Hi Corey,
What's in your mind when you play? Do you see scales, hear notes, have a feeling, totally let go?
Thanks!
Really ... what do you mean by that?
I realize this may be a bit of an odd question ... but it's something I think about a lot as I think there are some important insights into understanding what's in the mind of Artist like yourself when he or she is playing.
For instance, for the longest time, I imagined scale patterns on the fretboard and ran up and down them ... which in hindsight, is probably totally wrong ... yet a natural thing for a visual engineer like me to do. It's like I was writing sentences with random words.
@mike...I imagine a circle turning in a clockwise direction and that keeps me on the one. I don't try to think about scales and chords, just like I don't think about grammar or vocabulary when I speak.
@Corey ... Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. I like your analogy about not thinking about grammar or vocabulary when you speak.
It's interesting in that the more I learn from you, Duke and Jerry ... the more convinced I am that I learned music the wrong way ... i.e. thinking of scales, tab, patterns etc. Unfortunately, I think most people learn music the wrong way.
One thing I'm also noticiing by learning from you is that I'm starting to pick up little accents / phrasing's that you play ... which is again like language ... i.e. if I was in Ireland, Alabama, England, Boston Chicago or California ... the way I would speak English would be different. I would be saying almost all the same words, but how I speak (my tone and phrasing) would be different.
Thanks!
@Jeff .. yeah, it's always good to know where you're going. I need to do that more!
@Mike...you welcome. Music is a universal language, it's true. I learned the wrong way too...still trying to get it right. The more I live and play I realize that its just about the twelve notes in the scale and rhythms. Thanks.
