From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lat? and atom? not in guile?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 10:40:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_Q8O7yqEWVvQRrOv4kB3gPoAjYzTK8Zc7Tj7qr-ri8u5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877emtplr3.fsf@fastmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
wrote:
> Oh hey David! Thanks for the explanation! Maybe I need to take another
> look at that book then. I found it a little repetitive, but I am
> probably not quite grasping some of the fundamentals.
>
It's meant to be repetitive. It's explicitly compared in the introduction
to Hanon's finger exercises for the piano: C-E-F-G-A-G-F-E,
D-F-G-A-B-A-G-F, E-G-A-B-C-B-A-D and so on forever, up the scale and down
in every key. Boring as hell, but just the thing to get fluency into your
fingers.
--
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
As we all know, civil libertarians are not the friskiest group around --
comes from forever being on the qui vive for the sound of jack-booted
fascism coming down the pike. --Molly Ivins
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-20 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-19 15:18 lat? and atom? not in guile? Joshua Branson
2018-06-19 16:13 ` Thompson, David
2018-06-20 14:37 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-20 14:40 ` John Cowan [this message]
2018-06-20 14:55 ` Thompson, David
2018-06-20 16:55 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-20 23:47 ` Scheme books [was: lat? and atom? not in guile?] Matt Wette
2018-06-21 13:44 ` Joshua Branson
2018-06-21 14:01 ` Matt Wette
2018-06-20 16:54 ` lat? and atom? not in guile? Joshua Branson
2018-06-19 16:46 ` John Cowan
[not found] <mailman.107.1529424021.11270.guile-user@gnu.org>
2018-06-19 17:33 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2018-06-20 10:15 ` Shakthi Kannan
2018-06-20 14:33 ` Joshua Branson
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