Good advice about not playing the tonic.

Reminds me of an old teacher who told me to intentionally not play the tonic at all in my soloing practice.

That's a great drill for anybody who wants to play better solos.

For one thing, I immediately found out how many times I was playing the tonic to re-establish "home base" simply because I wasn't paying mental attention to where it was at the time. Notes like those are redundant.


--Mac