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Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2012-04-29 11:49
Itzhak Perlman has a series of posts on Facebook, answering questions from other musicians. Here is one on practicing.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-04-30 11:23
And here's director Carl Theodor Dreyer (circa 1922) on positioning the camera, as re-applied to the posting of urls: "If it's not in the frame, it doesn't exist." See the thread,
> Note: yellow thingy experiment
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Lelia
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Author: BobD
Date: 2012-04-30 12:09
It must have got lost in the River Raisin.......
Bob Draznik
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Author: mihalis
Date: 2012-04-30 23:16
BobD wrote:
> It must have got lost in the River Raisin.......
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....and I am still looking for it.
Mike.
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Author: CarlT
Date: 2012-05-01 17:49
Thanks, Fishamble for finding the link for us.
I know many of our own distinguished BB members advise this, but it's always good to hear someone like Mr. Perlman say it, too.
Most of my practice is done with a metronome, and I'm always trying to "get it faster", when I should be striving to "get it right" first. Maybe someday it'll sink in my thick scull.
CarlT
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-05-01 17:56
Awesome words of advice from the Maestro !!!
...................Paul Aviles
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2012-05-02 01:54
Well, if you can't play it right slowly then you can't play it right faster. Duh!
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: Buster
Date: 2012-05-02 03:01
Lelia, may I be so bold to post that I adore your writing? I guess I just did....
Oh, and thanks for the link David
-Jason
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-05-02 08:57
What I found most fascinating was the advice to to 50 minutes on 10 minutes rest........for absolutely no more than 5 hours at a crack.
I always thought of top violinists and piano players as those who had to lock themselves in a room for 8 hours at least every day.
...............Paul Aviles
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2012-05-02 18:19
Paul Aviles wrote,
>> What I found most fascinating was the advice to to 50 minutes on 10 minutes rest........for absolutely no more than 5 hours at a crack.
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Yes. He didn't go into the reasons, but my piano teacher half a century ago (Arthur Eisler) gave the same advice for two reasons: injury and mental fatigue.
Perlman belongs to a generation that watched their peers get into competitive craziness that cost a lot of people their potential careers. The pianists seem to have suffered the most conspicuously. Leon Fleischer and Murray Perahia, two of my favorite pianists, both seriously injured their hands by over-practicing. They both recovered enough to resume their careers, but members of a piano forum probably would have no trouble at all naming at least a dozen former fine young pianists who attracted rave reviews before becoming fine young ex-pianists because they practiced themselves into focal distonia, carpal tunnel syndrome and other over-use maladies.
As an amateur, never given any realistic hope for a pro career, I was never anywhere near competitive enough or diligent enough to risk injury, but I have noticed that other phenomenon, mental fatigue. If I fail to take breaks from practicing, repetition becomes mindless repetition. Often that means I catch myself repeating the same mistakes over and over (and of course learning them!) through sheer brain-dead inattention.
David, thank you for the link, and Jason, thank you for the kind words. I enjoy your messages, too, and one of the reasons is exactly what we're talking about here: you're awake. Jim Morrison (before accidentally-on-purpose falling off the stage and into the crowd) sometimes used to interrupt his own Doors concerts by surging forward and screaming at the audience, "Do you even know you're alive?!" I'll bet nobody ever screams that at you, Jason, and I'll bet when you practice, you don't fall into that zombie trance.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: Buster
Date: 2012-05-03 03:51
Lelia,
If what I could were what I would, I would find a way to induce that zombie trance for a bit when I put the clarinet away. But such is my fate...
Once the doors of perception are cleansed and you realize that you are alive, it's hard to stop doing it. But I have no doubt you are aware of that yourself.
Currently, Art Tatum is my escape as my golf game only serves to frustrate....
*sigh*
-Jason
Post Edited (2012-05-03 05:16)
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