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Walter Rivera
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- Euless, TX
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- First Name
- Walter
- College/University:
- University of Texas @ Arlington
- I am here for:
- Educational Purposes, Meet Players, Networking
- Employment Status
- Employed
- Why I love jazz:
- It's the only style of music i've been able to and will continue to grow in.
- Music:
- "Music is like food, you take what you like and leave out the rest." Miles Davis
"Improving at its best is like having a really good conversation with someone you know really well." Pat Metheny
"What alot of people dont realize is, if you do it right, you can play the guitar with one hand by tapping it." Stanley Jordan
"Music is really about whatever you want it to be." Kirk Hammett
"I really dont play with my teeth, i play with my ears." Jimi Hendrix
"The instrument is just a vehicle, its the musician who is important." Paco De Lucia
"Music is like speaking english, you dont get better by practicing it, you get better by doing it with other people." Victor Wooten
"The guitarist must be able to tap his foot while he plays, forget about every other lesson in the book." Al Di Meola
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." Leopold Stokowski
"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." Gustav Mahler
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music." ..
Sergei Rachmaninov
"Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity" Barney Kessel
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." Ludwig van Beethoven
"The problem with most genres is that they want to exclude other genres, I want to make music that includes everybody." Tony Williams
"Music is the expression of the people and of what is happening at a particular time." John Coltrane
It's been very important
throughout my career, that I've
met all the guys I've copied,
because at each stage they've
said, 'Don't play like me,
play like you.'"
~ Eric Clapton
Send me some good ones if you find any. More to come. . . . . .
Blog Posts
The State of Jazz Today
Posted by Walt B on June 2, 2009 at 1:24pm — 5 Comments
Sonny Stitt Transcription
Posted by Jeff Rzepiela on July 22, 2010 at 9:55am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzdW_l0FiP8
Posted by Mihail Parushev on November 28, 2011 at 9:38pm
Jazz CD Reviews
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Improvisation and MUSIC FLUENCY
Started by John Cooper Jan 20.
Lyrics Request for D'javan song - Amazon Farewall - PRIORITY:HIGH
Started by Ralph Falzarano May 26, 2011.
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