本文翻譯自網頁「shakuhachi tips」（2002.Feb）
http://www.kotodama.net/shakuhachi/tips.html
原作者：柿堺香
英文翻譯: Zachary Braverman
中文翻譯: 麥浪
中文校稿: 琰烺（陳佩筠）
版權所有：國際尺八研修館---柿堺香老師
基礎篇---第45篇：練習困難樂句的秘訣
大部分的歌曲有著困難和簡單的樂句，有時候，人們會只練習簡單樂句的部分，並且告訴自己說：「我已經練習完了」。然而，我在此強調，太簡單的樂句是不需要太多練習的。(只是簡單的樂章未必能夠成為好的音樂，我們還是需要常回頭去理解它，讓它能有更深入的表現。)
當然，也有著許多人集中心力獨自練習困難的樂句。他們一再地練習那些困難的樂句那一部分，直到滿意。但是當他們回過頭，嚐試吹奏整首歌曲時，卻發現，他們仍然在那些困難的樂句上出狀況。我們總是說，這樣的練習者只需要再多練習一些，但是，這並不是很具教育意義。我們不如說，這種練習方式本身，就是錯誤的。
僅僅一再地去練習困難的樂句，並不是好辦法，因為此處並未考量到前一段樂句。手指的位置以及吹沉浮音時的頸部位置，一定會影響到下一段樂句。在吹奏整首樂句時，或是上台演奏時，如果你沒有將此因素列入考慮，那麼所有你為了困難樂句所做的練習，可能將化為烏有。
因此，試著在練習困難樂句時，從它的前一段樂句開始，即使前一段樂句非常簡單。事實上，你在練習困難樂句時所碰到的麻煩，很可能就是肇因於前一段的簡單樂句。一旦你了解發覺此點，你的練習將會變得較有效率。
B-45.The Secret to Practicing Difficult Phrases
Most songs have difficult and easy phrases. Sometimes people will practice only the easy parts and convince themselves that they have “practiced”. However, I would go so far as to say that the easy parts need no practice at all. (Of course just because a phrase is easy for you doesn't make it any good musically – often we have to go back over the easy phrases to make them into truly deep expressions.)
Of course, there are also many people who concentrate on the difficult phrases by themselves. They practice these difficult parts over and over again to perfection, only to find, when they try playing the whole song, that they still stumble over the phrase in question in context. We can always say that such a player just needs to practice more, but this isn’t very enlightening. Let us say instead that this kind of practice, in and of itself, is mistaken.
Merely practicing a difficult phrase over and over again is not a good idea because it fails to take into account the phrase preceding it. The finger position and the kari/meri neck position will invariably have an effect on the next phrase. If you fail to take this into account, then all the practice you put into your difficult phrase could come to nothing when played in context, or during a performance.
Therefore,try practicing difficult phrases from the preceeding phrase, even if it is very easy. Indeed, the seed of the trouble you are experiencing with the difficult phrase could very well lie within the easy phrase before it. Once you discover this, your practice can become much more efficient.
