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Here's something I've wanted to ask a professional musician for a while. It seems like most listeners' enjoyment doesn't actually depend much on your technique,
by cousin_it 11y ago
Here's something I've wanted to ask a professional musician for a while. It seems like most listeners' enjoyment doesn't actually depend much on your technique, which you've spent years perfecting. Practicing your instrument (or more general "musicianship") might not even be the main limiting factor for becoming a sought-after musician, as opposed to things like charisma and theatrics, or songwriting, or imagination... I don't know. What do you think?
- bjelkeman-again 11y agoMy take on it is that technique is something you need to a certain degree, but it alone is not enjoyable. Good music, is subjective, and a combination of many things. Good technique can help, but even a singer without a typical singing voice for example can be very enjoyable to listen to, like Ian Dury.
- rquantz 11y agoI think of technique in very different terms. Technique is the ability to execute very precisely what's in your head on your instrument. That ability is meaningless without all the things you list, especially, I'd say, imagination, but so too are those things meaningless without technique. You can have all the imagination in the world, but if you can't execute what's in your head exactly, that imagination will not be illuminated for the audience.