{"id":105188,"date":"2020-04-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/?p=105188"},"modified":"2020-10-22T02:47:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T09:47:23","slug":"tq-walter-gieseking-fatique-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/tq-walter-gieseking-fatique-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Gieseking on Fatigue and Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. <a href=\"https:\/\/classicalguitarshed.com\/category\/tuesday-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Find more here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cWhere fatigue begins, technique ends.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><cite><em>Walter Gieseking<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of us hold triumphant images of the suffering musician. He toils long hours in service to the craft. He works through tired and hurt, through hunger and pain. He is the very archetype of struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is a myth. It\u2019s the stuff of stories and tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real musicians don\u2019t work this way. Or certainly not for for long. Biographies rarely find the juggernauts pushing beyond the point of exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why not? Because it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great musicians value quality over quantity. They care most about the quality of movement. They judge success by the quality of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concert pianist Walter Gieseking wrote the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2wyAdcv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Shortest Way to Pianistic Perfection<\/a>\u201d. In it, he maintains that absolute focus, above all else, is the goal of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this end, he recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/classical-guitar-lessons-beginners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beginners<\/a> play no more than 20 or 30 minutes a day. And in this time, to stay entirely engaged and focused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, we build the mental stamina to practice longer. But until then, fatigue will take us. And when we get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/tired-in-guitar-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tired<\/a>, our practice suffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatigued, we make more mistakes. And these train us to make and accept even more&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">mistakes<\/a>. We form habits of mind-wandering and distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To play beautifully takes our entire self &#8211; mind, body, spirit. Each takes training. And when we lose focus (mind), the body falters (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/arpeggios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">techinque<\/a>). This is disheartening. Doubly so when we recognize the loss of quality and continue anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the fastest way to improve at guitar? Through correct repetitions of challenging material, performed with focus and awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, it\u2019s more productive to choose shorter, more focused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalguitarshed.com\/short-guitar-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">practice-times<\/a>. And to gauge success more by attention than by number of notes played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday Quotes are short explorations of music, life, and the daily endeavor of practicing classical guitar. Find more here. Enjoy! \u201cWhere fatigue begins, technique ends.&#8220; Walter Gieseking Many of us hold triumphant images of the suffering musician. He toils long hours in service to the craft. He works through tired and hurt, through hunger and pain. 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