A musical voice requires a crystal clear intention. Part 3

Seeking a "voice" Part 3

Victor Wooten in Developing your musicianship video has some interesting thoughts. He echoes the idea from the previous Berklee video about intention. He even discusses some of the same artists.

Then...

​He downplays skill in the beginning of discovering your voice. Hmmm, I'm not so sure about that. Sophisticated music needs sophisticated skills.

He quotes Chick Corea, a truly expert improvisor with a unique voice, that only 30% of his improvisations are truly improvised, the rest is vocabulary and things previously worked out or prepared. In short, he prepares much of the music ahead of time in the practice studio and then in the moment sees what happens. 

Victor thinks musicians practice too much and don't play enough. Wise words, making music with others really brings it all home in real time. 
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Time to develop my own drum phrases and have them in reserve, I guess. 

David