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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Interesting on: Practice, practice, practice | | Date: | Friday, February 1, 2008 19:26:28 (+0000) | | From: | reso-man <reso-man @.......net>
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Hey Phil and listers,
Wow! That sounds almost like the Dorfel Family (hope I spelt that right) who
appears at most of the better New England festivals. They got a buncha kids and
they don't "go onstage"....they INVADE THE STAGE!!! Cute and cuter, and
completely awesome musicians each and ever one of them!
I've seen the future and trust me, it's good! Mandatory reso content? Nothing
really yet, but I'm pestering them.......O;-)
While I'm here, I'll also comment about HOMESPUN TAPES. In a word, the ones
I've seen and learned from are EXCELLENT! For a beginning "reso-holic," the
Cindy Cashdollar vids are a great way to get started.
And Larue plays a dulcimer? Way to go "hoss!" Let's build one with a
resonator....lol.
Richie
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From: "PHIL CATHEY" <bluegrassservices@msn.com>
> I do sound for a young band where the lead singer is 10 years old. When he just
> had turned 2 before Christmas he told Santa to bring him a guitar, so his
> parents thru Santa got him a plastic toy guitar. On Christmas morning in the
> year 2000 he opened the toy guitar, he pushed a couple buttons (never taking it
> out of the box) then picked up the box and guitar and put it in his dads lap and
> plainly said "can Santa trade this toy for a Martin guitar with strings" a very
> religious family so I believe the dad who ran into me at a music store with the
> little 2 year boy holding his dads pants leg staring at the guitars on the wall.
> That day they took home one of the small dread knot Martin guitars. Oh by the
> way no one in the family at the time played music, but now his sister 1 1/2
> years older plays fiddle and the little brother 8 plays mandolin and oldest
> sister 17 plays bass. It sure helps when kids are home schooled with lessons
> with a music instructor 3 day a week. I feel like my young friend is another
> Ricky Skaggs. He now plays a 000 D28 Martin and flat picks well while he sings
> at least 3 full sets on stage WOW.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: KeimBob@aol.com
> To: resoguit-l@elistas.com
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:35 PM
> Subject: [RESOGUIT-L] Interesting on: Practice, practice, practice
>
>
> Practice often comes up on the list. Here is something posted on another
> instrument's listserv that applies to the reso as well, no doubt. :
> ***************************
> I'm still slogging thru Daniel Levitin's book THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC.
> He mentions some interesting studies showing that expertise (musical or
> otherwise) is more of a function of practicing a lot than anything else. He
> cites numerous studies which show ten thousand hours of practice is required
> to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class
> expert--IN ANYTHING. He says in study after study--of composers, basketball
> players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players,
> master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again.
> 10,000 hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or twenty hours a
> week, of practice over 10 years. No study has yet found a case in which true
> world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems to take the
> brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true
> mastery. (neural pathways, brain chemistry, etc).
>
> Levitin cites the classic rebuttal to the 10,000 hour argument: "Well what
> about Mozart? I hear he was composing symphonies at the age of 4! And even
> if he was practicing 40 hours a week since the day he was born, that doesn't
> make 10,000 hours". Levitin points out Mozart didn't begin composing until
> he was six, and didn't write his 1st symphony until he was 8. He says
> whereas Mozart demonstrated precociousness early in life, that's not the
> same as being an expert. He says Mozart had extensive training from his
> father who was a stern taskmaster and the greatest living music teacher in
> Europe at the time. Levitin says if Mozart practiced 32 hours a week from
> the age of 2 to 8, he'd then have reached the 10,000 hour mark (& his papa
> might well have pushed him this hard!). Levitin also says the 10,000 hour
> argument doesn't say it takes 10,000 hours to write a symphony. The author
> says clearly Mozart became an expert eventually, but did the writing of that
> 1st symphony qualify him as an expert, or did he attain his level of musical
> expertise later? He cites experts who say the tunes Mozart wrote that were
> at expert level were clearly after he'd been playing 10,000 hours.
>
> I said to my wife (who played more than a major role in raising my 3 kids):
> "gee, you were a busy mom for more than 3 hours a day in a 10 year period,
> so that meant you were an expert", and she said, in essence, "no kidding".
>
> My question: I started playing autoharp seriously at the age of 70, so when
> I become an expert at the age of 80, who will notice & will I be able to
> find my harp (RAR)? I'd better quit writing this stuff and get back to
> practicing! Ron Bean, San Francisco (where surrounding mountain tops are
> dusted with snow down to 1000 feet, but no earthquakes!)
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>
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>
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