Thursday, April 10, 2014

Habits

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Musical ability is as much habit formation as it is technically learning note names and positions on the staff.

We attempt to form perfect habits in the early stages to help with later development.  That is one of the reasons we encourage a student to sometimes play a particularly difficult passage at a ridiculously slow speed.  We must first get the notes and fingering right, and then build skill and fingering memory.

The wonderful thing about this skill is that is translates well into other activities – sports for sure, even study habits.

We don’t just want to form habits.

We want to form good habits.

Carolyn Biggs
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