Motivational Monday for Musicians #5: Serve Others.
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2022
- In this Motivational Monday, I talk about the mindset that arguably has had the most positive impact on my performing life, serving others. This mindset can greatly impact your rapport with your bandmates, your teaching, literally any of your creative endeavors. Please like, comment, share, and subscribe to JAZZMIND for more videos like these. Wishing you love and music - Tito
Tito Carrillo is jazz trumpet professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: music.illinois.edu/faculty/ti...
So true, so much of feeling confident and comfortable in jazz settings is all about getting out of your head, and getting in the music. Keep up the great content!
This is a beautiful message and important to center in our lives. Thank, you Tito ❤️
This message effects all aspects of life! Serve others! But I love how this mindset helps with performance anxiety by shifting the focus! Great point there Tito
Definitely spot on! I for sure do not play at your level, Tito! But, I can tell you that on occasion, I have had audience members come up to me and say how much my playing moved or touched them, even though in my mind, I didn't think I knew what I was doing technically. But in my effort to share myself, my music still came out and I shared a moment with my audience, even though I didn't sound like Clifford Brown, or Freddie!
Wonderful advice. I genuinely feel calmer after just listening to you talk. I will try to take that attitude into my next session, but I do that find that often the pressure just makes me forget everything.
This talk really hit home for me! Thank you for sharing the beautiful story about Herbie Hancock.
I put my trumpet away after college and didn't get it out for 20 years. My reasons for getting back on the horn were selfish; I remembered the joy I had in playing and the challenge of improvising that I had never quite figured out. I pictured myself happily playing along with tracks at home on the computer.
I was extremely fortunate to find a great teacher and he hipped me to a jazz combo for adult learners. I spent my first year playing with the group solely focused on how bad I sounded and regretting that I couldn't play as well as I had in the past. Even once I began to improve, I then became hungry to show off what I had learned and to make sure my solo sounded good.
I don't think there was a lightbulb moment, but gradually through our weekly rehearsals (which are more like workshops) and some live performances I started to really check out and enjoy what the other players were doing. It's so true what you said, when I can remove the spotlight and self-critical voice and make it about the music, then I can join the collective endeavor of making music. It's so much more fun and more rewarding to pay attention to the bass player and respond to his feel, or to a change in energy from the drummer or to a figure played by a comping instrument.
I'm so happy and lucky to have found a safe place to play and collaborate without judgement. I wish that every adult learner or comeback player can find a situation where they can stretch out and play with like-minded musicians.
Thanks for your motivation, Tito, it's so great to hear that there are musicians of the highest level are compassionate and in it for the group and for the love of the music.
Thank you so much for these comments, Tony! Music can be so much more enjoyable when it’s coming from a sharing spirit.