Chick Coreaの言葉
2013年11月5日
CHEAP BUT GOOD ADVICE FOR PLAYING MUSIC IN A GROUP:
- Play only what you hear.
- If you don't hear anything, don't play anything.
- Don't let your fingers and limbs just wander --place them intentionally.
- Don't improvise on endlessly -- play something with intention, develop it or not, but then end off, take a break.
- Leave space --create space -- intentionally create places where you don't play.
- Make your sound blend. Listen to your sound and adjust if to me rest of the band and the room.
- If you play more than one instrument at a time -- like a drum kit or multiple keyboards -- make sure they are balanced with one another.
- Don't make any of your music mechanically or just through pattern of habit. Create each sound, phrase, and piece with choice -- deliberately.
- Guide your choice of what to play by what you like -- not by what someone else will think.
- Use contrast and balance the elements: high-low, fast-slow, loud-soft, tense-relaxed, dense-sparse.
- Play to make the other musicians sound good. Play things that will make the overall music sound good.
- Play with a relaxed body. Always release whatever tension you create.
- Crate space-- begin, develop and end phrases with intention.
- Never beat or pound your instrument -- play it easily and gracefully.
- Crate space -- then place something in it.
- Use mimicry sparsely -- mostly create phrases that contrast with and develop the phrases of the other players.