Recover From Mistakes


Next to him who makes no mistakes, is he who recovers from and disguises

the errors. At best a performance full of errors of pitch, word, tone

and quality is but a patched garment. Apply the mind to eradicating

every error. Perhaps the most common thing for students to do is to try

over again, while at practice, the music in which the error has been

made, but doing it without thought. It is far better to think what the

error is, what caused it, how it should be removed, and then begin the

practice which will remove it. Oh, if the hours of wasteful practice

could only be gathered up into useful hours, how much better off the

whole would be! The least wasteful thing is to stop practice and

think.



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