| Being on "Time"
I'm a university trumpet player and gig alot in the summers but more freelance quintet/pops/orchestral stuff. Obviously I should have been keeping up my jazz playing, but... regrets, regrets.
After a time away from improvising or playing in the jazz idiom I find that my articulations are too heavy and I can't swing, I'm either too ricky-ticky or too straight. One of my teachers reminded me about the metronome, so that's been helping, but I'm still not swinging like I want to be. Any advice? |