Joseph Maynor

I think we need to contemplate if we are communicating for real on here or not. That goes to truth too I hope!

This no separate self thing gets old just like the no self thing IMO.

Jim Newman wouldn't be able to fool me, but I would still do coffee or dinner with him.

Use your direct experience to find out.

Again, this dismissal of the self also dismisses actual relation. It is a way to neg someone or negate someone by claiming they have too much I -- but really the people doing this are hiding behind the scenes too. Hiding behind a fence.

Interacting with people you never met before in real life online.

@Human Mint I always hated learning patterns and avoided that. I was very steadfast that I wanted to completely improvise all the time. I never enjoyed doing exercises or playing them. I disliked playing with a metronome and still do. I read a lot of theory so I understand that well. Also I listened to a ton of Jazz albums and other music. I spent a lot of time learning scales by applying them. I hate practicing scales without playing a song. So for me, the way I learned Jazz is by playing actual songs and playing on the bandstand, which taught me more about Jazz protocol which is different than practicing playing better Jazz. For me it is all about sound. I need to play a 4 bar or 8 bar chord progression and hear how I am sounding. And it has to be completely improvised and original to me. I am very uncompromising in that way. I am jamming over the music to enjoy it myself first always. Then my own style emerges on its own. I try not to memorize any licks, even my own. If I do play the same sort of thing over a tune, it is because of finger memory not because I deliberately decided to play it there. It is all intuitive. When I improvise all I'm doing is listening and reacting.

You're right. I don't like to do it yet, but a great way to practice is to play with a metronome only after playing a lot with a playalong. I learned this from a teacher. I don't have the discipline to do this yet though.

@Uddi Great video. The problem with aggression is it comes back to bite you. It might be good for his social media channel, but if he wants to teach again, that is the problem. He is not using a fake identity like most people online.

The sport of competitive eating.

The there is no you stuff gets old.

I practice for 2 hours every day, no skipping days, I play a lot more keyboard to pop music and I transpose the keyboard (there is a setting to do this) to trumpet, so the tonalities are all the same. I work on one tune deeply each month. I try to play a jam session once a week. I have all my practice playalongs programmed into iReal with the real book chords. I listen to a lot of Chet Baker to see what he is doing and follow along with the chart. I stay away from any kind of books or teachers. I try to play like Chet Baker, mid range, nothing too flashy, but perfect time, melody, harmony and music principles in general.

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Epistemology means theory of knowledge, no?

I'm almost done watching the first 100 clips. They are excellent! I have to go through them carefully with my own reflection.

I'm glad you mentioned this because I was thinking about trying to make this same point. I love playing Jazz trumpet as a hobby but that is not my life purpose. I will never stop playing music because I love it, but I will never be a professional trumpet player. But I accept it as a hobby. My life purpose is more aligned with sharing personal development and spiritual insights.

The older you get, the more skilled at the artistry of conversation you get.

You have to have a natural charismatic energy to do the warm approach which is the inverse of cold approach. This is where people want to talk to you. And you have no agenda other than to create a fun and mutually rewarding conversation. It is about being light, not pushy. As a caveat, this is all in person for me, I'm not talking about online. The charisma I'm referring to is in person. Online is weird because it is more skewed toward visual wordplay. I'm referring to creating conversation face to face, one on one or in a group situation.

I tried everything, lots of Jazz theory books, paying for lessons, practicing hard. None of it resonated that well. What I realize now is I didn't stick with a consistent daily practice routine that actually produces results. I was too scatterbrained in my practice.

You do need right practice though and right advice in artistry. For example, I wasted probably 10 years trying to learn Jazz trumpet and even practicing for 4 hours a day a lot of time, but because I was not practicing the way I do now, I wasn't making much improvement at all.

I can play Jazz trumpet without feeling like I need to be as good as Miles Davis.

They are doing it to connect with you and then you don't connect.

I think it can sometimes be OCD. It depends.