Klarinet Archive - Posting 000210.txt from 2000/06

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Big smile
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:05:13 -0400

Some people call that composing - no doubt, that crossed your mind.
Roger S.

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, William Wright wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:31:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Big smile
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> <><> Mark Thiel wrote:
> OK, Good Bill, Major accomplishment!, @-----. now
> the harmonic minor . . . @-----.
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> Actually I thought I might try playing these notes in a different
> order now. I bet that a person could get some interesting results by
> re-arranging the notes, maybe playing some of them twice or thrice,
> maybe playing some a little longer, some a little shorter, softer,
> louder .....
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> <><> Roger Shilcock wrote:
> This reminds me of an old saw that: Amateurs practise till they get it
> right once; professionals practise till they get it right every time.
> Partially contradicting that, of course: *Successful* pros never need to
> practise because they're always working. (Hmmmmm...)
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> Recently one of my granddaughters, six years old now, decided that
> she wanted to play violin "like Mom does". So my daughter rented a
> small violin (1/4-size or 1/8-size?) and offered to share ten minutes of
> her own weekly lessons with her daughter. So far, the child has stuck
> with it, but after a couple of practice sessions at home, she announced,
> "I don't want to practice, I just want to play!"
> Mom was quick on her feet: "Okay, there's no need to practice if
> you don't want to. We'll play for 15 minutes instead, and since you
> enjoy it, I promise that we'll play every day after school after we've
> had milk and cookies."
> It's all in the attitude, it is. Just last week, my granddaughter
> gave me a decent rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and explained
> the right and wrong way of using the bow.
> I guess the bottom line is that if practice isn't a pleasure, you
> probably shouldn't be playing in the first place. Music is music, even
> if you've already played it a 100 times before. I enjoy going back to
> those 'Easy Clarinet Solos' that I began with.
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> Thanks and Cheers,
> Bill
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