bitchesbrew Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Looking to achieve your true musical potential?I teach a technique known as Effortless Mastery.It results in an astounding ease of performance, and unlimited creativity.Lessons cost 12 per half hour session.Open to musicians/singers of any ability.Contact Lewis at:lewis.benzies.07@aberdeen.ac.ukThankyou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchathing2 Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 "Open to musicians/singers of any ability"even effortless masters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Looking to achieve your true musical potential?I teach a technique known as Effortless Mastery.It results in an astounding ease of performance, and unlimited creativity.Lessons cost 12 per half hour session.Open to musicians/singers of any ability.Contact Lewis at:lewis.benzies.07@aberdeen.ac.ukThankyou.This sounds like a cult!"All you need to do is shave your head and provide your own bucket".Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfer_Rosa Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Flawless victory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest droid Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Effortless Mastery - WikEd That'll be 12 from everyone please,erm i'm feeling charitable y'all can have it for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Looking to achieve your true musical potential?I teach a technique known as Effortless Mastery.It results in an astounding ease of performance, and unlimited creativity.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bluestraveler Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 The books pretty good, although the cd's a bit cheesey....Amazon.com: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within (0635621500297): Kenny Werner: BooksJust curious -what exactly are you offering? I like Kenny Warner's book, but the meditations were a bit too American for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bitchesbrew Posted March 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 What I'm actually offering!I've been through the book and using the techniques has completely changed my playing. Most musicians I meet have psychological hindrances to the quality of their performances. I see a strong demand for this approach to teaching and learning music. I know the meditations appear cheesy and 'new age'- but the benefits far outweigh this. Essentially what you're doing is using the imagination to get yourself into a relaxed state of mind. Then you are receptive to such suggestions as 'I am a master', or 'every note I play has greatness'. You don't have to buy into it, but your subconscious believes it nonetheless. You are then free to play from a mindset with no doubts or pressures which affect the music and your enjoyment of it. I am offering tuition from someone who has worked through the process and now regularly experiences 'Effortless Mastery' in action.Cheers,Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Bollocks.Just bollocks, that is all. Complacency has never led to greatness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest droid Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Herbie has been doing this stuff for years. Beliefnet Presents: Herbie Hancock on Buddhism, Buddhist, Jazz, Music- Beliefnet.com Pretty much the same sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie's Ball Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Herbie is the boy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 I've been through the book and using the techniques has completely changed my playing. you mean you've read a book and want to regurgitate it for the sum of 12 a lesson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Just to reiterate: this is bollocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Effortless masturbation - now there's a lesson. Not one I'd attend. Likely to get more takers than this phooey though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 My mastery is so effortless, I don't actually have to do anything anymore, once I have perfectly conceptualised my music, why sully it through 'playing' or 'recording' it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Herbie has been doing this stuff for years. He ended up going bananas though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest droid Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 He ended up going bananas though.He makes great music regardless though....aren't we all bananas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 He makes great music regardless though....aren't we all bananas?Please tell me you got the reference and are ignoring it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 He makes great music regardless though....aren't we all bananas?Yes, but we'll all ride again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_anderson Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 if you want Fame, the pain starts here...I've read the book and bought the T-shirt, though I never wear it... snarf...the way to gain 'absolute mastery' is only after spending hours, days, weeks, months and years of practice and playing, it's all very well walking around with your 'thumb up your arse' Oming to yourself that every note you play is perfect, but everyone knows and hears the truth, guitarist's, spend your money on new guitar strings and drummers buy a practice pad and groove the rudiments, there are no magic panaceas in this, or indeed any life. If you want to get better, work harder... oh! err! missus...Great Thread though, I think it's done the trick... thanks Bitches Brew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest droid Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Please tell me you got the reference and are ignoring it?Hahaha...yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestraveler Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Good luck to you dude! I agree very much that Warner's ideas can be helpful, and I can't think offhand of a better example of 'effortless mastery' than Bitches Brew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestraveler Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Bollocks.Just bollocks, that is all. Complacency has never led to greatness.Nobody would disagree with that, but I can't see where you're coming from. Who said complacency did lead to greatness? Kenny Warner is not just a good writer, he's a good musician - read the book, and then your opinions about it will be taken more seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluestraveler Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 I've read the book and bought the T-shirt, though I never wear it... snarf...the way to gain 'absolute mastery' is only after spending hours, days, weeks, months and years of practice and playing, it's all very well walking around with your 'thumb up your arse' Oming to yourself that every note you play is perfect, but everyone knows and hears the truth, guitarist's, spend your money on new guitar strings and drummers buy a practice pad and groove the rudiments, there are no magic panaceas in this, or indeed any life. If you want to get better, work harder... oh! err! missus...Great Thread though, I think it's done the trick... thanks Bitches Brew Phil, my reading of the book isn't that Kenny Warner advocates some kind of pseudo-spiritual babble to replace the mechanics of learning an instrument and practising - he saying, and rightly so in my opinion, that learning the mechanics of playing an instrument and practising isn't enough!! The book simply tries to address some of the psychological hindrances that can detract from a musician realising and expressing their potential. Nowhere in the book does he recommend not bothering practising or simply choosing to believe that you're better than you are - I don't think that's what he's about at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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