Ten penny practice regime

[Mamos]

I found this idea on a youtube video.

If you are practising scales for instance you have ten pennies on the table and every time you play the scale correctly you push a penny away.

The idea is to push away all the pennies away but if you get part way through and make a mistake you have to take all the pennies back and start again.

I'm gonna be at this all night at this rate

mamos

 

[kevgermany]

I found this idea on a youtube video.

If you are practising scales for instance you have ten pennies on the table and every time you play the scale correctly you push a penny away.

The idea is to push away all the pennies away but if you get part way through and make a mistake you have to take all the pennies back and start again.

I'm gonna be at this all night at this rate

mamos

I'd be lucky to get finished with 2 pennies in 30 minutes...

 

[DaveW]

I'd be lucky to get finished with 2 pennies in 30 minutes...

Is that with 2 pennies left or 2 pushed away Kev

 

[RedBottom]

The choir was asked to play a D major at the last rehearsal. We'd have made enough to pay our subs twice over, I reckon. ))

 

[Mamos]

)) You guys

mamos

 

[Mamos]

It is quite difficult to get rid of all those pennies

mamos

 

[kevgermany]

Is that with 2 pennies left or 2 pushed away Kev

I reckon I could get both away in 30.... On a good day. But I'm not welsh.

 

[Pete Thomas]

This fits in with want my teacher Red Price (out of Lord Rockingham's 11) told me:

"Pete, don't just practise until you get it right, practise until you don't get it wrong"

 

[visionari1]

This fits in with want my teacher Red Price (out of Lord Rockingham's 11) told me:

"Pete, don't just practise until you get it right, practise until you don't get it wrong"

My teachers bit of wisdom that stuck is
"only practice it right". don't practise making mistakes, otherwise you are reinforcing playing wrongly.
Play it slower or break it into easier chunks.

Ciao
Jimu

do they still have pennies in UK!

 

[kevgermany]

This fits in with want my teacher Red Price (out of Lord Rockingham's 11) told me:

"Pete, don't just practise until you get it right, practise until you don't get it wrong"

Sterling advice, I must remember it.

My teachers bit of wisdom that stuck is
"only practice it right". don't practise making mistakes, otherwise you are reinforcing playing wrongly.
Play it slower or break it into easier chunks.

Ciao
Jimu

do they still have pennies in UK!

They still have pennies - only since decimalisation there are 100 New Pence in the pound... And all the coins are a lot smaller. No pound notes, though.

Give it a couple of years and they'll be on the Euro, like most of the rest of Europe. Great move, even if it means a few people swallowing their pride.

 

[h4yn0nnym0u5e]

Give it a couple of years and they'll be on the Euro, like most of the rest of Europe. Great move, even if it means a few people swallowing their pride.

Apart from our pride, one of the other things we'd lose are the (to my mind) gorgeous designs of the UK banknotes. Euro coins can have one "national side", but the notes are all identical throughout the EU

Cheers

Jonathan

 

[Linky Lee]

and they look horrible, are made from a strange feeling paper and have significant differences in size which I personally find really horrible.

It would be a good move though, the sooner the better. England was the last country in the whole of the EU to report 'we've beaten the recession' - even though we'll be feeling the effects for another 3/4 years at least.

 

[thehunt]

I started with 10 pennies but after two hours they had a whip round and gave me a fiver to give up... ))

 

[old git]

Despite Jon F apparently supplying 100% of my pension, which leaves the question what happened to all that money I gave the government and the pension companies, we OAPs never have ten whole pennies at any one time.

 

[littleplum]

I use the same routine (but only 3) with people during their lessons, it makes them focus a lot better and they are chuffed when they get it right.

regards

Dave

 

[AdamBradley]

I thought of a less brutal, more fun version. Instead of feeling like a peasant, flicking 3p back and forth, instead put a damn fine hat on the table. Play it right 3 times in a row and you get to wear the hat.

To up the ante, include a pair of ridiculously cool shades, though this optional extra will likely require a lamp too.

Once wearing said awesome hat and shades, you are at liberty to play any cliché sax riff you like.

 

[kevgermany]

Not too keen on the hat/shades method myself. But in my wilder days, a modification of fizzbuzz would probably have got me to practice a lot. Not sure if I'd have gained anything from it after the first couple of mistakes, but at least I could claim to have put the hours in.

 

[RedBottom]

Even better than hats, you could put out a pint of your favourite bevvy, or perhaps ten shots of whatever you fancy. You have a swallow/shot each time you get a scale right.

Mind you, the perception of a good scale as you work through the rewards might change a little.

 

[kevgermany]

Even better than hats, you could put out a pint of your favourite bevvy, or perhaps ten shots of whatever you fancy. You have a swallow/shot each time you get a scale right.

Mind you, the perception of a good scale as you work through the rewards might change a little.

You haven't played fizzbuzz.... But you're getting the idea perfectly.

 

[RedBottom]

You haven't played fizzbuzz.... But you're getting the idea perfectly.

The only game of Fizzbuzz I ever played was in school maths lessons and it was all to do with threes and fives. Since I'm mathematically challenged, I never got many fizzes or buzzes, and especially not a fizzbuzz.