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Re: Scales: recommended speed

Author: Fishamble
Date: 2010-06-24 10:57

Thank you all for your time and thoughts; very generous, and I'm finding this very informative.

I intend to change my approach and spend more time at a slower tempo. I'm interested to observe the effect, as it will be a sea change on what I've been doing.

But, let me see that I've got this right: *most* time spent on slow work, and and *some* time spent on playing faster - right?

Last year I had a target of playing all my scales at 120 (semiquavers/16th notes), and found that unless I worked up to that speed gradually, the mental model for playing significant portions of scales that fast simply didn't exist for me. So in order to be prepared for a fast run of notes, and to play it well and with ease, I feel I need to have been there before. Hence, *some* fast playing.

And thanks mrn for the reminder on passages, and the links; the Tony Pay one is characteristically clever, and I'm looking forward to delving into the Simon Osborne article.

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