In Effortless Mastery, Kenny Werner describes his story of growing up in Manhattan and his school, television, lack of attention, and playing piano. He describes the dysfunctional life and learning that took place. [asa]B001QJR8KY[/asa] This got me to thinking about some of my experiences when I was learning and practicing music. There are many distractions, […]
Improvising is often thought of as the ultimate creative objective. However, starting within a framework or structure is where most improvising takes place. Taking the opposites of structure/rules and creativity and working them together is the objective of the musician and music student. Some thoughts on how to accomplish this goal…
I’ve taken the steps from applied music theory, implemented practice method, and polishing for performance, now for the critique.
As I look back on my efforts with this blog, I’m a little disappointed in that I have not received a great deal of feedback or commentary. It appears that there is really only a few that are interested in these subjects. Although the ezine list is hovering around the 300 subscribers area only about 15 to 20% are taking time to click through and read or scan the posts.
I recorded the full arrangement of the Christmas song for this Christmas Eve post. However the blog had a problem and didn’t post as scheduled. So hopefully better late than never. The recording was not under the best of conditions and I didn’t realize just how hard I the arrangement came out to just sit […]
Video and pdf summarizing the Christmas Song arrangement by stepping through series covered over the last couple of months. Enjoy..
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