turntable daze
I keep a large notepad and pen beside my turntables when I practice, just in case I find I am actually capable of prying myself from the decks long enough to write down any of the rhythm activated insights that spin through my head while playing. At the time theses thoughts seem bedecked with inspiration, spun out from the little sparks of creative impulse flying around in my brain. When I jot them down, I see them as potential starting points of which to expand upon later in my blog or in an article. While, as I mentioned before, thinking, analytically anyway, is a bit of a verboten occupation for me when playing, those eureka moments do come, even in moments of blankness (in fact perhaps they come even more so) Anyway, at times like this, my writer side demands I purge my brain on this 8×11 yellow pad.
Now over time this pad has grown in pages of little antecedents and one sentence wonders of which I have, indeed, harvested some for the blog, but a few are still owed expansion at a later time. Well that time is still later, and is definitely not today. What I do offer today is a little clear- up. In my effort to retire the over crowded pages to the recycle bin and enjoy the new year with a blank pad, signifying the ubiquitous clean slate in my mind, I have decided to give these groove rooted words a few archived pixels.
Here’s last week’s entries, in no particular order.
In music there are principles but not rules!
Playing an instrument allows you to really truly understand economy of motion
Doing anything on a repeated basis begets virtuosity, don’t perfect bad habits.
For a dj half the battle is selection, but it is entirely dependent upon context and placement; with the lean record bag still the goal, one must learn to be able to interpret a song in a multitude of ways.
(oh and this one from yesterday)
Most of the time I don’t know what I’m doing. The instrument or perhaps rhythm itself is still in the lead – as enigmatic as the first day we met. I am only a receptor – open channel- it seems the clearer I become, the simpler the instrument becomes and the more complex things I am able to do..
The chirp is an essential scratch to master – no question!
turntable daze
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