Tags: Music practice

Playing with Silence: The Value of the Rest. Part 2.

Dec 24, 2013Uncategorized 0 Comments

“Don’t play what’s there; play what’s not there.” -Miles Davis In part one of this series I touched on the importance of focusing attention the resting places in music.  
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The “HOW” vs. the “WHAT”. Remembering What Matters in Music

Dec 19, 2013Uncategorized 0 Comments

Like most musicians and songwriters, I’ve chased after ghosts: grasped at that far-off, elusive thing that all my heroes seemed to have.  How the hell do they do it!?  Naturally,
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The Trouble With Music Appreciation

Dec 12, 2013Uncategorized 0 Comments

“The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.” Igor Stravinsky

Playing with Silence: The Value of the Rest (Part 1)

Dec 10, 2013Uncategorized 0 Comments

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” – Aldous Huxley Musicians love to talk about how the silences in a piece are just as important
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