/whiplash-takeaways-music-majors/ Music school, Music major, Music career Sun, 29 May 2016 03:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 /whiplash-takeaways-music-majors/#comment-45619 Sun, 22 Feb 2015 21:08:53 +0000 http://majoringinmusic.com/?p=10892#comment-45619 Was it the “push” that made Parker, or the practice? There is no question that great artists are often unable to construct a decent home-life, but the question from a teacher’s perspective comes down to the push. I think the film clearly shows the teacher exceeding his boundaries. What happened to the teacher should have happened a long time before he met this impressionable boy. The reason it didn’t happen is more problematic, and deserves consideration elsewhere. At the end of the film the boy achieves a kind of artistic triumph. But was this the result of the teacher, or a result of an obsessive student who practiced to the ends of his endurance? I think it was the result of practice. Let’s also remember that this practice was centered on one aspect of music, which is somewhat narrow as mentioned before. Still, it was the practice that made the musician. An artist is a combination of many things, not all of which are positive. This teacher thought he created a superb one dimensional player, but it was the student who practiced that made the artist.

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