This week, I got to watch my grandkids playing jazz for the first time at Tipitina's amazing Sunday Youth Music Workshop. They are both hard-working musicians, practicing their craft, getting beats and fingerwork and crossovers and flams and frets and hemiquavers...
...those two, like every musician I have ever met, speak a different language when they are talking music.
So these competent budding musicians, who Ihave been admiring am terribly envious of, got on stage and played with the house band. The chord progression was simple, and was repeated over and over. The drum line was not terribly intricate, and the house drummer walked them - all seven aspiring drummers - through the line a few times, and helped adjust them when they were not driving hard enough.
But this was not learning and practicing a song. This is not discovering how to play in sync with one another.
...those two, like every musician I have ever met, speak a different language when they are talking music.
So these competent budding musicians, who I
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| Gabi and Remi in the all-new G&R. |
But this was not learning and practicing a song. This is not discovering how to play in sync with one another.
