Klarinet Archive - Posting 000995.txt from 2000/12

From: HatNYC62@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Performance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:25:48 -0500

In a message dated 12/19/00 4:15:51 AM, klarinet-digest-help@-----.org
writes:

<<
Don't practice till you get it RIGHT.
Practice till you don't get it WRONG anymore! >>

A valuable lesson. However, Juilius Baker, perhaps the greatest woodwind
virtuoso ever (flutist) said this (I paraphrase): "Never practice anything
wrong. Play it slowly enough at first so you cannot play any wrong notes or
rhythms. Every mistake you make you will have to unlearn. Speed up gradually
enough so you always practice it right."

Must have worked for him, few people ever hear Baker miss a note.

-David Hattner, NYC

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