Monday, December 15, 2008
Sometimes the pedagogue learns more from the enrollee than the enrollee does from the teacher. Hopefully, not likewise often, but today I would aforementioned to deal with you whatever enthusiastic practicing ideas that impact become from my pianissimo students over the years:
1. A Colonel in Colony that I taught for individual eld got up at 4AM every weekday farewell and experienced on an electronic keyboard with headphones so he wouldn't modify anyone at that instance of the morning. I fuck the primeval morning, he said, ecause it's so stilly and tranquil and I'm firm and eager to go. No phones are ringing, no grouping travel into the room, no disturbances at all. I training for a half-hour, impact breakfast, and then impact it for added half-hour -- every before I impact to exhibit up for work. When I intend bag in the evening, if I'm likewise bushed to practice, I don't see blameable because I've already got my licks in for the day. And if I'm up to practicing whatever more -- well, it's a bonus!
2. An easy edifice pedagogue in Indiana told me she took apiece example I appointed her and transposed it into every 12 keys -- not cursive out, but at the pianissimo -- in her head. She said It doesn't ever good so hot, but I encounter that if I ready at it period after day, I crapper at small intend by in the most arduous keys, and it makes the easier keys seem actual simple. And it gives me a appearance that I meet wouldn't intend it I meet played it in digit key -- the key it is cursive in. I've scholarly that apiece key has it's possess feel, and whatever keys are gleaming (like D) and whatever keys are inebriated (like Db).
3. Another pianissimo enrollee with a kindred idea, who was the Minister of Music in a Christian church, said he took digit full period of the assemblage and devoted it to mastering meet digit key. Since there are 12 months in the assemblage and 12 Major keys, that entireness discover perfectly. So in Jan he played everything he could encounter in the key of C, and transposed anything that wasn't in C into C. In Feb he went up 1/2 travel to the key of C# (also famous as Db enharmonically) and played everything in Db and searched for pieces cursive in the key of Db, and so on. By the instance the assemblage was up, he had a pretty clean apprehension on the 12 Major keys. I advisable that he devote the incoming assemblage to the 12 secondary keys, and the incoming assemblage to the modes, and the incoming assemblage to polytonality, etc., etc. -- but as I request he definite to meet reuse finished the 12 field keys, since he utilised them so much more than the ones I suggested.
4. Still added pianissimo enrollee took an intent from me and coiled it a bit. I advisable that she endeavor along with pieces she likeable on tapes and CD's, so she would intend a see for the change of the song. (I utilised to do that by the distance when I was a teen-ager, and it stipendiary soured bounteous instance for me!). She took the intent and proven it and likeable it so much that she started effort videos of grouping activity the piano. She unreal her TV and recording contestant so that she could be at her pianissimo patch the recording was playing, and she would endeavor along with the player on the screen, mass her/his assistance motions and limb motions and digit function and thereby effort a opinion for the line of the music. (Patterning). Her power is stipendiary soured for her -- she is onward rapidly. (And by the way, don't conceive she is copying the mortal she is watching -- not at all. It's the aforementioned generalisation as watching archangel river agitated toward the basket, or watching Sammy Sosa stroke a wink -- it meet gets you in the correct impression before you administer your possess call to it.)
5. A student I impact taught for eld makes a intent enter of things he has scholarly most pianissimo activity over the years. He notes where in a presented aggregation or enter or recording I handle much and much a topic, and files that alphabetically. Then after when he needs to intend to that idea, he only looks up the intent in his file, locates the recording or video or book, and presto -- he crapper analyse that intent or construct nearly instantly. It's aforementioned a bill class in the accumulation -- makes uncovering things so much faster than flipping finished daylong books disagreeable to encounter that intent you saw daylong ago.
With the advent of the machine a mortal could accumulation and reason ideas much as this rattling quickly.
Hope this gives you whatever ideas of your own!
Duane Shinn is the communicator of over 500 penalization books and penalization educational materials much as DVD's, CD's, singable games for kids, chord charts, singable software, and pianissimo warning instructional courses for adults. His fast pianissimo chord observer code named How To Find Any Piano Chord Instantly! has been utilised around the world. He holds modern degrees from Southern Oregon University and was the originator of Piano University in Southern Oregon. He is the communicator of the favourite liberated 101-week online e-mail account named Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions with over 58,600 underway subscribers.