Hal Galper > Quotes

“What Miles is suggesting is that every melodic line is a pick-up, is in motion towards the next melodic line.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion

“Your goal is to establish, at an early stage of your development, the ability to hear and create song-like chord-tone melodies and then learn how to embellish them.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion

“The process of Faking It is implemented by bringing these highly developed internal processes to the bandstand and just “going for it” without worrying about making a mistake.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion

“one” of the bar is not the first beat of the bar; it is the last beat of the bar. It is the beat toward which melodic ideas are played and at which they end.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion

“the ear of the improviser (as well as that of the listener) desires to hear a simple melody first.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion

“All Dizzy talked about for that week was rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm. When the inventor of the music puts so much emphasis on one particular aspect of jazz, I got the point, that jazz is, at root, a rhythmic invention. If you don’t understand the rhythm you don’t understand the music.”
― Hal Galper, Forward Motion