Re: Dreaded Endless Loop Memory Slip


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What I am interested in is the how that focus changes over time
and how that differers from student to student. Certainly those most
capable of sustaining high levels of focus are worth understanding but
understanding the impediments to those who are not as capable is more
to the point of my post. Self conscience focus is the major problem
for most beginners but once they get into the music their focus is not
constant and places like repeats need more work. I think knowing the
places where students get confused hold the key to much of learning
and teaching.

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Concentration goes along different paths when playing from reading and when playing by memory.
If you refer to playing by memory, concentration largely depends from what one has memorized: if the whole of the music in itself (notes, aurally and visually, dynamics, agogics, expressions) and "the gestures" (fingerings and body attitudes), or mainly the second ones (by endless repetitions), with the music as an attachment.

If a student is educated from beginning to learn music in itself, and to build up in his mind a complete model of how it should sound, including fingering in his notion, then concentration will be focused on a real target, something which exists in his mind before it becomes an actual sound. If, on the other way, a player cannot produce in his mind a complete model of the music without his instrument, concentration will have to deal with much more a difficult task.

Actually, we do not play the music "as it is" (nobody knows how it is exactly, not even the person who wrote it), but according to how we are able to represent it in our mind: in other words, we depend from a model which is not the music on the stand, but the construction we elaborated in our mind from it. If such a model is complete, detailed, articulated in each detail - exactly as it happens in the mind of a conductor who approaches the orchestra before giving the first command -, then we have something upon which we can really focus our attention when playing; otherwise, we have only a rather uncertain result to aim to, and the only bridge to reach it is a series of gestures (fingering) memorized by repetitions. This makes concentration much more difficult.
In other words, the quality of the concentration, and its resistence, are largely decided by the quality of the learning-interpretating-memorizing process.

Of course, the game is not all in this process - there are other factors influencing the concentration, but I feel able to deal with the strictly musical ones, and only from those which I experimented on the field.

ag




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