Think With Your Mind, Not With Your Eyes

I've spent the last week poring over and reevaluating my playing, thanks to two small epiphanies. The first came in the form of a photograph--rather, several dozen photographs. In rooting through a load of photos from past performances, I realized that the vast majority of them have me looking like this:

This Week in the 'Shed - Diminished Licks

At long last, I'm returning to the blog! It's been a very busy few weeks, but the semester is winding down, and I finally have time again to opine on improv. This week, I'm starting a new "segment" of sorts: "This Week in the 'Shed," which will highlight a snippet of the material I've been working on in the practice room. My first piece for this new segment is a perennial favorite of mine, and one I lifted from John Scofield: the diminished scale sequence.