This week, I asked myself one question repeatedly:
How do I get more in groove?
Here are the answers I heard.
1. Don’t fill until you can without losing the groove. Otherwise, you’re just filling up time.
2. Know the literature (shoutout Seth Godin)
3. Play the rests with as much force as the notes. True in music and in life, know when to take a break.
4. Find more ways to listen to Music. When you’ve run out of records, try listening to the songs nature sings.
5. The smallest, unchanging roles are often the most structurally important.
6. Be an anchor. When you leave the groove, you violate Music’s trust in you. Your playing is then tantamount to a gust of wind blowing over a cardboard cutout.
7. Make the audience part of the performance. It’s through cooperation we thrive.
8. If you aren’t grooving with the music, check the rest of your life. You might just be drowning.
9. You can’t create time. You can only flow with it. Be the instrument that Music herself channels through.
10. Don’t try. Just do.