February 2012
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“Don’t play the butter notes.”
– Herbie Hancock relating advice given to him by Miles Davis:
I felt like I was getting in a rut, and I was playing the same thing over and over again, and he noticed that. So he suggested that I not play the butter notes … I started eliminating certain notes from my chords - some of the notes that...
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“Why do you look so sad? You should be happy. We have the easy job, they (the...”
– Maestro Dennis Russell Davies, giving me some of the best advice I have ever received on the art of conducting.