OK, I'm not referring to the Pink Floyd song. I believe that phrase was around before they came along.
As we practice our instruments and hone our craft, it is sometimes useful to think of all that work as building something good. So each scale, each lip slur, each etude, each excerpt run is another brick in the wall of good playing.
But another image occurred to me. Perhaps there is another wall we are building...
"I didn't feel like doing fundamentals this morning."
"I forgot to bring in an extra copy of the score for you to look at"
"I don't have my recorder today."
"I went away with friends for the weekend and didn't practice."
"I didn't check my lesson notes and forgot that was assigned."
"I haven't fixed that dent in my slide."
Taken individually, each one of these things isn't a game-changer. But, oh, how they add up!
Each little "I didn't" or "I forgot" is like another brick in the wall of bad playing.
This is the wall that stands between you and what you thought you wanted to achieve.
Each of your actions is a brick.
Which wall are you building?
