Comments on: analysis: Icarus http://music.linear1.org/2006/09/02/analysis-icarus/ transfusing emptiness into vacancy Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:08:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: whitecraneboxing http://music.linear1.org/2006/09/02/analysis-icarus/comment-page-1/#comment-9 whitecraneboxing Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:23:50 +0000 http://music.linear1.org/2006/09/02/analysis-icarus/#comment-9 Hello Rob! This looks like a great website, have been watching your vids on YouTube and am very impressed by your playing. I am very new to jazz piano, played classical for some time and took a break from it after 10 years-two years ago I was introduced to a local jazz pianist and have been taking lessons from jazz educators all over the Bay Area ever since. With each lesson it is becoming more and more clear to me that jazz improvisation really can't be taught and with that in mind I've been trying to approach the music with a less purely didactic method and more of a focus on hearing more clearly and training fingers to play the direction that is my head instead of mindlessly running through rehearsed patterns. It is slow going as my ear is quite bad-sometimes I feel as if I am trying to tap into something that isn't even there. Here is my own music blog: <a href="http://wesandallthatjazz.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">wesandallthatjazz.blogspot.com</a> I have many questions for you regarding your own development as an improvising musician but mainly I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate this resource you are providing for the public consumption. Best of luck and please do keep on posting! -Wes <strong>edit by Rob: added link to Wes's blog URL</strong> Hello Rob! This looks like a great website, have been watching your vids on YouTube and am very impressed by your playing. I am very new to jazz piano, played classical for some time and took a break from it after 10 years-two years ago I was introduced to a local jazz pianist and have been taking lessons from jazz educators all over the Bay Area ever since. With each lesson it is becoming more and more clear to me that jazz improvisation really can’t be taught and with that in mind I’ve been trying to approach the music with a less purely didactic method and more of a focus on hearing more clearly and training fingers to play the direction that is my head instead of mindlessly running through rehearsed patterns. It is slow going as my ear is quite bad-sometimes I feel as if I am trying to tap into something that isn’t even there.

Here is my own music blog: wesandallthatjazz.blogspot.com

I have many questions for you regarding your own development as an improvising musician but mainly I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate this resource you are providing for the public consumption. Best of luck and please do keep on posting!

-Wes
edit by Rob: added link to Wes’s blog URL

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