My best lesson
since i was playing so many gigs and trying to keep up with my homework, (my gigs were paying for my schooling) ,i was barely keeping up with jane's lessons. i was scooting along doing the bare minimum.
i don't remember what pieces i was working on at the time but i remember there were three of them and it took about 20 minutes to perform the three. we started the lesson by my playing all three pieces. when i finished she said, "just a minute" and walked across the room to start a reel to reel tape recorder. she then said,"play them again". so i did.
after i finished, she walked accross the room, saying nothing, and played back the recording. when the recording was finished playing she just looked at me and said, "okay?"
i was shocked and sickened by what i heard. i had no idea how badly i was playing. however, by forcing me to listen to myself, she gave back to me the power to be the musician i am. i know what music sounds like, and what i heard was not music, but sloppy noise. could i refine it having heard what i had heard? you bet. that's what practicing is all about. will i ever be finished? nope, that's what music is all about:)
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