Oct 29, 2021
Surrender .
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Surrender .
TED Talk: How to practice effectively: Slow, conscious, focused repetitions.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFum29GydEk)
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhzmGobVM_Q)
Suzuki Violin Book 1, No. 1: Twinkle, Twinkle, Variation E
SLOW PRACTICE - Suzuki Violin Book 1, No. 1: Twinkle, Variation D
Rachmaninov was a dedicated and driven perfectionist. He worked incessantly, with infinite patience. Once I had an appointment to spend an afternoon with him in Hollywood. Arriving at the designated hour of twelve, I heard an occasional piano sound as I approached the cottage. I stood outside the door, unable to believe my ears. Rachmaninov was practising Chopin’s etude in thirds, but at such a snail’s pace that it took me a while to recognise it be- cause so much time elapsed between one finger stroke and the next. Fascinated, I clocked this re- markable exhibition: twenty seconds per bar was his pace for almost an hour while I waited riveted to the spot, quite unable to ring the bell. Perhaps this way of developing and maintaining an unerring mechanism accounted for his bitter sarcasm toward colleagues who practised their programmes ‘once over lightly’ between concerts.
Chasins, Abram. 1967. Speaking of Pianists. New York: Knopf, 44.
new goal: work on fucking hand independence
can't do anything with these goddamn hands can't play piano can't conduct can't make beats it's a fucking hot mess