Keeping form when it starts to get crazy . . .

[Gyoon]

Happy New Year, Janek!

I feel I'm quite capable of keeping the form when the playing is quite predictable. But when phrases get started on certain parts of the beat, or when odd accented groupings start occuring, then the form can start to get a little fuzzy for me. I find that I'm particularly weak when figures get played "over the bar line", resolving in the middle of a 4-bar phrase ( I find it easiest to hear the form in 4-bar chunks).

What do you do when this happens? (if it still happens to you anymore) Any tips on how to get over this? Any possibility of talking about "over the bar line" playing in your next PodCast?

Thaks, man. Your doing a good thing with this forum.

Glenn

[Sorax]

The way I see it man you just gotta be strong enough in your own sense of the form, melody, and time, that when someone else starts playing around on it you can be confident enough to hold it down, or to go with them and know that you'll come back in the right place. The stronger you are in your own sense of where things are, you and anyone you're playing with will be able to play so much freer because of that confidence. So I guess things any of us can do is keep working on time, and working on knowing the forms of tunes we play until we know them inside out.

my 0.02

[janekbass]

It's all about be responsible for your own time and not having to rely on something steady to be there all the time for you to lean on.

I'll try and cover some stuff in the next podcast. I don't get back until the 9th and only have a couple of days at home before I start working again so it'll be tight, but I'll try my best to sneak a podcast in before I leave again.

Easy,

Janek