As per "technique", it does, most definitely. If you have ever played a composed piece that required that featured a stab or hit in your part, you know how hard it is to get that single sound exactly right--as a trumpet player, I agonized over the penultimate sound in this piece Sleigh Ride , which also features the sound of a whip crack, played on the slapstick--if it doesn't come at exactly the right time, and if it doesn't sound like a whip crack, the piece is dead, so technique is everything--