Re: Home self learning

ed s wrote:
No- I meant it comes out wrong the
first time because you over-
streatched your bounds, but
if you keep at it and LISTEN you can fix
it the next time or the time after
that - and progress to the next
step.

If that were true then everyone would simply
say "Oh I didn't get that run of 128th notes
correct. I'll simply fix them by playing
them correctly next time".

But we don't do that. You don't, I don't,
nobody does. Instead we either live with the
idea that we're playing it wrong or we find
a way to reduce the level of difficulty so that
it is playable by our current skill set.

If your approach was workable, then it would
seem like you should have had no trouble "progressing
to the next step". But apparently you have had
expectable bumps in "progressing".

Here's a guitar - Play some Bach.

Here's a guitar - Play an open E chord.

Given your current skill level, which one is "correct"?

If the Bach piece is not "correct" then simply
LISTEN to it and fix it, as you suggest above.

That's not going to happen, any more than a
casual jogger is going to be an olympic class
marathon runner by simply "fixing" his running.
Instead the casual jogger enters a local marathon,
does well based on his personal history and
goes home happy knowing he "played it correctly".
If he were to enter the olympics, he wouldn't be
a better or worse runner. He would run at the
same speed. But he would surely come in way last
compared to the olympic class athletes. That
coming in last is the equivalent of "playing
it incorrectly".

My suggestion is, if you realize you've "overstretched
your bounds" as you correctly state above, then
"lower your bounds" so you're not overstretching.
Then you'll "sound correct". Playing a piece "incorrectly"
many times doesn't automatically correct it. Playing
it "correctly" does.


Lumpy

In Your Ears for 40 Years
www.LumpyMusic.com





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