It all depends how you see mastery: is it real mastery ? or is it mastery in the view of the player or his/her friends & family ? is it mastery in the view of audition juries ?
it depends also if you are ready for a certain position & the position is right then vacant ? are there better candidates ? is there discrimination against you from conductors side due to a personal incident during study time perhaps ? did you have difficulties with one of the section members in the past ? does your tonal colour match the section ? do you fit into their social preview ? (age pyramide, a very important factor) too many factors counting. playing wise, well, it is lie the olympics. Favorites sometimes win, sometimes dont get a medal at all. Life is life. ################################################################# Am 18.03.2010 um 09:34 schrieb [email protected]: > Plus mastery of an instrument doesn't yield a fruitful career. > > Although the rate of mastery of a task versus success in a career is much > higher outside of the field of music. > > -William > > > In a message dated 3/18/2010 4:30:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > It is not important, how many hours one studies one thing. > But it is very important how effectively practice time is used. > One first has to learn & understand how music is about, including the > theory. > Next one has to learn & understand > how practice time is to be divided for the certain purposes: > > developing the hearing sense > developing technical skill including secureness, > developing tone quality, > developing endurance, > developing musical taste through musical literature, means > developing musical knowledge > developing the ability to read, understand & play music at the spot, > even never seen the part before & never heard the piece before. > > If the time is divided properly and if practice is done with most possible > concentration upon the matter, > one should be able to study the horn or trumpet or any other brass > instrument to arrive at > a high professional level, just with three hours studying daily for five > to six years. > 300 days a year (vacations & days without the horn, ill leave etc. > counted) by > three hours daily makes 900 to 1000 hours (gigs count also positively), > that by 5 years makes 4.500 hours, > by seven years 6.300 hours. Count the extra hours of preparation by just > reading the musical literature, > preparing parts, writing out parts by hand or PC, hours spent in the > library, fixing the horn, well, > there you have the 10.000 hours. > > Be happy you have not to study as much as string players or wood wind > players, who have to spend > uncountable hours preparing their reeds, not to speak about pianists. > > If one does not consider the points I mentioned above, one has the never > ending problem, needing > to "hammer in" every single part, just mechanical trying & trying & trying > again. What a waste of life time. > If you study, using your brain, your advancement will be much faster and > you will have remaining tie to > rest, for sports, for socializing, etc. > > Do not forget studying art history in general, try to study Italian & > rudimentary German to understand > the masterworks better. If you have a very good teacher, NEVER question > his advice. But if you > might find a better solution or a better trick, making a passage easier, > demonstrate it to your > teacher, who will like your effort. But, again, never question your > teacher !! > > ############################################################################ > ########### > Am 18.03.2010 um 06:03 schrieb Kit Wolf: > >> I've heard this too, though I feel slightly uncertain about the idea of > it >> being a hard and fast rule. >> >> I guess there are two points here: one is how much practice an 'average' >> person has done. Almost by definition, a master is somebody who is >> exceptional and to my mind the 10,000 hour rule simply reflects the fact >> that most amateur musicians never put in this many hours - or at least, >> not within a short period of time. >> >> The other is how long it takes to reach a steady state of accomplishment, >> where a level of diminishing returns is reached. Surely this must vary > for >> different endeavours? It takes less time to play noughts and crosses to > an >> excellent standard than chess, for example. I also once read that airtime >> stopped being a good marker of pilot ability after the 250 - 1000 hour >> mark. >> >> I don't find it hard to believe it takes 10,000 hours to play the horn >> well, though. Perhaps more..? >> >> Kit >> >>> That's interesting. Too bad I'm pretty sure I practiced the horn for >>> 10,000 hours (took it 40 years ago) but I'm not close to achieving >>> "true mastery" :-( >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> >>> On 17Mar 2010, at 14:54 , Steven Mumford wrote: >>> >>>> One of the most significant factors is what scientists call the >>>> "10,000-hour rule." >>>> When we look at any kind of cognitively complex field -- for example, >>>> playing chess, writing fiction or being a neurosurgeon -- we find that >>>> you are unlikely to master it unless you have practiced for 10,000 >>>> hours. That’s 20 hours a week for 10 years. The brain takes that >>>> long to >>>> assimilate all it needs to know to achieve true mastery. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> post: [email protected] >>> unsubscribe or set options at >>> > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/c.j.l.wolf%40newcastle.ac.uk >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sometimes my Email program gives the wrong return address. 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