Hello everybody,
I'd like first by this thread get some advices that can help me with the problem I will describe below, but as I'm also a teacher, not in music but in a domain that have something precious in common with music : I teach flying and, in my mind, it's only music, jazz in particular, that need and commands and essential and and strict preparation, not only technically or intellectually, but all of yourself. If you wanna touch the untouchable or the invisible, you have to get prepared to. But both activities can produce som OK newcommers with sleeping, unused potential to a plenty of average week-end users. In history of music and flight,we notice that a simple human has no really need of money to become an all star; but maybe simply a singular meeting and a real relationship with ; we don't know what or why or how there's sometimes for some people a curious experience when some day, amongst the bucket of, I say sounds, thrownd and pulsed bu more and more Db, there's a thing , some building of notes that pases through the doggy part of or conscious and touches something that makes us, as long as the music plays, somebody else, and sometimes it appears to us as a stranger, a fool programmer that penetrated your brain but not to change your brain, just wake-up the rest of the body.
I'm sorry My introduction was so long, but it was spontaneous and maybe it will be useful for comprehension.
I'M a 47 years old guy, I have a severe a chronic illness that destroyed all that I built for decades, as I was a paragliding, paramotoring and hangliding teacher. I created my own school 15 years ago. I'm in quebec, Canada. As I'm far from the main urban center, I developped an approach that made my reputation : I tell this to anyone who want to leanr to fly a sailplane ( I mean evething rhat fly without an engine ) : You don't know yet what I'll tell you, but you're not here to learn to fly; you are here to use the flight to change or discover something precious in you. I'm the only one who teach this way, but it pays a lot.
Last year, the illness causes so many injuries I said farewel to the time when I was in athletic shape, cause today to be honest I'm closer to an handicapad personn.
And, there was the jazz. I listen music since i was a kid. At 18 ( 25 years ago ), I knew all about the graet classic composers. One year later, I was admitted at the University in classical guitar. That wasn't a bad experience and I abandonned. But, I learned all the music theory, history and I have an ear training very close to what we call in french ''oreille Absolue".
25 years after, I decided to use music as a pleasure therapy. I want to learn jazz on saxophone. OK I can play anything in the real book in the rythm. OK I can ear any chord progression a measure before. OK I can sing or scat solos that looks like pros. But, when I' on tha sax, all my mind and body reject the technical part of learning impro, scales, chords progresion. My brain want to do so, but all the rest say no. Just play....
As if somewhere my body would see it as another kind or suffering ...
Pros, what do you suggets !
I'd like first by this thread get some advices that can help me with the problem I will describe below, but as I'm also a teacher, not in music but in a domain that have something precious in common with music : I teach flying and, in my mind, it's only music, jazz in particular, that need and commands and essential and and strict preparation, not only technically or intellectually, but all of yourself. If you wanna touch the untouchable or the invisible, you have to get prepared to. But both activities can produce som OK newcommers with sleeping, unused potential to a plenty of average week-end users. In history of music and flight,we notice that a simple human has no really need of money to become an all star; but maybe simply a singular meeting and a real relationship with ; we don't know what or why or how there's sometimes for some people a curious experience when some day, amongst the bucket of, I say sounds, thrownd and pulsed bu more and more Db, there's a thing , some building of notes that pases through the doggy part of or conscious and touches something that makes us, as long as the music plays, somebody else, and sometimes it appears to us as a stranger, a fool programmer that penetrated your brain but not to change your brain, just wake-up the rest of the body.
I'm sorry My introduction was so long, but it was spontaneous and maybe it will be useful for comprehension.
I'M a 47 years old guy, I have a severe a chronic illness that destroyed all that I built for decades, as I was a paragliding, paramotoring and hangliding teacher. I created my own school 15 years ago. I'm in quebec, Canada. As I'm far from the main urban center, I developped an approach that made my reputation : I tell this to anyone who want to leanr to fly a sailplane ( I mean evething rhat fly without an engine ) : You don't know yet what I'll tell you, but you're not here to learn to fly; you are here to use the flight to change or discover something precious in you. I'm the only one who teach this way, but it pays a lot.
Last year, the illness causes so many injuries I said farewel to the time when I was in athletic shape, cause today to be honest I'm closer to an handicapad personn.
And, there was the jazz. I listen music since i was a kid. At 18 ( 25 years ago ), I knew all about the graet classic composers. One year later, I was admitted at the University in classical guitar. That wasn't a bad experience and I abandonned. But, I learned all the music theory, history and I have an ear training very close to what we call in french ''oreille Absolue".
25 years after, I decided to use music as a pleasure therapy. I want to learn jazz on saxophone. OK I can play anything in the real book in the rythm. OK I can ear any chord progression a measure before. OK I can sing or scat solos that looks like pros. But, when I' on tha sax, all my mind and body reject the technical part of learning impro, scales, chords progresion. My brain want to do so, but all the rest say no. Just play....
As if somewhere my body would see it as another kind or suffering ...
Pros, what do you suggets !
