So many options right? Here's some things to try. Let's apply this to Free playing..have your drummer play just toms while you improvise, have your drummer play just snare and ride, snare and bass drum, just snare, just bass drum, snare bass drum one tom, all toms no bass drum, all toms and cymbols..you can see where this is going. The drummer in the case doesn't have specific beats just general direction in playing one part of the kit. You can create different textures this way. As for the bass maybe just quarter notes, just half notes, more of 8th notes, maybe a pulse, maybe a tonal center, maybe no center, bass will solo, bass will lay down groove, not lay down groove. You see also where this is going. We haven't added guitar or horn. You can give direction without being specific yet you are giving specific directions but the player have freedom to create within that. This lesson will continue, this idea. This is where you can come up with new things. Getting the most out of limiting yourself. You can come up with unlimited ideas and textures instead of going to what you know right away. Get's you away from licks. More on this later. Give it a shot and record it and see what you find. I'm on this journey with you. It's never ending. Let's get out of our heads and into making sound. You don't even have to really know how to play anything to apply this.
Best to you, let's make new music, JC
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