Experiment

Learning music to me is a lot like experimenting.

You won’t be good when you start. You won’t know what notes to play or how to play something comfortably and relaxed. You won’t know what sounds you like.

You have to experiment.

You have to try something and learn that you don’t like it to be able to figure out what you do like.

I told some of my jazz ensemble students last weekend, “in order to play a good solo you have to play a bunch of bad ones.”

That got a laugh from them, but it’s true. In order to learn you have to try, and part of trying is failing.

Experiment. No matter the results it’ll be useful.

ISJ