Re: [Harp-L] Re: Self Image

[The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>]

study Miles Davis...


it's fun



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
To: The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Oct 5, 2012 11:36 am
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Self Image


Thanks for the kind words Larry.  Your work at the 3 Augusta blues weeks I
attended was very helpful to me, even if I didn't see it at the time.  And
you can play.

To me, I am studying imrpov itself.  I think about the note choices for the
style of music, I think about the notes during the chord changes.  I think
about the timing and if there are both melodic and timing themes and
syncopations (melodic syncopations,!) and I think about the volume swells
and hopw the intensity of the solo rises and falls at various places.  Of
course, I get the added bonus of learning some new licks.
Michael

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:24 AM, The Iceman <icemanle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Michael,
>
>
> You sure set your bar high...but you usually pole vault over it and get
> the gold medal.
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> Personally, I got to a point where instead of learning other's improv, I
> started to study improv itself in order to understand it in all its
> mysterious glory and create my own.
>
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> However, all paths lead, no matter which one is chosen, to the mountain
> top.
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>
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Michael Rubin
> <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have spent my life working on my own sound.  Do not get me wrong, I
> have
> > transcribed 100s of solos.
> >
> > This year, however, I do not care about developing my own sound.  All I
> care
> > about is the process of learning.
> >
> > I have been transcribing the entire Gary Primich Tavellin' Mood and Mike
> > Caldwell's Gospel Favorites CDs and playing them 100% tongue blocked as
> well
> > as a mix of TB and puckering, as I am guessing both are doing.  It does
> not
> > matter to me if I wind up a copycat.
> > Michael Rubin
> > Michaelrubinharmonica.com
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