week 8 post

How to learn in music field?

          Somebody told me before that music field is the field requires your mouth and skill. After I played band for several years, I feel that really deeply. There is almost no written skill required in this field except you are a lyric writer. I think the main idea of this field is “practice makes perfect. I personally have an experience about this sentence.

           Everyone will get nervous on the stage even they are really familiar with what they did. I still remember the first time that I went to stage in my high school. Before the performance, I practice what I will show lots of times. I think everything is going to be fine on the stage. But when I was on the stage, I saw lots of eyes were focusing on me. I started to get nervous and forgot everything. After that I know the key sentence of play instrument on the stage. Even you feel good about it, you still need more practice. Because this is the beginning of learn this instrument.

         Learn in music field is really different than learn in writing. In writing you also need more and more practice, but the most important point is being creative. If we can see something differently, we can write something differently. But in the music field, all you need to do is practicing. Every extra skill is based on that. That’s why most rock stars can improvisation, because they have practice the same melody thousands of times.