Yankee Fiddler Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 There is a study book by Edmond Agopian titled "No Time to Practice." Can anyone report on this? Yankee Fiddler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlefaddle Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 I could, but I havn't had time to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xania Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 I would, but I haven't got time to write. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Fiddler Posted May 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Very funny, you two! Seriously I was wondering if this would somehow be a shortcut towards getting better, faster. I'm thinking vaguely of a small little yellow book I had years ago that had wicked little finger twisting typing lessons. The lessons were wicked, but well thought out, and helped to increase speed a lot quicker than a lot of the other books I used. Yankee Fiddler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiolmattias Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 There are a secret trick that makes you improve so drastically that you be a concert artist in just 4 weeks. For just 500 dollars in advance with no refund garanty I will tell you. Please call 0-555-Be.A.VIRTUOSO.NOW.7772 The rate is just 17 dollars a minute. I'll be waiting by the phone for Your call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paganiniest Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 I can report, and gladly do so! It has to do with spending too much time of the Internerd!!! Pag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlefaddle Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 do you mean faster, or better?. as you know this is a favorite topic of Mnet. also own of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 Well it's good to see all the smarta**es haven't deserted Maestronet anyway. I can't help either Yank, sorry. I think until we figure out how to download information Matrix-style direct to the brain, we may just be stuck with practicing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roderick Quiros Posted May 28, 2003 Report Share Posted May 28, 2003 The book is geared for the "advanced student or professional musician." It has technical exercises/warm-ups that were designed for the pro to stay in shape technically within the limited time between rehearsals, gigs, etc. For someone like me, it takes 30 minutes to go through a page or 2 of the easier exercises . Even my teacher, who is a friend of Agopian, says that it is hard to get through the whole book in 30 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liana Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 i have a friend who is a student of Agopian's... he's an excellent teacher, and an excellent player (and a former student of my former teacher! huzzah). his book is apparently technically absolutely *brutal*, written such that HE can get through it in 30 mins, but my friend who's been working on it for 3 years now gets through maybe a quarter of it in that time. all this said and done, though, he definitely knows what he's doing when it comes to building violin technique. many of the technical exercises in the book are the same as what my ex-teacher teaches all his students -- and although they're not easy techniques by any stretch of the imagination, they're put together with the goal in mind of producing virtuoso playing. so i guess in short: tough book, but if you're at the level to handle it, excellent. -liana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 I haven't heard of it myself... ...but you know, I think the best way to get better, faster, is to play with other people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reedman Posted May 29, 2003 Report Share Posted May 29, 2003 ...but you know, I think the best way to get better, faster, is to play with other people. Caveat to that--play with other people who are better than you are. If you are surrounded with players of less ability, you will find yourself playing "down" to their level. If nothing else, you will start to question your own ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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