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Thoughts on Concentration
Posted 07-07-2011 at 09:02 AM by Fiddliferous
Whether its performing on stage in front of a live audience or practicing your bluegrass instrument in the privacy of your own home, concentration is a very important component of music making.
Focusing one's attention completely, to the exclusion of most everything else is an important dimension of playing a musical instrument or singing if one hopes to enjoy the optimum experience that music might offer. Rejecting all irrelevant information going on around one while pickin' certainly needs practice, too.
When thinking and worrying intrudes upon our conscious mind, there goes the opportunity to experience the very best our music has to offer. Learning to "tune out" this unwanted noise is a basic element of reaching a higher level of musicianship.
Ordinarily our physic energy is dampened with the dew of preoccupations and anxieties and useless energies are spent lavishly on entropic matter. It is only when we learn to structure the demands of entropy that we begin to experience the optimum condition that devoted concentration will help us attain. It is at this level that music is most enjoyed. An artist is most enthusiastic about his or her music at this height.
It is this reason that improving the quality of experience leads so many musicians to practice for uncounted hours, day after day.
Focusing one's attention completely, to the exclusion of most everything else is an important dimension of playing a musical instrument or singing if one hopes to enjoy the optimum experience that music might offer. Rejecting all irrelevant information going on around one while pickin' certainly needs practice, too.
When thinking and worrying intrudes upon our conscious mind, there goes the opportunity to experience the very best our music has to offer. Learning to "tune out" this unwanted noise is a basic element of reaching a higher level of musicianship.
Ordinarily our physic energy is dampened with the dew of preoccupations and anxieties and useless energies are spent lavishly on entropic matter. It is only when we learn to structure the demands of entropy that we begin to experience the optimum condition that devoted concentration will help us attain. It is at this level that music is most enjoyed. An artist is most enthusiastic about his or her music at this height.
It is this reason that improving the quality of experience leads so many musicians to practice for uncounted hours, day after day.
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