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Re: Why gains in the practice room don't stick

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-06-29 23:01

Very insightful observation about the "lack of urgency." I find this to be a function of "personality." I knew a clarinetist of similar ilk. He could literally sight read anything (and I really mean ANYTHING), but when it came time to perform the piece (which included at least two rehearsals) he was so bored with it by then that he fumbled quite noticeably throughout.

I agree with Pearlman's statement "things we learn slowly, we forget slowly," in the most literal term. True S-L-O-W practice where you get it right (perfect rhythm, perfect relationships of dynamics, ALL the notes ALL the time) is key to really learning. Once you've LEARNED the passage, turning it up a notch or to full speed becomes only a matter of degree.

And the idea of playing a passage over and over has it's flaw at the most rudimentary level. If you are not playing it slow enough, if you are not getting it quite right, and you are listening to it over and over like that, you only reinforce the "wrong way" to do it. Naturally it will fail in performance or in a lesson.

BUT....... if you mean taking your sweet time to learn something is better by virtue of sheer time (days, weeks, months), the next guy will win the audition.

............Paul Aviles

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