I can take a small watch to pieces and put it back together and it will work. I can use a micromanipulator to remove the nucleus from a cell. So there is nothing much wrong with my fingers. But I'll be buggered if I can play the piano. I was taught by a Nun with a ruler gripped in her gnarled fist; perhaps that has something to do with it?
I hope everyone is having a good day. I am. Its warmed up a bit only -25C now (12:30) - last night it was -37C. Don Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Pish-posh and balderdash > >> Finger exercises are for developing good technique so that your fingers > >> will do what you want them to do. It doesn't give you any > >> musical/artistic sense, but it will enable you to make good music. > > > > Not. It will enable you to play the right notes, but the right notes don't > > necessarily mean good music. > > > Thank you Bill! > > How many of the children who are taught finger exercises ever become even > decent musicians?!? And from the opposite perspective, many great musicians > were self-taught, by ear, and some even get to maturity without the ability > to read music. > > I'm afraid that the idea that "everyone starts with the rules of composition > and practices them until they become instinctive," while seductive I > suppose, just doesn't stand up to any reasonable reality test. > > --Mike >
