Wed, 12 Jul 2006
Oh my gosh, I’m a jazz musician (again)
After the
Mandolin Symposium frustration and the
subsequent fallout I’ve actually found myself not even wanting to play the instrument. So I found myself playing guitar this week.
Actually, I play guitar quite a bit, but mostly as a music teacher. While I love teaching music and watching my students improve I find that I’m not playing the things that I want to play. Also, after teaching all day I really don’t feel like going home to practice. So my students are getting better but my personal chops are getting rusty.
In any case I picked up my old Ibanez MC300 (a truly wonderful instrument) and an ancient copy of “Modern Chord Progressions” and went out on the patio and started to woodshed. I don’t know what happened but these new, weird chords were just making sense today. All of a sudden I was playing the Allan Holdsworth version of a I VI II V progression. It was wonderful.
It’s been a while since playing music has pulled me out of a blue funk. But boy, am I glad that the music is still there in my when I need it.
By the way, many years ago when I was just a young guitar player my teacher and I use to freak out over Ted Green’s books “Chord Chemistry” and “Modern Chord Progressions”. We always referred to them as “Chord Catastrophe” and “Modern Chord Obsessions”.
Hey, it was hilarious at the time. Oh yeah, that was the 70’s. Never Mind.
By The Way My brother Kevin
has a blog as well. There are a couple of mp3’s he’s made of fake news reports that are hilarious. Go check it out.
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