技巧只是一個工具

“I’m convinced that most people know why they love music and want to study it, but in the study of the technique of the art it is easy to lose sight of the why. The way to teach music, to my way of thinking, is to remember at all times that technique is not a goal but the means to the goal. Technique exists only to serve music, and techniques have evolved and changed in order to express new ideas in music. Of course, sometimes it is necessary to isolate a technical problem in order to solve it, to work it through, but even then it is better to link it to a musical thought than to let the technical problem become “the point” ”

節自The Mind’s Ear 前言，Bruce Adolphe著

技巧不是我們學習音樂最終的目標，而是一個為了達到目標的工具。我們知道為何接觸音樂，為何熱愛音樂，然而我們在學習音樂的過程中，有時會遺忘了這個初衷。技巧應是用來輔佐音樂，去激發出新的音樂想法。

當然，技巧有時也必須被獨立出來強調，去增進音樂的能力。既使如此，以音樂為出發點來實踐技巧依然才是”重點”。

但技巧的磨練無疑地能拓展了我們音樂的語彙。如果你只習慣於鋼琴前作曲，練習著沒鋼琴的情況下寫作；如果你只習慣在紙本上作曲，練習著在鋼琴上即興。磨練不熟悉的技能並不意味著矯正，更不是為進步，而是為了挑戰自我：這些挑戰將會激發出新的想法，為創造力拓寬了更多可能。