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[Don Kasper]

Hi,
No, I don’t teach.
I do understand the importance of being able to quantify and properly “unpack” these things in order to help us understand them...particularly in educational settings. I’ve got to apologize, sometimes I just get testy I guess.
I remember years ago sitting in a room with Bob Berg and a class full of eager students(as a student). After blasting through some choruses of rhythm changes(or possible another standard) one of the students asked him why he played a certain “thing” or “note” in a certain spot. His response was, “because it sounds good”. He also had other surprisingly “simplistic” answers that day...Indidnt learn any new jazz theory that day but I learned a lot.

Thank You for your response, lowphat....NO apology is necessary.
I, too, can get "testy...", esp. these days.
I appreciate your considerate comments and follow up.
Stay Well.

 

[Don Kasper]

one of the students asked him why he played a certain “thing” or “note”

I've always wanted to ask the question - "what was the process(es), (esp. in your formative years), that led you to play what you just played?" (not necessarily "WHY.....".)
Fascinating topic, IMO.
Thanks for the conversation.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

[QUOTE="Chris Fitzgerald: EEMWDSOCB, etc.)]what???

Everybody Else's Mother Wears Dirty, Smelly Old Combat Boots.

 

[Tom Lane]

Everybody Else's Mother Wears Dirty, Smelly Old Combat Boots.

Not to be confused with the more effusive: EEMWPORSDSCBMII
Everybody Else's Mother Wears Pus Oozing, Rancid, Soul Destroyingly Stinky, Combat Boots Made In Indonesia

You get those Kentuckians ruffled and they REALLY let you have it! Don't ask me how I know.

 

[Whousedtoplay]

(not necessarily "WHY.....".)

I view "that kind of (irritating) question" as
(diplomatically-speaking)
1. A beginner question.
2. A bullishly-mediocre musicians's question.

 

[Don Kasper]

I view "that kind of (irritating) question" as
(diplomatically-speaking)
1. A beginner question.
2. A bullishly-mediocre musicians's question.

Well, there are No Stupid Questions, I guess, but some questions are dangerously Stupid Adjacent.
IMFO, of course.
Thanks!

 

[MLysh]

Bob Berg!

As a kid, I walked up to him after a Horace Silver set and asked him how much he practiced every day. He said he never practiced. I asked him how he could play the way he did if he never practiced. He said he heard things in his head and he spent his time playing those things over and over and over.