If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
I play a bunch of instruments.
I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.
You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.
When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.
Play as much as you can as often as you can with as many people as you can. That's how you learn and grow.
When I did play, I tried to make the most of it.
I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.