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Practice tips

PostThu Apr 05, 2012 8:13 pm

After over forty years of not playing I am now, thanks to Hauptwerk, getting back to it. Actually, I had completely forgotten just how much I love playing the organ.

Obviously, after forty plus years my skills were totally rotten, and even though I started back on the piano almost a year and a half ago, I still can't play as well as I could in high school. (Admittedly, a heart attack and triple bypass surgery a year ago may be a contributing factor to that.) I know that my studying is not well organized for the forward progression that I want to see. My daily practice session (or sessions, on the weekend) are something that I look forward to all day, and in no way is practice a chore. I usually start off by playing something that I enjoy and can play reasonably well, such as a few hymns, or some little bit of a classic piece of one sort or another. After that, though, it seems that I just drift, trying a little bit of one new piece, then a little bit of another, etc., and making very slow progress on any of them. As I said, not well organized.

I'm 63 years old and never expect to have to play in any kind of public venue; however, I enjoy playing so much that I owe it to myself to become as proficient as possible. I just want to be able to play well, for me!

Many of you good folks are professional organists and others of you play at a professional or near professional level. I was wondering if you might share some tips that you've learned over the years on the best ways to get the most from practice time.

Thanks, as always,
-Chris
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Re: Practice tips

PostThu Apr 05, 2012 10:04 pm

Chris,

This is a good thread on practising: http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9302.

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Richard
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Re: Practice tips

PostSun Jul 29, 2012 3:12 am

I have written some articles about organ practice which you may find useful:
Titles include:
What Sports and Organ Practice Have in Common?
Organ Practice: What Practice Length Means to You?
5 Tips for Achieving Quality in Organ Practice
Organ Practice: Why There Are No Shortcuts?
Organ Practice: 6 Tips For Keeping Correct Rhythms in Long Pieces
Organ Playing: How to Avoid Piano Touch on the Organ?
And many many more articles about various problems in organ playing:
Here is the link:
http://www.organduo.lt/1/category/organ ... ice/1.html
Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA
Secrets of Organ Playing -
Down-to-earth tips and advice about how to play the organ
www.organduo.lt
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Re: Practice tips

PostSun Aug 05, 2012 4:04 pm

Excellent articles, Vidas. Thank you, very much, for sharing those. I learned a number of various useful tips!

-Chris
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Re: Practice tips

PostWed Aug 15, 2012 12:53 pm

I'm glad you are finding my tips useful.
The next step would be to take action and apply them in practice.
Vidas Pinkevicius, DMA
Secrets of Organ Playing -
Down-to-earth tips and advice about how to play the organ
www.organduo.lt

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