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]]> http://www.wolfric.com/blog/soccer-practice/#comment-4 Deborah Fortier Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:41:31 +0000 http://www.wolfric.com/blog/?p=43#comment-4 Everything put forth here is good and healthy and useful, and, except for the warming up part (I tend to neglect that), I use with my students. 2 things to add: sometimes I take a passage out of rhythm to make an exercise out of it, or make a new exercise out of it, if the student is struggling physically with it and 2) instead of the pennies I implement the “no mistake method”, which simply means that once a mistake is made, one has to go back to the beginning. If strictly enforced (& this can apply to fingering, rhythm, dynamics, etc besides just notes), this stops a student from making the mistake before they make it. And believe it or not, they like it, and of course, it does get results. I make sure that the goal is do-able as, for example, just one phrase, or one section 3 x (or 1 x, or 10 x) without a mistake (at the final time on the last note a mistake is made, I still have them go back to 1st x around). The sports analogy is always good, especially considering how sports-minded people are these days. I say: “If a basketball player gets the ball in the basket, does he then say, “ok I’m good”, and walk away? No, they do it over and over and over, from all places and under all conditions.

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