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From: fetrow@entropy.UUCP (David Fetrow)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: How to Practice
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Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 21:13:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  8 21:13:25 1984
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References: <4094@decwrl.UUCP> Taking a peak at the score is always helpful, in fact doing it 2 or 3
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times gives me a chance to hear it the way I like it ( Listening  to a
recording tells one how someone else likes it). After that just plow on
through a few times. Then go back and get the difficult parts right. 
Personally it seems important to play it (or at least read it) not just
practice the hard parts else I get too discouraged.
 This  technique has made me a very fast sight-reader (on violin and 
saxophone) but has lead some of my teachers to distraction as, after
a month, I play whatever-it-is well but don't get any better.
It is a good technique for an amateur (at least this one) but every-
bodies different.