Subject: RE: Playing with worse musicians
From: Genie - PM
Date: 16 Aug 10 - 03:09 PM

Hi Genie

I concur with most of what you say, particularly about practice.

Though in my case ( and I think in many others too ) even when practising regularly you will plateau. This can be quite disconcerting and for others even demoralising and can put some players off from playing again.

I still find that when I am trying to master some difficult ( for me ) passage I can take days to work it out and still not be able to play it complete.

Then as if by magic it comes to me and after that I can't understand why I was struggling.

So the moral is stick at it - we are not all geniuses ( sic).

cheers

MikeL2