Message #17920

[mccoy]

Steve, for some time I really delved into it. I had some gigs with a jazz Group. My mistake though was that I heard too much the jazz giants, especially so McCoy Tyner, whose name I adopted as a web moniker. They are extremely talented people who are born with a musical Genius. It is simply impossible for someone who has not outstanding muscial tendencies to be able to play like them. You must have perfect ear, you must have perfect coordination, you must have perfect sense of rythm and the time to exercise, you must have ideas. If you can play like them you are actually a fully fledged talent yourself. So I got discouraged and quit for many years. Now I'm starting back but with a more realistic outlook. I'm also trying to deveolp some tricks, I especially like outside harmony, minor melodic harmony. You can specialize in one specific way to improvise, so limiting the time needed to exercise.