Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 08, 2023

Carrying that logic forward, do they need to have rehearsal of the class?

“Some dude.” Yep. Because no one’s quite sure just who it was!

Frazz must be saying “practice makes perfect”.

It’s better to make mistakes in learning and while practicing than to makes mistakes in a real life situations.

You are less likely to make mistakes in a real life situations if you allow yourself to make mistakes while you’re learning and practicing.

[Just be sure not to practice making mistakes.]

Classic. “You’re so quiet! Why don’t you speak up more?” Well, you’re so noisy, why don’t you shut up more?"! Or, worse yet, you’re quiet b/c you don’t know the answer, or are unsure of the answer & the teacher says “Let’s ask somebody we haven’t heard from.”!

As someone who was never good at singing harmony, I know that your choir director was absolutely wrong.

So it’s not how loud you are, it’s WHEN you are loud.

If one conceals or suppresses a mistake and doesn’t learn the correct form, one is bound to repeat it when it is least wanted.

I heard about a guy who learned from his mistakes, so he could make them over and over…

A wrong note is a mistake. A wrong note played with confidence is an interpretation.

Frazz handled this one quite well with his question.

Think he should have said their concerts were quite good, because their rehearsals were quite frightening.

Frazz, I would love that on a T shirt!

I play professionally in a brass band, and our director says the same thing! It was hard to break the habit of many years of dropping back when I was messing up, but it works!

My brother played basketball at the small college he went to. Did his dangdest to play clean all the time. After getting purposely and roughly fouled several times, when he and his opponent jumped for the ball, my brother drove the dude down into the boards with an elbow on the collarbone. He later said, that his coach had once told him “If you’re going to foul, make it epic !”

“To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable!”

— L. van B.

My church choir director told us that Martin Luther told his choir to “sin boldly”. Best advice I ever got as a singer — if you’re too worried about screwing up, you sing too quietly and it sounds terrible from start to finish, but if you sing loudly and confidently, you’ll get most of it right and people will probably think your mistakes were supposed to be like that — you’ll generally sound better if you “sin boldly” than if you sing the right notes timidly.

Both pieces of advice are good (because they’re meant for different situations).

As Albert Einstein did not actually say, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Or, perhaps, that is the definition of “practice”………