On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Josh! > thanks for the kind comment. Yes the piano is quite fabulous. Very life. I > thought so, when I heard it for the first time. :-) > So how do I learn: It will be different for different people. But I can't > read braille notation. I never learnt it. I know it exists and people can > work with it, but it was never something for me. I have a notion of note > lengths, rhythms and the like, but since my step sequencing days - long gone > - it has drastically diminished. :-) > In my piano lessons I always learnt by ear and talk. So I've learnt Bach > almost exclussively for the last 10 to 12 years. I got very used to the > harmonies and in any case I'm not bad a hearing intervals. So we start with > one hand (right or left, which is suites us at the moment) and then move > forward at most four bars. Then we look at the other hand and finally we try > to merge them. :-) I'm usually in the advantage, since I have recordings of > all the pieces I learn. So I have a good imagination of what the piece > should sound like. Beyond that, of course the general idea of note length > and basic musical knowledge helps. > So I learn a piece in small bites. Very rarely my teacher tells me what to > play and which length the note has, but it's quite slow. OK, we've worked > together for more than 18 years now. We got used to each other and our > methods of learning/teaching. Sohe usually knows, what I'm asking for, if > there's a problem or uncertainty. He knows where to look mostly, when I > discovfer a problem in a piece/part already learnt. It's quite effective I > think. We at least manage four bars per half an hour. Mostly it's more than > that. But some Bach fugues can be quite tricky. Also the beginning of a > fugue is complicated for my teacher, as he has to look at the fingering and > has to be comfortable with the flats and double flats and the sharps and > double sharps. :-) But when he's had some time, we get through it quite > well. :-) My teacher is closing in on 90, so I think it's pretty amazing, > that we get along this well in personalities and manner of learning. I think > it's quite a difference teaching a student by ear only, if you're used to > reading notes and teaching your pupils to read notes and let them go rather > quickly. :-) > Sorry for ranting, but I like the way I work and I love the way my teacher > adapted to it. It shows me, that a lot of things are possible if you only > put your mind to it. You need to be open for it, but with an open mind, you > can perform quite efficiently and in a very kind and productive atmosphere. > Kindest regards > Julien Very interesting, Julien. Thanks for explaining the process. -- joq _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
