--- Patricia M Smith <dgcsorcmgr@j...> wrote:
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> Ah, the luxury of time, money & not having to work a
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> Unfortunately, this is not reality for most people.
> Question: why do you consider it a waste of time to
> spend time on
> repetoire during personal practice? Or did I
> misunderstand your
> statement? I find it helpful to help me to remember
> particular techniques
> that were worked on in my lessons by taking the time
> to review what rep
> that I am currently working on.
>
> Pat Smith
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> On Sat, 9 Sep 2000 16:02:51 -0700 (PDT) Isabelle
> Bracamonte
> <ibracamonte@y...> writes:
> The more often
> > you can study, the better, if you practice in
> between
> > your lessons (mentally -- that's VERY important --
> > and, on the off-days, vocally), and give yourself
> a
> > day of rest once a week. Take lessons that are as
> > long as you can handle before getting vocally
> tired
> > (or, if you are a beginning singer, before your
> > concentration starts to wane).
> >
>
> > Depending on what my goals are (sometimes we are
> > making technical breakthroughs, which require more
> > lesson time; sometimes we are drilling in those
> > concepts, which requires more of my practice
> time), I
> > study two or three or four times a week. Right
> now, I
> > am taking two 1.5-hour lessons a week and
> practicing
> > every off-day (but one) for 1.5 hours. I have
> studied
> > as much as four times a week, two for 1.5 hours
> and
> > two for 1 hour.
>
> > Practicing: I think it's a waste of time to
> simply
> > warm up and run through your songs during your
> > practice time (unless your goal that week is
> stamina
> > for a particular piece).
>
> > So my advice, in a nutshell, is: Study as often as
> > you're possibly able to without getting tired or
> > becoming too poor, and specific concepts +
> dedicated
> > practice sessions = progress. An hour of mental
> > technical study a day, an hour of working on your
> > languages a day, some squeezed-in bits of piano
> > practice and dance/exercise, and you're golden.
> What,
> > a life? This is great art. We don't need lives.
> >
> >
> > Isabelle B.
> >
> >
>
>
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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
ibracamonte@y...
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