Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-11-24 03:25
Exiawolf wrote:
> I want to make people cry when I play,
> not say "Good job on playing what's written". And I feel part
> of the equation is simply sounding beautiful.
Beautiful sound is an important part of good playing. But the part about wanting to "make people cry" (assuming the best sense) comes from somewhere else in the psyche of the player that's impossible to describe to another person and very hard to emulate, even if you sense it at some subliminal level in someone you've taken as a model. The purpose of developing technique, including control of the sound, is to be able to use it in giving life to the music you play. That doesn't come entirely or even mostly from doing deliberate things at a conscious level. You need time to develop the technique and the control to allow you react to the "feelingful" part of the music (to use a probably outmoded word coined in the '60s by proponents of "aesthetic education") that comes from somewhere inside.
The ability to reach listeners' inner feelings, to invoke a visceral reaction to your playing isn't something you can just consciously do. You need to reach a level in your playing where you and your instrument become a more or less organic whole - the tool and the artist become merged enough that the artist is no longer focused on the tool but on the result. That takes, as Hank has pointed out, time and experience. Whatever Larry Combs or Stanley Drucker or any other legend eventually became, they didn't play when they were 15 as they did in mid-career. And I know a number of very accomplished players, some now in major symphonies, who, when I knew them as peers long ago didn't play the way they do now, in fact didn't play all that well. Making people cry (or laugh or feel any other deep emotion) comes from the player's own inner sensitivity coupled with a steadily, however incrementally, improving technique. You simply can't jump there by getting some piece of well-worded advice.
Relax, enjoy the journey and just keep moving.
Karl
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