Re: [Harp-L] hearing it in your head

["James Sterett" <jsterett@xxxxxxxxx>]

I find over thinking gets in the way of everything (this is based on my own personal over thinking demon.)  If you've got the chops, let them out.  Listen to the other musicians... maybe choose one instrument you're playing with an have a little back and forth/in and out kind of thing... then choose another...  the other instrument doesn't even necessarily have to be aware you're doing this.  The greatest thing, IMO, is when a band or even a duo, becomes one... imagine that... a gestalt kind of thing if you will.  tasty.  Examples of this oneness I would say are, The Meters, THe Foghorn Stringband, Tom Sauber and Mark Graham, The Improbabillies.

Jim.

>>> <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx> 2/8/2009 9:07 PM >>>
How to stimulate the imagination....good question, many different  techniques.
 
Here's a fun one:
 
Decide what it is that you SHOULDN'T play and see what you've got  left.
 
In a message dated 2/8/2009 1:25:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  hvyj@xxxxxxx 
writes:
 
The next  step:  Now that the player can play pretty much whatever he   
wants to play, WHAT should he play?  That's my problem.   My  
technique  is so much better developed than my  imagination.

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