h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Now greatly improved! I don't think I have anything more to do to this.

Hey ho. Just done some more feng shui.

I think it's great... no changes needed now surely

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I haven't read it all but I find it very interesting. I think you should mention that mental practice can actually help a lot. The entry says stuff about thinking about it, concentrating etc., but I read a study somewhere the showed people improved almost a much just thinking about practice (imagining their fingers moving on the keys, correct keys, getting it right and hearing it etc.) as the ones who actually practised.

Niwt

I agree Niwt!

Do you think I need say more than "Think it ten times, then play it once. Before you do anything, don't do it! Pause and consider: always know in sufficient detail what you are about to do. Thinking it through is the *hard* part; if that weren't so, conducting would be easy (it's not) . . . Play silently and hear it in your imagination . . . Teaching others is perhaps the most efficient learning method of all. Once I asked a friend how long did it take him to learn some nifty piece, and he replied 'I never learnt it, but I have taught it'"?

Send us a pithy quote if you like; but maybe the piece is long enough already!

Well yes , you could say that if you can't access your instrument that's no excuse for doing no practice, do mental practice with/without music at that it's likely to still help!

Good point. Going in.

Yay!

Hum-di-dum

You practising, Recumbentman? Or getting impatient?

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I brought my harp to the party and nobody asked me to play

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Your paid off Recumbentman

Congratulations!

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Congratulation! A very fine entry it is

Thanks folks -- and

Well done!

BTW - I've been credited as one of the co-authors, but even though you said you would add my ideas, it seems you haven't! I guess something should either be added or my name removed, as I don't want to claim credit for something I didn't do (well, not really ).

Yes Niwt, in your post 24: "I think you should mention that mental practice can actually help a lot . . . I read a study somewhere the showed people improved almost a much just thinking about practice (imagining their fingers moving on the keys, correct keys, getting it right and hearing it etc.) as the ones who actually practised."

I reworded this as "If you are sometimes prevented from getting to your instrument, or even if you're not, practise in your imagination in any quiet moments. You will be surprised at what you achieve: better solutions to fingering problems, better phrasing through understanding the form, better smoothness through improved memorisation. Think of a conductor, for whom mental practice is the only useful kind" because I can't help rewriting everything that isn't a direct quote. But you deserve credit for bringing it up; so I'll leave you in unless you really want to disclaim responsibility

Nice one RM - I never expected a non-muso (yet) like me to be quoted be, gee