{"id":4558,"date":"2018-02-16T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4558"},"modified":"2018-02-18T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:44:16","slug":"its-my-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4558","title":{"rendered":"it’s my nature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is an old story, sufi story I think, about a frog that gives a scorpion a ride on its back, to cross a body of water, but not until the scorpion assures the frog it won’t hurt it. Once they arrive the scorpion stings the frog and while dying the frog asks why did you do that and the scorpion says, I can’t help it, it’s my nature.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’ve recorded more than one singer songwriter who didn’t understand time or how to reliably play in time. I’m not very interested in explaining time to someone who doesn’t get it, plus they can’t instantly fix themselves. Trying to get them to follow a metronome or click track, if they can, also distracts from them being present with their lyrics, which, for me, is much more important. Makes more sense for me to be the one adjusting to their sense of time, plus I don’t mind the musicianship challenge.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Some musicians understand right away and accommodate. Others get pissed off and pontificate about how they are so much better than this and they would never have left any part of a recording with any time questions, pushing or pulling. They can’t stop their own complaining even though I hired them, they can’t help it. Doesn’t occur to them I won’t be calling them again.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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