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Subject: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:09:43 +0530
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George,
Charlie Parker said it best - to learn everything you know about your
instrument, then forget everything and play, i.e. let the instinct
take over. As an aside, George Lucas said much the same thing - "May
the force be with you"!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:08 AM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>> In my experience, I have found that it takes a very special unusual person
>> to be able to apply that level of technical regidity in a way that does 
>> not
>> sap the life from art.
>
>
> Yet the application of technical rigidity is necessary in the learning 
> process
> of most arts and crafts.
> A violin student must learn where to find the notes
> and how to use the bow to extract and sustain them.
> Hours of trial and error, repetition and practice
> causes the "technical rigidity" to disappear
> into the art of performance.
>
> Of course if we had a digital violin
> with auto fretless fingering, auto bow use,
> auto chords, auto melody, auto symphonic mode, auto bluegrass mode, etc.
> perhaps we could do away with learning the instrument;
> and simply dial in our creativity and push the button
> to produce the music to suit our mood.
>
> ;~)
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31)
In reply to: Message from bs.pearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce) ([Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31)