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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000050.txt from 2006/10
From: "Dave Metzger" <dave_metzger9@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:10:17 -0400
I was playing second bassoon in college and the first player chewed me out
one day because I was "fingering" along with her solos. Ever since then I've
been careful not to do it if they might be able to see me doing it. It's
like mocking someone even if that's not what you intended. On a similar
subject, I played with someone that had such a good ear that he could play
back something that someone else played while warming up, wrong notes and
all. I know he was just being playful but it still annoying.
Dave
>From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
>Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
>To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [DR-L] practice makes perfect?... how much?
>Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:08:20 -0500
>
>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."
>>>
>>>``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
>>>Miriam
>>>www.williamsstudio.musicteaching.info
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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