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This month's question goes out to The Disco Biscuits' Jon Gutwillig (who will close out the decade, if not the millennium, in Philadelphia at the Theater of the Living Arts on December 30th and 31st...). Does jamming come from the fingers or the soul? Well, Dean ... jamming comes from the soul. Hopefully at some point one's fingers become as secondary as the hands, arms, excetera ... all working subconsciously while one is singing consciously. Both mingle together in the spur of the moment. That spur of the moment creates an intensity and that intensity causes energy and importantly - emotion. It's the notes that one is singing mingling with the changing energy and tumultuous emotions (all in the conscious mind) that opens the window to the the soul. This phenomenon also explains why most intense jamming occurs with eyes closed, or without conscious recognition of visual stimuli; because there is another window to the soul opened within the conscious mind. Anyone can 'jam' music in their head. The act of translating music on a medium should be as subconscious as possible. Does Michael Jordan think about his mechanics during a jumpshot? Probably not. Do musicians think about their mechanics while they play? The less the better. Is the difference between Jerry Garcia and Paul Kanigliac in their fingers? Yes. Is it in their soul? Maybe. .... you need to be able to shoot to score, but to hit the winning jumpshot, you gotta have soul. |
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