Sam I pay professionals to tell me how bad I play
OMG this comment made my morning! 🤣🤣🤣
It’s so true though!!
I don't want, or need, critical comments from my peers.
This was always my feeling at PW so I was happy we when implemented the thing where you state the kind of comments you want. Which we’re now doing here as well, of course.
I have a teacher who knows where I’m at, what I’m good at, what I struggle with. And who knows the best of my playing as well as the worse. But one time at PW someone made a comment about one of my pieces that, to me, sounded like they thought I didn’t know some detail about how to play. I did, in fact, know that thing they were telling me, but wasn’t able to do it in the recording (red dot syndrome and all that). So rather than being helpful, the comment just made me feel frustrated and bad.
I also always wanted to treat the recitals as a recital, not as a piano lesson. So if someone liked the piece, liked my playing etc., then I would love to know that. But feedback? No, thank you, that’s what I pay my teacher for.
For those who do treat the recitals more like a piano lesson, great, I have no problem with that. So that’s why specifying the kind of comments we each want works so well.