Wax on wax off Grasshopper
Council of Elders?
Commit and/or submit?
Like endless days of endless scales on the piano in perfect posture.
In 1990 in Washington, DC I approached a street sax player with a tone born of Coltrane:
“Are you taking students?”
— “Can you play every exercise in The Universal Method for Saxophone?”
“No”
— “Come back when u can”
Systems:
- The Army puts institutional knowledge into doctrine.
- Sheet music is institutional knowledge, a system.
- Cesar Milan The Dog Whisperer is a system.
- Unified Field Theory will be a system.
One may choose to stand on the shoulders of giants or make one’s own stack of broke-dick chairs.
Learn your guitar hero’s licks, every one of them, then kick his ass.
Learn the system, absorb it then choose whether to challenge it.
Student becomes master:
- Apocalypse Now :: Milius, Francis Ford Coppola stood upon TS Eliot’s shoulders (1925) stood upon those of Joseph Conrad (1902).
- The Green Hornet :: Bruce Lee stood on Wing Chun’s shoulders.
- Radiohead on :: REM on :: Charles Mingus on :: Coltrane on :: Ben Webster
My local trackday coach:
“… thousands of riders have made that corner successfully, you can too, when you’re scared dont give up … “
It’s there if you want it :0)
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