Klarinet Archive - Posting 000151.txt from 1999/09

From: "Bruce Keplinger" <bruce@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] re: 52 year old "beginner"
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:42:01 -0400

Frank,
It's great to hear from folks like you; all t often in this youth-oriented
society we forget that just because one is 65+ doesn't mean one is washed-up
and is unable to "learn new tricks," so to speak.
As for the way you practice, it's pretty much my approach, too; chunk
things into bite-size pieces, then string them together. (I also find that
it helps to overlap phrases I'm working on, and alter rhythms, for instance,
even 16ths become dotted 16th with 32nds.)
Keep having fun, that's the bottom line!
Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Galiani [mailto:fgaliani@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 5:09 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] re: 52 year old "beginner"
>
>
> Dear Audrey, I am an age 65+ clarinet student and have been playing for
> about 18 months. Last month at the end of my lesson, my teacher said,
> "OK, Now we'll work on this," and placed the music for the K622 Adagio
> on the stand. I must have walked to my car when I left, but I can't
> remember my feet touching the ground! Getting these antique fingers to
> work and coordinate with my perhaps pre-senile brain has been quite a
> chore, but what fun...

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