I guess I want to get to the point where I can sit and play in front of an audience and feel like I am sitting in my favorite chair at home. Where nothing is distracting me, where my surroundings are but mere images, where I can simply enjoy what I’m playing and nothing else. I’ll be honest, yeah sure it is great having people watch you and complementing you on your playing but the place where I get most satisfaction, the place where I truly play for the soul (or whatever you want to call it) is at home. And if I could bring that mentality everywhere with me, to make any place feel like home with my guitar - I would consider that a main goal of my playing career. I think once you’ve reached that level, the audience starts to realise too and that’s when you become one of the greats. That’s when it is no longer about technical side of things, not about the scales, not about sharps and flats, but that’s when it is all about music and the transcendental.
In the mean time I guess I am to push my self to get involved in all kinds of performances, ones I want to do, ones I don’t want to do. Solo ones, ensemble ones etc.. You can never get enough practice as they say.
Jesse L
