Back to my “Number Ones”

Lately I’ve been feeling really tired and overwhelmed in my musical research, it usually happens after such an intense routine of playing, teaching, practicing etc…I’m now familiar with this phenomenon and it doesn't scare me anymore, I know that is a moment of recovery in which I assimilate all the experiences accumulated.

What I always try to do in these periods where mind and body need to recharge is to go back to my “number ones” how Bootsy Collins used to say.

My number ones include:

• remembering what made me fall in love with music;

• playing a scale or a classical etude;

• listen what i really want to, which could be also nothing;

• hanging with my best friends or call them if they don’t live close by.