try this, place a novel or an article or a textbook on the piano in front of you, and:1. read SILENTLY when you play your program thru
Are you actually reading it though, taking it all in? I doubt you can multi task, i.e. reading a story and getting involved in the romantic tales and personal feelings etc whilst playing the music to a good standard and concentrating on it too, like dynamics etc. When you start to concentrate hard on one, i.e. the reading, your playing will certainly falter slightly, but it might not be noticeable. Sometimes this happens with me when I'm concentrating on singing out the melody in one of my hands and my other falters or loses its place/rhythm.HenrahBut wait....are you a female??
....and play fantastically too . has anyone done anything like that? tds
wake up at 3am play your programme..... then have mental breakdown and spend several years in an asylum!!
Is it possible you were practicing in your sleep, and because your hands are in a nice warm bed the blood was flowing more freely throgh them.
Wake me up that early and the streets will never be safe again.
try this, place a novel or an article or a textbook on the piano in front of you, and:1. read SILENTLY when you play your program thru2. read ORALLY when you play your program thrunote: naturally, use your own pace of reading.now the question: can you do it?i've done no. 1, and its aint hard at all. i cant do no. 2, tho. anyone?
tds, I'm happy for you, congratulations, you've found a way to amuse yourself with a trick! That's great.
You can play and read a book at the same time. What does it mean?It means you can actually play and read a book at the same time.What's the artistic benefit of this? None.You're actually encouraging pianists to f**k the music, and concentrate on less valuable stuff. I've read through this thread a couple of times, and it makes me sick.What's the benefit of being able to play your program without warming up? Well, it shows you're able to play your program without warming up. So WHAT?Here's the true test for you: Try to get into the music deeper then you have done ever before, risk everything, even risk your mental health when you're performing, because you are going down completely in to the shadowland of inspired music making.I'm not saying that you're not into the music (I couldn't know), I'm just saying:stop thinking like a circus artist.
BennoM
aww, stop crying dear bennom..... we love youthere, there...*offers a bar of chocolate*
making beliefs about creating deep music just by thinking itself and nothing else is really a dream in a dream.
Yeah... but here's a suggestion for you: try it anyway.Living the dream in the dream, always,BennoM
hey, r u pretty?
oh ok..... wait, what suggestion was it!?
When you try to be "cold-blooded" by reading a book at the same time that you're playing music, you're not only committing a crime against the muses that guard all our artistic activities. You're also creating a void in your brain, that will became a problem when you play it in public. If you're getting yourself used to not being "in the music" while you play, you will find yourself thinking while performing. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, but most of all, BS that don't have anything to do with performing. And that is bad for performance.
*starts sobbing again* BennoM
ps. but, are you sexy?
dear bennom, your voice had been rather cute till you began to judge. i find that abit unfortunate. such words as cool blooded, creating a void, not-being-in-the-music, etc, are delivered without any justification and/or wisdom: just coz you can't do certain things doesnt mean everyone else can't; just coz you have to be cold blooded when playing music at the same time you are reading a book, does not mean that everyone else has to be cold blooded while doing both things simultaneously; just coz you have to create a void when multi tasking, does not mean that every human race in the planet must go thru the same process. Are you with me? not until you start to understand that everyone has different learning ability, that everyone has different ways in perceiving things, and that some brains are wired differently, will you be able to accept the fact that you can be grossly mistaken in this matter.
I've already told you how happy I am for you! I'm not judging your performance.
But if I was a teacher, and found a talented student sitting reading a book at the same time as he was practicing, I would smack him/her up. It is a crime!!! (It's ok to be judgemental if you're right... )
please continue with your habits, it's probably good for you.
...I'm just reacting to the fact that you're trying to spread the gospel of evil to other pianists... ( )
*suddenly realizes there won't be any more chocolate bars*...but I guess everybody is different and have different needs!!!
(And that means: discussions are superfluous. Over and out.)BennoM,still living the dream in the dream
What i meant was - examine why you are wanting to get up 3 am to practice - it could just be that youve got a touch paranoid or obsessive about your programme to a degree which is verging on becoming unhealthy if sustained . Note I said I didnt beleive it was good to make it habitual. I didnt say Never do it. but as I mentioned i believe it has limited application as you arent ever going to be asked to play in the middle of the night. first thing in the morning (factoring in the travel time differences) and also doing it after an unrelated task.. these are far more real situations that we face.
Why is that even a good thing? It teaches you to rely on muscle memory as opposed to an intellectual understanding of the piece.
You must use each types of memories. Including muscle memory. This trick helps reinforce it. Other tricks will improve other types of memories. Each type must be developed.
Could you elaborate on the other types of memories and various tricks to develop them?Thanks,Henrah
In particular, I've found that if I rely on muscle memory I risk crashing and burning during a performance, and if I once get off I can't find a starting point.