Re: [Harp-L] Basketball and Jazz



Larry Sandy escribiÃ:
Garry, I liked this:  ....these improvised creations only exist because their creators have internalized the necessary set of patterns, training their brain to execute astonishingly difficult calculations in the blink of an eye. As a result, theyâre able to see what we cannot, envisioning rebounds and passing lanes and melodies that the rest of us canât even comprehend. We take these performers for granted because they make it look so easy. But it only looks easy because theyâve worked so hard.
I thought we were playing, not working.

Lockjaw Larry
Breathing Music daily
I've played basketball for 20 years and harp for 10. Most of the statements of this article are true, but the last part that Larry remarks is the best: there are a lot of training exercises you must learn to catch up with the skills of basketball: if not, you can't do anything in the court without making a mistake. And music is more or less the same, there's a lot to learn first if you want to succeed with the instrument, or just play it more or less decently. And in both activities, even if you take it proffesionally or not, it's not easy and you must work hard to learn. And you can learn and play without any 'lessons' (meaning with this music theory given by a teacher or sports classes at school or a club) at all in both the sport and the music, that's also a similarity.

Fernando Toral
Buenos Aires, Argentina



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