Q: do you have any advice for how to get better at improv, especially licks, riffs etc? i watch your improv (keys and keys+voc both) and i want to simultaneously scream, play my keyboard until the day i die, start a religion based on you, and quit music altogether. that was intended as a compliment but i'm not sure it worked
A: a good thing to latch onto, from the start, is knowing that there is an aspect to your current performance ability that is already awesome. full awesome is always available some how some way, even to someone who doesn't even know how the instrument works. As soon as someone figures out that the note goes on when you press it, and goes off when you unpress it ..... that's already a powerful binary canvas on which to paint, and make wonderful shapes. especially considering that you have all the time in the world to make different on-off designs