Anyways the diffence in importance between speed and feeling is pretty simple...they're completely unrelated. You can express most feelings at any speed just as well as any other speed. You can play at any speed without expressing any emotion or express yourself simply by playing at a certain speed. And you know what's even better? Neither matters! You play the most heartbreaking moving work of art and odds are not a single person on earth will get what you're trying to express and only slightly more people will care. People hear what they want to hear. You play the most ungodly quick shreddage ever before played and people just won't give a ! because there's so much music like that out there none of it has much individuality anymore. One fast tune is just as good as another to the audience today as a group. You play both expressively and mad fast? Good for you. Give the song a week and everyone will either forget it or find something better in their eyes. A couple of weeks if you hit it big. The only thing that lasts anymore is that hip hop $x!t you hear every time you turn on the radio.
I know this sounds all pessimistic and depressing, but it's not. I'm just pointing out what is important. It's not speed or feeling or skill or popularity but the sheer joy of making music that is a reflection of the person that wrote it (you). If you care about what is "better" and what is "worse" you'll never be satisfied with anything you create.You may be able to express yourself perfectly, but that's not the same as reflecting yourself. Feeling adds color for the audience, reflecting yourself is just playing whats in your mind at the time without discrimination towards style or skill. It may not have any feeling ,but if it's creation brings you joy then that's all it needs to do.
That probably made absolutely no sense. In fact I would bet that not a single person here got my arguement as to the difference between feeling and reflecting. That usually happens when I try to express an abstract thought through the confinement of the logic of language. So I'll just sum it up. WHATEVER YOU THINK IS BEST AT THE IMMEDIATE MOMENT IS THE BEST AT THAT IMMEDIATE MOMENT. It's that simple :D
Originally posted by Incidents Happen
feeling is not a ****ing gift!!! how can you bring feeling to your instrument if you dont practice!? c'mon! if you cant ****ing play, then how can you put feeling into it! think!
Oh yeah, btw, this guy is right. Practice makes tolerable :D
Oh, and why is it that I'm the only person here that has ever, will ever, or knows/cares enough about ska to post anything about it? It's a heckalot more interesting in my eyes than blues and jazz and it has just as if not more interesting of a history as any other type of music.
