srshea -> RE: Re:Daily practice routine (Aug. 26 2008 15:36:20)
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Phrygian, Wow, I’m glad what I said resonated with you. I think one of the best things about this forum, aside from all the actual concrete information and specific advice, is that it provides an assurance to many of us that we’re not alone, and that a lot of us are encountering the same challenges and problems as we try to teach ourselves this really complex art. I would guess that the impulse to try out everything you can get your hands on, hoping that you’ll find that one book, or instructional dvd, or guru that will make everything perfectly clear, is pretty common. It definitely is for me. I take on a new interest, and I want to soak it all in, buy every book I can find, knowing that if I can just find the right one it’ll “save me” and everything will be all right. Most of the time I end up with a lot of half-read books lying around after having jumped back and forth between them, skimming the surfaces, but never really digging in and truly absorbing what these books have to offer. Sometimes it’s best to just stop the searching, take you you’ve already got, and dig in. I do this all the time. Until I get carried off by the next distraction, of course…… quote:
What are your thoughts on playing the same piece for too long i and when should you move on to the next piece? And is it good to practise let us say 3 different palos spread out during the week or should you focus on one rythm at a time? To be honest, I dunno. I can’t pretend to have all this figured out; I’m just as lazy, sporadic in my efforts, and bad at taking my own advice as the next guy. Lately I’ve been determined to narrow my focus to just solea, farruca, tangos, and bulerias. I tend to average an hour and a half or so of practice, five days a week. Not a whole lot, but I try to make the best of it. Now, there’s no way I can fit all four of those forms into a 90 minute practice and do them justice, so I’ll space ‘em out through the week, usually taking on two in a single practice, and some days just working on one when I want to focus hard on something. It’s not very systematic, and I’m sure I’d be better off with a more deliberate, specific approach, but I feel like this is working for me: I’m enjoying playing, I’m making regular, if slow, progress, so, I’m happy. I think the trick in developing a practice regimen is to try and find a balance that keeps you enjoying yourself while you’re doing good, solid work that develops your skills: enough variety so you stay interested and engaged without getting bored, balanced with focused work on a manageable number of things in which you can see steady progress. I think finding this balance is something that everyone has to figure out on their own….. A tresillo is a triplet rasgueado like P up, A down, I down or P up, MA down, P down. There’re lots of variations, so in that earlier post I was suggesting that it’s probably best to pick one or two and get comfortable with those rather than try to learn ‘em all at once.
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