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| Author: | percusski [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | new band |
so i've started working with a new group of guys playing jazz/fusion based music, highly improvised and quite free in places...haven't played this stuff in a quite a few years but really enjoying the whole listening and reacting thing again. When you play too much 'composed' music i really think that you miss out on the core communicative aspects of music (as in communication with your fellow musicians)...what do you guys reckon? |
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| Author: | cliff [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: new band |
Hey Nick, Delighted to hear that you are in this new project. Developing the vocabulary and learning the grammar are all for the purpose of having these conversations. Enjoy the new opportunity. |
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| Author: | Gregory [ Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: new band |
Yes, I agree, percusski... although I think that one can over-compose composed music and under-compose whatever we might call the other: probably the great bands have all found themselves in communication regardless how strict the composition. It is when we merely are making the music that we forget it is all about communication. In any case, congrats and great joy in the project. I can relate to what you are experiencing, and I'm genuinely pleased for you! |
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| Author: | percusski [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: new band |
thanks guys! What i'm enjoying is the freedom for the music to evolve in unexpected directions, it's like three people discussing a subject, really exploring the subject matter and then through sometimes subtle suggestion a new topic is introduced, maybe connected maybe not, and the whole process starts again. As a player, for me at least, part of the excitement lies in the potential danger of a 'mistake' waiting at any time, when you're really pushing yourself little things expose themselves, and these things never materialise when you practise by yourself, simply because there is no dialogue when by yourself. When playing music that is composed, a specific groove and so on, although there is listening it never feels like dialogue, more so that one is saying the same thing over and over. |
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| Author: | Gregory [ Fri Aug 31, 2012 1:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: new band |
Yep. Up there without a net.
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