QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Dec 4 2021, 02:19 AM)
This i also an important point. At some point ,you just don't need the metronome anymore to work on a lick. You internalize a sense of time the same way your ear internalizes a sense of harmony/melody/tonality. This takes time of course. So a foundational technique is often required at first. Thus click click click
Metronome clicks were never inspiring for me. Admittedly my timing can be a bit off at times probably due to this, but I always felt more inspired playing to a drum beat - and that can be just as tight, but it's just more musical and inspiring imo. Similar to how I'd rather ride my bicycle around nature than sit on an exercise bike in the gym for 20 minutes
I commented this one on of the recent GMC Facebook videos by Kris:
"I think this approach is very important 🙂 There are a couple of different branches in terms of learning music. One is actual technique, which for me is the boring part, and then there is a music part, like approaching chord tones in soloing, achieving the lydian sound (if we're going for that) and whatever else we think of as "music" and not "technique".
I sometimes think of the technique part as running on a treadmill, and learning "musical approaches" as going out in nature seeing the colors and so on. When you get back home you can paint a beautiful picture with what you have seen, but if you didn't go into nature you would have only been learning technique. Of course there is value in technique too, otherwise you won't play anything, but if all you have is technique, then you're only on the treadmill and not going anywhere"
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