Practice philosophie


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Posted by Mario on August 24, 2000 at 09:03:18:

Hi everybody,

I wanted to know some opinions about the approach when you are practicing yourself/teach practicing:

Iīm learning for about 2 1/2 years now and after one year I began with the Kopprasch etudes. I often have to practice these etudes for weeks (every day) along with other stuff and basics and I still canīt really nail it most of the time.

Is this the most effective way for improvement to push the envelope or is this an indicator that this piece is too hard for me at the time and I should go on with more simple etudes that I really would be able to play technically and musically satisfying.

Is there a danger to develop bad habits when you play too hard stuff and miss too many notes?

Or is there rather a danger of stagnation or poor improvement if you donīt go to your extremes or even further?

What is the best approach for expanding the technical limits but donīt get into bad habits? I mean development of speed vs accuracy or extreme register vs beautiful tone?

Tanks,

Mario





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