Lately I have been thinking a lot about listening again.

Not “content”, not background noise, not algorithm music playing while checking emails — but actually listening. Sitting in a room with a record on and paying attention to the sound, the phrasing, the rhythm section, the weird little details. I spent the morning listening to Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard and honestly it reset my brain a little.

This post is half musical practice idea, half small existential jazz crisis.

We’ll look at rhythmic displacement using a simple 5 note minor pentatonic pattern and how moving it from quintuplets into 16th notes suddenly changes the whole feel and placement of the phrase. Nerdy? yes. Very useful? also yes.

I also talk a bit about:

• why some guitar solos feel endless

• why jazz clubs still matter

• how to reverse engineer rhythmic ideas

• and why counting is unfortunately still important

There’s also a video where I play through the concept on a short form I wrote for myself based on chords moving in major and minor thirds.

Have fun checking it out — and maybe go listen to an actual record afterwards.

In this post, I share my daily jazz guitar practice routine and how it has slowly merged with creating short-form content. I talk about practicing, working with loopers, and developing chord-melody arrangements over time. It’s an honest look at being both a working musician and a content creator today.