Re: [Harp-L] re: practice

["George Leung" <gleung4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a Zen saying I recalled: "if I keep pouring tea into a full cup, it 
will just overspill. Likewise, we cannot understand zen unless we empty our 
previous thoughts."

One reason harmonica do not have much future is not whether we practice, or 
what music we play. It's whether we decided to finally follow the rules of 
general musician. That means, if the music is to be numerical, we have to 
play it as exact. To me, that's more of musicianmenship then to be able to 
simply play beautifully, which I trust most, if not all of us, can do.

As seen from that guy who said he hates Bach: that's exactly the attitude 
that caused us our chance to be recognized. Many of us simply play blues 
harp and blues, and at most venture to jazz. Classical? "Too mechanical, too 
numerical..."

But, classical is suppose to be technical; it's these technicality that 
makes these music so difficult to play, and so appriciate. If I want to 
express my emotion, I would just sing a song.

Have you noticed that when he practice, he also have to meditate? You have 
to let go of emotions in order to be able to play music technically well. 
Just because you have emotions, does not mean you have to express it. Even 
if you play and induce emotions to others, you yourself should be nothing 
more then being at peace with himself.

So the real question is: whether we want to be recognized, or able to play 
our music. If we want to be recognized, we have to be willing to sacrifice 
what we thought to be right ? including emotions in music ? and follow the 
tradition old way. That means, play chromatically, and etc. Only when we 
have truly established ourself can we begin to introduce others to our idea 
of music.

Or, if you really want to be recognized, try making controverseies. the King 
and KISS is more famous for controverseies they generate then their music.

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