To add to it (just cuz Bernie dug it up again
)
Over the years, I've come to know some really "good" players who can do technical stuff and jazz licks, I could only dream about,
BUT their personal "acceptance" of sloppy playing somehow, over the years, has become their actual "ignorance" of their sloppiness. (it's like they actually quit hearing them) When we get used to farkles, we begin to ignore them and that's where it gets dangerous. Once clams/farkles are ignored, they become
normal, and when that happens, we'll probably never get rid of them.
That's sad, because while these players continue to excel in the stuff that makes them good, their indifference to "embouchure" and other
basics that affect something as simple as hitting the right note, IMO, brings them all the way down to "my level" of musicality, and that's even sadder.
Hey, "clams" & "farkles" are gunna happen. We need'em, just like pain; mistakes says something is wrong. It's what we do with them makes the difference. When we blow a "klinker," it shouldn't stop us,
but it should never go ignored! If we ignore it; the next one will be easier to ignore. This will result in a perpetual sloppy player. We don't want that.