Re: q for Jenn: piano lessons
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17c5661c-9b71-4c76...@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com, "Clyde
Slick" <Mr.cly...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Find a teacher that can relate to the genre of music you wish to play.
>>
>> Rachmaninoff, Boulez, Barraque, 2nd Bartok concerto, Ravel's Gaspard Le
>> Nuit, Horowitz's Carmen Variations,
>> Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. I have about a month, since I'm already booked
>> for a concert :)
>>
>> Seriously, I am not a dextrous person. I inherited 1/2 of a musical
>> archetype from my dad's side, but my hands are small and not particularly
>> fast. My handwriting is horrendous. Yet I probably have perfect pitch, and
>> in my teens, musical dreams were common. So I'm sorta locked in. About two
>> years ago, I assembled a computer piano using a Fatar 880 weighted keyboard,
>> Steinberg's "The Grand" sampler, and I used my practical knowledge to reduce
>> the latency commonly associated with such setups, so that it closely
>> approximates a real piano. It has a Sugden amp, Wharfedale Diamond 7
>> Anniversaries, and it has sat, mostly unused.
>>
>> I seem to have the ability to play classical favorites, one note at a time,
>> sightless with one hand, but playing multiple notes at one time, and using
>> both hands, requires serious brain rewiring. I wonder if there has been any
>> psychological research on the best learning procedure?
>>
>> Bob Morein
>> (310) 237-6511- Ascunde citatul -
>>
>
> there 'is' an instrument within your inner core, but maybe it isn't
> the paino.
> I woudln't know. But I seriouly think it is not the piano.
> You don't think piano.
I think a lot about skin flutes. Does that count for something?
Robert Morein
(215) 646-4894
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:51:31 +1000
Bob Morein
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