musical touch and feel
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Resonant Thoughts: Richard Sennett’s “The Craftsman” (2009)
“As a performer, at my fingertips I experience error—error that I will seek to correct. I have a standard for what should be, but my truthfulness resides in the simple recognition that I make mistakes…I have to be willing to commit error, to play wrong notes, in order eventually to get them right.” “If the Continue reading
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Notes On Musical Touch And Feel
The other day I was texting a drummer friend of mine about the difference between touch and feel. We were talking about how touch refers to how a musician strikes an instrument and the kind of sound that striking elicits, while feel is one’s rhythmic sense of musical time. My friend—a pretty marvelous drummer with Continue reading
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