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Old 9th November 2009   #78
Bob Olhsson
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Originally Posted by Sk106 View Post
...They had a more present mindset, of here and now, and what I am actually doing and what this will lead to, specifically. It is in a way related to habituation: the longer you do it, the more you lose touch with reality, you start doing things from impulses and stop thinking about were you’re headed .. what you are actually doing compared to what you think you are doing, if you think at all in the end. ...
A lot of us lost that mindset too. A friend of mine does jazz recordings. He tells me he is very frustrated by the fact that even the greatest players of the '50s insist today on being able to punch in mistakes.
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