[TPIN] ANALYZATION/MASTERY/GREAT ART

[Glenn Bengry]

Complex movements and Experienced Accomplished Athletes and musicians, have MASTERY over many many many movements required.  Playing the trumpet is an art,  ski jumping is an art, playing golf is an art, crafting violins is an art, painting is an art, making music is an art, infinity.
 
An artist spends some serious time mastering the INDIVIDUAL MOVEMENTS required to perform at the level of an artist,  the ski jumper learned to balance his/her weight by bending the knees, keeping the hips in certain relationship to the legs, steepness of the grade, positioning the body to be aerodynamic on the descent, how thrust the body forward and up at exactly the right time to get maximum lift, forward speed, leen angles, take advantage of aerodynamic resistance, and the force of gravity. And of course, learning how to land takes some very very specific physical movement behaviors in order to not get dead by landing on ones head rendering the skier unable to  have any more fun skiing.
 
    Once MASTERY has been approached to a certain level, one can begin to forget the individual steps, to do the real "performance" of their art.  To have fun, to visualize the beauty of the entire jump, or the entire pahrase of music, or the entire golf swing.  You can bet that the finest, of these professional athletes use visual and audio recordings to analyze the quality of the complex behaviors necessary to produce a thing of beauty.  The greatest of the great do this.  Tiger Woods watches his swing to correct flaws in his mechanics, and as I understand it, has completely rebuilt his whole swing through the analysis of minute parts of the swing.  Baseball coaches work with pitchers(who are getting shelled repeatedly)to correct flaws in the mechanics of throwing a baseball.  Bill Evans took a year off of a successful career to rework his touch on the piano.....................
 
    Once the individual mechanics are mastered to some degree, the individual can THEN minimize thinking about the mechanics and focus on the Arnold Jacobs school of IMAGINING THE WHOLE of the sound, the whole of the music, the whole of the visual picture of the music, the whole of the musical story to be told.  At a certain point one has to focus on the whole and not analyze the mechanics to get to the next level of mastery, the next level of music making, the next level of ski jumping, the next level of golfing,  the next level of joke telling. THIS  is the place where to catch phrase "Analysis if Paralysis"  can become seriously imortant and relevant.
 
   If we leave out ANY STEPS in the analysis, we hinder our ability to make beautiful art and performances.  ONE OF THE FINAL STEPS in learning to make an artist out of a trumpet player is to play in a group of 2 and over.  I have had fine players, trained at prestigious music schools play second to me or me to them, that had no clue how to follow a lead's style or sound, or pitch, or match or how to lead and balance and blend with the other musicians, thereby making the music sound like sh.poop.  The neither analyzed, visualized, or "auralized"(my new word) the whole process.  they RUINED THE PERFORMANCE  by leaving the final steps in the process of creating the WHOLE, the ART,  the BEAUTY of the art.
 
To summarize, we must analyze, and internalize many small things, before we are ready to actualize all of these things into a whole by forgetting the internalized, memorized parts of the art.   The moments of great beauty can be finally reached when we use both analyzation and ignoring all of that analyzation.
 
    We chase these moments all of our musical artistic lives, experience it in rare moments when everything comes together, and the magic of it all gives us a thrill we cant even describe.
 
 
glenn, this is no joke,eh? bengry
 
 
PS Olaf, Tim, Brian, and Jake are right.
 
 
 
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> > POP's WROTE:> > People learn through a process of analysis. That is how you learned to> walk, run, swim.> I.E. SUBCONSCIOUS?> > Why don't athletes paralyze themselves but trumpet players do?> BUT THEY DO, POP's, THEY DO.....> > SOME YEARS AGO THE NORWEGIAN SKI JUMPERS (REAL ATHELETS, YOU KNOW) WERE> BEST IN THE WORLD. > THEY WANTED TO BE EVEN BETTER, SO THEY ANALYSED THE SKI JUMP DOWN TO> ABOUT 150 TASKS AND STARTED TO WORK ON EACH TASK SEPARATELY. > NEXT SEASON THEY DIDN'T EVEN QUALIFY FOR THE SECOND ROUND.> NOBODY UNDERSTOOD WHAT HAD HAPPENED, SO THEY SACKED THE COACH.> AFTER A FEW WEEKS WITH THE NEW COACH, THE JUMPERS AGAIN MADE TOP> RESULTS.> WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO EXPLAIN THE "MIRACLE", HE SMILED AND SAID: "I JUST> TOLD THEM TO JUMP AND HAVE FUN".> > WHAT CAN WE LEARN?> > PERHAPS IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS:> IF YOU FOCUS ON SMALL DETAILS, YOU LOOSE?> IF YOU FOCUS MORE ON THE TOTAL PICTURE, YOU WIN?> SO, THE KEY FACTOR IS FOCUS?> GET THE RIGHT FOCUS (FOR YOU), AND YOU WIN?> > JUST A THOUGHT.........> > > REGARDS,> OLAF IN OSLO> >