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I have a friend who is an excellent performing classical guitarist, also a teacher. she commented once that she spent three months learning how to play a piece that she had transcribed for guitar. It took her that long to figure out how to play and perform a piece that she had actually written, transcribing from some other instrument for the guitar. Three months to work out the fingering, the flow, how to take what she had written and put in on the instrument. The standard for performing classical guitar is from memory, you work up the piece, memorize it, perform it. It's considered a tad gauche to need sheet music, although she and probably everyone else does perform with sheet music from time to time and for some of their repertoire.
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of often getting thrown off if I look at my left hand when I’m trying to memorize something. Is your teacher a classical guitarist? As for the comments by others about TAB....there is a serious lack of comprehensive information in TAB, even well-done TAB. I can read it very well, but I do not on classical. It actually slows me down considerably, as it does not show any shape or pattern to the music, only numbers and technical information. Helpful for those who cannot read standard notation fluently, but inefficient for those who can.
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My teacher went to New England conservatory, so yes. Though he’s branched out into other genres.
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It is pretty common for classical musicians of a variety of instruments to pay careful attention to one's hands. Many practice in front of a mirror so that they can see what they are doing.
Once beyond a certain stage of accomplishment, desired patterns of movement become engrained and second nature and one doesn't need to look at them anymore to aid in developing or maintaining the desired behaviour. It can be, however, an important tool at certain stages of development. |
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Virtually all classical guitar pros watch their fretting hands a fair amount of time (more or less depending on how frequently and how far the fretting hand moves up or down the fretboard).
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Memorizing pieces cold has always been a chore for me. A couple of things have helped me a lot though: - When I work on a new piece, I memorize it backwards, i.e. start at the last measure and finish at the first. (A trick that I learned from a David Russell interview. He uses that. It made a lot of sense to me when he explained it.) - When I've learned a piece and can play it from memory I'll nearly always look at my left hand. It's how I was taught and it's a hard habit to break. But, during the memorization phase, I'll purposely look away from the fretboard. I find that it accelerates the learning process. I think it's because it makes me concentrate more on what I'm doing and where I'm going. It makes me think more about which notes I need to be playing. It's very difficult to do and keep time, but it's more about playing/cementing in the correct notes, rather than performing the piece in time. It's similar to ADM (Aim Directed Movement), which is a theory I learned years ago. The idea/goal of ADM, as I recall, is to never play a note or chord in a passage unless you're 100% certain it is the correct one. Easier said that done , and it might take you a long time to get through a piece or a phrase, but it does force you not to be lazy as you practice, especially when learning new music.
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I never tried the practice of using a mirror that could be really interesting. I think when I started learning I got it in my head somehow that not looking was the way it was supposed to be done but now I can see that as some sort of mind body disconnect becasue that sure is what it feels like. |