Yeah David i totally understand.last weekend i was totally demotivated and out of gas. Slow progress, everything sounded s##t, clumsy and out of tune. So i spent 2 or 3 days just listening to Ann Burton's records and practicing Gershwin's 2nd prelude on piano. Did me good, on monday i felt motivated and energized again 👍💪.switching instruments or just letting go from time to time can be really benefitial

@Lotte Cutts this is cool excercise. just trying it out 🖖

this is -from my point of view- alpha and omega of the whole thing. i think it has lot to do with how u started. musically, i was brought up in very conservative ''classical'' way (im not necessarily talking about repertoire, more about the perspective u use to sort things out). especially at conservatory, my professor was a fan of what i call ''the russian aproach''...there was lot of strictness, shouting and agressivity...all the things, which, in my opinion, are very dangerous for a 15yo little kid...(im sure most of us have seen the lovely jazz movie called Whiplash- i mean nobody was throwing cymbals at me, but the intensity was VERY similar). it was kind of hard and it definitely took a toll on me somehow, but on the other hand it gave me couple of great tools, when we are talking about tone, intonation and kind of ''boldness'' of expression. (dont get me wrong, im very well aware of my limitations in that department and i realize them, but i somehow know how to deal with them) and even after 10 years of not playing at all, i was still able to use those fundamentals and kind of hop back on. but when we talking about WHAT to play, that just takes me enormous amount of time and thinking, but thats just this genre i guess. once i crack something up in my head i know im safe already, because then its just about time, effort and focus to make it sound nice and i dont have a slightest problem with applying myself to that. its alchemy 🙂

@Kaia K ur nice, thx 🙂🙏

U've got such a wonderful tone Alison