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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000041.txt from 2006/10

From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:34:45 -0400

Page 193, "This Is Your Brain on Music," Daniel J. Levitin, 2006

"The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of
practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a
world-class expert---in anything. In study after study, of composers,
basketball players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes
up again and again. Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours
a day, or twenty hours a week, of practice over ten years. Of course, this
doesn't address why some people don't seem to get anywhere when they
practice, and why some people get more out of their practice sessions than
others. But no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise
was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long
to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery."

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Miriam
www.williamsstudio.musicteaching.info

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