Mine is bigger than yours!

I was writing a post about moods in playing the guitar but suddenly a question hit me: what is more difficult to do from the point of view of transmitting emotions?

1) (To transmit emotions to the public) playing some predefined notes in a classical piece of music?

2) Or (to transmit emotions to the public in) solo improvisations?

To argument a bit my problem, I have started stating that improvising is way harder than playing predefined notes(as in classical guitar) because you need to find those particular notes, licks that touch audience’s soul. When you play classical music, well, somebody has already told you which are the notes!!

But then I have thought about how difficult it must be for a classical guitar player to not be able to break the constraints of the imposed form of music he/she is playing and still create his own style and transmit emotions….

I think that classical musicians need to be way more creative in finding nuances, subtle variations to the music EVERY OTHER classical musician play in order to transmit. That somehow turned upside down my belief that mine is bigger than yours…whatever that means…

Your call?

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