Milford Graves Full Mantis | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00We're taught about measures, you know, we're talking about pulse beats, all right, so we

00:15can count 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on. So I've known some people say, well, you know, the best

00:23way to play in tempo is to get a metronome. Oh my gracious. And forget about Tommy Clark's

00:29mouth, too exact, too exact. But you know what? The body, the heart doesn't have the

00:35same time length, you understand, between each contraction and relaxation of the heartbeat,

00:43bop, boom, and the next bop, boom. If they are the same, that is extremely dangerous,

00:50and that's what they were missing before. They weren't counting the time difference

00:55between there. So if a doctor heard that, and everything seemed to be clean, the more exact

01:00the time measures, the more dangerous it is. In other words, if you felt your pulse rate at your

01:05wrist or any other place other than listen to your heart, you're going to hear that,

01:08boom, boom, boom, they should be different. That's a healthy heartbeat. They can call

01:16that the chaos heartbeat. They can call that heart rate variability. That means the rate

01:20constantly varies, and all that people have to do is feel their pulse, and all of a sudden they

01:25count. They'll notice they're counting slow at one point, then they count a little faster. That's

01:29great. But if you're counting like a metronome, and everything's like bop, bop, bop, just like

01:34the second hand, that is extremely dangerous. That means your body is not responding. It must

01:41respond. You cannot walk across the street in military march, you know, on the beat, per second,

01:50on a major highway, let's put it, on a major highway, where traffic is coming. If no traffic

01:55coming, you can, you can, you can march with equal steps. But when you see big trucks coming,

02:01fast cars coming, you'll be moving all over the place. Your tempo is going to start to change.

02:06Well, see, that's what the body expects. The body doesn't expect you to go and train in a very

02:11metronomic way. So what makes a person being able to swing, a person not being able to swing?

02:20You know, I got a lot of copies from a lot of those older guys, man. And I said, you know,

02:24man, I'm not playing your typical dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, but they heard it.

02:30That was dang, it was all in there, man. They heard it, man. I said, swing, man. You know,

02:37swing, man, is getting you to move from one point to another point. It's putting life into you. You

02:42can't put a dang, dang, dang, and call that the swing rhythm. Swing is means, man, when you can

02:47feel, man, like, hey, man, I want to live to the next day.