If you have a musical instrument, don’t pack it away --- it ought to be out!
If you don’t play it, it still should be there to see, like hanging on the wall or such. What an addition to your house’s décor!
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One of the great advantages of digital recordings --- CDs, .mp3s, etc. --- is that you can set up playback for shuffle/random, for repeating an album or playlist, or for repeating one track.
That last one, repeating a single track, is wonderful for getting your fill of a favorite piece without having to hit the ‘return’ button each time (or in the case of magnetic tapes of all kinds, setting zero and rewinding to it); but I also find tremendous value in the ‘repeat one’ feature of any playback system: for learning something new!
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If you’ve practiced music for a performance or audition or jurying, you’ve probably run across a passage that’s especially hard to get just right; in Classical music in particular there are lots of downright ‘virtuoso’ spots that need to have every note in place, or else they’re just wrong….
So it’s commonly known that you need to isolate a tough passage and play it over and over till it’s ready to be joined with the easier phrases.
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Often when musicians are practicing a new technique or working toward mastering a passage, we find ourselves coming up against the proverbial brick wall: It sure looks like we’re working in vain! Yet a few more earnest runs through the series of movements of our hands, and we still seem to be making no progress….
Maybe it’s time to give up…. We’ll never get this one to the way it’s supposed to be….
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