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Krisper read this comments from David Crosby on music education,when i listen to pieces like "Guinnevere" or Deja-vu is hard to believe that David wasn´t schooled at all.This pieces are so harmonically complex they can teach a lesson to any highly educated composer.I still get chills when i listen to them... Luis http://www.acousticguitar.com/issues/ag87/CoverStory.shtml --- Krispen Hartung <info@krispenhartung.com> wrote: > Matthias: "while the learning really comes from > playing, and for this, I > contribute with instruments and music :-)" > > Isn't this the truth! If I could only execute half > the theoretical music > and jazz theory academia in my brain, I'd be.....eh, > well, a player who > thinks too much and plays too many notes in > performances? ;) > > Seriously, however, I am a huge proponent of > learning in music and > applying in performance. I think many musicians, > including myself, after > years of growing on our instruments begin to rest on > our laurels and > don't push ourselves anymore. I can hear it in the > playing of myself and > others. After a while we become cover musicians of > our own clichés and > performance styles. Sure, we learn new gimmicks, > tricks, and clichés, > but I find that actual significant leaps in personal > musical growth are > difficult after playing for 25 years. It is easy to > use gear (looping > included) to hide behind this fact, but if we remove > all the loops, > gear, effects, and alterations, and then gaze upon > the naked notes and > raw playing, what is the net gain? If we remove the > approving "ooohs > and awwws" of what we've done with our technical > savvy, what have we > accomplished artistically? (these are rhetorical > questions, by the way) > > My last big spurt was when I joined a World-Beat > band, in which I also > learned the sitar. I pushed myself to learn new > harmonic textures > (Eastern, Middle-Eastern, etc) and rhythms....and > that learning has > stuck with me for the long run. And several years > before that it was > jazz, the biggest leap in my musical vocabulary and > expansion of my > musical palette(again, that painting analogy) to > eexpressmyself. One > could ask, "who the heck cares that you can play a > melodic minor scale a > half step aabove an altered dominant chord to > generate interesting > tension and release with flat 9s, flat 5s, etc?" > Well, at the moment, > that bit of theory would seem pedantic, but after > one internalizes and > consciously "forgets" the approach during live > performances, it can > still influence your playing and musical vocabulary > to express more > effectively. It's the old saying about > theory...learn it, internalize > it, and then forget it. > > One of my guitar mentors once said in a video if you > can just spend 10 > minutes a day learning something new on your > instrument, whether it is a > new chord, scale, or improvisational technique, you > can improve > tremendously over time. It doesn't necessarily > require that Julliard > 8-hour a day routine. This is easier said than done, > of course...at the > end of the day, what I've done is tweaked more > knobs, modified more > parameters, and screwed with more MP3 files than > actually improving as a > musician. > > On accation, we should all lock ourselves in a room > for a week with > nothing but an acoustic instrument and tape recorder > and see if we come > out with something new in the end. Of course, by > that time, some smart > ass would have re-wired the tape recorder to be a > looping device! Heh > heh. > > ********************************* > Krispen Hartung > http://www.krispenhartung.com > info@krispenhartung.com > > > > > > > ===== www.luis-angulo.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com