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DON'T Follow Your Passion

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Alphonsus Jr.

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Sep 26, 2012, 9:24:11 PM9/26/12
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Friends,

I'm convinced that the following might possibly be useful for both professional and amateur classical guitarists:

http://associatesmind.com/2012/09/21/review-so-good-they-cant-ignore-you/

What do you think?

Tommy Grand

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Sep 26, 2012, 9:57:22 PM9/26/12
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On Sep 26, 8:24 pm, "Alphonsus Jr." <alphonsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends,
>
> I'm convinced that the following might possibly be useful for both professional and amateur classical guitarists:
>
> http://associatesmind.com/2012/09/21/review-so-good-they-cant-ignore-...
>
> What do you think?

Thanks, I posted this on Facebook! Since I have a passion for
documenting my sources, I gave you no credit whatsoever...

Alphonsus Jr.

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Sep 27, 2012, 12:28:49 AM9/27/12
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hehehe..... good one.

JonLorPro

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Oct 3, 2012, 1:37:18 AM10/3/12
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On Sep 26, 9:24 pm, "Alphonsus Jr." <alphonsu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: subject header: "DON'T Follow Your Passion"

Isn't that depression?

Alphonsus Jr.

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Oct 3, 2012, 3:31:42 AM10/3/12
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No, it's very Platonic!

Slogoin

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Oct 3, 2012, 8:38:04 AM10/3/12
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On Oct 3, 3:31 am, "Alphonsus Jr." <alphonsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> No, it's very Platonic!

Jackson, it's just a language game. Get back to getting those skills
down. Don't avoid the same basic music education I am giving my kids.

SolFa is basic and one of the best skills in any musician's tool
box. I have one 15 year old who just did his first 4 part harmony
assignment. You never get away from learning basics but from what I've
seen most of us are very good at avoiding the work instead of learning
how to enjoy the work. To me the games of SolFa, harmony and
counterpoint are fun and a joy to teach when the student also enjoys
the puzzles.

RMCG may not be good for your study as information is NOT what you
need. You learn by trying things on the guitar. You need to spend the
time working on the instrument. There are no short cuts and you know
WAY more than my kids ABOUT music and yet I suspect some of them have
long passed your level in some of these basic music skills.

If you are just back to play language games with others here then
don't worry about this post. If you really do want to learn CG then
don't play games and get on with it. I'm sure you can do well if you
can focus on the basic skills we all have to learn, and so does Jack.

Fadosolrélamisi

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Oct 3, 2012, 10:30:00 AM10/3/12
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Eh Larry!

Hope everything is good! (Judging by your post ... the answer is yes [;o)
J'espère que what you just wrote here above "ne tombera pas dans l'oreille d'un sourd" ... indeed one needs to walk the walk ...

Cactus Wren

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Oct 3, 2012, 11:55:36 AM10/3/12
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Perhaps you will like this quote by Ms. Kataoka, who put together the Suzuki Piano method:

Slogoin

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Oct 3, 2012, 12:58:10 PM10/3/12
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On Oct 3, 10:30 am, Fadosolrélamisi <rei...@telus.net> wrote:
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> Hope everything is good! (Judging by your post ... the answer is yes [;o)

Yes, life is odd with its twists and turns but we are still doing
well in the turmoil. I assume things are well with you too.

> J'espère que what you just wrote here above "ne tombera pas dans l'oreille d'un sourd" ... indeed one needs to walk the walk ...

There is so much work that can be done when we focus on the basics.

I like to juggle for the kids because I think juggling is a great
metaphor for the skills we need to learn. Most of the work in music is
mental but playing well is about getting the feel for keeping an
effect going, like riding a bike, or turning a bowl on a lathe,
drumming a double roll, rolling your RRRRRRs, playing a CG tremolo
or... juggling. Most of the RH CG effects are synergistic so, like Hii
says, you can transfer that feel to other skills. The juggling FEELS
good just like a nice ami scale with that same tremolo roll. Hii
nailed it when he focuses on the feel in the finger tips but that is
the tip of the metaphoric iceberg in the inner world of working by
feel where "rational" thinking does not light the way.

It's too bad we don't teach music from grade one using SolFa. The
results I see are really quite amazing for the young ones and a few of
the older ones who have caught on and can now sing SolFa and play the
beginning tunes I start with.

Alphonsus Jr.

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Oct 3, 2012, 1:10:55 PM10/3/12
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On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:38:04 AM UTC-7, Slogoin wrote:
Good stuff, Larry. Thanks. You've talked to Jack lately?

Slogoin

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Oct 3, 2012, 5:22:21 PM10/3/12
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On Oct 3, 1:10 pm, "Alphonsus Jr." <alphonsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good stuff, Larry. Thanks.

Sounds like you may be on track this time.

You've talked to Jack lately?

No. I've been out of the country quite a bit in the last few years,
learning a lot and teaching. I used to see him more in the old days.
Good guy and you should think about taking lessons with him again if
you aren't already. He had good things to say about you.

Alphonsus Jr.

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Oct 3, 2012, 5:53:02 PM10/3/12
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I've been thinking about getting in touch with Jack.

You've inspired me to break out my 3rd edition of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Sight-Singing-Robert-Ottman/dp/0205760082

Slogoin

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Oct 3, 2012, 6:57:25 PM10/3/12
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On Oct 3, 5:53 pm, "Alphonsus Jr." <alphonsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been thinking about getting in touch with Jack.

Think less, do more.

> You've inspired me to break out my 3rd edition of this book:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Music-Sight-Singing-Robert-Ottman/dp/0205760082

I'd focus on basics like kids' tunes. I start with the scale up and
down (down is harder then we do Frère Jacques, Twinkle Twinkle, and I
have about 12 more tunes all in C. If you memorize them and memorize
basic scale and chord patterns until you can sing them without
thinking the rest comes along easily... IF you USE SolFa and not just
practice it. Sing everything you can until you can sing anything.

I am also a big fan of rhythm guitar so I teach it and think it
makes them better at CG and able to get together with local musicians
no matter where you go. Basics...

Fadosolrélamisi

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Oct 3, 2012, 8:46:08 PM10/3/12
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Yes, thing are going well on this side of the globe too [;o).
Eh! I do juggle too! I bought a set of 3 colorful balls (Haha! Who's gonna comment on this?) from the circus school, last year, in Quebec while on a French exchange trip with the grade seven ... Yes to teaching solfège and basic music theory rudiment at an early age! Hard to believe but some kids only learn of the quater note around grade four!!! ... But they do learn to sing ... that's for sure!


Alphonsus Jr.

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Oct 5, 2012, 12:06:03 AM10/5/12
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Friends, on the original topic, I would direct you to this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/jobs/follow-a-career-passion-let-it-follow-you.html?_r=1

David Raleigh Arnold

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Oct 11, 2012, 1:57:45 PM10/11/12
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It's great except they *can always* ignore you. You have
to be so good that it doesn't matter whether they
ignore you or not. Regards, daveA

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