(August 15, 2016 at 8:00 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: [...] and then your mind starts giving you the answers in a weird way, it works extremely efficiently, you know exactly what and how to do it to achieve what you want in the moment.
This has been my experience, in a way. For me, when I'm in the moment, I hear a set of relationships and somewhere it clicks inside me ("ah, that's a #4 and a natural 7, I need to play Lydian mode") -- but it isn't a conscious thought for me, it's just my fingers and my brain have done this for so long (35 years now) that the connection is that damned fast.
My job is to get out of my own way, when improvising, and let that connection -- which I have nurtured through practice -- do as I've trained it to do.
