What Music truly is

[Human Mint]

Below it's a good video on the practical side of learning music. When you're young you're like a sponge and you can learn something, not practice for 2 months and still being able to remember. But as you get older that task becomes harder, but on the other hand you become a better and more conscious student.

The biggest challenge for beginners is going through the long phase of slow progress (everything is a weakness the first years). As you continue you find what you like in the big universe of music, and you work your way that path.

 

 

Edited June 16 by Human Mint

[Joseph Maynor]

@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.
 

 

Edited yesterday at 04:18 AM by Joseph Maynor