I remember getting from Dick Hensold some very useful excercises he uses for warming up. I used these for a while, but alas as with so many good intentions, got lazy and lapsed.. As I recall these start off helping with the essential staccatto technique and then seem to replicate note patterns, arpeggios, triplets and so on as found in the basic traditional repertoire ie Peacock variations etc. This seems to tie in with what Julia says when she quotes how Adrian, Chris, plus Tommy Breckons/Tom Clough approached practice.
(Maybe a good way of making use of time spent if watching the Cup Final on telly. I wonder if anyone else straps on the pipes to watch some must-watch but essentially pointless time-wasting sporting event). Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NSP" <[email protected]>; "Roger Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:39 AM Subject: [NSP] Re: Practice > On 19 May 2007, Roger Howard wrote: > > > the comment that it > > would be possible to reconstruct a plausible set of Clough-style > > exercises made me prick up my ears. Has anyone ever attempted > > such a reconstruction, I wonder? And what suggestions might more > > accomplished players make for a good set of exercises for daily use? > > Roger: > > The short answer is yes, several people have done it. I know Adrian > Schofield has, since I have heard him teaching them, and I believe > Chris may have done. There are probably others - it's a bit of an > individual sport. I have a set I inflict on beginners - as an aid > rather than a prescriptive "do this every day". > > When I talked to Tom Breckons about his lessons with Tom Clough he > said that all the exercises were contained in 4 tunes: > Fenwick o Bywell, Jackey Layton, Oh dear What can the matter be and > Felton Lonnin. > He was referring to the "Peacock patterns" of notes that these tunes > contain. > Tom (Breckons) also said that Clough played triplets as exrecises, > starting slowly and speeding up, then starting fast and slowing down. > > Hope this helps > Julia > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
