Play 'Tico tico', Paquito DeRivera's version!

I transcribed this from Paquito's 1996 recording.  Enjoy!!!

Please reverse the 2nd &  3 rd pages.  Thank you.

Haiku poem on Love's mystery by Errol

Haiku on Love's Mystery

Soul in desert sands;

Cool breeze carries to nice niche:

Ceaseless spellbound rapture!

July 23/24, 2013

by

Errol Weiss Schlabach

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Errol

Poem!: Errol Writes of the Evolution of Man!

Errol’s ‘Leaves Of Grass’

Whitman wrote ‘Leaves Of Grass’,

Alluding to the multitude of peoples;

Of the earth, ---of all Times;

Of their crafts, ---all their crimes!

I write of nighttime ‘Leaves Of Grass’:

The Billions!,

Holding thousands of Glow-Worm shimmers,

Their light-filled glimmers;

What life they accord the dusk!

Whether by the action rush of all Time’s peoples;

Whether by a billion grasses,

With Glow-Worm’s slowly climbing;

Civilization flourishes by ‘Leaves Of Grass’!

July 23, 2013

Errol Weiss Schlabach

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Errol Weiss Schlabach

Watch Errol Soloing on Long Island this summer with the Nassau Pops!

Watch Errol Soloing on Long Island this summer with the Nassau Pops!

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Errol Weiss Schlabach

Great 'Dizzy' advice for all improvisors!!!

Here’s a blog for all improvising musicians.

This is a Dizzy Gillespie quote:

“Some people have a note(s) and put a beat to it; some people have a beat and put a note(s) to it.”

Having said that, he walked away, as a true master, to leave the listener to figure it out.

Clue: He did the latter;

Who could have swung more.

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Errol Weiss Schlabach

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New & Giant, Important Tip To Be Treasured!

Giant, Important Tip To Be Treasured!

Here’s the scenario: there’s this little phrase that you get hung up on; every time you attempt to play this ‘lick’ you tense up and fail to play it correctly.

Do you know what’s wrong?  Your brain signal’s not strong enough, so when you go to play the phrase, your motor neuron system that controls your muscles, does not know what to do; the function for that particular movement has not been properly and correctly learned!

The Solution:

Look at or think of the passage and concentrate on using only the small muscles of your hands, with no help or thought from the muscles of your forearm, upper arm, or shoulders.  Now, very slowly, strongly press the fingering for each note of the passage, the pressure being only from the small finger muscle.  Do this 3 consecutive times.  Then mentally play the passage.

Now play the passage without prior thought; only imagine playing it correctly as you would like as you actually perform it.

You'll be amazed at the difference, effortlessly playing it with control, the way you like.  And that word ‘effortlessly’ is not a ‘throw away term’!  You must not ‘try’ to play it; you just do it, relaxed and without anxious fore-thought.

Your motor skills have now ‘learned’ the movelent.

Sincerely,

Errol Weiss Schlabach 

New, most valuable of tips: 'Slow' learns and must precede 'Fast'

SLOW’S MORE DIFFICULT;

FAST’S THE LAST THING

Excitation/Inhibition;

  Propioceptal & Exteroceptal Memory

I apologize for the forbidding words, terms, and elocutions, but they’re the secret key to performing successfully.

Playing the clarinet, the piano, or any other musical instrument is a function of the central nervous system; to practice a musical instrument is to train the central nervous system. 

When a troubling technical passage is encountered, we must search the central nervous system for a way to conquer the difficulty.

Propioceptal (as opposed the to Exteroceptive-touch, or tactile memory) is our movement memory:

When walking up a stairs, we learn the height of the stairs for the next climb; when we use the left hand little finger to play ‘C’ before a right little finger Eb on Clarinet, our central nervous system has learned the touch sensation of the fingering sequence, but also the muscle movement of the fingering: the proprioceptal memory.

The great treasure of this discovery is the gigantic benefit in everyday practice.

Rushing headlong into playing a musical passage at full, final performing tempo is a sure journey to failure.

The small muscles must be trained first!

This is done by letting all the big muscles of the arm, the shoulders and the upper arm, completely relax, letting only the completely relaxed fingers ‘finger’ the passage pianissimo with slow, strong pressing of fingers, in this way saving that proprioceptal memory on the brain’s hard drive.

A quick drill is to play a Lick kept in your improvisatory back pocket: Listen to this memory, and then slowly press and play each note, with strong, relaxed touch, and think of each finger motion and force as you savor these notes.

Now play the ‘lick’ again at tempo, and I guarantee the improvement will be amazing!

The treasure of this discovery is that you will now be strengthening the ‘Inhibitory’ process of your motor neuron system.

The central nervous system controls our movements by ‘Excitatory and Inhibitory’ control.  The Inhibitory is the most difficult to obtain and use and unfortunately, the first to lose.

Playing always fast repetitions results in the overlapping of propioceptal memory, and hence your performance sounds rhythmically uneven.

So now, we must consider the two ways our central nervous system controls our movements: by ‘Ecitatory and Inhibatory’ control.

One great way to practice ‘Inhibitory’ control, is to slow down, or stop at ANY point as you play; then play again and speed up at will; but then slow, or even stop-start-stop, and then play slow to fast to slow, completely at random.

The control you will now have over any passage thus offered will be phenomenal.  

Playing slow (Inhibitatorial movements) trains the evenness and clarity of our performing: When we play fast, the ‘Excitatory’ element quickly ‘kicks in’, and the performance is beautiful.

Keep tuned in to my blog;

Updated information will be rapidly added.

Sincerely,

Errol Weiss Schlabach

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