mark indigo -> RE: Exercises recommendation (Aug. 26 2017 10:43:02)
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at least one person in this thread thought I was being arrogant and presumptuous because (in his opinion) I didn't give the original poster the response he asked for ... quote:
OK, I'm going to disagree with everybody above I didn't say you were being "arrogant and presumptuous", you have decided that that's what I thought (wait, maybe now you are being presumptuous....[8D]) I did think that to "disagree with everybody above" was a very sweeping catch-all statement. quote:
Don't take it personally. You think I was taking your "disagree with everybody" personally, and, er, now you seem to be taking my response personally!!! Yes, this is getting a bit random!!![:D][:D][:D] My opinion, for what it's worth, is that there is a time and a place for teachers, and a time and a place for exercises. I don't generally go much for "single right answers" like you should just do exercises or you shouldn't do exercises at all. I personally have a warm-up and technique practise routine, and don't practise anything in it that is not related to music in some way. Whenever I find something difficult in a falseta I try to find a way of isolating and working on the difficulty. I play several falsetas with chromatic scale sections in them, and those parts of the falsetas are the parts that I find most difficult, for my left hand and for left-right hand coordination. So practising chromatic scales is for me a way of addressing that. I can justify everything in my daily routine in the same way. I have had at least 5 teachers over the last 20-25 years, plus various workshops and classes. Lots of them have given or recommended exercises. In addition I have had to work through a lot of the problems and difficulties I have encountered myself. I think it's a lifelong never ending process.
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