You are imagining correctly.

Keyboard or guitar (I play both) and even other instruments, such as my Trumpet, I find that closing the eyes and removing the interference from the eye gate an essential part of the process. Even when soloing live onstage, btw.

Am thinking about an incident years back now, we were a bebop band and we were cookin' hard, straightahead, and this young lady sauntered into the club, dressed to the nines and hittin' a ten on a scale of one to five. The band turned into a trainwreck midsong...


--Mac