Author: Matt74
Date: 2017-02-22 09:21
Lots of people here can advise you better than me, but sometimes it's not explained why you have to learn things slowly, especially scales. It's not because you have to start at your level and slowly and obsessively work your way up. There are two reasons...
1. Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. If you are working on something and keep playing it wrong (or just not very well), you are actually teaching yourself to play it wrong. You have to slow down to get it right. You will learn it more quickly by taking your time.
2. You slow down because that's how your brain works. It is actually much harder to play it slowly. You think it sounds better when you go a little faster because you don't notice everything wrong with it. When you slow down you can hear everything wrong! If you play it slower, focusing on smooth transitions between all the notes, evenness if tone, support, relaxed fingers, holding the instrument still, and all that, you will find that speed comes very quickly and easily. For the most part, if you can play it slow, you can play it fast. Your body remembers. Playing extremely fast may require working up to it, but you have to be able to play it slow first. You will notice a huge difference.
- Matthew Simington
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