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gridjam · 06-08-2008, 12:53 AM

"Knowledge is happiness- if I learn something, it makes me happy" - Miles davis (said when he was in his 60's)
" This music takes a long time to get good at" - Freddie Hubbard.
(Spoken with intensity after insisting that a "funk" recording of a Monk tune by a young lion of the day, be turned off immediately!) One of my all-time favorite IAJE moments by the way!

with that in mind, be patient and enjoy the path that is yours to discover.
My path began with sound, I didn't like most of the trumpet sounds I heard when I was growing up. They seemed kind of shrill and forced. The more I sang and listened and sponged, and played and let go, the more I started to hear my own voice in the music.
Frankly David, 'some years' doesn't sound like much to me. If you can be patient and persistent. Write and study and have 'a life', you will inevitably find a unique way to express yourself. Beware of this IG (instant gratification) way of life we have been led astray into... good things take time and there is no teacher or computer program that can shorten that truth into sound bites, let-alone snippets from a forum. On that note, read and do what the forum cats say, the teachers too- then make decisions based on who you are and what you love!
Have fun...use the resources around you and get communicating.

06-08-2008, 12:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
gridjam Pianissimo User Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: New York Posts: 151	Re: Contemporary sound "Knowledge is happiness- if I learn something, it makes me happy" - Miles davis (said when he was in his 60's) " This music takes a long time to get good at" - Freddie Hubbard. (Spoken with intensity after insisting that a "funk" recording of a Monk tune by a young lion of the day, be turned off immediately!) One of my all-time favorite IAJE moments by the way! with that in mind, be patient and enjoy the path that is yours to discover. My path began with sound, I didn't like most of the trumpet sounds I heard when I was growing up. They seemed kind of shrill and forced. The more I sang and listened and sponged, and played and let go, the more I started to hear my own voice in the music. Frankly David, 'some years' doesn't sound like much to me. If you can be patient and persistent. Write and study and have 'a life', you will inevitably find a unique way to express yourself. Beware of this IG (instant gratification) way of life we have been led astray into... good things take time and there is no teacher or computer program that can shorten that truth into sound bites, let-alone snippets from a forum. On that note, read and do what the forum cats say, the teachers too- then make decisions based on who you are and what you love! Have fun...use the resources around you and get communicating.