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Bob

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Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

on: February 18, 2006, 08:03:49 PM

Can you give me the main points, ideas?

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BoliverAllmon

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Re: Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

Reply #1 on: February 18, 2006, 08:05:43 PM

practice smart not hard

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g_s_223

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Re: Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

Reply #2 on: February 18, 2006, 11:20:01 PM

No exercises, it's all in the repertoire.

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emmdoubleew

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Re: Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

Reply #3 on: February 19, 2006, 02:37:29 AM

When learning a piece pick a passage and work on it no more than 20 minutes everyday for a week and you will know the passage.

If you practice more, you don't practice that same passage 40 minutes, you practice another one 20 minutes everyday as well.

I think.

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nomis

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Re: Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

Reply #4 on: February 19, 2006, 01:38:14 PM

Waxing lyrical about how you play when you want and how you want will not make you a good pianist.

Practise everyday until you do not need too.

It is important to have a practise schedule.

It is imperative that you always have something to aim for when practising - having no aim will lead to bad habits being ingrained in the subconscious.

Organise your goals in terms - short, medium, long.

Mindless practise is useless, no matter how much you do it.

Pragmatic learning is far more effective than logical - hence why all the technique you aquire is from pieces, not from Hanon or Czerny.

Repertory is paramount.

Learn only pieces that you love - any piece that you do not like but think will be of some benefit is not worth it, as you will be less willing to trudge through the long process of practising to learn a piece that you do not like.

Read all the links from this page: https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5767.msg56133.html#msg56133
then you'll think I am some god and my reputation will continue to increase daily.

That's what I think Bernhard would say, but this list is by no means comprehensive. In his words: "Just the tip of the iceberg"

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pekko

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Re: Summary of "the Bernhard philosophy?"

Reply #5 on: February 23, 2006, 07:40:04 PM

Try different practice tehcniques.

If something doesn't work, change what you are doing.

If after seven repeats you are still stuck, then make the section smaller.

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