Live Lesson | Letting Go with Writing and Improvisation
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Hi Everyone,
In this live lesson, I tackle the nuanced and tricky topic of how to practice growing your comfort zone to get into that mode where soloing feels effortless. I talked about Thinking Mode vs Feeling Mode and how important it is to deliberately hang out in one place or the other - one for performance, writing, soloing, and the other for detailed problem solving, deliberate and specific practice, and music theory clarification.
In my opinion, if you are deliberate about bouncing between these two modes, they'll gradually start to overlap, which lets to focus more clearly on the parts that aren't overlapping!
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Comments
I am an INFP, and very much relate to it, but I think the F is the weakest for me
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-05 21:02:08 +0000 UTCWatched this on a flight home last night. Tried it this morning and absolutely love it.
Jeff Sanders
2023-10-05 16:16:55 +0000 UTCHey Scott - I couldn't watch this in real time, but it really hit home with me. "Thinking vs. Feeling" is one of the 4 Myers-Brigs personality traits; many employers test for this. I am a retired electrical engineer. Because of our education and the kind of work we do, most engineers are high on thinking and low on feeling; I assume artists tend to be the opposite. This lesson really helped me understand why I am the way I am and will help me advance with improvising. Fascinating stuff! I really appreciate this.
Boro
2023-10-05 00:14:04 +0000 UTCHey Simon - let me know if it's still happening in an hour or two - Patreon just did a big update and that sometimes messes things up
Scott Paul Johnson
2023-10-04 21:47:06 +0000 UTCHey guys I’m new here and just started to do the music theory course and I’m having the time of life! Unfortunately since 3 days the links for the videos that guide me to Vimeo don’t work anymore and I always get this error message: “Sorry, we couldn’t find that page Make sure you’ve typed the URL correctly, or try searching Vimeo. You could also watch one of the videos below instead” I would appreciate any help a soon as possible. Thank you!
Simon Rube
2023-10-04 21:15:54 +0000 UTCIt took me a few minutes, but I realised this also overlaps nicely with the question I asked last week, about those notes that fall outside the key. So many great things in this, thank you.
Graeme B
2023-10-04 19:07:08 +0000 UTCSooo good!
Tasha McManus
2023-10-04 06:27:47 +0000 UTCThanks Scott. Always good to check in.
Peter
2023-10-03 23:56:32 +0000 UTC
