Originally Posted By: Dnj
Many people are just too lazy to memorize music and lyrics....I see many readers that sound to robotic with no soul.....because their mind is buried in the charts......I've said it many times on SZ...to rehearse blindfold yourself and play and sing....learn one song at a time....playing and singing should be Secondary when you perfom...close those books and just play!!


Donny, that's some of the best advice I've read on SZ. One my alltime favorite jazz pianist Bill Evans said "It's much better to spend 30 hours on one tune than to play 30 tunes in one hour.”

I have several huge binders with 1000's of tunes that I can read through and I guess I sound allright. but how entertaining is it to watch a guy with a keyboard reading music? I really just need to buckel down and develope what Scott Yee calls a "Core Repertoire". Rather than having 1000's of songs I read through, I rather have a few dozen that I can play at an effortless level leaving me free to perfrom.

I'm out of here...I gotta practice!
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