- Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:41 pm
#15052
I recently started recording myself when I'm practicing: just do my normal practice and have the recorder running.
When I listen to what I played later, I find that there is often a difference in my perception of how well I played something. If I think "that was good, you played that well" while I'm playing and listening to myself, I often find that my opinion changes when I listen to the recording of the same passage later. In particular, pronunciation can sound much worse to me on the recording than it does when I listen to myself while I'm playing. It seems that, if I intend to play a tone, and the tone isn't as clear as it should be, my brain plays tricks on me and hears a good tone when, in reality, the tone wasn't so good.
On the other hand, my opinion while playing live and while listening to the recording is usually the same when it comes to micro-timing. It seems that I'm a much better live judge of my micro-timing than my pronunciation.
Overall, I find that listening to the recordings really helps me to be accurately critical of what I'm doing because it removes this "perceptional filter" that I seem to have. Stripping away the rose-colored glasses, so to speak...
Cheers,
Michi.
When I listen to what I played later, I find that there is often a difference in my perception of how well I played something. If I think "that was good, you played that well" while I'm playing and listening to myself, I often find that my opinion changes when I listen to the recording of the same passage later. In particular, pronunciation can sound much worse to me on the recording than it does when I listen to myself while I'm playing. It seems that, if I intend to play a tone, and the tone isn't as clear as it should be, my brain plays tricks on me and hears a good tone when, in reality, the tone wasn't so good.
On the other hand, my opinion while playing live and while listening to the recording is usually the same when it comes to micro-timing. It seems that I'm a much better live judge of my micro-timing than my pronunciation.
Overall, I find that listening to the recordings really helps me to be accurately critical of what I'm doing because it removes this "perceptional filter" that I seem to have. Stripping away the rose-colored glasses, so to speak...

Cheers,
Michi.