alksoe的部落格

The Russian Composer Igor Stravinsky onetime said: " A apt musician does not imitate; he steals."

I ruminate what he meant by this is that it's OK to use a method industrialized by another and breed it your own. To imitate is to walk off with a technique or stylishness and, somehow, not merged your own sound and vivacity into it.

We all get our design from somewhere, whether by circumstantially attentive to a sliver of music and subconsciously storing it away, or by a attentive act where on earth we say to ourselves: "This sounds very good and I impoverishment to use it in my own music."

Some citizens have the thought that everything created must be inventive and by that they expect that here essential be no outside influences - but this is surrealistic. Haydn instructed Beethoven. Italian composers influenced Bach and so on. All prehistorical and instant composers on this heavenly body have their influences whether they grant them or not.

Now, most of you cognise that I have two great influences: George Winston and John Herberman. You may or may not cognise of these citizens. The element is I confess that they wrought my own finesse. How? Because I likable listening to them. It's that effortless.

When I sit down to play, I inescapably be given towards one approach or the other than. I'm superior near that. It doesn't be going to that I'm platitudinous. It only process that I declare genuineness and don't try to locomote up beside "something inspired." What sounds new is 99.9 times out of 100, a improvement of what came back.

The unharmed constituent I'm hard to breed is this: Don't try to be ingenious. Instead, focusing on what you close to and esteem and your own sound will move done in the end. The music may be modified to an utmost (innovation) or a moment ago a slim (homage). Just don't reproduce.