notes
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Notes on Visual Participation
One of the more interesting developments in the Dr Amblyo trainer over the last few sessions has not been a dramatic leap in “vision”, but a growing sense that the system is beginning to recruit my weaker eye more actively into the task itself. The recent left-eye-only cueing changes feel subtle while playing, but noticeably
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Fatiha Practice – 15 May
Continuing with the Lo Fi ‘listen and repeat’. Again, not distracting myself by referring to a written version while reciting. I think it improves my pronunciation, but the recording ends up choppy becasue I have the memory of a gnat and I can only hold a few syllables in my mind long enough to repeat
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Fatiha Pratice – 13 May
I’m happier with today’s attempt. I was quite discouraged after my version of the 11th and couldn’t bring myself to practice yesterday. Today I went back to the Lo Fi audio and did a ‘listen and repeat’, but without the distraction of trying to read a transliteration whiel I did it. I’m still strugling to
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Fatiha Practice – 11 May
Deeply unsatisfactory practice today…I tried a cold read from another transliteration. This one arranges the syllables in an odd way and added vowel sounds at the end of each line that don’t fit with my other experiences of the text.
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Fatiha Practice – 3 May
Back to a cold reading today. I asked ChatGPT to re-write the transliteration I have been using to show me the sylable and emphasis structure.
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Fatiha Practice – 30 April
This is my first attempt at a good Fatiha recital. My method was to simply cold read a phonetic transliteration in one take.