ABSTRACT
When practice advice is vague—as was Theodor Kullak’s to Amy Fay—students become susceptible to wasting time as they cast about for direction. When advice is overly regimented—as it is in books that have listings of specific exercises and times to be spent on each—one is just as likely to waste time. Advice that is regimented and tightly ordered allows no redesign, yet one’s practice should be under almost sacred observation and vary as one develops. The question is always: “Upon what basis does one modify one’s work?”
