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Author: jan
Date: 2001-04-03 18:30
my lesson is in 2 days and im feeling a little unprepared even tho im working hard and spending a lot of time on my "homework."
last week, my 3rd lesson, i was given 4 etudes out of the perier book, an interval exercise out of the opperman book, all the major scales played as much as 6 different ways and chromatics. im finding it a bit overwhelming to do each one well enough for my lesson coming up.
i had wanted to devote a little time to them all but....ummm , what would benefit me more, to spend a little time on everything, or devote more time and really concentrate on just a couple. do you think i will be expected to know everything in a week? i dont want to disappoint my teacher.
jan
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2001-04-03 19:01
My philosophy is that it is always better to do one thing very well than many things not so well.
I am sure you teacher will understand if you say you did not get a chance to look at those last 2 scales if you played the other 4 perfectly vs playing all 6 of them so so.
The key to achieve such a huge amount of work is:
1- Practice a lot ;->
2- find the spots in the studies, scales, exercises which cause you some trouble and work mostly on that.
We have the tendancy to replay a complete piece when it's only a few bars which are causing problems and should be worked on.
Also check
http://www.JohnCipolla.com/Practice.html
for great advice on practising techniques.
Good luck!
-Sylvain
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-04-03 21:50
Also give serious consideration to the amount of time that you can reasonably expect to make available for practice each week between lessons. Discuss this with your instructor so that he/she can assign an appropriate amount of "homework."
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Author: Pam
Date: 2001-04-04 02:26
Dee is so right. I was just talking with my teacher tonight and he said that "homework" should be geared individually to each student. If a student is breezing through everything and doing well, maybe they need more or harder things to practice. On the other hand, if practice becomes a struggle and is overwhelming maybe cutting back on the expected amount of work is in order. Both are assuming that the student has good practice habits.
Be sure to communicate with you teacher! They want to see you succeed too and not be discouraged.
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2001-04-04 02:51
If you say 'one thing at a time' to him, the logical conclusion would be 3x(time and money) for your lesson. Isn't this quite simple?
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-04-04 22:54
Jan -
You should go into your lesson with everything worked on at least a little. Sight reading at lessons is definitely a no-no, though all of us have done it.
If you don't have time to work everything out completely, go through everything enough to get familiar with the basics, and then go back to the first exercise and really get it down. Then do the hard work on as many more as you have time to.
Doing it right means starting as slow as you need to -- even one note per beat at 40 beats per minute, if that's what it takes to get it really clean. Particularly for the scale exercises, a metronome is essential.
By the way, you're not alone. Daniel Bouwmeester, who makes his living playing clarinet, had an experience like yours. Read the thread at http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=38862&t=38845.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: LIZZIE
Date: 2001-04-08 21:33
same here my lesson seem's to slip up very quickely and i am streesed but take 30 minutes-2 hours a day & practice these a step @ a time
good-luck
p.s-sorry if my message is a little late!
lizzie
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