ABSTRACT

Learning this technique is about one’s own investigations, one’s own experiences, one’s own stumblings and successes. Practice can distract us. It is easy to lose the way, to focus on one thing when the etude is about something else. The work provokes many possibilities and the students need to learn where to focus their attention. The teacher must point them in the right direction in their research. If we know what to look for, it is easier to find it. Once the basics are rooted within, then the students can play and choose what they want to take from the technique.