Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 2005/05

From: David Niethamer <niethamer@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] legendary teachers and their Methods
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:34:37 -0400


On May 26, 2005, at 7:07 AM, Daniel Fairhead wrote:

> What do you mean by "taught you to practice" ? Do you mean encouraged
> you
> to spend more time practicing, or a specific method of practicing, or
> something
> else?
>
Russianoff had specific techniques for practicing passages to learn
them accurately and make them "stick" the next time you came back to
them. He was also very much interested in having students develop an
ear for what was less than satisfactory in any given passage, and
analyzing how to improve or fix it. It could be drudgery at times, but
it was valuable.

David B. Niethamer
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/index.html

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