Re: Horns shredd pollock roadmap

["Tilmann Dehnhard" <tilmann@dehnhard.com>]

miles also said to coltrane when asked about how to play less:
it might help to take the horn out of your mouth once in a while.

tilmann

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Horns shredd pollock roadmap


> On 23 maj 2007, at 19.49, Mark Sottilaro wrote:
> 
>> Upon a recommendation of a friend, I started internally "mouthing"  
>> my notes when playing and I find it really helps with the  
>> musicality of your phrasing whether your playing guitar or any  
>> other instrument.
> 
> That seems to be a good trick! "Mouthing" played guitar notes is good  
> way to remember that you should be serius with every note you play  
> and never play a note out of habit. Sticking to that attitude is a  
> good way to learn good musicianship.
> 
> Generally I think this discussion misses the point a bit. It's not  
> the need to breath that keeps inspired musicians playing lead lines  
> as phrases with pauses thrown in here and there. They simply do it  
> because it sounds better that way! If you listen to a good piano  
> player or guitar player he also does it that way - it's not just a  
> horn thing or vocalist thing. I can think of two reasons why someone  
> would play "all the time" with no pauses - either he is uninspired or  
> he is reaching for a certain effect by playing that way (as when  
> Miles Davis told bandmate Mike Stern to play loudly, fast and with no  
> pauses on the guitar).
> 
> per
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