I joined a Trumpetplayer Mailing List and found today a nice E-Mail and would like to share it with you:
Think there is some truth inside, i wonder myself sometimes after a good improvised solo if i really played THIS alone...I noticed that the solo becomes "***" as soon i start to worry/think about chords and such stuff.Some of the best players says : "learn your scales and chords....Then....Forget all about them and play!"We can't take any credit for our talent. It really is how we use it that counts............
We don't play and create music in a vacuum ,just out of the blue. Music is a collaboration.It's really a connection or rather a sacred *contract* between the musician and our Creator.
The great composer Frederick Handel firmly believed that he was hallucinating for over three frenzied weeks as he was composing The Messiah : "I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God Himself."
The great composer Puccini, openly confessed that his opera, Madame Butterfly," was dictated to me by God; I was merely instrumental in putting it on paper and communicating it to the public."
But remember that you must nourrish this talent with enthusiasm, energy, craft, discipline,devotion,passion intelligence, perseverance, skill,sweat,tenacity and savvy.
Don't worry about your talent not being adequate enough for the job.Just show up for the gig,oil the valves, warm up your chops and get out of your way !!!
The world needs your gift your talent as much as you need to demonstrate it and lastly, as long as you remember that you aren't performing and creating your sound and creativity alone,the flow and fluidity will never be stopped.
