To be honest, I didn't even read your original post, but I was able to
find out your claim to fame by entering your name into Google. Now I'm
curious to hear your playing so I can judge it for myself. I'm prepared
to be impressed.
I apologize for the misspelling of your name, but my post was in
reaction to the way my suggestion was characterized, and. I did get a
very nice note from Christine thanking me for reminding her of the
technique I suggested. I don't think of my Aspergers as a handicap, it
does force me to develop alternative methods for solving problems,
often to huge advantage. Many of my posts point out different insight
for looking at common problems. My suggestions aren't for everyone, but
it is pure arrogance to dismiss them publicly, as was done.
My initial reaction to the post was that you were going to be,
rightfully, upset about being represented as holding such an arrogant
position. From your comments in this post, I don't see any points where
we disagree. You made one suggestion that works for you and I pointed
out another that works for me. My suggestion was in response to a
request for methods to help get the mind around the H transposition. If
you continue to have a lot of difficulty with certain transpositions,
memorization is certainly a way around the problem, but what happens
when you have to sight read?
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Brahms 2
Well, for a stat my name is Francis Pressland, but I don't expect you
to learn that off by heart.
I DO however expect you to put your brain into gear before you press
the "send" key.
My original post said LEARN IT BY HEART. Of course you have to learn
it by heart. The 2nd movement of Brahms 2 is a piece of chamber music
and the 1st horn part is often a solo. I certainly wouldn't play a
Mozart Horn concerto in a concert without having practiced it until it
was second nature and would learn it by heart even if I had the music
in front of me. Ask any professional horn player to play the big solo
from a repertoire piece and she or he will do so without hesitation. So
YES Bill does know a very large number of solos by heart. Maybe you
could learn something by carefully considering what folks write on this
list.
As for using your disability as an argument against learning something
by heart, This I see as a non sequitur. I sympathize with you - if
thats what you are looking for, but the fact is that for many others,
learning difficult solo passages by heart is a very successful
exercise. I know of no Teacher who would suggest otherwise.
Francis Pressland
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I assume you are one who memorized that part and are looking for >
an excuse to crow about it - or have you memorized it? How many > other
parts have you memorized? I envy you. I suffer from > Aspergers
Syndrome in a form that makes it very difficult for me to > memorize.
The advice Francis Pressman gave would be as useless to > me as you
seem to feel the advice I gave to Christine.
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