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Michael Bridge: On Cultivating Expressive (vs Impressive) Virtuosity

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:58:22
Publish Date: 2024-05-05 07:00:00
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This episode is sponsored by Musician's Maintenance - safe, simple, maintenance exercises that specifically address the muscle groups that matter most for musicians.

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I think we’ve all had teachers tell us that the technical and expressive aspects of music-making are inextricably connected, and that we shouldn’t just work on technique, and expect to add the expressive details later.

But how exactly do you do this? Like, what does it look like to connect both the technical and expressive aspects of music-making into a practice session?

Michael Bridge is a virtuoso performer of an instrument that you probably don’t know very much about. I’m not even going to tell you what it is quite yet, to make sure your brain doesn’t jump to any premature conclusions.

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