Robert Duke: On the Value of Errors, and How Learning Really Works
The Bulletproof Musician
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The Mistakes We Make About Mistake Making
The only thing that really counted as errors were playing the right notes, playing the tune, playing them in time with a good sound. Even if I was completely a musical or was doing things that were not at all compelling, those did not seem to me as being errors. When somebody's learning to play an instrument or sing for the first time, like you say, most people think, well, what's an error? To me, an uninflected note is a wrong note. An out of tune note is awrong note. They just don't know what stuff is called. So the challenge then is how do we exploit that when they're learning something new and apply that way to
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