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Ask Dave Holland
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Tuesday December 07, 2010
The second installment of “Ask Dave Holland” is up on Dave’s site now! Here’s a sample of this round’s questions:
“Do you have a regular practice routine that you do, or in what ways to you organise your practice schedule?” – Luke Sellick
I divide my time between technical practice and creative practice. Of course, the two areas overlap and support each other.
Like most musicians I use scales and arpeggios for a lot of my practice material. There are endless variations. I also have a series of exercises that works particular aspects of bass technique. Basically left hand technique, pizzicato and bowing.
The creative practice involves just playing through ideas, sometimes within a given framework and sometimes just in a free association kind of way. I might be working on ideas that relate to music that Ill be playing on gigs. I try to have a focus to my practice and I often have several things that I will be working on at any given time..
“What are the attributes you look for in musicians to play with? Is there any common factor among the musicians you play with?” – Scott Price
I think the fundamental thing is how it feels to play music together. Music is a universal language that has many dialects but In the end playing with other musicians comes down the quality of communication. I like musicians that play with their heart and their head.
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