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Why We Are
Different
We teach teachers,
students and parents (of students) how to learn faster,
easier, with less stress so that students can accomplish
more in less time with less difficulty.
Students at
Sdoia-Satz Music Institute learn two to four times
faster using the Husky Gang Method than with any other
program of learning. We have fifteen (15) years of
television news stories (not infomercials) demonstrating
the success of this system. As of 12/07, a Google
search of “sdoia-satz” brings up more than 30,000
stories.
With minor modifications, the Husky Gang Method works
for anything that requires practicing, repetition and
studying.
Specifically, we teach:
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How, when and where to practice and study
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How to deal with frustration and maybe get rid of it
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Best times to
practice and study
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When to stop.
Is there such a thing as over-studying?
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How to deal
with nervousness: how to avoid it and/or make it
work for students
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How to memorize so that students retain the
information longer
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How to helps students use what they learn
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How to keep the “enjoyment” in learning
A Few Examples:
1. How to Study -
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Don’t try to learn something all at once. Break
down what you are learning into small parts. The
secret to learning is repetition. The more you
repeat something, the better it gets.
The smaller the part you work on, the faster you
learn it. Begin from the smallest possible part
and, as the learning becomes automatic, slowly
build from there.
Never labor through something just to listen to
it or try to get the “gist” of it.
2. When to Study -
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Don't just study/practice once a day
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Study a few minutes here, a few minutes there,
10 minutes here, ten min. there, whenever you
have a little free time.
The idea
of “doing it all at once” ensures only that you
will learn something for the moment only.
3. Where to Practice -
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For music
lessons, it is best to study in a place where
you are free, in a quiet room, somewhere that no
one else bothers you, where no one is watching
TV at the same time on a place where you don’t
have to make adjustments.
Make sure the instrument is in good working
order. If it doesn't, fix it.
Translated into general studying, this would
require a few adjustments, but the concept
remains the same. No one can study if the desk
or table they are sitting at has a broken leg.
4. How Much to Practice -
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NO clocks. -- Never time practice or
study
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Just do it, when you get tired, stop and go back
to it later
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The more you practice the better it gets
If at all possible, try to take a few breaks in
between studying. It freshens the mind.
5. How To Deal with Frustration and Maybe Get Rid of it Altogether -
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Throw the
music on the floor, and then pick it up
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Run around the block
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Throw the music again and pick it up
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Run around the block again or whatever you can
do to expel the energy
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Scream and
yell at the music
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Do some physical exercises
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Throw the music again.
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The trick
is to pick up the music one more time than you
throw it down
6.
Best Times to Practice -
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When you are comfortable – or not
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When you are alert and/or when you are tired,
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A good
time to practice is when you're tired.
Sometimes the information goes straight into the
head with no resistance when you're tired
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Often, it
is wonderful to practice just before bedtime.
That gives the subconscious mind something to
chew on because learning happens at night when
we’re sleeping as well as during the day
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When you are hungry and/or when you are not;
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They all work, depending on your own mood. A
little of each works best.
7. When to Stop Practicing; Is There Such a Thing as Over-Practicing?
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When you
can play each part a lot more correctly, than
wrong, then you should stop.
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Or when you are so tired that you can no longer
see the notes.
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Or when you fall asleep at the instrument.
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No,
there’s no such thing as being
“under-prepared”.
Just be sure not to attempt to learn it all at
once.
8. How to Deal with Nervousness: How to Avoid it and/or Make it Work for
You -
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Create situations where you would naturally be
nervous, so that you can control the nervousness
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Ask people to walk around while you play;
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Play for people
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Tape your playing,
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Ask folks
to cough while you practice
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Watch everything you do as if you were on the
stage performing for someone. Don’t let the
performance/study become automatic. Always think
about every aspect
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Create a situation that will make you as
uncomfortable as if you were playing before
people. That way, controlled nervousness will
work in a positive way. Learn the piece a little
slower than you want to play it, so that when
the adrenaline kicks in (and it will), the speed
will be just right.
9. How to Memorize so that you Retain the Information Longer –
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Learn whatever it is in different ways, using
different speeds; different rhythms; different
articulations; in chord groups, with reversed
hands;
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Each time you learn something in a different
way, you discover new things about it. This
freshens the memory.
Teach it to someone else. That keeps it
interesting and gives you a new way to focus on
it.
10. How to Use What you Learn to Keep the Enjoyment in
Music Lessons and Learning of Any Kind -
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Keep playing the pieces you know just for fun.
Play them for anyone who will listen -- if
there's no one else, call in the dog.
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Translated
into general terms, this means, don’t just learn
it and forget it.
Keep finding ways to use it until it becomes a
part of you.
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