Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site entropy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!fetrow From: fetrow@entropy.UUCP (David Fetrow) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: How to Practice Message-ID: <66@entropy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Nov-84 21:13:25 EST Article-I.D.: entropy.66 Posted: Thu Nov 8 21:13:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 20:19:27 EST References: <4094@decwrl.UUCP> Taking a peak at the score is always helpful, in fact doing it 2 or 3 Organization: UW MathStat, Seattle Lines: 11 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.