Blake
Really i shirt like you wearing are; no, thats not right. Shirt like you are wearing i, no thats not right either lets try this one more time. I really like the shirt you are wearing...there we go! Read that first sentence again. If Yoda and a dyslexic had a baby it would be that sentence. In case you haven’t noticed, there are a lot of musicians out there with a big musical vocabulary but few of them understand how to take the musical words and make a complete sentence. The art of producing these sentences is called PHRASING.
Though phrasing does come natural to many students of music, it is a piece of the pie that can be practiced and perfected. It is definitely not enough for a musicians to understand chords, scales, and even licks. Until one becomes aquatinted with phrasing , he cannot truly express his musical talent.
talk to ya, blake