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Tony K wrote: >> As an aside to this already off-topic thread, one of my complaints >> with something like a Berklee / GIT education is that they drill the >> mistakes right out of you. A side effect of this is that people are >> left with only their imagination to rely on, as they rarely have need >> to recover from mistakes, which is often some of the most inventive >> playing, IMO. >> > > I had a friend when I was learning to play who told me if I made a > mistake, just repeat it and everybody will think I did it on purpose. ;) > > Wasn't it Miles Davis who said that if you aren't making mistakes, you > aren't playing Jazz? You've got a ;) after the above, but that's what I do during a live performance: if I throw something in that doesn't sound right--I force myself to try to make something good out of that mistake. Sometime it works, sometimes not. Andrew -- Andrew Duke scoring/sound design/source http://andrew-duke.com http://myspace.com/andrewduke Cognition Audioworks label [Andrew Duke, Foal, Clinker, Granny'Ark] http://cognitionaudioworks.com http://myspace.com/cognitionaudioworks