Klarinet Archive - Posting 000327.txt from 2004/04

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: Re: [kl] motivation
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:35:04 -0400

Tracy Jones wrote:

> I find that I actually practice more sometimes
> when I have no recitals or concerts to prepare
> for.

You seem to be saying, fairly explicitly, that practice becomes less
attractive when the playing becomes difficult.

Are you able to 'step back from yourself' and to assess objectively
which skill(s) is especially difficult for you?

Then perhaps it would help to break this one challenge into smaller
steps, rather than trying to accomplish it all at once.

For example, if the challenge is tempo, rather than going all the way to
the final tempo in one leap, you could work at 1/4 of the final tempo,
then half, then 3/4, and finally full tempo.

This way, the 'difficulty factor' would be less throughout the entire
journey, and practice would be a series of small successes for you,
rather than one big discouragement?

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