Klarinet Archive - Posting 000193.txt from 2000/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] perfect practice makes perfect?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:02:04 -0500

At 05:41 PM 3/5/2000 -0800, 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?
>
I think the point of this phrase is simple. If you practice something the
wrong way, you will reinforce bad habits. Your playing will then not get
better. In fact, it will get WORSE. So the idea is to always practice
using proper embouchure, posture, expression, clean fingering, etc. (that
is to say, "perfectly") so that the CORRECT things are repeated until they
become second nature.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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