Work a long time in - or on - a small area. Take a limited subject and spend an unlimited time on it, until it opens up. For example, low B to low C. Stay on these 2 notes. Rock slowly back and forth for a long time, first one, then the other. How long is long? 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one hour, 2 hours, a week? After about 40 minutes you will no longer be bored. Keep it up until you start to hallucinate. The half step interval will become enormous! You will become very tiny. Stay on it until you can't anymore. Your ear has changed. Small has become large. Now, when you leave this space and go back to the rest of the horn, everything has changed, and your perceptions have altered. This process is illumination, metamorphosis. You can deal with any element like this.
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Steve Lacy, from his sax tutor - Findings:
Work a long time in - or on - a small area. Take a limited subject and spend an unlimited time on it, until it opens up. For example, low B to low C. Stay on these 2 notes. Rock slowly back and forth for a long time, first one, then the other. How long is long? 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one hour, 2 hours, a week? After about 40 minutes you will no longer be bored. Keep it up until you start to hallucinate. The half step interval will become enormous! You will become very tiny. Stay on it until you can't anymore. Your ear has changed. Small has become large. Now, when you leave this space and go back to the rest of the horn, everything has changed, and your perceptions have altered. This process is illumination, metamorphosis. You can deal with any element like this.
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