Why you'll never reach that GENIUS level... Sean looks at Joey Alexander to answer that..

The interesting thing about jazz, though, is that it requires a firm understanding of the instrument. A wealth of knowledge and hours of practice makes improvisation not only possible but enjoyable. In short, if you want to play jazz, you’ve got to learn the sheet music first. And if you want to pray with passion, spontaneity, and freedom, you’ve g

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We don’t expect kids to know about grammar and spelling before they can talk, but from the very first music lessons, children are expected to learn the smallest units of music: notes, beats, rests. Ethan Hein, a music-education specialist at New York University, believes this approach starts at the wrong level of abstraction. Taken out of context,

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@josiah566

2 years ago

Something that continues to impress me about him is that he never shies away from the bottom half to the keyboard. It's a place a lot of people (or just I) tend to avoid because it's easy to muddy and it's hard to hear the nice tensions you can create with closed voicings but Joey navigates it PERFECTLY. He redistributes tensio... See more

If (Shakespeare and Einstein) were just like us, then they had to work very hard to do what they did. And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. If these guys were able to do what they did only because of some magic Shakespeareness or Einsteinness, then it's not our fault if we can't do something as go

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