Joseph Maynor

You're right. I don't like to do it yet, but a great way to practice is to play with a metronome only after playing a lot with a playalong. I learned this from a teacher. I don't have the discipline to do this yet though.

@Uddi Great video. The problem with aggression is it comes back to bite you. It might be good for his social media channel, but if he wants to teach again, that is the problem. He is not using a fake identity like most people online.

The sport of competitive eating.

The there is no you stuff gets old.

I practice for 2 hours every day, no skipping days, I play a lot more keyboard to pop music and I transpose the keyboard (there is a setting to do this) to trumpet, so the tonalities are all the same. I work on one tune deeply each month. I try to play a jam session once a week. I have all my practice playalongs programmed into iReal with the real book chords. I listen to a lot of Chet Baker to see what he is doing and follow along with the chart. I stay away from any kind of books or teachers. I try to play like Chet Baker, mid range, nothing too flashy, but perfect time, melody, harmony and music principles in general.

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Epistemology means theory of knowledge, no?

I'm almost done watching the first 100 clips. They are excellent! I have to go through them carefully with my own reflection.

I'm glad you mentioned this because I was thinking about trying to make this same point. I love playing Jazz trumpet as a hobby but that is not my life purpose. I will never stop playing music because I love it, but I will never be a professional trumpet player. But I accept it as a hobby. My life purpose is more aligned with sharing personal development and spiritual insights.

The older you get, the more skilled at the artistry of conversation you get.

You have to have a natural charismatic energy to do the warm approach which is the inverse of cold approach. This is where people want to talk to you. And you have no agenda other than to create a fun and mutually rewarding conversation. It is about being light, not pushy. As a caveat, this is all in person for me, I'm not talking about online. The charisma I'm referring to is in person. Online is weird because it is more skewed toward visual wordplay. I'm referring to creating conversation face to face, one on one or in a group situation.

I tried everything, lots of Jazz theory books, paying for lessons, practicing hard. None of it resonated that well. What I realize now is I didn't stick with a consistent daily practice routine that actually produces results. I was too scatterbrained in my practice.

You do need right practice though and right advice in artistry. For example, I wasted probably 10 years trying to learn Jazz trumpet and even practicing for 4 hours a day a lot of time, but because I was not practicing the way I do now, I wasn't making much improvement at all.

I can play Jazz trumpet without feeling like I need to be as good as Miles Davis.

They are doing it to connect with you and then you don't connect.

I think it can sometimes be OCD. It depends.

No they are not.

It depends on how much you care about producing excellent artworks in a particular artform. Sometimes you do it for the love of sharing without trying to be a somebody.

This is where it is important to understand your MBTI. So for me it is Ni dominant with an Fe subdominant. For others it might be a Ti dominant with an Ne subdominant.

He has the deadpan shtick down for sure from a comedy perspective.

I just watched this.

@Wilhelm44 I think Jim is saying there both is and is not a self.

Actually I think he is saying there both is and is not time.