3/11 Chris’ answers are so simple that I almost feel stupid paying so much money for them, but that of course is exactly the point. When I ask, for example, how I can create chord progressions not just by trial and error, but steer them spontaneously while improvising, he just says: It takes time to develop your own harmonic vocabulary.

Crossing an ocean has never been anything but being squeezed into a vessel that feels too small for the task, similar to how space travel basically requires turning yourself into a mole.