[TPIN] Tpt Exercises/simpler the better

[Allegro69]

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> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:12:08 -0500
> From: "Daniel,John" <john.daniel at lawrence.edu>
> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Tpt Exercises/simpler the better
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> There are plenty of spots in the Arban's book that I can't
> play as well as I would like to.  Most of these spots are
> a good test of one's ability but not necessarily something
> that is going to get much better by working on it.  The
> most direct route is sometimes a dead end.
>
Been at plenty of dead ends and blind alleys when it comes to Arban's. But
for most every day, I'll always do exercise #11 (in memory and tribute to my
first private lesson when I was a kid at 10) and #14 in the Art Of Phrasing
section "Woodman Spare That Tree". That was the very last lesson I had from
the Arban book when I took lessons from Ray Kotwica at Berklee. To this day,
I remember Ray screaming at me 5 or 6 notes beyond the beginning. While
Woodman grates on my nerves at times, it is somewhat difficult to play since
it was written in the key of G, a bugaboo key for me to nicely play and
properly connect the notes.

After Berkee, at the Navy School, my instructor had me working both out of
Clarke and Charles Colin Flex. Studies. Over the years, I spent a lot of
time working on Gatti and St. Jacome (spelling?). Both were fine method
books. But, I proudly display Arban's on my music stand to impress my
friends and neighbors. I must take after my mom, because when she bought a
brand new piano when she turned 70, she got in her car to go to the local
music store (she got bagged for going over the limit on the way <G>) and
brought home a huge stack of music books to put on the piano. When I asked
her if she can play all that stuff, she said that she did it because it
looks good on the piano. The apple sure didn't land far from the tree. 8-)