Answer by rook for What does play with feeling mean?
I hope you're not a troll :trollface:.You just can't play music without feeling .. maybe your teacher wanted you to play more involved into the piece (not mechanically stumping on and pressing buttons...
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I think many beginner musicians struggle with this issue, myself included.The point is, music is an art, and art is a form of communication, a form of expression. We need a way to share music, so we've...
View ArticleAnswer by Randy Zeitman for What does play with feeling mean?
A music is a sentence of notes. If you were to give a presentation would you let Siri or Alexa read the words instead of you? What is on the page is the language part ... the CONVENTIONAL part ... the...
View ArticleAnswer by user50691 for What does play with feeling mean?
I have been in similar situations in my youth, competing in state wide music competitions, and performing at gigs. In my opinion this is a hard thing to get right because it is not a quality of you and...
View ArticleAnswer by Athanasius for What does play with feeling mean?
Have you ever seen a bad actor perform? Someone who has memorized all of their lines and goes through the appropriate motions on stage, but you just don't feel anything from their performance?Imagine...
View ArticleAnswer by Lars Peter Schultz for What does play with feeling mean?
There are great answers in this topic. Here is some more input:So my only conclusion is that they didn't want me to play what was on the page. Oh yes, you can play what is on the page, but a forte...
View ArticleAnswer by Нетвойне for What does play with feeling mean?
So my only conclusion is that they didn't want me to play what was on the page. Correct. Standard notation is very flexible, but it often only allows for an approximation of how the piece might be...
View ArticleAnswer by guest for What does play with feeling mean?
Watch the first five minutes of this demo by Evelyn Glennie of the difference between "reading the music and doing what it says" and "interpreting the music". There's not much "being expressive with...
View ArticleAnswer by Phemelo Khetho for What does play with feeling mean?
If you want the nuts and bolts of it, expressivity in music is probably boiled down to variations in the amplitude, timbre (how hard/soft you're hitting the strings, though this is obviously mingled...
View ArticleAnswer by piiperi Reinstate Monica for What does play with feeling mean?
it sounded pretty nice to me....I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.Bzzzt! Self-contradiction detected. ;) "It sounded nice" is a description of a feeling. What other...
View ArticleAnswer by ibonyun for What does play with feeling mean?
I don't believe in something called "putting feeling" into music.Can you tell the difference between a human and a midi sequencer performing the same piece? Yes, of course you can. The difference is...
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When I used to take music exams I'd pass them but it often says "could have played with more feeling".Now, I played all the notes in the right order. Made them louder when it says ff. And quieter when...
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