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Learning music with borrowed brains
In an interview, clarinetist Christine Carter says:
“In my training I was taught to avoid mistakes. Perhaps the most common version is this: play something perfectly ten times, make a mistake… and feel like that wipes out all the work. Then you start from scratch and repeat all ten without making a mistake.”
While I know similar attitudes, those of trying to accumulate repetitions without making mistakes, I was fortunate to hear over and over again from one of my teachers in Buenos Aires, Andres Aciar, the following maxim:….
Not Repetition, but Re-Creation.
In an interview, clarinetist Christine Carter says:
“In my training I was taught to avoid mistakes. Perhaps the most common version is this: play something perfectly ten times, make a mistake… and feel like that wipes out all the work. Then you start from scratch and repeat all ten without making a mistake.”
While I know similar attitudes, those of trying to accumulate repetitions without making mistakes, I was fortunate to hear over and over again from one of my teachers in Buenos Aires, Andres Aciar, the following maxim:….
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I am Gabriela Labanda, singer, vocal pedagogue, singing voice therapist and trauma-sensitive voice professional.
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