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Re: Why learn etudes?

Author: EEBaum
Date: 2011-11-15 05:15

Nothing magical about etudes, you can do without. Etudes are nice as short pieces of music you can learn from start to finish quickly and set aside. You can go from sight-reading to polished in a week or two, which gives you time to address the full range of issues on a micro level. Lots of aspects of a piece of music can tend to be pushed off until after a piece is thoroughly learned, and so can be neglected until there's very little time left before a performance, or ignored completely if a piece is abandoned. Etudes get you around these pitfalls.

Other than that, nothing special, and I lament that they're often treated as a rite of passage, or as some thing you play so you can get through the book so you can start the next book until you've done all the books and WIN!

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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