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RE: Improv.. Any tricks?

Author: michael
Date: 2000-01-22 00:04

Mark Charette wrote:

As a guy who once made a partial living out of jazz bass playing ...<snip>...
Experimenting with rhythms in front of an audience can be a heady experience, too ... and only done when the band is having a real "together" night (you'll know those nights when they happen - I literally stopped playing one night to hear myself stop - I felt that I had lost conscious control of my fingers and that someone else was playing bass - my fingers were doing what I wanted without my thinking about them - but that only happened after many years of practicing with & without a band. I wish that experience on everyone - it is an epiphany.)...
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Mark, you made that sound like magic. I was married to a rock musician for ten years, and her band would sometimes venture into "Texas blues". I had a great time watching the audience watch the band. Now it's my turn. I want to get good enough to retire from medicine and play music--not too likely to happen, but I can dream.

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