Such a basic concept, but one that manages to elude so many people in so many ways, and never is this more evident than in the field of music. This has been my main motto as a coach for many years, for obvious reasons.
Music can tend to be a very daunting affair, with all the confusing terminology involved.
I feel that one of my primary goals lies in demystifying the path to knowledge, no easy task given the number of players and teachers who tend to do the exact opposite. Well, in their sometimes misguided quest to evolve, musicians have a tendency to reach for higher and higher levels of sophistication, often believing that the more complex something is, the better. This is certainly true in the jazz community. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth in my mind, because the entire purpose of musical creation and performance is to emotionally move the listener, but there are still many who fail to understand this fundamental fact. Yet history clearly bears this out.