Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-02-16 14:57
Just remember -- you only ever have to play *one* note at a time.
While it's a good idea to look ahead for note groupings and repeated motifs, your brain can sometimes turn to mush when you see "all those black notes" (my husband's phrase), making you anxious to think you must do them all at once. You don't do them all at once. You just do one note at a time.
For starters in this sort of passage work, try just making it to the first note of each bar. Then work at getting the first note of each beat within the bar. After a while, your fingers will take over. They will know what to do, if you give them half a chance.
Also, when you practice this mountain of music that gets thrown at you weekly, instead of slogging through a whole piece all the time, just isolate and work on the obvious problem areas. Chances are you can play the quarters, halves, etc., fairly readily, so don't spend your limited practice time on things that you can already handle. Spend your time working over the things you think you might not be able to handle at first glance.
Susan
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