Klarinet Archive - Posting 000198.txt from 2000/03

From: klar-ANN-ette H Satterfield <klarann@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] perfect practice makes perfect?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:29:48 -0500

David Pino, clarinetist and author, expresses his philosophy regarding
practice and
perfection: "(1) [always] strive for absolute perfection in your playing,
(2) remember that
you will never attain perfection as a player, (3) know and accept that
you are a human
being striving for perfection . The end result will be nothing less than
your best. No one -- teachers, conductors, listeners -- ever expects you
to do better than your best."

Modify the saying...

Improved practicing brings improved results.

Sloppy practicing leads to unreliable results.

Ann Satterfield
clarinetist and teacher

On Sun, 5 Mar 2000 17:41:36 -0800 (PST) Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip
<nyip@-----.EDU> writes:
>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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