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Something You Should Know

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Learning to Play the Violin

Psychologists say people have difficulty transferring what they learn in class to real life. So one of the best things that you can do when you are learning is to try to practise the thing that you actually want to get good at. Expert violin players do something which is called deliberate practice. This is something where you are trying to work on the point that you find hardest, not just playing the same tunes over and over again. There's a concept i've heard over and overagainnd this particularly applies to sports, that if you want to be better tennis player, play with people better than you.

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