Think it through - then forget it all...

I like my music to sound natural (you probably guessed that already) but that doesn't mean that it all has to sound the same, or that one form of natural expression is better than another. When I work at my own tunes, I am very careful to make them sound as perfectly natural as possible - which is to say, they sound like they would if I played them without error! Obviously this is not always the case in real life, which is where the boundary between live and recorded performance becomes an issue. A studio recording of a piece of music is not a frozen representation of that tune - just a snapshot of the way it was that day (or over those days/weeks!), just as a 'live' track is no more than an audio-polaroid for that certain moment.