artistry

Music is a creative art and a discipline. Sometimes we get ultra-focused on the discipline. Practice becomes a series of commands for the student to carry out. Flaws are pointed out and (hopefully) practice reduces them and they disappear. We are precise. We ask for controlled movements and use of muscles. We learn to repeat things more than we want to, in order to improve. This is the discipline involved. And it does take discipline to practice every day To…