; Nov-28-2019 at 12:35am.
...oops - which anyone can do. All these vids and all are trying to get you to do it. I have a strong compulsion also to encourage this...just another neuroticism
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