Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2014-06-30 22:33
Funnily enough, I think that one of the main mistakes I encounter on this BBoard is this notion that if you allow yourself to do something imperfectly, you spoil possible ultimate perfection.
As in, above:
>> Make repeated mistakes in practicing? The hippocampus learns that as quickly and easily as when we perform it correctly. >>
I don't know about my hippocampus; but if _I_ practise, make mistakes, NOTICE my mistakes, and then repeat, I find that I get better.
The notion that we may profitably put ourselves in situations in which we perform imperfectly, whilst being aware of those imperfections, is one that resonates with my own experience.
For example, I have sometimes performed to my students – something I find challenging:-)
I once played the Berio Sequenza from memory to an Italian class on a course that I'd been teaching for a few days, because I felt that it would be an important tryout for playing it in London a couple of weeks later in a 'Sequenza marathon' in Berio's presence.
And it did help – even though I played it imperfectly to them – because I learned something important about how it was likely to go wrong under stress, I suppose.
Anyway, I found this article posted by Bruno to be a sensible distillation of these related ideas, and I'll find it useful to think of the distillation when I practise in the future.
As others have remarked, in a way it argues AGAINST the notion of 'slow' and therefore 'enforcedly perfect' practice as the ONLY road to excellence.
Tony
|
|
The Clarinet BBoard
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
