November 26ths (When You're Stuck)

11/26/2016

My Rules of Practice: To be able to play something in all keys; To be able to play scales or chords in all non-root voicings or positions; Endurance: the ability to play without tiring or becoming bored; Organic sense of time without being metronomic; To be able to spot performance bottlenecks and correct them; To be able to spot creative bottlenecks and go around them. When you're stuck, stop and make another one in a series. 

 

 

11/26/2023

I don't think we can avoid cliches because what you're doing sometimes requires using them. When I was doing the research for Music For Photographs and was looking at the Brassai images and other photographers from that period, I realized that it wasn't a cliche then (I don't think) but the community (scenius) of photographers back then probably saw each other's work and copied it. Plagiarization (or simply emulation) works in all genres. 

The "Illuminated Riff":