Group: rec.music.compose · Group Profile
Author: Hannele.TervolaHannele.Tervola Date: May 8, 2008 03:02
On May 3, 12:18 pm, Zhang DaWei sibianzhe.com> wrote:>
> Searching on:
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> "10000 hours" expert
>
> Yields quite a few, including this one:
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> http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html
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> (Ericsson is reckoned to be an expert in this field), which contains
> this paragraph:
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> "Among investigators of expertise, it has generally been
> assumed that the performance of experts improved as a direct function
> of increases in their knowledge through training and extended
> experience.
I wonder at this because based on my own experience in an entirely
another field and on my interest in oriental philosophy (zen & tao) it
seems that knowing a skill that is natural to humans, like I think
composing to be, is a question of reaching the natural way to do that
kind of things: the guide in our very nature for that task. So it
means dropping away all misconceptions, all wrong kind of habits, and
ending immediately at the right answer to that task at hand. So it is
the letting go of preconceptions that teaches you the right natural
way to live, which at once bring you for example the skill to compose
and at the same time, same very moment the skill to think objectively
which could help you to sound arranged enough in what you do and maybe
learn the rest of that skill's practical side: the things like writing
music down on paper, which are not in our nature since writing and
paper are entirely artificial things, only tracks of actual happenings
are there in the nature. At least this is from where my touch with the
possibility of composing comes from. I call it meditation in motion,
you could call it the healthy natural way to live.
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