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Some interesting thoughts from a Belgian guy.
It made me think (not for the first time, but with the kind of focused clarity that only seems to happen while driving, for some reason) about how unimportant pitch is compared to phrasing and intonation, in making a solo funky: a handful of notes, repeated over and over, but in consistently wonderful, groovy patterns and with fittingly greasy attacks.
Early this week, I was studying with Anthony and we were working on soloing; how to approach the individual notes, ways to lay back across the bar lines and the like. One of the more important things that Anthony kept trying to get me to focus on was to stay in syncopation with the beat, working the pocket a little before and little after the beat. Mwanji's writing is on the same wavelength as what Anthony was saying.
Thanks to Eppy for the tip.
Posted by Casper at May 7, 2004 06:07 PM