When you’re playing a show, if you don’t have anything else to trade on, you trade on correctness (with a goal of perfection).
The correct words and notes and breaks and rhythms and chords. Easy to measure.
And boring
Trading on correctness is safe because if you play all the right notes no one can say it wasn’t good.
But if that’s all you have, you’re ignoring the main element that got you into music in the first place…emotional connection.
It’s a lot harder to measure but it’s the thing that can levitate a room. It’s the foundation for the magic. It’s the thing that makes all of us remember.
