“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” ― Miles Davis https://t.co/Qgd79BOcO8
A great guitar solo is not about how fast you can play, or your degree of technical skill. It comes from a deeper place.
Now, one could point out that Prince didn’t spend a lot of time on that solo. He just stepped up and killed it in the moment, but this ignores the innumerable hours of purposeful practice Prince put into becoming Prince, the kind
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“It’s easier for a jazz musician to learn to play classical literature than for a classical player to learn how to play jazz,” he said. “The jazz musician is a creative artist, the classical musician is a re-creative artist.”
