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RE: SV: Practice, rehearse, perform

No, I mean on-stage dismemberment

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirby Shelstad [mailto:kirbyshelstad@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:33 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: SV: Practice, rehearse, perform


you mean Kali Yuga style?

k

MIKO wrote:

> I need to unsubscribe now.  A lot of you are sickos.  Caligula style.  
>How
> do I unsubscribe?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret [mailto:echoplex@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: SV: Practice, rehearse, perform
>
> Practice makes actions repeatable.  If you practice a method or manner
> that is not 'perfect', you do not create 'perfection'.  Instead, you
> ingrain repeatability in that less than optimal method or manner. This
> has been noted on the theremin players list, levnet, where someone
> repeatedly practices an inferior approach to vibrato, or hand
> positioning.  They ingrain the inferior methodologies (these become
> repeatable), which interferes with learning a more effective method
> (i.e proper vibrato, or ariel fingering) after they realize they have
> reached the end of the road (not able to improve performance further)
> with the imperfect practiced method.
> Perfect practice makes perfect repetition, which could be called
> 'skill'.
> bret
> --- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote:
> > > > Practice makes perfect. Nobody's perfect. So why practice?
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > that is a well known(by a lotta people) billy corgan,smashing
> > > pumkins quote. he probably stole it,too... this happens alot
> > > on the web. there is a quote and its not attributed to
> > > anyone-so i just point that out. quibble quibble quibble s
> >
> >
> > Yes, but who ever invented that quote, I don't think it's true. IMO
> > practice doesn't make perfect. Practice brings personality into what
> > you
> > are doing. It's stupidity that makes perfect!
> >
> > What do you think about that?
> >
> > / Per Boysen
> >
>
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