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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 2006/10

From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:12:39 -0400

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't ( do the fingering thing, at least
conciously). Sometimes I try to imagine what the printed music would look
like.

I sometimes hold a pencil when I'm teaching private lessons to help remind
me what the instrument fingering is (since I teach saxophone, flute and
clarinet as well as oboe) and finger along while the student is playing
(unless I'm holding an instrument, of course). I once asked a student if she
could do that and she said, "No." It might be a useful skill to learn to
help visualize playing/practicing while away from the instrument.

Miriam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed B. Flowers" <flowerse@-----.net>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?

> Miriam,
>
> This probably explains why brain scans of people listening to music shows
> that musicians listen most differently of all. In our minds, we /finger
> /the music when we listen.
>
> Edward B. Flowers (ob)
> New York City
>
>
> Miriam Williams wrote:
>
>> 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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