| I have learned more from playing alongside of other fine players and by just focusing on what is coming out of the end of my horn than I have ever learned from an instructor. Call it the "School of Life" or whatever, but if you are self aware and are paying attention, you will learn trememdous amounts from what is going on around you. In a sense, every player that I talk to becomes and instructor because I take the time to listen and learn.
Then again, maybe that's why I'm just a section, utility player. I've never really defined my own style. Instead, I play by expressing through emulation of something that I have heard before. Even if I've never heard it before, I may have heard something like it and therefore I can emulate it.
This doesn't mean that I don't value a good instructor, because there comes a time where that is certainly a tool that can be used to move you to the next level.
__________________ Patrick Gleason
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"What we do in life echoes in eternity"
"At my signal, unleash hell."
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