Have “technique” don’t means only play a difficult piece with the right speed and with the right notes like many people think, this is only “mechanics”, but is the ability to let exit from the instrument the sound with the timbre, the energy, the intensity and the character that we feel inside; let the notes become “words”, with the rhythm and the phrasing we want to communicate, and all the body must participate to this event, so can be realized the miracle of the music.
The rhythm should be the vehicle in which the sounds can move. The rhythm is not only the speed, but “speed with energy”; in every beat of a bar there is a different quality and quantity of energy, who precedes and prepare the following beat, everything is connected and form a chain that is the foundations of the composition.
And the performer must feel that and transmit this energy to the audience.
Reassuming, my technique consists in take conscience of the body (because we play with all the body not only with the fingers or the mind), and pay attention to make every movement with the right energy that comes from the feeling who is suggested by music. .
Too many times people forgot the body because “too much busy to think”.
Many people eat and watch television and talk and read….and after maybe they forgot what they eaten, this kind of people sure cannot play if live in this way, because cannot make only one thing and feel and concentrate in only this thing that they make, cannot “live” what they are doing in the present, for them is normal make one thing and in the same time think to another, and when arrive the moment they have to concentrate in only one situation this become extremely difficult…or impossible, they cannot really feel.
The function of the body is to receive the sensations that send us the outside world, but too much often we don’t pay attention to receive these sensations, we only live in the mind not in the body, and this is the opposite that need for be a good a performer, a real musician.
Almost every art uses the movements for express a feeling, like music, dance and also painting, so is very easy to understand that the technique has the primary role to explain how to make the movements of the body with the right energy for be able to express some feeling.
The performer has to choose what kind of movement should be appropriate for produce this sound, for express the emotion he feels in that moment and in details : from where starts this movement (from the arm, the hand, the finger), which speed need to assign to the gesture and where exactly is directed this movement and where will stop, everything is the expression of a sensation suggested by the music and has to become naturally, so the performer can “live” what is playing, not only try to press the notes indicated with the dynamics without a true emotional participation.
And the understanding of the music will give origin the right gesture, like we are “conductor” of ourselves.
This technique teaches how express what the performer can feel from the music, his interpretation, his idea of the composition, his fantasy in create the phrasing, and that can be not everytime the same…but cannot create an artist, the teacher can show some examples of interpretation and the right technique to realize that, after is the performer who must show what he has inside, his musicality, his art, so for be a great artist need….to born with the gift of the music inside.