Re: Horns shredd pollock roadmap

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 23 maj 2007, at 19.49, Mark Sottilaro wrote:

> Upon a recommendation of a friend, I started internally "mouthing"  
> my notes when playing and I find it really helps with the  
> musicality of your phrasing whether your playing guitar or any  
> other instrument.

That seems to be a good trick! "Mouthing" played guitar notes is good  
way to remember that you should be serius with every note you play  
and never play a note out of habit. Sticking to that attitude is a  
good way to learn good musicianship.

Generally I think this discussion misses the point a bit. It's not  
the need to breath that keeps inspired musicians playing lead lines  
as phrases with pauses thrown in here and there. They simply do it  
because it sounds better that way! If you listen to a good piano  
player or guitar player he also does it that way - it's not just a  
horn thing or vocalist thing. I can think of two reasons why someone  
would play "all the time" with no pauses - either he is uninspired or  
he is reaching for a certain effect by playing that way (as when  
Miles Davis told bandmate Mike Stern to play loudly, fast and with no  
pauses on the guitar).

per