[TPIN] Advice for practice?

[Bryan Edgett]

I believe that Paul is right about the basics. I also believe that 
people can practice the basics with a chop setup that doesn't work 
efficiently and get far less from them than what they would get if 
thier setup was working for them.

It is true that we now have many documented methods regarding what to 
do with the chops, the tongue, etc. I think that the most important 
thing is finding an approach that affords and facilitates the 
player's development. I'll not belabor the point here with specifics 
but the basics, which are essential, work best on a setup that allows 
the player to produce his/her sound in an unencumbered manner. To 
that end, we do need to find something that will work for us. Keen 
diagnostic and prescriptive skills stand among the factors that 
separate the good teachers from the great teachers, in my view.

Cordially,

Bryan Edgett

>>  The basics are what will you get you there.I think Leon's book is 
>>great too. I think we
have in a sense become overloeaded with concepts and systems that we 
have overly complicated bloeing into a damn brass tube.<<