[Trombone-l] spirit/excecution, was Re: Perfect Pitch

[Daryl Burch]

It must hard to type while driving...

Try this URL: http://www.jeffalbert.com/lucky7s/

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-D-
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On Mar 2, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Jeff Albert wrote:

> On 3/2/06, George Carr <georgecarr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm with you there; mistakes, especially, make a way bigger difference
>> to musicians than to untrained listeners: if a musician hears a gaffed
>> note or a pitch problem (or even bigger mistakes, like a missed
>> entrance or a missing fugue voice), it's cause for wincing, while many
>> untrained listeners don't notice, or think it's intentional.
>
>
>
> I'm in Chicago this week working with a new group called Lucky 7s.   
> The
> group is co-led by Jeb Bishop and I, and we each wrote 5 pieces for 
> it, and
> a couple of other members have contributed stuff.  We had long 
> rehearsals on
> Monday and Tuesday, and out first gig was Tuesday night.  Some of the 
> stuff
> is pretty intricate, andd on the way to the gig Tuesday Jeb and I were
> discussing our concerns about the bands preparation.
>
> I said that spirit can over come excecution for the regular listener.  
> Clean
> and spirited is better than sloppy and spirited, but what the people 
> really
> hear is the spirit and the energy and the vibe.  Too often we as 
> musicians
> let the performance distract us from the music.
>
> BTW, so of the gig could havee been cleaner, but the peeps dug the 
> spirit.
> We have more gigs this weekend, check out
> http://jeffalbbert.com/lucky7s/for info.
>
> Jeff
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