| What's on your stand?
I just took a hefty load of music off mine and placed it on the floor. What's on my stand? NOTHING.........and it's going to stay that way for a while.
I attended a Jazzmobile Masterclass yesterday and realized how dependent on the music on the stand I have become. Jimmy Owens ran the class, it lasted about an hour.
During the hour Jimmy talked about the requirements for a musician. The knowledge of scales, intervals and chords was stressed. This was to be done without music in front of you on your stand. The making of a player, no matter what the ultimate area of performance , should be firmly based in theory.
So it's back to basics for me............I am working on scales in fourths, In all the keys.
I am putting the Sam Krauss line I use as my signature into action.
Wilmer |