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Originally Posted by DADGAD
Our church just bought a new state of the art recording system. They will be recording the live P&W music and releasing a CD about every six months. It will be a compilation of the best songs.
Last week, my band was on and, knowing we would be recorded, I executed my guitar playing with my utmost skill and precision. Afterwards, my wife said that my playing was perfect but totally lacked my usual passion. She said that I should go back to my usual way of playing as that is what most people enjoy.
What do you think is most important; skill or passion?
Gary
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As it will be recorded and can and will be listened to over and over and over again, I'd say in a recording environment skill.
For a one shot live performance where no one can go back and analyze it, passion.
Any wrong/bad/sloppy playing will be a lot more obvious if you have to hear it over and over again. No one will care about your passion when listening to sloppy playing repeatedly on a CD.
Ideally you have both, but I'd concentrate on how I play while recording.