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Re: Does your every note matter?

Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2019-02-19 06:50

The title of the thread took me in a different direction than the video did. I'd expected one or two other things.

When I hear a great musician, I'm almost always hearing a great, expressive sound. They must work on just that much of the time, a great sound, the exact sound they want, on every note of every piece they perform. Not just the "right" note, but the right sound for each note in its place. And yes, they want it to be a sound people would want to hear.

The other way every note matters is phrasing and fitting every note into its passage, and every passage into the larger work. Great performances don't have any musical dead spots. They're alive, spontaneous and logical at all times. Even though a piece as composed might seem weaker in some part, a great performer will do something to make it sound right and convincing.

Technical issues and other things can crowd out the awareness of the sound and meaning of one's playing. One keeps coming back to those things to try and gradually make them as automatic as possible. But even great pros can still have relatively less inspiring or impressive days.

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