Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2007-04-29 18:58
......"You play beautifully!"
"Nothing compared to you. You are an ARTIST...intonation, vibrato, stretch...you think I'm crazy, but I know music. It's the one thing that makes me humble."
"Prissy...our leader keeps saying my intonation's prissy...."
"PRECISION. Precision is not prissy, it is the soul of passion. Passion without precision: CHAOS. Look at your thumb, your sublime thumb position. You really keep the pressure on, don't you? Most MEN can't, but you....you've got the most beautiful callus. THIS hand...this is your failure. Your bowing sucks."
"My bowing...why?"
"Your spiccato sounds like marcato, your legato like detache'....you kill the passion. Let it go! What are you holding back for? These are not just notes that you're playing, they're phrases, human outcries!"
"But I understand that!....and I practice till my fingers bleed!...."
"I know, I know...."
"It's all those sixteenth notes of the allegro, I just can't do it...."
"Yes, you can..."
"I can't..."
"Trust me. Try, try....let it go, what are you afraid of? You have great passion in you...let it out! I can take it!......I want it!...........................
:-)
Tony
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