A friend the other day asked me for the most basic, best guitar lesson ever ... I said to her “ok, are you ready?” She replied “yes” ... to which I replied “ #LISTEN ”.... also the most basic and most important lesson in life if you ask me... but if your looking to play an instrument learn this and you can learn to do or about anything. . . . But let’s dive a bit deeper .. listen to what? Or who ? .... my answer “listen to everyone, everything, and more then listen #OBSERVE ... with all ur senses down to your feet up through your head and everything around the space which they take up. Listen to yourself, listen to the note ... listen to you friends and your foes, listen to the left and the right, listen to the news and the conspiracy theorists, listen to rich and listen to the poor ... and at a certain point you will have something to say ... a story to tell ... maybe even a few if you lucky ... and then listen to the music or watch the movie in your head that is the backing track or the visual to that story and let it supply the creative corner stones of that message.... start there then listen to it back and observe what’s missing, try to put somthing there, but observe if it fits the story or not, and if it does keep it if it doesn’t don’t, listen to others as well but if the call is yours to make finish by listening to your gut. . . .one of my greatest mentors Giorgio Gomelsky would always say “an artists job is to tell the truth” when we observe, when we truly listen to everything we are listening to truth, we are removing our biases and telling the story from a Birdseye view as opposed to from any which side... so please when you listen do it first to observe, to learn, to gather ... not to react but because your job is to tell the truth the whole story with all the sides and based on the evidence and emotions it provoked in you and the world around you.... and then paint us a picture, write us a song, make us a movie, write us a book, build us an app or cook us a dinner.... and if you wanna keep doing that for us, then listen to our criticism and observe our reactions and adjust accordingly... that is the Jazz. #TRUBDR . . .📸 @lashanebiera (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKL1mx6A_fb/?igshid=19q34e8uhmphp
