Klarinet Archive - Posting 000187.txt from 2000/03

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] perfect practice makes perfect?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 22:00:54 -0500

Nicholas
You're right - no one is perfect or ever can be, but we humans can STRIVE
for perfection. When we practice, we give ourselves the opportunity to make
ourselves as perfect as we CAN be. Professionals are not perfect,
obviously, but they ARE extremely competent at what they do, make far fewer
mistakes than the rest of us and can be ultimately be relied upon to
constantly search for perfection, not only in technique, but in tone quality
and musical interpretation as well. Of course tone quality and
interpretation (and technique to a certain extent too) are so purely
subjective anyway, that one could say it's impossible to reach perfection in
these aspects of playing, just for that reason. Everything about that
phrase "practice makes perfect" is about the attempt. Just because we can't
achieve perfection doesn't mean it's unreasonable to try. In so many
aspects of human life, we strive for perfection, but even the achievement of
greatness does not begin to approach perfection. For me, perfection is an
existing attribute of only one being, the Supreme Being. No human can
achieve it, but the more we attempt to be perfect, the more we understand
how much we don't know. The perfection is in the attempt, not in the
achievement. "Practice makes perfect" is a philosophy, not an achievable
end.

Hope this helps.

Audrey

Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip wrote:

> How many times have you heard this phrase before, perfect practice makes
> perfect? Well I have heard at least a thousand times before. I understand
> everybody's reasoning to find the right ways to practice, but that does
> not mean that we are all perfect. In fact we are not perfect. I have had
> several teachers and performers, tell me that perfect practice makes
> perfect. I kept thinking to myself that we all have to be perfect, by
> the time we are professionals, and that all professionals are perfect.
> Now again this not true,so what is the reason behind perfect practice
> makes perfect?
>
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