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Monday, September 1, 2008

Friendly Reminder

Well, in good Labor Day weekend fashion, I was spending Sunday working on some chores and flat smashed my right thumb. Yeah, ouch!

Oh well, the beat goes on.

I’m working up Blind Boy Fuller’s “You’ve Got Something There” to a performance level, and my little accident today gives me the perfect opportunity to practice separating the piece into it’s parts: Melody, bass (Ok, I’ll be skipping most of this one.), right hand, and left hand. I always preach that this is a good way to be sure you’ve got a good internal representation of a number.

It really shouldn’t take a mishap like a thumb smashing to remind us to practice our good habits. Should it?

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