This is a great comment. Thank you! I have long held that past a small amount of musical/technical knowledge, the key to mastery is truly in your head. I hope that people will take that message with them. Thanks again for supporting my channel!!

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That's a great story. I know some people are very pro-eyes-closed, but some of us do it in a very knee-jerk way. I try and study my favorite musicians. Most of them have their eyes open--even if they're not looking at something.

shit, this is so true. again and again my experience is I play better when i stop shutting my mind inside by closing eyes. focus outward seems to enhance musicality. but I still stumble, it really feels like a muscle to be developted by itself.

Thanks for watching!

thanks, Joe!

I want to learn more about this too.

Me three!

this sounds so goddamn interesting. if it is possible, makes me wonder how many of the great musicians do something of this nature before playing a concert?

I doubt many musicians do any of these drills before playing. One the requirements of both playing jazz and doing something like Hubud is it requires a diffused focus. You have to pay attention to everything. If you focus too intently on any one thing, you miss everything else going on around you. Lesser musicians will frequently focus too intently on what they are doing and aren’t as responsive to what the rest of the band is doing. We call that not listening which is something more advanced musicians understand as vitally important. The problem with music though is there isn’t a definitive way to train that out of people other than maybe not calling them for the next gig and they either eventually get it or they don’t. Doing something like Hubud is just like playing jazz conceptually. There is a framework you’re working in with individual elements that you can work in an almost infinite number of combinations that you will improvise. You have to do your thing while responding to your partner. The difference is if you get too focused on what you’re doing and don’t pay attention to what your partner is doing, you’re going to get punched in the nose. This tends to reinforce the concept of diffusing your focus to take everything in. It forces you to get into a flow. Once you do it for a while, it is completely natural to just drop into that state. If you guys are interested, I could do a Zoom session and demonstrate with my son who is really good at Hubud.

Thank you, Jason!!!

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Good story! Everyone's path is individual. Just sharing my personal revelations on my journey. Thanks for watching!

I felt that answer.

Don't cry...you're gonna make me cry 😢

Yessir! One of my favorites. You should check out Hal Galper, too. A lot more practical than KW, but some similar brainwave-type concepts.

@@pdbass Yes, have checked out Galper many times😁👍🏽...Tapping foot on 1 & 3, minimizing emotion, mentally screaming the phrase you want to play, etc....Fantastic stuff, and, yes, very practical. I found the Werner stuff to be practical as well...

@@bassocanario I totally agree! I just think Kenny's stuff can be way more meditative/almost spiritual than classroom-like.

@@pdbass Yes, true😁✌🏾

Of course I did. It's a great book and a great way to look at your playing. Thank you for watching!