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    "result": {"data":{"markdownRemark":{"id":"680328c8-c6e5-5427-8b06-4d4824978d3a","html":"<p>As entertainers, we portray characters.  Many times, we leave our characters on the stage and then go on with our lives.</p>\n<p>However…</p>\n<p>Leaving a character on the stage is not easy for all.</p>\n<p>Please remember, I am not a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist, or any flavor psycho-type doctor.  In truth, I am no type of doctor at all.  I will leave it to you to determine my level of psycho.  :)</p>\n<p>How many of us have a difficult time distinguishing between a character we play or our own characteristic?</p>\n<p>How many of us have a difficult time defining ourselves as a person or something that is a part of our personality?</p>\n<p>Too many times, a character a person plays bleeds into their personality; therefore, it becomes a part of who they are as a person.</p>\n<p>This isn’t a bad thing, all of the time.</p>\n<p>But it could be something detrimental if we allow a character we portray to alter the characteristics of our personality, which, in the end, changes who we are as a person.</p>\n<p>Here is an example of this transition.</p>\n<p>As a trumpet player, a part of me as a person, I will play on stage.  In the early years of being a performer, I felt that I needed to portray a character.  In my narrow-minded and inexperienced performing brain, I thought the audience wanted to see a specific type of character playing the trumpet.  I thought that they wanted to see this stoic person who played high notes, played the horn part perfectly, and looked like they were in command of the stage.  Little did I realize that I was pushing the experience of enjoying music, entertaining, and helping people forget about their lives for a little while away from the performance because I was trying to play the character of what I thought a trumpet player should be.</p>\n<p>I soon realized that the audience really couldn’t care less if I was stoic, could hit high notes, and really did not see a trumpet player commanding the stage in a cover band.</p>\n<p>Once I realized that, good or bad, I needed to allow my personality and characteristics to be seen on stage, I became a better entertainer.</p>\n<p>When the audience sees live musicians enjoy performing, they respond with singing and dancing to the music.  We have helped them enjoy their time and to forget about life for a while.</p>\n<p>These ideas of allowing your own characteristics and personalities to be seen and experienced by others help keep us from becoming a character and a person that we really do not wish to be.</p>\n<p>Our passion for performing will shine through, and the experience of performing live will enhance the consumer's experience of live music.</p>\n<p>Plus, if you really think about it, if we are portraying a character all of the time and allowing it to change who we are as a person, we would become exhausted and very miserable.</p>\n<p>We can still portray characters during a performance, but always remember to incorporate some of your characteristics and, in the end, be a person and not just a personality.</p>","frontmatter":{"date":"August 01, 2026","title":"A Character or a Characteristic","description":"Is it you or a character that you play?  ","tags":["Trumpet","Personality","Characteristic","Character","Performing","Entertaining"]}}},"pageContext":{"id":"680328c8-c6e5-5427-8b06-4d4824978d3a"}},
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