| LearnJazzPiano.com archives: my situation thus far... | |
| fingers -- 07/03/2005, 12:08:06 -- #16082 | |
| So now Ive been Four years since I switched over from professionaly playing as a rock/punk/blues guitar, over to sitting at this nice piano in front of me , sittng down is preferable to jumping around a stage with a les paul straped around me neck (and at my age) Now to some of you, i can already hear the scoffing "Hmmpff-rock and roll retard now thinks he can just pick up and become some jazz giant all of a sudden!" Welllll... After four years of lessons with two great teachers, a lot of time sitting in front of my KB down in the basement, I think Im beginning to get the idea. mind you, i truely realize that jazz and piano in general is an endless journey, yes, yes, Im aware.. But one thing I was good at in my bands that i have performed live in front of huge audiences, and recording in some top name studios, and my music being heard on *ahem*- national sydicated FM stations, I feel i can bring some of that experience to jazz, which, frankly is still regarded as either archaic or too snobbishly abstact for the public senses I may be short on playing ability, but i got a damn good sense of COMPOSITION- meaning i can write tunes and lyrics like a machine because 1 my brain works that way and 2 theres method to that madness Song writing and tune writing have similar methods, and i hear early jazz work from Monk Brubeck and Evans , I see where they take a seed of an idea, keep it simple, then grow it like ....weed Soooo... I want to start a band with a stand up or fretless electric bass and a jazz/blue/rock/ funk drummer- KISS (Keep It Simple,Sammy) I got ,like, 20 seedlings on tape. When i feel creative, i just run 1 track on my 4 track machine, and let it roll for 45 minutes- play anything that pops into my head- no matter how crazed,pink notes I hit and later play it back, looking for "seeds" Little inspirations lead to bigger inspirations | |
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