Events Calendar
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*Peggy's Workshops and
Festivals
Peggy's Workshop Topics
Promotional Bio for
performances and workshops
NEW
Mountain Music & Fall Foliage 2006 pics
The Merry Waits of Windsor
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2008 Workshop Memories with Peggy Carter!
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| Mt. Dora, Fla. Feb 8-9, 2008!
Newspaper article! |
The banjo player is Bill Snuggs from
Houston, and John Wilson from Mt. Dora is playing guitar.
On Stage at Mt Dora! |
"Evidence" that Peggy's been out and about,
teaching and generally having lots of fun!
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Heritage Dulcimer
Camp at Kansas City, Mo. 2007 |
Kentucky Music Weekend - 2007 |
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Dulcimer Gathering - Des Moines, Iowa - 2007 |
Master Class at the SCDH Festival in Dana
Point, CA 2007. |
Here's a hint for practicing:
".........reporting on a study at Johns Hopkins University on learning
physical skills that "required unusually precise and rapid hand
movements" (sound
anything like playing the dulcimer?).
The study showed that it took the brain six hours to 'learn' the new
skill, whereby it was stored in a more long-term memory part of the
brain.
This six hours is not more practice, but resting time, and is hampered
if
an attempt is made to learn some other skill in that time.
The researcher, Dr. Henry Holcomb, said "If you [were learning]
a ... piece
for the first time and then immediately started practicing something
else,
it would cause problems in retention of the initial piece you practiced.
It would be better if the initial practice was followed by six hours
of
routine activity that required no new learning."
I hope this helps us all...I think I'll go take 6 hours of not practicing
right now.
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