The Diabetian Lens

By Scott Coulter I have a friend who's a lawyer. We went to high school together. She lives in London now, where she works with a big financial corporation that does something she's tried to explain to me many times, and which I still don't understand. It has something to do with investing rich people's money. In any event, I remember a conversation we had when she was still in law school. She said that what they were teaching her in law school wasn't so much about information or content. Rather, they were teaching her how to view and understand the world through the lens of law. I'm a musician, as many of you know. And just as my friend has developed a "legal lens" through which to view the world, I've developed a musician's lens. I play improvised music — jazz, rock, soul, R&B, etc. I learned classical music growing up, and I have a deep appreciation for it. But it's not what speaks to me. I love creating music in the moment, reacting and creating ideas on the fly. I love the spontaneous musical conversations between musicians that happen in a group that's improvising together. To get to the point where those spontaneous conversations can happen, one has to master a great deal of music theory. Improvising musicians spend YEARS learning scales, chords, theory, and drilling them over and over until they're so ingrained that the information is almost in the hands themselves. I have immersed myself in music to the point where it has become a lens THROUGH WHICH I view eve...
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