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 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), and at times like this, my writer side demands I purge my brain on this 8 x 11 yellow pad.
Now over time this pad has grown in pages of little antedotes and one sentence wonders of which I have indeed harvested a few over time for the blog, but a few black waxened words of wisom are still a drift on the pad and owed expansion or atleast explanation at a later time. Well that time is still later – definitely not today. What I can 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 – the unbiquottous clean slate in my own mind – I’ve decided to give these groove born thoughts a few archived pixels and store them on my blog
Here’s last weeks entries, in no particular order.
In music there are principles but not rules!
Playing an instrument allows you to really 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 on 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 now 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 andabeat
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