Why I Find Jazz Interesting

I am yet to outline my full goals in this project. But briefly, the reason why I am putting together all this content and releasing it under the brand of Lofi Wurld is threefold:

I want to document my progression and have a public way to see my growth, regardless of who watches or not.
I genuinely want people to watch and enjoy the content we create as a result of this practice.
I want to learn. More than growth, I actually want to gain a deeper understanding of a skill that I have naturally gravitated towards.

Music, piano, and the art of generating highly accessible music for the purposes of enjoyment, relaxation, and sharing the gift of music—somehow, jazz allows me to do that optimally.

The Appeal of the Artform

Jazz is such an interesting artform to me. I love the wide expansiveness and the seemingly random articulations that actually have careful, elegant thought behind them. I appreciate the technicality, but more importantly, I love the emergent complexity that arises out of seemingly fundamental loops, cycles, and changes.

At its core, jazz is perhaps the most accessible (in my opinion) form of music because its versatility, diversity, and deep roots stem from very core, fundamental cycles that can be reduced to teaching points. It is rooted in changes—chord changes, the cycle of fourths and fifths, and note intervals. Indeed, all music is rooted in cycles, note intervals, and rhythm.

I feel like jazz encapsulates this so elegantly.

A Language of Cycles

You can go freeform, you can go ballad, waltz, samba, bossa, blues, or Latin... it's all jazz, and there are legitimately running themes that can be learned across all of them.

So in a nutshell, my greatest motivation—and perhaps the reason I am documenting this—is to demonstrate that the music I so enjoy listening to is, in fact, learnable. It makes sense, and it can be just as fun to learn and play as it is to vibe to.

Here's to Lofi Wurld.

Watch the journey at lofi.wurld.tv.