No, you're right. I really don't memorize things well at all, so would be
happy not to, but it is so much easier to get the feel for the piece if my
mind is in the sound and not the characters on the page.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Gelb [SMTP:ryokan@value.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: shakuhachi@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: improvisation
>
> >= Yokoyama Katsuya did tell
> >me at one of his workshops that one should memorize the honkyoku in order
> >to make them one's own -- if you have it in your mind without the
> notation
> >in front of you it perhaps makes it easier to shape it eventually into
> your
> >own honkyoku, putting different nuances in there while retaining the
> spirit
> >of the original but our ryuha hasn't encouraged that practice. Memorizing
> >the honkyoku also takes some very serious study, but I think it is also a
> >good thing to try to do (not that I've done much).
>
> This is one thing that sets Yokoyama, Kurahashi and a few other
> teachers apart from most of the others. Most teachers seem to want
> the student to simply repeat and sound exactly like themselves which
> is simply not possible to do. To me this is why so many shakuhachi
> players play honkyoku with no feeling at all as they are trying too
> sound like someone else rather than make it your own.
>
> Yokoyama and Kurahashi and some other teachers want the student to
> make the honkyoku their own as they realize one cannot simply repeat
> the teachers style.
>
> This might open a serious can of worms.....
>
> phil
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