Progress On Brain Training, update on my progress |
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Nov 14 2007, 01:23 AM
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As promised here's my check-in after following the suggested practice routine linked in fkalich's great brain research thread .
I decided to do a 1/2 hour practice session towards the end of my day before going to bed. I followed this up with a 1 hour session mid morning (times varied but usually about 10am). I missed however two days out as I had a stomach infection and several of the 1/2 hour sessions had to stop at odd times and restarted due to interruptions. OK my findings: Technique - I'd missed the week previous due to illness and had dropped about 10 bpm on all note durations as a consequence. Following the brain research sessions I've recovered those 10 and added another 10 but have plateaued. Probably coincidence but I was plateaued before I lost the week's playing previously. I'm now in the process of analysing my technique to try and identify the issue - I've found one issue so far. Musical memory - I set out to learn 'Protocosmos' by Allan Holdsworth (several links to youtube vids of this on the board already so I won't add another). I could already play this from notation - but not without notation - but have never tried to memorise it. I chose this as there are a number of chromatic runs and places that use both upper and lower leading tones in interesting ways. These make the passages awkward to get down as the fingering is complicated and continually changing - well it's difficult to me. I find complicated stuff like this difficult to memorise generally. Well to cut a long story short I've not finished memorising it but I have about 75% of it down. Interestingly enough I can visualise that 75% in my head as notation as well so I don't think it's just muscle memory. All in all I've enjoyed and found the experiment largely useful. I'm going to carry on with it but also return to doing more technique work out during the daytime and use the evening more for learning musical passages and theory - albeit I'll doing some technique as well. So, a big thanks to fkalich from me for posting the original thread and I'd suggest that others try it. Might not work for you but can't see it hurting. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Andrew Cockburn As Spock would say ... Fascinating! Nov 14 2007, 02:29 AM coffeeman Hi Tony,
How is this going? I just want to tell ... Dec 11 2007, 05:35 PM Bogdan Wow this is amazing stuff and great test you put o... Dec 11 2007, 05:42 PM tonymiro Thanks Bogdan but the man to really thank is fkali... Dec 11 2007, 05:55 PM coffeeman Great Tony. I think this is a very important subje... Dec 11 2007, 06:20 PM mattacuk Good work Tony! Who needs gimmicky brain train... Dec 11 2007, 06:27 PM Toni Suominen This is very interesting, I have to find out more ... Dec 11 2007, 09:08 PM
Milenkovic Ivan Great effort Tony, Keep rockin` Dec 11 2007, 09:25 PM
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