Re: Practicing what is hard in pursuit of effortlessness
Originally Posted by
catmandu2
Well this is delving into other aspects, more pertaining to performance (for me) rather than the topic at hand, which to my understanding is concerning learning/practicing (?).
Niles put in other words what my approach is, generally:
Originally Posted by
mandocrucian
Hey, do you know what might "efficient"?
Instead of pondering and researching the micro-details of super-efficiency and then spending time discussing it, you might just sit down with your instrument and just practice! Maybe that isn't the ultimate in efficiency, but that somewhat inefficient (?) practice has got to be better than no practice!
To me, practising and performing are not two different actions. Procedural memory does not care why it is playing a particular piece, it just registers that this is the nth repetition of a pattern and burns a deeper groove for it. To practise, I play the tunes that had too little repetitions, for performance I play those that had enough of them; but I always just play. It does not get any more simple.
There is no magic intricate way around it, and if there were, I'd not trust it because intricate things can fail on you more treacherously and unforeseen than simple ones. There is no effortlessness without trust.
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