NEW: Pentatonic Patterns!!!!

Pentatonic Practice Patterns

Here is a beginning of the patterns I’ve promised.  More will follow soon.  Enjoy and please comment and give your opinion.

Sincerely,

Errol Weiss Schlabach

PATTERN PRACTICE METHOD

Seeking, collecting, and cellaring classic vintage patterns will give you material for a never ending rich supply of fresh, interesting ideas to practice.

Select new vintages whenever your present routine becomes dull, monotonous, dreary, tedious and stale.  Visit your tasting room and choose the vintages and bouquets that apply to your current fancy and relish.  Forming the new pattern routine, commit it to memory and build the ability to perform it in every key, major and minor (if this applies).

The goal is to internalize by daily practice until it enters your deep recessive pool, the rich reservoir of your unconscious store of ability.  This stage is achieved when the pattern becomes dull, monotonous, dreary, tedious and stale.  Now go to the tasting room for a new vintage.

It might be days, weeks, or years, but suddenly that retired pattern will surface as you read, hear, or improvise music, vividly screaming in your ‘aural imagination’.  Always remember: your ability to play well requires: “an intensity of concentration and a vivid aural imagination” (Andre Watts).

Please leave comments and opinions for me about this blog.  I hope it helps in your passionate quest of music.

Sincerely,

Errol Weiss Schlabach