The Missing Link Between Musical Performing and Practicing

There is a conception that performing and practicing music are two indeed diverse activities. Actually, learning the elements of music is a main action in and of itself and around some developed strength, not very much true performing can be completed. Yet the connection between performing and practicing is deeply intertwined and at a definite level the difference between the two fairly disappears. At some phase in a musical profession , practicing morphs from being essentially a learning comprehension into a laboratory to design the performer for the performance. At that point, ironically enough, performing itself becomes the major learning matter. The causes for this are myriad, but one greatly important stage of performing is the tremendous energy that is experienced while a live performance in front of a receptive audience. The strength of the audience, as perceived or felt by the musician, pushes him to new heights of skillful achievement. Once the sensation of performing ahead a live audience is experienced, that passion becomes encapsulated in each training session and the fervor of the live performance is released there as well. The true intent of developing mechanical and musical dexterity becomes proven and the center of exercise sessions is changed. At that situation, performing becomes the absolute learning experience and practicing becomes preparation to maintain and strengthen that experience; this indicates the outset of the transference from musician to artist. The artist will discover new method of practicing to bring live performances closer to the true ecstasy of musical expression in all methods. He or she will bring modified and diverse disciplines such as psychology, doing kinesiology and acoustics and various artistic disciplines such as theater and dance to the training session to develop novel areas of experimentation. This will strengthen the artist-musician to execute superior control of the instrument and maximize the overall performance itself. Novel and innovative ideas and methods of practicing will be embraced. Slowly the artist will modulate his practice in a producing and fulfilling way so that it optimizes the live performances ahead of an audience. This is the real change from musician to artist and throughout this process the artist will be prepared to perform and get in touch with specific, creative and unique practice of expression. As this progresses, the artist will notice huge advancement in concentration, luxury of performance and superior synchronicity of body, mind and what professional musicians love to quote "soul". This sounds twisted, but as music is thing that the artist enjoys, exercise is, in consequence, playing music and should evermore be enjoyed for its own sake. As practice is transformed into a supremely rewarding and fulfilling experience, a prominent move towards scaling the zenith of artistic feat is reached.
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