On Fri, Jul 6, 2007, David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You make it sound as though the piano is easy.
It was, for Mozart, Lizt etal. For me, well, it was easy to plunk a tune or two, but anything involving both hands, c'est imposible! For me, guitar and woodwinds are the thing. I had an intermediate level skill in a couple of months of taking up the thing; not just the folk lessons I was taking, but also the classical lessons mom was taking, and those were learned by ear from her practice, when she gave up I got to work with her written material and took off. I have been asked (after playing improv) "how do you know where to put your fingers?"; on the piano, well, I dont. On the guitar/lute/recorder, I do, and pretty m,uch always have without thought. Dont know how that comes to be, it certainly wasnt because of years of scales and parallel thirds, I had very little patience with technical LH practice. RH practice was another story, I worked hard to get a fluent set of RH fingers so I could atempt flamenco and such. Each student willbring a different set of talents to the lesson, teachers job is to somehow get them to gell into a useful whole. It helps if the student has an external motivation, for me that was the LP recordings I had memorized of music I wanted to play - Sor, Villalobos, Byrd, Bach, Vihuellista music, Dowland etc. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
