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Friday, January 11, 2013

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As a musician, one of the more interesting and revealing questions you can ask yourself is: why do I play music? The answer is usually something like, “because I enjoy it.” It’s not the most illuminating answer, but it’s essentially true. Playing music is fun. It makes you feel good about yourself.


Of course, there’s two kinds of playing music. There’s playing for yourself (or casually jamming with friends) and then there’s performing music live, in front of an audience. Musicians experience varying emotions related to playing live. It’s doubtless a time of great excitement but also a time of anxiety. You worry about whether or not you’re going to hit a wrong note and be revealed as a musical fraud in front of your peers, cast forever into the social abyss. But you also dream about creating a brilliant musical moment which causes the audience to collectively gasp and then chant your name as you dodge a hail of women’s underwear (or, if you are a woman, soiled boxers.)



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