Yes indeed, it is far too easy to fall into the trap of "overplaying".

When young, the want to let people know what you can do, to get noticed or get ahead, or simply the results of a youthful ego can get in the way of a being able to deliver Strong Performance.

When time makes the musician a bit, shall we say, more mature, it can still be problematic at times, the search for that Perfect Solo sort of thing.

Some certain musicians, I've noticed, seem to have a built-in reverence for melody and the song at hand, or so it seems. They *always* manage to tell a coherent story, which I'm convinced is at the core of the art and science of what we try to do.

Maintaining a good balance between the emotional and the cerebral is also of high importance. Don't play a lick or trick just because you recently learned it and are chafing at the bit to throw it out there. This one can prove to be very difficult to follow. But the song fulla Maj7 chording likely is not the place for the guitarist to try out a newly discovered use of Tritone subs, right? Don't worry, the aspiring organist has their list of this kind of thing as well, ever have to listen to a band in which the organist just discovered use of the BIG 13th CHORD, which then shows up in all turnarounds of the night? <g>


--Mac

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