Doing the same thing again

Text A: an original contemporary practice extract.

At my first bell-ringing session, I expected the group to attempt a complete sequence. Instead, the instructor asked us to repeat the same four changes. After several attempts, I felt that we were avoiding the more interesting part. Each time we finished, she simply raised her hand and started us again.

The instructor asked us to listen for the spaces between the bells rather than concentrating only on our own ropes. On the next attempt, I heard that one bell was arriving early and adjusted my timing. The sequence had not changed, but our control of it had. By the final repetition, we were working as a group rather than producing a row of separate sounds.

Text B: an original contemporary practice extract.

In a wood-carving class, the tutor gave me a piece of spare timber and told me to cut the same shallow curve across it several times. I had hoped to begin the decorative panel I had designed. Filling scrap wood with repeated marks felt like a delay before making anything worth keeping.

The tutor placed my first and fifth curves beside each other. The later cut was smoother because I had begun to alter the angle of the tool before it reached the end. When I finally worked on the panel, I no longer had to guess how the blade would move. The repeated exercise had produced no finished object, but it had given me the control needed to make one.

Both texts describe people reconsidering repeated practice.

What similarities do their changing views of repetition share in these extracts? Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.