Perfection

[Tom Hipskind]

Originally posted by CLWarunki:
As soon as an artist realizes that there is NO SUCH THING as perfect, then creating and performing becomes much more natural and expressive.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Beautifully put, Chris!

For one thing, I think that we can strive for perfection without being obsessed with it. That's what I always try to do. Playing with total precision is cool, but it's not where my FOCUS is musically when I'm playing--my focus is on where I am in the music and trying to bring something fresh and exciting in terms of my ideas. That's where some players come up short, in my opinion--with their ideas.

Second, being a perfectionist isn't necessarily a problem (I certainly call myself one!) as much as where we focus our efforts to be perfect. Like Brad said, perfection is a pretty blanket concept (notice I used the word "precision" above instead). We should take care not to define it for ourselves solely in terms of machine-like rhythmic accuracy but also in the ability to come up with new & different ideas, phrasing, expression, joy...


-Tom

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 20, 2004 01:17 PM: Message edited by: Tom Hipskind ]</font>

[FuseU1]

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 20, 2004 04:21 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>