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Originally Posted by Jim-W

…2. The recorder picks up every single mistake. What is with that?

Hi J-W…
I realize it's a rhetorical question…but it's something I discuss with students.

When we play live, people hear with their brains, and we are pretty good at excluding mistakes, extraneous noise (refrigerator running in the kitchen etc). We actually can get away with a lot when we play live.

When we listen to recorded music, we tend to use our ears, and when we spot a mistake, we know it's coming every time we fire up that recording, and even begin to anticipate it.

Recording is a TRUTH test of how we well we are playing…how well I played rather than how well I THOUGHT I played.