The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.
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Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Study first, play afterwards.
My techniques are basics, but my willingness to be in the pocket and see things is very high level.
I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.
I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.
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