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Some responses to A holistic or Reductionist Approach?

"I don't think it's this complicated, or abstract. For one thing, this isn't an either/or dichotomy. Successful playing requires a blending of both points of view. The better players, I think, focus on both technique and musicianship, with musicianship eventually being the more important of the two.

Where most students go wrong (and their teachers, too) is placing more value on technique than musicianship. In every masterclass I've ever attended, the skill most lacking in the performers was musical interpretation, not technique. Simple things like rhythm, phrasing, etc, are simply not practiced or learned by a great number of student CGers.

Virtuoso's aren't great players only because they have great technique, but because they're great musicians. This is what separates them from the also-rans."

John Sloan in rec.music.classical.guitar 		  Definitions:

Reductionism is the beaking down of an activity into it's component parts. A purely reductionistic approach to playing guitar would assert that by practising the identified component parts separately, they can then be brought together in a musical performance.

'Reductionism is the beaking down of an activity into it's component parts. A purely reductionistic approach to playing guitar would assert that by practising the identified component parts separately, they can then be brought together in a musical performance - These concepts are explored further in ' Guitar Playing and how it works ' by Peter Inglis.'

Holism (sometimes spelt Wholism) tries to address the totality of a musical performance.

'Holism - (sometimes spelt Wholism) tries to address the totality of a musical performance. - These concepts are explored further in ' Guitar Playing and how it works ' by Peter Inglis.'

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