Month: June 2021

Just play the note.

Bouncy. Contemplative. Long. Short. With quick rhythm.

The one that matches your mood. Your head. Where you are at right now at the moment of creation.

If you find the right one, the one that matches, let it introduce itself and then go on.

Don’t be in such a hurry.

Enough will happen. It’s coming.

If you let it.

Let the note introduce itself.

Then watch where it goes and play that. You are watching, but you are it, too, at the same time. Watch it.

If you do, it will invite to play with it. Play with it.

Hold the music precisely, carefully, firmly but very loose at the same time. Just like the pick.

Don’t squeeze the life out of it.

Don’t become attached.

Let it come and let it go.

For it’s sister is right behind and she’s come play, too.

Dancing in circles

to bring us all the shades of being a human

the depths of the inner world speaking to us

in vibration, tone, patterns and shapes

somehow connected to emotion

let it play/speak/dance

How is that emotions are conveyed by the subtle sliding of a note? What mechanism is this?

Don’t always finish the idea.

Or not right away.

Sometimes not at all.

Then you can finish it, or go somewhere else.

What is this idea?

It is the beautiful math that presents itself.

Math I don’t understand but can just follow.

And, somehow I can play with this math.

I am built for it.

We are built of it.

Let it unfold.

the secret to improvisation – discovered today –

You have to play with no ego.

No thoughts of what’s cool. To you or anybody else.

No thoughts of what you’re “supposed” to play.

Listen. Stay focused on it. Follow the line.

You only half create it. It comes to you.

Let it.

Kill the Censor.

Let the sound and emotion lead you.

Beautiful Math will happen.

Let it.

Beautiful shapes dance around.

Let them.

Play.

Joy. Sorrow. Melancholia. Frantic. Contented.

Let the note introduce itself. And then it will tell you where to go.

Play.

Smile and be happy.

and sad.

Play what you are. As you are. Whatever level, it is good. Just be honest. If you are deeply immersed play with no judgement and striving to impress, focus, letting things create themselves and playing with them, you make great music. It is not mindless, it is many minds. You have to know the shapes, but you can discover them bit by bit. Just play and smile at the wondrous things that happen.

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listen to lots of good music. listen deeply.

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