Ricardo -> RE: I enjoy fall/autumn... (Oct. 21 2013 14:37:52)
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ORIGINAL: guitarbuddha I cant help but assume I would also be judged on sensitivity no matter how impressive I think my other parts are. D. quote:
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ORIGINAL: guitarbuddha Do you think that having completely numb fingers would affect the quality of your love making or would that be at its normal level too ? If a phenomena has a psychological component then must that component be '100%' ? D. Probably not, it would be at normal level. Anyway, I dont' know about YOU but when making love, my "quality of love making" is not normally judged based on my finger tips, but other body parts. [;)] Don't get me wrong. The IDEAL performance situation where the performer is 100% comfy and will do his or her best, remains. The guitar, the room temp, the person's temp, what they ate, how well rehearsed they are, the height of the chair, the lighting, the monitoring, the mic placement, etc etc....all I am saying is the idea that ONE Of those things might be off, the performance need not be affected so badly. And this cold fingers thing is WAY worse than it needs to be, relatively speaking. Someone told me PDL needs to have warm soup, and wear a plastic bag on his right hand (in addition to have Vaseline on the side of the guitar for finger tips, and smoke weed...or else his playing will be guaranteed to be off!) in order to feel secure before performance time. He only admitted that the vaseline is psychological, but I think it is ALL psychological. Now "warming up" when playing I think is important, but it is a term that is NOT directly related to the temp outside. For example, I don't recommend, on the hottest day of summer, to kick your playing off from the start with some Alegrias at 170bpm with tons of difficult picados and such. No matter the temperature, one should start to build from slower easy pieces or tempos. It is even nicer for the audience IMO.
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