hey kelsey, I was wondering what your thoughts where on tonal memory and its relationship to consciousness/unconsciousness it seems that the road you've taken is more of an "unconsious" absorption of material, im not judging your musicianship, just saying that I guess that your transcription process is associated towards what your inner ear hears more? I practice alot of patterns, and do a decent amount of transcriptions, yet I tend to see that at the moment of spontaenous improvisation I have a certain way of hearing things. regardless of how much of a specific artist I listen to, my ears tend to go somehere else in my playing. I tend to play outside diatonic changes, not in an alterations based way, more of a planned dissonant structure sort of way... just wanted to know how you do it! roy