Letting the music breathe
Music is all about timing. It's not just about the notes you play, it's about when you play them. The key to timing is leaving space in your playing, because space lets the music breathe.
In an earlier post I talked about how successful drumming was similar to successful speaking. In that case I was talking about dynamics, but the same can be said of leaving space. Leaving space between words or phrases when you are speaking emphasizes what you are saying. Similarly, leaving space in music emphasizes what you are playing.
