Posted by Roger Lewis on November 14, 2003 at 09:10:42:
In Reply to: Listening...instead of Playing posted by Tubist on November 13, 2003 at 21:23:14:
I tend to listen to the music to "hear" all the music - what it is saying to me, how it makes me feel. Afterwards you can analyze the "why" behind the feeling. To be a good musician it helps to listen to the music, not the line or the disection of it or what the clarinets are doing - music is a whole and I feel it needs to be heard as a whole, not as pieces of the whole. We all have music that "touches" us, there was a post about that not too long ago. We don't need to know why, just that it does. We then tend to seek out performances of those pieces or works by that composer, and other composers of that particular style, and broaden our experience. As I grow musically I find myself exploring more music outside my favorites and I feel I have become a better musician because of it.
Just my incoherent ramblings.
Roger