Zen Posts: slow it down

Slow it all down until you hear and know all the ins and outs. Then slow it down again. Baby steps to Giant Steps. You'll never play it live anyway, so relax and have fun with it.

BRAIN DROPPINGS

Wynton Marsalis thinks he knows everything. He knows a hell of a lot, but noone is omniscient. Music is larger than any individual musician; even your favorite ones. Everything else is ego trippin' my peoples. :)

Brain Droppings

Do it or don't but please stop bitching about it.

Zen Posts: On Music Theory

Particular music theories contain solutions to culturally specific questions about musical structure and aesthetic value whose answers are then posed as objective universal realities. Music theories are more accurately described as music "strategies" whose questions already contain the answers. Transcendent musicians know better than to try to contain music in inherently dualistic, discursive ergo linguistic forms.

Zen Posts: Sucking

If you're sucking or you just suck, keep sucking until you don't suck anymore. :)

Zen Posts: intuition

Imagine the total sound field of the guitar so that you can extend the instrument's voice intuitively during improvisation. During a performance you may encounter something new.

Zen Posts: sustain

Although you have to account for the lack of sustain on the guitar, do not think of the guitar as a non-sustaining instrument. The latter is a mistake that will limit your possibilities.

You are the instrument.