{"id":36468,"date":"2018-11-20T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/~classll0\/?p=36468"},"modified":"2020-10-22T03:59:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:59:48","slug":"tq-chesterton-see-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-chesterton-see-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"G.K.Chesterton on Staying Fresh in our Music"},"content":{"rendered":"[Tuesday Quotes<\/a> are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Enjoy!]\n
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\u201cThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.\u201d
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G.K. Chesterton<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cScales are boring\u2026\u201d \u201cI already know that\u2026\u201d \u201cI think I\u2019m playing it pretty well\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Classical guitar music is finicky. We\u2019re asked to move our fingers with ridiculous levels of precision and consistency. And a core set of movements<\/a> makes up almost everything we do. Repetition is part of the game.<\/p>\n

But with repetition can also come blindness. Like the scenes we pass every day on the way home, we often come to ignore some of the most crucial elements of our music.<\/p>\n

Part of quality practice is looking and listening as if for the first time (even if it\u2019s the hundredth).<\/p>\n

When we suspend our notion of \u201cgot it\u201d, we find constant room for improvement. When we assume nothing, slow down<\/a> and pay close attention, the way forward presents itself.<\/p>\n

Playing music, we build myriad skills. Some are finger-skills. Some are problem-solving skills. We learn time- and project-management skills. And we also need focus and attention skills.<\/p>\n

It takes practice and intention to notice the commonplace day after day. It\u2019s work to stay attuned to the fine details in something we do over and over.<\/p>\n

The key to \u201cseeing\u201d is to look for something specific. When we explore the up-close details, the common becomes novel. Our curiosity engages. We become aware of the \u201cflowers at our feet<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

For scales, it\u2019s rhythm, legato, volume and tone control. With a piece of music it\u2019s the same. For every note and phrase, we can set an intention for each of these. Then we compare what we see and hear to that intention.<\/p>\n

Forward progress means matching what comes out of the instrument to what we hear in our heads. The \u201cbig picture\u201d is made up of many smaller pictures. And the small pictures are where we hold the power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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