{"id":27543,"date":"2015-04-19T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=27543"},"modified":"2015-04-19T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:12:30","slug":"fits-bursts-nine-terrible-tips-for-young-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/04\/19\/fits-bursts-nine-terrible-tips-for-young-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"FITS & BURSTS | Nine Terrible Tips for Young Musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YoungMusicians\"<\/h3>\n

N\u00ba 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember how your teacher always said, “practice!\u00a0practice!\u00a0Practice!”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Right, but\u00a0did you notice that shifty\u00a0look in their eye when they said it? That’s because your teacher was using the oldest trick in the book: Trying to keep you busy practicing, while they land all the plumb gigs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the modus operandi\u00a0of all music teachers.<\/p>\n

In reality, Professional <\/em>musicians never practice. They sight-read everything \u2013 as often as possible. The less noticeably they mess-up, the more badass they are.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

You should try to use all 100% of your brain when you play. Blacking out is normal – you\u2019ll recover the dead brain cells when you sleep.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

No one can really tell the difference between a Stradivarius and a Yamaha, so go for the Yamaha. With the extra bucks, you can afford a nice bespoke suit or a pair of Manolo Blahniks. There is no downplaying the importance of getting your appearance in order. If you look like you have your act together, your audience can’t help but assume you do. It\u2019s all marketing.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reverence is for reverends.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Good posture is overrated. A hunch is fine \u2013 Glenn Gould did very well with one.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Playing \u201cunder the influence\u201d allows you to release inhibitions and creative blockages. What you lose in technique you gain in courage.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

People will always want to believe what you are playing is really difficult. This is the only reason for arpeggiating a chord, or doing a fancy scherzo. Liberace understood this. Also, tussle you hair a lot, and grunt! People can\u2019t get enough of that.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can safely ignore the conductor.<\/p>\n

N\u00ba 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong with laughing at the trombones. Everyone does it.<\/p>\n

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Nine tips you probably never want to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,4930],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/YoungMusicians.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-7af","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27543"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27554,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27543\/revisions\/27554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27543"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}