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Re: Start of Poulenc sonata

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2018-02-22 05:39

I started working on difficult passages with "forward chaining". Check out this link....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9X4h-cY1uw

I would NOT recommend this if you don't have solid fundamentals, or good established practice methods, as this (IMO) should really only be reserved for short spurts of difficult passages.

It's got some interesting thought behind it. The thought process is that when you practice slowly, you have time to think of each individual note as you practice. As you speed it up, eventually you hit a point where your brain can't think "note per note" and has to try to develop it into "chunks". This is a sticking point which takes time to change. The methods above (rhythm variation, segmentation) also focus on creating chunks. It's why we can rip through an arpeggio or scale, cause our brain no longer has to think "note per note".

This youtube suggests starting it at or close to performance tempo, adding one note at a time to start the brain directly in the "chunk" phase. Then slowing it down till it's clean, and speeding it back up again. However since you learned it as a "chunk", you hopefully won't have a sticking point where your brain has to switch over from note to note.

THis method helped me immensely in some tricky areas of pieces and excerpts I needed to learn very quickly.

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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