Re: "Perspective/Perception Is Everything"

[rich <rich@nuvisionsca.com>]

>Yoda said "You must unlearn what you have learned"...I do want to
>make it clear that any form of music is great, trained or untrained, but
>on a personal level, I want to appoach the musical creation process in a
>fresh and almost naive way.
>
>just some thoughts. ;-)

And then there are folks like me, who started playing in a fresh and 
(very) naive way.  and i've been doing it for over 12 years now.  i'm 
proud of alot of the work i've done, but some walls are starting to 
appear.  how do i get over this wall without knowing where the steps 
are?  i think there are advantages/disadvantages to both sides.

makes me think of a section of the Miles Davis autobio, where Miles 
is talking about jamming with Hendrix.  Miles would say, ok, lets 
start with this diminished whatever...and Jimi would have this blank 
look on his face, not understanding...and Miles would have to back up 
and describe it in a different way so the guy who didn't understand 
'formal' music would get it.  Wow.  would have loved to been a fly on 
the wall there!

best,

rich