by: john andrews

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:18:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment @Martypants. You folowed up exactly where my heart was… that as an individual member of the group, I do a TON of work (”practice”) before joining the group. In SEO consulting this is a real issue. Most other team members practice much less than good SEO people, and it is often difficult to get paid enough to justify the work required to “learn the piece well enough to perform”.

by: Martypants

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:10:36 +0000

I like this one John. As a musician myself, I’ll jump on in, if I am not being too bold.
But you hit on the fact that being with the other musicians creates something greater than any of the individual parts. I completely agree - but I’d add to that, that an individual is going to have to keep on practicing, mostly alone, with only fleeting, occasional glimpses of the groove available most often. It is a lot of chords and theory, or strokes and rudiments, and then a willingness to jump in and try something without going too far. Taste in time, comes from the combination of being able to do fancy things, but usually choosing not to.
You need to understand the groove initimately on your own, and how you relate to it before you have anything worth sharing - or something that others can effectively share with you.
But in time, with practice and a slow dedication, it becomes an amazingly powerful way to communicate and commingle with others…the groove becomes more intrinsic and natural, and expression can at that point, turn more seriously to art and unique interpretation. Though it may be fun all along the way, there are definitely many many hours of “boring” before it clicks. And many hours after that to make sure the groove never gets too far away.
Thanks for this -

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