Hi I'm a 64 yr old jazz guitarist and all around musician and agree with everything you said ! I enjoy others way of doing things. Good work ! keep it up !
I was vaguely aware that all of these things were important but it was so unorganized in my brain that I had no idea where to start. I can’t wait to get into my next step now this is great.
I find all the information that you give in this video is very important, and is explained in a very smart way. It give me the possibility to look and review my own way to approach the study of my instrument, and be more aware about what is priority and how to organize the study. Thanks a lot!
This was a great video. I'm a violin player. Not right now, but down the road, I may join the "inner circle". I like your teaching approach. Makes sense at the practical level. I already do some improvising but I'm not happy with the level of improvisation. I know pretty much where the weaknesses are.....
Micro and Macro language is like words and full sentences... I often use the parallel to language too, when teaching people. I refer to it as learning vocabulary. In order to speak in a certain crowd you have to speak that crowds language to coherently take part in the conversation (jam).. So listen to a LOT of jazz, try and figure out what players are doing when you hear something you like, then try to integrate that in your vocabulary.. ie learn to use it in a sentence (and in context)... Also when playing to practice it is fine to think about the theory of what you're doing (like learning how to build a correct sentence you can only do, if you understand the functional parts of the sentence and how they go together)..BUT when actually playing DON'T. Just like in a conversation you wouldn't be thinking about sentence building etc.. but you just talk, you will generally know what to do, there'll be mistakes and that's ok too... Thinking about the grammar and theory is not helping a normal conversation it just distracts.. Like: You know how to talk, just say what you want to say.. Thinking about the theory of what you're playing places you outside the zone, You're not focused on the conversation, but just on what you're gonna say and how you're gonna say it.. Like in a normal conversation you should be listening and reacting to what's said... Theory and thinking of it is getting in the way of actually doing it. You get a really disjointed conversation if someone is not listening but thinking about what he's going to say next, and then just blurts it out when he thinks he knows (Presidential debates of late). Or when the person currently speaking is done.. (I see that happening a lot on jams... You wouldn't have a conversation like that. Why do exactly that when you're playin together?...) Trust yourself that you can have an actual dialogue without thinking theoretically about what you're going to say, but maybe just of what you're going to say in relation to what's being said in that conversation.. Make sure you have a lot of vocabulary for that makes one eloquent. If you have a repertoire of a lot of things you could say in context.. listen to what's being said and react using that... Make sure you know how to build a sentence, make sure you have a big vocabulary... then.. JUST TALK. (or rather converse... because listening is an important part of things too)
Thanks for sharing this. I was thinking that learning scales is ok... But better off learning intervals and and model sequences. Your video would be more fluent, shorter and probably you could devote good time and concentrating to explaining your 3pillars if you made a point first and just flashed it up on our screens. (Just trying to be helpful).
