Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-11
BY HENRIETTA M. REEFS.

has just gone by? Have you anything
to show for the money and time that
has gone? Was it invested and did
it bear interest, or was it wasted! Do
you recognize intervals and do you
know anything about scales, except
that they are? Have you learned to
play or sing them smoothly and
evenly, with every kind OF touch or
expression and in various combina-
tons? Have you practiced seriously
and diligently upon the exercises
prescribed by your teachert Have
you played them in all the keys you
know? Have you done these blindly
and while bored to death, or have you
asked for and been given reason for
doing them and become so absorbed in
learning how that the time has simply
flown! Have you found out why the
reasons given are good reasons, and
have been proven the best and easiest
in the long run? Have you had
studies for phrasing and velocity and
all sorts OF useful training and while
you have spent your time upon them
have you really obtained the desired
trainingi Or have you just skipped
over them, done them half wrong and
made your poor fingers or voice try
to work all alone while your wits were
woolgatheringl And has your teacher
just let it 60 when it was wrong, or
has he checked you up and marked
it and given il back to be prepared
more adequately? And then at the
next lesson, did you bring back the
same old mistake, and perhaps for
still another time? You know you
paid the teacher three times for doing
the same thing for you, If you did and
It has cost you three times what il
should to learn to play or sing some
little phrase correctly. Perhaps you
are out three other points that he con-
sequently didn't have time for.
Have you learned how to practice
the most thoroughly and correctly,
so as to accomplish the best and most
in the least amount of time, and not
to miss any OF the manifold little
points which are likely to slip by, or
do you just practice any old
way until your one or two hours are
killed? Have you learned to read
notes rapidly and correctly? noting
their time values at the same time
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when next YOU meet them? And meet
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and added ID them. Have Won dic-
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know anything about music excep,
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