Miguel de Maria -> RE: Conversation starter: "Speed exercises" (Jan. 25 2014 17:56:26)
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Rui, not sure what you mean about "penis talk". I wasn't interested in participating in the delcamp thread since most of the participants didn't seem qualified in addressing the subject nor even properly judging the original post. For my part, the original argument was so poorly and vaguely worded that it could serve as an example for multiple logical fallacies. Mainly, what is a "speed exercise", where is the evidence that whatever that is, it doesn't assist in playing the guitar, and by the way--how do you jump from that assumption to just repeating the passage in question over and over? I have heard of several CG virtuosos advocate a "no-scale" practice method. I'm not sure if this is the same thing as the "no-speed exercise" method. My CG teacher didn't advocate abstract scale practice either, but he still had me play arpeggios, slurs, left-hand pressure exercises. Some of them even fast! Also, what the heck is this: "The obvious truth is that you will have to practice this new passage exactly the same way and to the exact same extent that you practiced those one hundred speed exercises." I just don't see how that is obvious when I can point out any number of moves, scalar passages, LH shifts, etc., that were first practiced in some exercise and were then able to be plugged right in, like a module, in repertoire. Scott Tennant's stacatto speed ex was of great use to me and others I know. I can easily take tremolo movements from a trem etude right to Recuerdos or any other more complicated piece.
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