Certain areas of life are best left unexplored. Scientology.. skip it. Celebrities... you could be studying better things. Ice Road Truckers... really Discovery Channel?
Now, I guess that tv show is probably just capitalizing on the southern U.S., the people that really care about truckers, and it's exploiting their fear of the cold and turning it into a horror story nightmare. But maybe it's interesting, I wouldn't know, it's not worth my time to me.
When playing music, know when not to play. Do not miss breaks in the music. Don't play a loud cymbal crash during an oboe solo. Don't come in a measure early after counting 200 bars of rest. There's nothing more embarrassing in an ensemble setting than being that one guy that missed the caesura in the fast part of the piece, and hitting the cymbal while everyone else watched the conductor.
We practice the notes and rhythms that we need to play much, much more than the notes and rhythms we need not play, when they are really equally important. What is music without silence? It's really just a bunch of loud sound, that would get really annoying after a while. Take the time to count the rest and know when to come back in, but always remember that you can listen just as well as you can play if you work on it.
This goes for all of you. We will all have jobs, with job requirements, and they'll have certain tasks that we have to get done each day, or certain special things to get done, places to be, etc. But it's just as important to know what not to wear, what not to say, when to not say something, because the most embarrassing mistakes aren't when you can't do what they ask you to, it's when you stop doing what you've always been doing.
I'm really tired and mostly running on coffee right now. I hope this makes sense in the morning when I get up.
M
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