Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-meteor!malik From: malik@meteor.DEC (Karl Malik ZK01-1/F22 1-1440) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: how to practice? Message-ID: <4094@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 12:57:28 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.4094 Posted: Fri Nov 2 12:57:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 20:54:00 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 26 Subj; How to practice For all you musicians out there; When you set yourself the task of learning a difficult (for you) piece of music, how do you go about it? From beginning to end? Concentrating on the difficult passages; repeating them over and over? Slow and loud (for pianists)? so as to get the 'feel' of the piece in your fingers? Do you study the score first? Looking for patterns, etc. Also, how do you keep your motivation up? Especially, if the piece is difficult enough that your first efforts are very unmusical/unsatisfying. I find that studying the score (without an instrument) is really worthwhile for me. How do you folks go about it? ,Karl