| play long tones. learn your instrument. know where each sound exists and learn what you need to do to get there. jazz is less about the notes and more about speaking yourself, your insides, through pure and raw sound. you know how words sometimes get in the way of what you're really trying to say? thats what this is like; although knowing your scales and chords is valuable, to know sound and be able to manipulate it (like einstein's relativity, learn how to manipulate the energy of sound through time and space) will take you much further than merely focusing on named notes, scales, and chords. if you make music with musicians of other cultures, where Western music theory both is unknown and inadequate, you will still have to make music; therefore, cases such as these, to know sound and time and space will prove to be infinitely more valuable than relying on mere scales and chords.
play long tones. learn your instrument. know where each sound exists and learn what you need to do to get there.
hotep
kundun ka sabaka |