Benjamin Kamins: On Self-Judgment, Slow Practice, and Reed-Making
In an ideal world, we’d be building confidence in the practice room from one day to the next, but sometimes that can be easier said than done. It’s easy for the voice in our head to get very judge-y and negative and make us feel like we’re playing a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Where every time we think we’ve solved a problem, a new one pops up to take its place. Whether it’s getting through challenging passages that have become “a thing,” troubleshooting intonation in an ensemble witho...