Originally Posted by roachboy

o please. technique is not mysterious.
it just takes work--patience and persistence mixed (for motivation with the first two, which usually follow from this) with pleasure or fun.

your approach to technique is like anything else---it really depends on what you want to do as an outcome.
there is no correct way into it necessarily--that one is interested in playing 19th century bourgeois parlor music or it's concert extensions is nice--have at it----and there are rules to that game, so to play it you'll probably have to know them--but it's only one game.

and whether you play that game or not is a simple function of whether you happen to like the music involved--it's certainly no better than any other type of music, and probably no worse either. so claims shaped by immersion in that form are nothing more than that.


there are many many games.