playing jazz is kind of like SEX,,Watching is NOT as much FUN,, i am playing this inanimate keyboard because i am too cheap to install wi-fi on my Steinway, some of my favorite jazz licks,,, The basic principle of jazz soloing is repetition with variety, the listener is constantly making infinitesimal predictions, as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something,, or something completely different,, The listener must be right about, say, half the time,,,, if the listener is too successful in prediction, he will be BORED,,, if he is too unsuccessfull, he will give up and call the music disorganized trash,, thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listeners attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue, then if the phrase keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how gosh darn long the pattern is going to continue, and does the audience have to applaud to get the guy to play something else? lol,, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagination he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing,,, its kinda like tic-tac-toe, verse chess or figuring out what women really think,lol darn tootin' r browne a note on walking bass lines,,say you are in c7,, the easiest way is always play the root c on one, the third e on two,,, and then it depends what the next chord is,,,, if the next chord is the same, just walk up ...
Art Tatum jazz Lesson for Excited Deliriums with Harmony & Nevaeh
Art Tatum jazz Lesson for Excited Deliriums with Harmony & Nevaeh Tube. Duration : 8.00 Mins.
playing jazz is kind of like SEX,,Watching is NOT as much FUN,, i am playing this inanimate keyboard because i am too cheap to install wi-fi on my Steinway, some of my favorite jazz licks,,, The basic principle of jazz soloing is repetition with variety, the listener is constantly making infinitesimal predictions, as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something,, or something completely different,, The listener must be right about, say, half the time,,,, if the listener is too successful in prediction, he will be BORED,,, if he is too unsuccessfull, he will give up and call the music disorganized trash,, thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listeners attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue, then if the phrase keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how gosh darn long the pattern is going to continue, and does the audience have to applaud to get the guy to play something else? lol,, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagination he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing,,, its kinda like tic-tac-toe, verse chess or figuring out what women really think,lol darn tootin' r browne a note on walking bass lines,,say you are in c7,, the easiest way is always play the root c on one, the third e on two,,, and then it depends what the next chord is,,,, if the next chord is the same, just walk up ...
playing jazz is kind of like SEX,,Watching is NOT as much FUN,, i am playing this inanimate keyboard because i am too cheap to install wi-fi on my Steinway, some of my favorite jazz licks,,, The basic principle of jazz soloing is repetition with variety, the listener is constantly making infinitesimal predictions, as to whether the next event will be a repetition of something,, or something completely different,, The listener must be right about, say, half the time,,,, if the listener is too successful in prediction, he will be BORED,,, if he is too unsuccessfull, he will give up and call the music disorganized trash,, thus if the player starts a repetitive pattern, the listeners attention drops away as soon as he has successfully predicted that it is going to continue, then if the phrase keeps going, the attention curve comes back up, and the listener becomes interested in just how gosh darn long the pattern is going to continue, and does the audience have to applaud to get the guy to play something else? lol,, if the player never repeats anything, no matter how tremendous an imagination he has, the listener will decide that the game is not worth playing,,, its kinda like tic-tac-toe, verse chess or figuring out what women really think,lol darn tootin' r browne a note on walking bass lines,,say you are in c7,, the easiest way is always play the root c on one, the third e on two,,, and then it depends what the next chord is,,,, if the next chord is the same, just walk up ...
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