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Re: Practicing fast passages

Author: Tobin
Date: 2014-01-04 18:54

I like this approach, and have employed something like it -- just not to this level.

I'm not certain that I would present this to students (I teach beginners up to those auditioning for music) until they had a critical mass of other practice techniques that I think are necessary. Not to mention a critical mass of well developed fundamentals!

I agree with Sulliman's thoughts on issues that occur in attempting to improve things solely in a linear fashion: start slowly, get it right, repeat X times, +4 BPM on the metronome.

Far more efficient for me and those I teach is to:
1. Start slowly.
2. Repeat until it's easy.
3. Imagine a faster tempo -- hear every moment of what you're going to play
-- adjust the metronome to this tempo--
4. Play what you heard in your mind. (when possible -- hear it in your head as you play it and superimpose what you're hearing on your playing)
5. If you don't already have it -- recapture the level of ease from the original tempo
6. Repeat until it's easy.

Return to the original tempo. Play a couple of reps.

Repeat process with a faster tempo.

The goal here, in hearing what you want and then playing what you heard (or better still -- just playing along with your conception of what your final goal sounds like), is to shorten the connection between thinking what you want and DOING what you want.

James

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