You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like a language. You have a whole collection of musical ideas and thoughts that you've accumulated through your musical history plus all the musical history of the whole world and it's all in your subconscious and you draw upon it when you play
Learn everything you know in all keys. - Joe Pass
Learn everything you know in all keys.
- Joe Pass
I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice eve… - Joe Pass
I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice eve…
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrat… - Joe Pass
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrat…
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward. - Joe Pass
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.
Listen, listen, listen. - Joe Pass
Listen, listen, listen.
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. - Joe Pass
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.
I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is impor… - Joe Pass
I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is impor…
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. - Joe Pass
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd star… - Joe Pass
My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd star…
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