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Josephinethecellist
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Posts: 2
(9/5/01 3:31:53 pm)
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Realistic Cello
Goals
I'm playing the cello again after a long haitus. I'm putting in 2-3
hours a day and studying with a fabulous teacher weekly. Currently
I'm working on a Vivaldi Sonata, 3 octave scales and Lee exercises.
I'm playing with others whenever I get a chance and I've just joined
a university orchestra. I want to get a lot better and NOT be a
beginner forever. My questions are these:
What milestones do
I work toward and measure with? (I want some tangibles here folks.)
And is it realistic for me to think that if I continue working hard
for awhile I can get significantly better as an adult?
Jo the
Optimist and Dreamer
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zambocello
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Posts: 762
(9/5/01 4:03:13 pm)
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Aim high
We rarely exceed our goals.
I think music is a combination
of sport and language. Experience and observation shows that these
things are easier accomplished when started as youngsters.
Nevertheless, there are examples -- too many to count -- of people
who take up tennis as an adult and become quite skilled and
competitive, or take up a language and become quite fluent.
It sounds like you have time to practice well, and outlets
-- performance groups -- in which to apply what you learn. You'll be
as good as you want to be (in time). Enjoy!
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dennisw
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(9/5/01 4:25:08 pm)
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Re: Realistic
Cello Goals
Think like an athlete... You are in training and you need to get in
shape and stay there.
Use the practice time you have wisely.
Focus on what you are doing at all times and (*very important*)
continually challenge yourself to do better and be patient with
yourself.
Here's one tangible idea to mark progress. Use a
metronome on your Lee exercises. Mark the current tempo for each
exercise as you play it. When you return to the same exercise in the
future, see if you can play it well a bit faster. Keep doing that
until you reach what you consider to be a maximum tempo for the
exercise. You'll notice right away that even less difficult
exercises become quite a bit more difficult as they increase in
tempo.
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mvotapek
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Posts: 14
(9/6/01 7:18:56 pm)
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Re: Realistic
Cello Goals
Yes, it is entirely realistic. But as for tangible goals, it's
tricky because as your playing (or metronome speed or whatever) gets
better, your ear will probably keep pace by getting more and more
critical. Today's improvement will be unacceptable to you by
tomorrow.
Try taping yourself once or twice a month. If ever
in doubt of your progress, pull out an older tape and compare. When
i do this, i tend to find that as much as i like to tell myself "oh
i could play this sooo much better when i was 20," it's just not the
case. I keep improving.
In the meantime, if you are putting
in that kind of time on the instrument, you could consider that in
of itself a milestone each day.
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