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Mairi Campbell |
Last week the dance band was out and about. It's where I learn the heaps and although there is nothing I like better than to play for dancing, i find it hard. The beat slips away, chasing it, dragging it, losing it, sometimes it just rolls and swings along just great and then suddenly I'm out again and flailing around. The dancers are great teachers, you can see how they feel your music through the body - pretty direct feedback. As a classical player in my past i wasn't exploring timing in music - you give the conductor your rhythmic soul - and timing is one of those things seems to take years and years to develop and work into your playing, but for some it seems to be just there. What's always frustrates me is how can it not be there. It should be there - it's our home - we have heartbeats, our breathing is rhythmic, so why is it so hard to get the music to drop into that place?
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