15 August 2010

failed fingers

i played and played and played the liturgy about 30 million times.  i'm stuck on crutches in my apartment, what else have i been able to do?  i woke up early, showered and got out the door and into the church way before anyone else.  i played and played the liturgy... more and more mistakes plagued me.

by service time it was if someone had drugged some sort of creature without fingers, maybe a bird, and asked it to dance.  instead it stumbled on keys near the right keys in almost the right rhythm.

how do i let this happen over and over again?

1 comment:

  1. biphfee, i totally sympathize -- trust me that it doesn't change if you're only using 3 (or, very occasionally on the low register of the piccolo tpt, 4) fingers instead of 10 -- they still manage to do well in the privacy of one's practice studio and then act as if they're in unfamiliar territory when one is at the gig. sigh.

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