It doesn’t need to be perfect to be good

When listening to music, especially acoustic music or other types of music that have been performed on an instrument, you’ll notice “imperfections.” Now I don’t mean mistakes. Most professionally recorded and performed music won’t have “mistakes” in the regular sense of the word. But there’ll be imperfections.

There’ll be notes that aren’t exactly as long as they could be. If it’s guitar playing there might be some string noise or notes that aren’t perfectly in tune.

Those imperfections are what make it sound unique. If every single note in a piece of music was absolutely perfectly timed, perfectly in tune, and perfectly performed there’d be nothing unique about it. It’d sound robotic and computerized. And if it’s meant to sound like a real instrument, it won’t sound like a real instrument. It’ll sound fake.

So if you’re listening to your own music and notice some imperfections leave them in. They’ll make the music sound unique.

ISJ