Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2023-06-27 03:42
SunnyDaze,
I do understand your most recent post pertaining to "healthy play,"...but I'd suggest competition isn't always the "bad guy." Many times it is simply the culture of a group of people that makes it uglier than it might need to be.
I look back very fondly on the days of meeting with high school friends to see who could outdo one another. Sometimes we'd meet at my house, sometimes at one of the others. We learned an awful lot this way and had a ton of fun doing it.
It drove us to be better players, and was a lot of fun. None of us wanted to be "left behind" so to speak, so we always tried to figure out a way to pull out something unexpected to put us on top for that day.
Even to this day, when jamming/gigging - or even while playing in a small church ensembles - it is a joy to egg each other on a bit and try to throw in a surprise or two. The trick is to find joy in the other fellow coming out on top, just as if you had come out on top yourself.
That said, some of the college studios I took part in had terrible culture. Laugh-at-your-ill-fortune type of stuff. Nasty.
Competition and "healthy play" aren't at odds though - they can coexist quite nicely...if the culture cultivated by the music group(s) allow for it.
I think "Play" in and of itself is actually a type of competition.
Fuzzy
;^)>>>
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