Music Preformance

Music performance techniques, methods, and tips for playing your music with an audience.

Playing Music is Not Important!

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in Performance

I’m not going to go into a long dissertation on this, but the bottom line is that music is an optional vocation. Music is an extra, a gift of leisure if you will. It’s totally a voluntary effort. That’s why it takes effort to engage and learn music. It’s easy to put off practicing and learning, because there are no real consequences.

Wanting to Sound Good

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in Performance

A most profound statement. A quote from Kenny Werner in Effortless Mastery – “When you approach your instrument, no matter what lofty goals you say you have, wanting to sound good will predominate and render you impotent.” This statement is obvious in it’s intent to convey how a mindset may be self destructive. I have personally experienced this so many times that when I reread this, it was like being smacked upside the head.

Playing Music From Practice to Performance

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in Music Theory, Performance

I’ve taken the steps from applied music theory, implemented practice method, and polishing for performance, now for the critique.

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