Conveying emotion to my audience through performance and feeling emotion myself from my own playing have always been two completely different things to me.

Over the years I have found that if I'm able to remove myself and my feelings from the situation that my audience feels the intended emotion more when I am feeling it less.

Therefore the goal here is to do whatever it takes to put my feelings aside when performing.

And that grinds down to the same old thing - PRACTICE - the repetition that breeds absolute familiarity with the performance.

In my experience, the repetition of good practice brings the desensitization required that makes the great performance where your audience's emotions are touched.

Unfortunately, it is all too often the case these days that the performer is all about their own feelings during performance.

I think that it is far more important to be all about your audience.

This means leaving yourself out of the performance in that sense.

When the musical performer allows their own emotions to come to the fore during a performance, I have noticed that the first musical aspect to suffer is their timing.

And timing is everything.

I type this with a bit of intrepidation, for I know that there will be many who will either misinterpret these words, take offense where none is intended, or otherwise respond to them emotionally.

But this is my way of solving the problem and experience has shown it to work very well indeed.

I think it is my job to entertain my audience.

The goal is not to entertain myself.


--Mac

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