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guitarristamadrid
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 RE: Anyone want technique exercises?... (in reply to Grisha)
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Sup Grisha, yeah that's why Entri himself says the thing about dividing your time equally between technique, repertoire and creation.
But that being said, I am an extreme addictive **** who hits the punching bag in the gym so hard that i split all my knuckles open, but I don't care because I am training power on that day, and on a different day I will work on nuance
So, that's why if you go to my myspace page, you see that the music I actually play is really not that focused on technique at all, it's about the development of interesting musical ideas, becuase that's the phase i'm in right now.
I essentially apply Entri's philosophy like this:
-Spend 2 years obsessed with technique, playing eight hours a day of just repetitive exercises
-Spend 2 years obsessed with musical idea development, spending eight hours a day practicing every possible method of developing themes and structures
-Spend 2 years not even giving a **** about music, just having girlfriends and working out and making money
So I'm basically insane, but hey, it's my style.
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Date Apr. 10 2010 9:36:33
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guitarristamadrid
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RE: Anyone want technique exercises?... (in reply to ToddK)
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Hi Todd! Don't worry about me, I've been doing this for years. While playing this much certainly isn't for everyone, it is my job right now, and it's one I'm very happy with. I built this tolerance up slowly over time. I don't suggest you try to do it overnight.
Marathon runners, professional fighters, staring at a computer screen 10 hours a day... there are risks in everything, and my personal philosophy is to accept the risk, accept the consequences. It makes you feel truly alive.
My whole life, I don't think I ever backed down from doing something just because it was hard, others told me it was impossible, or it had never been done before. In fact, I have done one thing after another that people told me was impossible.
After I succeeded, people would often say things like "We supported you all along"
You know what Ramama Maharshi said once? "The idea of difficulty is itself wrong. It will not help you gain what you seek."
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Sometimes music is all you got in this world. Why do I create music? Because there was a time when I had nothing, and music kept me alive.
www.myspace.com/evancary
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Date Apr. 10 2010 19:06:08
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guitarristamadrid
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RE: Anyone want technique exercises?... (in reply to yohan)
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Hi Yohan! It is my personal experience that being obsessed with things actually does cause you to get them. If I look back at my life, all the things I was obsessed with, I got. Desire is basically a form of creative energy.
When you don't get something, it's because you didn't truly want it, so you accepted a reality where you didn't have it.
As to the practicing many hours, I just found that that was necessary in order to play the way I wanted to play.
Anyway, I thought I'd give some examples from things I have learned living here.
After I had been in Spain for not too long, I met a number of people who knew or had known Paco, Sabicas, Gerardo, etc. They all said these guys would practice for many hours every day. Pedro of Pedro de Miguel guitarras told me that he once saw Sabicas play for seven hours straight, after which he congratulated him for his dedication. Sabicas laughed and said "Eso no es estudiar" (implying that seven hours wasn't that much)
Entri has told me a number of stories about Paco where the guy just practiced obscene amounts of hours, blowing off all kinds of social events and other things in order to play picado exercises. One morning after a concert series had just ended Paco was apparently awake at the hotel at 7am sharp, practicing slow scales out on the balcony. Entri's brother, who was on tour with him, told him to stop and come inside and sleep, to which Paco said "Have you seen how our uncle Sabicas used to play? We can never stop practicing"
Entri told me that Canizares went through a period where he was obsessed with picado, and he practiced for one year, eight hours a day, just playing picado. After that there was some flamenco event where all the famous players met up (forget the details) and Entri said Canizares was playing better than everyone else.
Gerardo at one point apparently spent all his time in a bar in Madrid which had a sort of cave underneath it, and he would just practice all day long there and the bartender would bring him down food. Before this he wasn't as successful a player as he is now, but he reached some point where he got really serious about it and started going down to the cave and working on technique constantly, and after that was when his career really took off.
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Sometimes music is all you got in this world. Why do I create music? Because there was a time when I had nothing, and music kept me alive.
www.myspace.com/evancary
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Date Apr. 10 2010 19:26:26
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