Connecting The Pillars

Allowing the Simple Line to Guide You

Part 1 - How Do You Listen?

Part 2 - Add Your Sound To The Soundcape

Part 3 - Find the Simple Line

The fourth part of this listening process is filling in the spaces between simple line notes.  This is where we add the variety of subdivisions and intervals in, without getting overwhelmed by them because we know where we are going and how we are going to get there.

With the framework, you have clarified in “Expand Your Listening Aperture” the details you are about to add make sense.  That doesn’t mean you don’t have to practice or won’t have to woodshed, you are learning the next part of your music in the context of harmonic and rhythmic foundation.

Pivoting between simple and the full line is key. 

When you lose sight of where you are going, notes and rhythms don’t make as much sense.  Hear how the simple line organizes everything in between, giving it direction and purpose.  Challenging intervals and rhythms are a way of connecting two moments in the music.  Allow your simple line to guide you.

As you listen to yourself play, allow your ear to focus on the simple line.  Then you will notice how the notes between connect these pillars.  This is similar to listening to the sounds in and around your space and shifting focus between the different layers.  Here you are looking to hear the structural shape.

Listening to the direction of the simple line, allows us to fill the spaces in between with purpose and direction.

Be curious…