Over the last couple of weeks I've been learning a few tunes that I've been listening to since I first started learning this music. Surprisingly, even the really hard ones(or the ones I thought were really hard) fall under my fingers.
I learned a few months ago how important it is to have a tune memorized while trying to learn it. The tunes that I've been trying to learn at our learning session have proven to be the hardest, because they are always new to me, while even the hardest tunes on "The Eavesdropper"(the first ITM CD i bought) are comfortably easy.
Also, the tunes that i gave up on trying to learn because they felt too hard, I've picked back up, and now i can practically play them. Now i remember why i tried learning them in the first place! They are FUN! The Eavesdropper, The Mooncoin Jig, The Trip to Nenagh, all of them, great tunes!
So i said all of that to say, "Internalize", "Absorb", "Soak In", has proven to be the best advice given to me on this site. Now I'm motivated to be even more patient, so i can naturally let this process happen. That's all, i hope this helps any of you other folks that are new to the music. We should just take our time and let the music happen.
After 17 years of being self taught, I took lessons this summer over Skype. I learned 14 tunes by ear. At one lesson, I told my instructor that I had listened and listened and I just couldn't get it. They told me to play what I could. I played the whole thing through twice perfectly for the first time. I am amazed at the heavy lifting that your ears can do for you when you are learning tunes.
I don't like the word 'memorize' for tunes, I like 'learn'. Somehow 'memorize' sounds too superficial - I memorize (or not!) phone numbers and addresses. 'Learn' seems to mean more, really getting to know the tune and letting it become part of you.
That is used here often, but not always in the context of the clip. Will Harmon used is a few weeks ago. But, importantly, he backed it up with a comment along the lines of " having a head full of doubts can seriously damage your game". That is close to context in the clip (but setting aside whether it was a learned or inherent skill that was in doubt). I don't think that is the context of Jerone's OP.
Not sure if this link will work. It is heavy going (and read it before sniping about sports anologies) but provided most of what I wanted to know for the moment.
Internalize: A testament.
Internalize: A testament.
Over the last couple of weeks I've been learning a few tunes that I've been listening to since I first started learning this music. Surprisingly, even the really hard ones(or the ones I thought were really hard) fall under my fingers.
The Eavesdropper, The Mooncoin Jig, The Trip to Nenagh, all of them, great tunes!
I learned a few months ago how important it is to have a tune memorized while trying to learn it. The tunes that I've been trying to learn at our learning session have proven to be the hardest, because they are always new to me, while even the hardest tunes on "The Eavesdropper"(the first ITM CD i bought) are comfortably easy.
Also, the tunes that i gave up on trying to learn because they felt too hard, I've picked back up, and now i can practically play them. Now i remember why i tried learning them in the first place! They are FUN!
So i said all of that to say, "Internalize", "Absorb", "Soak In", has proven to be the best advice given to me on this site. Now I'm motivated to be even more patient, so i can naturally let this process happen. That's all, i hope this helps any of you other folks that are new to the music. We should just take our time and let the music happen.
# Posted on September 7th 2011 by fiddlelearner
Re: Internalize: A testament.
After 17 years of being self taught, I took lessons this summer over Skype. I learned 14 tunes by ear. At one lesson, I told my instructor that I had listened and listened and I just couldn't get it. They told me to play what I could. I played the whole thing through twice perfectly for the first time. I am amazed at the heavy lifting that your ears can do for you when you are learning tunes.
# Posted on September 7th 2011 by abuteague
Re: Internalize: A testament.
"...let the music happen."
Same thing I heard for ages from my mentors, and that I pass along to my music students.
Make it happen?
Let it happen.
# Posted on September 7th 2011 by Will Harmon
Re: Internalize: A testament.
My mentors from for ages thing same heard I. And along pass I to students.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x51EIXjhiEU&feature=related
# Posted on September 8th 2011 by ...
Re: Internalize: A testament.
I don't like the word 'memorize' for tunes, I like 'learn'. Somehow 'memorize' sounds too superficial - I memorize (or not!) phone numbers and addresses. 'Learn' seems to mean more, really getting to know the tune and letting it become part of you.
# Posted on September 8th 2011 by c.g.
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Try
That is used here often, but not always in the context of the clip. Will Harmon used is a few weeks ago. But, importantly, he backed it up with a comment along the lines of " having a head full of doubts can seriously damage your game". That is close to context in the clip (but setting aside whether it was a learned or inherent skill that was in doubt). I don't think that is the context of Jerone's OP.
Not sure if this link will work. It is heavy going (and read it before sniping about sports anologies) but provided most of what I wanted to know for the moment.
http://chicago.academia.edu/SianBeilock/Papers/11484/When_Paying_Attention_Becomes_Counterproductive_Impact_of_Divided_Versus_Skill-Focused_Attention_on_and_hellip_
# Posted on September 8th 2011 by David50
Re: Internalize: A testament.
The there are several video clips around with the author speaking but they concentrate on the angle that sells books.
# Posted on September 8th 2011 by David50