Re: Practice Habits- (Hoppy)

2004-10-23 Thread Donatella Galletti
Yes!! Claro que sì.. Saludos Donatella - Original Message - From: "Manolo Laguillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Donatella Galletti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "LUTELIST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: Re: P

Re: Practice Habits- (Hoppy)

2004-10-23 Thread Manolo Laguillo
The sound, that's it... But, what does "intervals" mean? The jump from, say, c to e (major third) or to f (quart)? Could you explain it better? Thank you very much! Saludos from Barcelona Manolo Laguillo PS Thank you to everybody who answered so nicely my question about the Mary Burwell Tutor

Re: Practice Habits- (Hoppy)

2004-10-23 Thread Donatella Galletti
I 've just listened to a lesson by Hoppy talking about this : he cited Besard, saying that you should practice not the whole piece from start to the end, but play a sentence 500 times, until it reflects yourself. H.Smith also added that it is depressing but anyway rewarding. I agree with this: I th

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-19 Thread Denys Stephens
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Practice Habits > I would find this use of a computer terribly unhelpful > for myself. I can see how this could be helpful in > working out the compositional structure of a piece, > however listening to it in order to learn about how a &g

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-19 Thread Tim Mills
a good book to help musicians improve their practicing. Tim Mills Denver - Original Message - From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Practice Habits > >I would

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-19 Thread Ed Durbrow
>I would find this use of a computer terribly unhelpful >for myself. I can see how this could be helpful in >working out the compositional structure of a piece, >however listening to it in order to learn about how a >pieces goes would really block my personal >interpretation in performance. But t

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-19 Thread Jon Murphy
Practice is a funny word in English, our doctors and lawyers are said to practice when they are actually performing. Yet musicians are practicing when honing their skills without an audience. Taking the word only from the musical point of view there is yet a difference in the practice of practice,

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-18 Thread James A Stimson
Dear Vance and All: It's true that there hasn't been a huge outpouring of response on practice habits, but I'd rather have a handful of thoughtful responses than three dozen half-baked wisecracks. Yours, Jim To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.c

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-18 Thread chriswilke
wish I did it would make > figuring out the voicing > a lot easier and clearly identifying the errors in > the tablature if any. > > Vance Wood. > - Original Message - > From: "The Other" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-17 Thread Vance Wood
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vance Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:42 PM Subject: Re: Practice Habits On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:33:34 -0700, Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has n

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-17 Thread The Other
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:33:34 -0700, Vance Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There has not been a great deal of response on the subject of practice. > This > leads me to believe that people are uninterested or are doing what I did > for > many years, specifically, playing the same piece over an

Re: Practice Habits

2004-10-17 Thread lutesmith
Many good points, Vance. It was unfortunate to be seperated from lute for a few years, I'm sure, but when you eventually picked it up again there was a different vantage point. This is important. Viewing the challenge from a different "place" can have many benefits. I wouldn't wish such an acc

Practice Habits

2004-10-17 Thread Vance Wood
Dear List: There has not been a great deal of response on the subject of practice. This leads me to believe that people are uninterested or are doing what I did for many years, specifically, playing the same piece over and over till I thought I got it rightwhich was seldom, if the truth be kno

Re: AW: Practice habits.

2004-10-15 Thread Ed Durbrow
>Can somebody tell me where I can read this O'Dette-Interview? I couldn't >find it in the internet. > >Elias I'll put it up on my home page AFTER it appears in the LSA Quarterly. (Don't want to steal anyone's thunder). You can read the interview with Robert Barto there which has already appeared

Re: Practice habits

2004-10-15 Thread Candace Magner
Mr O'Dette saying so long ago about all the exercises he has invented brings to mind that he and Pat O'Brien have been working on a book of technique and exercises for lutenists. Please encourage them in their endeavor! When Mr O'Brien gives workshops he generously passes out stacks of pages of exe

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-15 Thread Denys Stephens
From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daniel Shoskes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:22 AM Subject: Re: Practice habits. > >Ah, now an interesting question would be whether th

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-15 Thread Alain Veylit
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Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-15 Thread Ed Durbrow
>Dear Ed: > >Of course more is better-but is it really??? It is possible to >continually play the same thing wrong over and over again thinking that if I >play it enough times I'll get it right. In the end that thought coursing >through your mind numbs you to the fact that an error has become

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-15 Thread Ed Durbrow
>Ah, now an interesting question would be whether the routine followed by >someone like O'Dette would also be applicable to a mere mortal like me. His approach is widely applicable, I believe. >Ed, did his routine differ with Baroque lute, for which he is more of a >"beginner"? He didn't answer

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-14 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 08:08 PM 10/14/2004, Vance Wood wrote: >Don't misunderstand, I still believe more is better but I >have found it is not enough to just play a lot, you have to play smart. Drat! I'm doomed to mediocrity. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lu

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-14 Thread Vance Wood
play smart. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Practice habits. > >Someone mentioned practice. This is a subject I not have

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-14 Thread James A Stimson
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Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-14 Thread Daniel Shoskes
Ah, now an interesting question would be whether the routine followed by someone like O'Dette would also be applicable to a mere mortal like me. Ed, did his routine differ with Baroque lute, for which he is more of a "beginner"? >In the Lute Society of >In the Lute Society of America Quarterly th

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-14 Thread Nancy Carlin
In the Lute Society of America Quarterly that we have just mailed out, there is quite a long interview with Paul O'Dette where he talks about the way he goes about practicing. The interview was done by Ed Durbrow. Nancy Carlin LSA Administrator At 08:16 PM 10/13/2004 -0700, Vance Wood wrote: >

Re: Practice habits.

2004-10-13 Thread Ed Durbrow
>Someone mentioned practice. This is a subject I not have seen covered here >and it might be worth going over to see the different ways people go about >developing technique and gaining competence with a particular composition. > >Vance Wood. More is better. :-) -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan htt

Practice habits.

2004-10-13 Thread Vance Wood
Someone mentioned practice. This is a subject I not have seen covered here and it might be worth going over to see the different ways people go about developing technique and gaining competence with a particular composition. Vance Wood. To get on or off this list see list information at http