But, what do ya do about it?
There are many philosophies and theories as to what to do. Honestly, I
get very concerned when there are no butterflies taking wing inside.
Such situations smack of over confidence, for one thing.
I have found that just playing with friends and other musicians over time
helps a great deal. A teacher once told me that mistakes are
inevitable. WEe all make them at whatever level we paly. After a while
the badly missed notes become somewhat fewer and farther between, but he
said that a wrong note or poorly intoned one is still a mistake. Be bold
and courageous. Play with firmness, and not wo be hugely concerned about
the clinkers during a performance. Once played, the deed is done, and
playing with firmness and a sense of I did that deliberately can go a
long way toward building strength in playing
With this last abit I'll finish.
I have a good friend who is a world-class jazz piano player who told mee
of a situation in which he was asked to play something in an unfamiliar
key. The end result was that several of the chords he normally used
could not be reached, and the clinkers fell thick and fast. In a strokee
of genius, he used the very clinkers as improvizatory material throughout
the performance. The rest of the musicians and the audience was rather
impressed with this amazing "technical" achieveement little did theey
know that hee'd blown the arrangeement.
Nelson