|
William Moersch
Joined:
2005-2-20
From:
Posts:
323
|
Gentlemen,
You are both right. Slow, steady, and accurate is definitely the way to go on the learning curve. Individual hand practice can also be very useful as a practice tool, but the intent is not to learn one hand first, then the other, and finally together; the idea is to use individual hand practice AFTER learning the two-hand version, in order to clarify and reinforce the component parts. Keyboard players use the same practice technique in highly contrapuntal music, e.g. fugues, by playing every permutation of "all the voices minus one" and singing the missing voice. (Much the same idea as the singing of drum set voices in another recent thread!)
As for rubato music, ALWAYS learn the 100% rhythmically accurate version FIRST and then begin to add the rubato. The listener must be able to hear and recognise the original version implicit in the rubato, in order to appreciate the rubato.
WM
Remote Host: 73.cleveland-09rh15-16rt.oh.dial-access.att.net
|
[3507]Re: At risk of sounding like a broken record... (315 reads)
[3492]the prism <AJ>
