It's just about listening.
In this clip Peter Bernstein talks about starting tunes with no words spoken. Just listening and following, or leading the other musicians in:
If you can just learn to follow and say, "I hear what he's playing, I hear what key he's playing it in, and it's obvious what tempo he's playing it in (hopefully)," and go from there.
3 comments:
Interesting concept and I have certainly observed how much time is wasted between tunes - like he says - what tune, what key, what tempo, solo order, 4s or not, etc. However, you would need to be very experienced in the jazz repertoire and be playing with similarly experienced others for this intuitive beginnings process to work, though.
John Clarke
Hi John, I'm sure many reasonably experienced could do this with jam session favourites - All the Things, Beautiful Love, My Funny Valentine, Autumn Leaves, Summertime, Blues, Rhythm Changes, Softly, Perdido, Misty, So What, Body & Soul etc. Certainly something to aspire to, and I guess you have to start somewhere (i.e. before having learnt the Real Book backwards in every key).
John
An inspiring lesson from PB - thanks for posting this John.
Bill
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